The British Commercial Vehicle Museum displays antiquarian buses, early fire engines and other historical and commercial vehicles produced by the British manufacturing industry.
The museum is located in King Street, Leyland, Lancashire on part of a site previously occupied by the Leyland Motors factory, the source of many exhibits.
Funding methods include the admission charges and membership tickets. More recently, a major investment by the Heritage Lottery Fund has contributed to a major refurbishment. The museum is now open throughout the year, six days per week .
Events include Classic Vehicles, Model Makers Exhibition and the Spring Transport Show.
In 2010, the museum was one of three featured on Richard Macer's BBC Four series Behind the Scenes at the Museum.
Die Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana ist eine staatliche italienische, wegen ihrer Manuskripte berühmte Bibliothek in Florenz. Sie geht auf die Frühzeit der Herrschaft der Medici zurück und befindet sich seit 1560 im Kloster von San Lorenzo, der früheren Hauskirche der Medici. Den Namen trägt die Laurenziana nach Lorenzo il Magnifico , der die von seinem Großvater Cosimo de’ Medici gegründete Bibliothek in ihrem Bestand erheblich erweiterte.
Die Bibliothek ist öffentlich zugänglich und steht als Biblioteca pubblica statale der Aufsicht des Ministeriums für Kulturgüter und Tourismus.
Das Schloss Fontainebleau in Fontainebleau, Département Seine-et-Marne, ist ein französisches Schloss rund 60 km südlich von Paris, das zeitweilig unter anderem von Kaiser Napoleon Bonaparte genutzt wurde. Es ist vor allem berühmt für seine Innenausstattung aus der Zeit der Renaissance, an der zahlreiche italienische Künstler arbeiteten, und wurde 1981 von der UNESCO zum Weltkulturerbe erklärt.
Der erste Akt der Oper Don Carlos von Giuseppe Verdi, der nicht auf das als Vorlage verarbeitete Drama von Friedrich Schiller zurückgeht, spielt auf Schloss Fontainebleau, wobei die geschilderte Handlung historisch nicht nachweisbar ist.
Der Name des Schlosses Fontainebleau, früher auch „Fontainbleau“ geschrieben, leitet sich ab von fontaine belle eau, was „Quelle Schönes Wasser“ bedeutet.
The Williams College Museum of Art is a college art museum in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Situated at the Williams College campus close to Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and the Clark Art Institute. Its growing collection encompasses more than 14,000 works, with particular strengths in contemporary art, photography, prints, and Indian painting. The museum is free and open to the public.
The Wichita Art Museum is an art museum located in Wichita, Kansas, United States.The museum was established in 1915, when Louise Caldwell Murdock’s Will which created a trust to start the Roland P. Murdock Collection of art in memory of her husband. The trust would purchase art for the City of Wichita by “American painters, potters, sculptors, and textile weavers.” The collection includes works by Mary Cassatt, Arthur G. Dove, Thomas Eakins, Robert Henri, Douglas Abdell, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, John Marin, Paul Meltsner, Horace Pippin, Maurice Prendergast, Albert Pinkham Ryder and Charles Sheeler. The Museum's lobby features a ceiling and chandelier made by Dale Chihuly.
The museum opened in 1935 with art borrowed from other museums. The first work in the Murdock Collection was purchased in 1939. Mrs. Murdock's friend, Elizabeth Stubblefield Navas, selected and purchased works of American art for the Murdock Collection until 1962. The building was enlarged with a new lobby and two new wings in 1963. In 1964, a foundation was established for the purpose of raising funds for new acquisitions. In the 1970s, the city built a new and larger climate controlled facility. In 2003, the museum finished another expansion project giving the building 115,000 total square feet.
In January 2020, the museum announced that it would begin renovation on its main entrance and lobby.
The Westmoreland Museum of American Art is an art museum in Greensburg devoted to American art, with a particular concentration on the art of southwestern Pennsylvania.Art lover Mary Marchand Woods bequeathed her entire estate to establish The Woods Marchand Foundation in 1949. The museum developed from this foundation, opening ten years later.William H. Gerdts wrote that
... in western Pennsylvania the Westmoreland Museum of Art in Greensburg, rather than the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, has pioneered regional investigations.
A Tim Prentice kinetic sculpture is installed in the south facade.
The West Berkshire Museum is located in Newbury, Berkshire. Established in 1904, the museum holds various artworks and collections. The museum is housed in two of Newbury's most historic buildings. The Cloth Hall was built in 1627 by Richard Emmes, a master carpenter of Speenhamland for the Newbury Corporation as a cloth factory. Originally part of a larger range of buildings with a courtyard in the centre, the building was subsequently used as a workhouse, hospital and school before being used for storing corn from 1829 until its conversion to a museum.The museum itself has exhibition galleries, café and a local history library, along with a Conference room which can be hired. Opening hours are Wednesday - Sunday 10am - 4pm, and some Bank Holidays
A permanent exhibition tells the story of West Berkshire. From the geology to the stories of people who have lived in West Berkshire; early ancestors, to well known characters like Jack O'Newbury: the people who have created the towns and villages, roads and canals, fields and farms, industries, pastimes and organisations that forms West Berkshire today.
