Kettle's Yard

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Kettle's Yard is an art gallery and house in Cambridge, England. The director of the art gallery is Andrew Nairne. Both the house and gallery reopened in February 2018 after an expansion of the facilities.Kettle's Yard galleries, shop and cafe are open Tuesday - Sunday, 11am - 5pm. The House is open Tuesday - Sunday, 12 - 5pm. Free, timed entry tickets to the House are available from the information desk. Online booking is coming soon.

Royal Albert Memorial Museum

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Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery is a museum and art gallery in Exeter, Devon, the largest in the city. It holds significant and diverse collections in areas such as zoology, anthropology, fine art, local and overseas archaeology, and geology. Altogether the museum holds over one million objects, of which a small percentage is on permanent public display. It is a 'Major Partner Museum' under the Arts Council England administered programme of strategic investment, which means RAMM receives funding to develop its services. RAMM receives this funding in partnership with Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery. Previously they were described as 'hub museums' under the 'Renaissance' Programme for regional museums which operated between 2002–11 and funded by the now defunct Museums Libraries & Archives Council . Founded in 1868, the museum is housed in a Gothic Revival building of local New Red Sandstone that has undergone several extensions during its history; most recently, the museum was re-opened on 15 December 2011 after a redevelopment lasting four years and costing £24M. Since its re-opening the museum has received several awards.

Hereford Museum and Art Gallery

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The Hereford Museum and Art Gallery is a local museum in the cathedral city of Hereford, Herefordshire, England.The museum is housed in a Victorian Gothic building. Through the generosity of James Rankin, President of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club, it was opened as a free library and museum on 8 October 1874 and has since exhibited artefacts, fine art, and decorative art associated with the local area.

Английское наследие

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«Английское наследие» — обиходное название британской государственной Комиссии по историческим зданиям и памятникам Англии . Комиссия была организована в соответствии с законом 1983 года. Она осуществляет управление значимыми историческими памятниками страны , содержит Национальный архив памятников в Суиндоне и занимается отнесением памятников старины к той или иной категории. Аналогичные организации в других частях Великобритании и коронных территориях — «Историческая Шотландия» в Шотландии, Cadw в Уэльсе, Мэнское национальное наследие на острове Мэн. 1 апреля 2015 года «Английское наследие» было разделено на две части: «Историческая Англия» , которая унаследовала законодательные и охранные функции прежней организации, и благотворительный «Фонд английского наследия», который управляет историческим имуществом и перенял обиходное название и логотип прежней организации. Британское правительство дало новому благотворительному фонду грант в £80 млн, чтобы помочь учредить его как независимый фонд, при этом историческое имущество остаётся в собственности государства.

Манчестерская художественная галерея

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Манчестерская художественная галерея — открытая для посещений художественная галерея в центре города Манчестера, в Северо-Западной Англии. Кроме картин мирового значения , здесь находятся также произведения, связанные с городом Манчестером. Значительное место занимает коллекция работ Пьера Валетта, французского художника-импрессиониста, который преподавал в Манчестере в начале XX века. В 2002 году она была расширена и теперь занимает три здания.

The Beverley Treasure House

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The Treasure House is a cultural centre operated by the East Riding of Yorkshire Council in the town of Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The centre acts as the main hub for heritage and information services, and contains the East Riding Archives and Local Studies, the Beverley Library, a Museum and the Beverley Art Gallery. The building also contains a coffee lounge and gift shop. The top floor, known as 'The Tower', serves as an elevated sightseeing platform, showcasing 360 degree views of the Beverley Minster and the town of Beverley.

Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens

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Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens is a municipal museum in Sunderland, England. It contains the only known British example of a gliding reptile, the oldest known vertebrate capable of gliding flight. The exhibit was discovered in Eppleton quarry. The museum has a Designated Collection of national importance.It was established in 1846, in the Athenaeum Building on Fawcett Street, the first municipally funded museum in the country outside London. The first recorded fine art acquisition was commissioned by the Sunderland Corporation, a painting of the opening of the new South Dock in 1850. This may have been the first time that an artwork was commissioned by a town council.In 1879, the Museum moved to a new larger building next to Mowbray Park including a library and winter garden based on the model of the Crystal Palace. U.S. President Ulysses Grant was in attendance at the laying of the foundation stone by Alderman Samuel Storey in 1877. The building opened in 1879.During World War II, Winter Garden was damaged by a parachute mine in 1941 and later was demolished with a 1960s extension taking its place, but in 2001, a lottery funded refurbishment of the museum created a new Winter Garden extension and improved facilities. The Winter Gardens contain over 2,000 flowers and plants.In 2003, the Museum was recognised as the most attended outside London. The Museum contains a large collection of the locally made Sunderland Lustreware pottery. Other highlights of the Museum are a stuffed Lion which was acquired in 1879, the remains of a walrus brought back from Siberia in the 1880s and the first Nissan car to be made in Sunderland. Also featured are the skeletal remains of a male human being. The library moved in 1995 to the new City Library and Arts Centre on Fawcett Street . The relocation left more space for museum exhibitions. The new City Library Arts Centre also houses the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, renowned as one of the leading forums for emerging artists in the North of England. John Morrison wrote an affectionate memoir of the two and a half years he spent working in the museum as a junior curator, starting about 1918, which appeared in the Australian literary journal Overland in 1968.L.S. Lowry described his discovery of Sunderland in 1960, after which it became his second home: "One day I was travelling south from Tyneside and I realised this was what I had always been looking for." Sunderland Museum, with six works and 30 on long-term loan, have a Lowry collection surpassed only by Salford and Manchester.

Cartwright Hall

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Cartwright Hall is the civic art gallery in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, situated about a mile from the city centre in the Manningham district. It was built on the former site of Manningham Hall using a gift of £40,000 donated by Samuel Lister and it is named after Edmund Cartwright. The gallery which opened in 1904 initially had a display of artworks loaned from other galleries and private collections until it was able to purchase a permanent collection of Victorian and Edwardian works using money raised by the 1904 Bradford Exhibition.Cartwright Hall stands in Lister Park and enjoys scenic views of the city. Cartwright Hall has been held to represent "Bradford Baroque", a style of architecture typical of Bradford. It is however designed by the same architects as Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum , also in the Baroque style.The purpose-built gallery is home to a collection of permanent works, from Old Masters to 20th-century British paintings and sculpture. Cartwright Hall also has a biennial open exhibition and contemporary and historical exhibitions by local, national and international artists. Since the mid 1980s the Bradford museum group has collected works that are associated with the cultural background of many post-war migrants to the Bradford area. Acquisitions include contemporary South Asian Art - Islamic calligraphy, phulkari style illustrated textiles and items of contemporary Sikh art, including a portrait of Guru Nanak.In 1983 Cartwright Hall was briefly used as part of the musical number 'every sperm is sacred' in the Monty Python film, The Meaning of Life.In 2003 an Unreal Tournament map was created featuring the inside of the hall as part of a contest for PC Format Magazine.

Королевские ботанические сады Кью

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Короле́вские ботани́ческие сады́ Кью , или Сады Кью , — комплекс ботанических садов и оранжерей площадью 132 гектара в юго-западной части Лондона между Ричмондом и Кью, исторический парковый ландшафт XVIII—XX веков. Сады созданы в 1759 году, в 2009 году отмечалось 250-летие со дня их основания. Директором садов в 2012 году стал Ричард Деверелл, сменивший на этом посту Стивена Хоппера. «Королевские ботанические сады Кью» — это также официальное название организации, управляющей садами в Кью и садами в Суссексе, Вейкхарст Плейс. Королевские ботанические сады Кью — всемирно признанный ботанический исследовательский и учебный центр с 746 сотрудниками, доходом 57,2 млн фунтов стерлингов за финансовый год, закончившийся 31 марта 2015 года, и с 1,53 млн посетителей за тот же год. Сады финансируются Министерством окружающей среды, продовольствия и сельского хозяйства . В садах Кью находится одна из самых больших в мире коллекций живых растений. Более 30 тысяч растений растут в садах, а один из крупнейших по величине гербариев в мире включает 7 млн образцов. Библиотека содержит более 750 тысяч томов и более 175 тысяч рисунков растений. Сады Кью издают Index Kewensis — ботанический номенклатурный справочник, в котором регистрируются все опубликованные ботанические названия семенных растений рангом от рода и ниже; выпускается также ежеквартальный научный журнал Kew Bulletin. В садах находится ряд достопримечательностей. В 2003 году сады включены в список Всемирного наследия ЮНЕСКО.