The second floor galleries feature a series of special exhibitions, along with Gallery 5 which can be hired to display original artwork, sculpture and craft.
Entry is free but donations are most welcome and go towards adding to and conserving the collections and maintaining the historic buildings.
The museum underwent a £2.2m renovation in 2014 to update its exhibition areas and visitor facilities. The funding came from the Heritage Lottery Fund , and West Berkshire Council, Greenham Common Trust and the Headley Trust .
Die Universität Southampton ist eine Universität in der Stadt Southampton an der Südküste Englands. Sie ist Mitglied der prestigeträchtigen Russell-Gruppe und gehört zu den führenden Forschungsuniversitäten Englands. Sowohl in den Times Higher Education World University Rankings als auch in den QS World University Rankings reiht sich die Universität regelmäßig unter den Top-100-Universitäten der Welt ein.
Die Universität hat 2020 zum vierten Mal in Folge in der weltweiten 'Times Higher Education's Tabelle der "Golden Age"-Universitäten' den 11. Rang belegt.Die Universität erstreckt sich über insgesamt sieben Campus: Hauptcampus Highfield, Avenue Campus , National Oceanography Centre , Southampton General Hospital und Boldrewood Campus . Zusätzlich gibt es noch die School of Art in Winchester, und einen internationalen Campus in Malaysia. Die Uni bietet in seinem Komplex mehr als 5000 interne Unterkünfte in Form verschiedener Studentenheimen an. Mit über 23.000 Studierenden ist die Universität Southampton eine der größten Universitäten an der englischen Südküste. Weiter besitzt die Universität einen Sportkomplex und unterhält auf dem Campus ein Sportzentrum inklusive Fitnessräumen und ein Schwimmbad.
Die University of Southampton ist unter anderem ein wichtiger internationaler Knotenpunkt für maritime Forschung, zu dem das Institut für Seerecht der juristischen Fakultät , das National Oceanography Centre Southampton, das Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute und die Forschungsabteilung von Lloyd's Register gehören. Das Institut für Seerecht, welches der Lawschool der Universität angegliedert ist, ist ein weltweit führendes Zentrum für Forschung, Beratung und Ausbildung im Seerecht. Der jüngste Research Excellence Framework stufte 100 Prozent seiner Forschung als weltweit führend oder international exzellent für das Forschungsumfeld ein.
The Royal Victoria Hospital commonly known as "the Royal", the "RVH" or "the Royal Belfast", is a hospital in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is managed by the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust. The hospital has a Regional Virus Centre, which is one of the four laboratories in the United Kingdom on the WHO list of laboratories able to perform PCR for rapid diagnosis of influenza A virus infection in humans.
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia is an art gallery that houses the Australian part of the art collection of the National Gallery of Victoria .
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia is located at Federation Square in Melbourne, Victoria; while the gallery's international works are displayed at the NGV International on St Kilda Road.
Vladimir Pavlovich Biryukov was a Soviet ethnographer, lexicographer, museum worker, archaeologist, historian, folklorist, and the author of over 30 books. He specifically studied the folklore of the Ural region of Siberia.
Das Selwyn College ist ein College der Universität Cambridge. Es wurde 1882 gegründet und nach dem ersten anglikanischen Bischof von Neuseeland, George Augustus Selwyn, benannt. Es befindet sich im westlichen Teil von Cambridge und ist direkt an der Sidgwick Site gelegen. Das College selbst ist im viktorianischen Stil erbaut worden und bekannt für seinen Chor.
The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists or RBSA is an art society, based in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, England, where it owns and operates an art gallery, the RBSA Gallery, on Brook Street, just off St Paul's Square. It is both a registered charity, and a registered company .
The River & Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, is located on a site at Mill Meadows by the River Thames. It has three main themes represented by major permanent galleries, the non-tidal River Thames, the international sport of rowing and the local town of Henley-on-Thames.
The Museo Civico di Sansepolcro or Museo Comunale is the town or comune art gallery. It is housed in a series of linked palaces, including the medieval former Palazzo della Residenza, the Palazzo dei Conservatori del Popolo and the Palazzo del Capitano o Pretorio, located on Via Niccolò Aggiunti #65, near the center of Sansepolcro, formerly Borgo Santo Sepolcro, in the Province of Arezzo, region of Tuscany, Italy. The museum was founded in 1975.
Die Piazza della Signoria in Florenz ist einer der großen zentralen Plätze der Stadt und zugleich einer der berühmtesten Plätze Italiens. Zur Zeit der Republik war sie mit dem Palazzo Vecchio das politische und soziale Zentrum der Stadt. Namensgebend für den Platz war die Signoria, die republikanische Regierung der Stadt.
