El Museo de Arte de San Luis está considerado como uno de los principales museos de arte de los Estados Unidos y recibe visitas de hasta medio millón de personas al año. La entrada es gratuita.[1] Ubicado en el extenso parque Forest Park de San Luis , el Museo de tres plantas fue originalmente construido como el Palacio de Bellas Artes para la Exposición Universal de 1904, también conocida como la Louisiana Purchase Exposition. El diseño, obra del arquitecto Cass Gilbert, fue inspirado por las Termas de Caracalla en Roma, Italia.[2] Además de la colección permanente, el museo ofrece exposiciones temporales. Entre ellas hay exposiciones de artistas contemporáneos, así como de textiles, el nuevo arte mediático, y obras sobre papel.[3]
Poole Museum is a local history museum situated on the Lower High Street in the Old Town area of Poole, Dorset, and is part of the Borough of Poole Museum Service. Entrance to Poole Museum is free, and the museum is the fifth most visited free attraction in South West England.
The People's History Museum in Manchester, England, is the UK's national centre for the collection, conservation, interpretation and study of material relating to the history of working people in the UK. It is located in a grade II-listed, former hydraulic pumping station on the corner of the Bridge Street and Water Street designed by Manchester Corporation City Architect, Henry Price.The museum tells the story of the history of in Great Britain and about people's lives at home, work and leisure over the last 200 years. The collection contains printed material, physical objects and photographs of people at work, rest and play. Some of the topics covered include popular radicalism, the Peterloo Massacre, 19th century trade unionism, the women's suffrage movement, dockers, the cooperative movement, the 1945 general election, and football. It also includes material relating to friendly societies, the welfare movement and advances in the lives of working people.
El Museo Chrysler de Arte de Norfolk es un museo público con apoyo privado que debe su nombre a la especial protección dispensada por el magnate Walter P. Chrysler hijo, propietario de la famosa firma automovilística y reputado coleccionista. Su nombre oficial en inglés es Chrysler Museum of Art y su sede principal se halla en el nº 245 de West Olney Road, en Norfolk. La institución gestiona además dos mansiones antiguas. El museo se fundó en 1939 bajo el nombre de Museo de Artes y Ciencias de Norfolk. Fue en 1971 cuando se produjo la donación Chrysler, una colección privada que dio un vuelco al centro en especial en lo tocante a arte europeo. Desde el fallecimiento del magnate en 1989, el museo ha proseguido su desarrollo con más adquisiciones. El museo ocupa un edificio de influencia italiana frente al río Elizabeth. Alberga una colección enciclopédica de 30.000 piezas, que abarca casi cinco milenios de historia. Se incluye un llamativo y comprensivo conjunto de pintura y escultura de Europa y EE. UU., una colección de objetos de vidrio de fama mundial, muebles de estilo Art Nouveau, arte africano, asiático, egipcio y precolombino, así como fondos de fotografía moderna. Según un crítico del New York Times, el museo posee piezas «por las que cualquier museo del mundo mataría».
The Ben Uri Gallery & Museum is a registered museum and charity currently sited at 108a Boundary Road, off Abbey Road in St John's Wood, London, England. It features the work and lives of émigré artists in London, and describes itself as "The Art Museum for Everyone".
Galería Nacional Escocesa del Retrato
La Galería Nacional Escocesa de Retratos es un museo situado en Queen Street en Edimburgo y perteneciente a las Galerías Nacionales de Escocia. Alberga la colección nacional de retratos de las figuras más ilustres de este país aunque no todos las obras han sido realizadas por escoceses. Además también alberga la colección nacional escocesa de fotografía. La entrada es gratuita tanto a la exposición principal como a algunas de las exposiciones especiales que tienen carácter temporal.
Mount Stewart es una casa señorial del siglo XVIII situada en el condado de Down en Irlanda del Norte que es propiedad del National Trust. Construida por el marqués de Londonderry, se trata de una de las mejores mansiones de toda Irlanda. El interior de la casa está decorado con estatuas de mármol, estucos, molduras de escayolas, vajilla francesa, etc. El comedor tiene 22 de las sillas utilizadas en el congreso de Viena de 1815 y que fueron regaladas a lord Castleragh, ministro inglés de Asuntos Exteriores entre 1812 y 1822, por sus méritos durante el congreso. Las sillas tienen bordados en el respaldo de cada una de ellas el escudo de la persona que debía de sentarse en ella. Dentro de la decoración cabe destacar el cuadro del caballo de carreras de Newmarket titulado Hambletonian de George Stubbs pintado en 1799 considerado una de las obras maestras de este pintor. La capilla contiene diferentes banderas y medallas de la familia y sigue estando en uso por ella. «Mount Stewart» fue temporalmente, entre 1999 y 2012, uno de los bienes de la Lista Indicativa de Reino Unido.
The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum is a Gothic Revival-style building, located in the centre of Dundee, Scotland. The building houses a museum and art gallery with a collection of fine and decorative art as well as a natural history collection. It is protected as a Category A listed building.The concept for the building was originally commissioned as a memorial to Prince Albert and intended to contain room for lectures, museum, picture gallery and a reference library for students by the British Association for the Advancement of Science. It was agreed that the funding for the building should be provided by the inhabitants of Dundee. Although the city could not afford such a lavish memorial outright, it did contribute £300. A guaranteed fund of £4,205 15/- from 168 contributors was collected which included a munificent gift from the Baxter family which totalled £420.The building was designed by the architect George Gilbert Scott, who was an expert for the restoration of mediaeval churches and advocate of the Gothic architectural style. He intended to design a large tower like in his previous work at St. Nikolai, Hamburg. The foundations were situated in a small wetland called Quaw Bog at the confluence of the Scourin Burn and Friar Burn, which has since been drained. This meant that the area under the building site was underpinned by large wood beams. However, when construction began in 1865, the ground proved too unstable to support the larger tower that he envisaged. The building was opened as the Albert Institute in 1867. Two further sections, which extended the building by four art galleries and four museum galleries, were added by 1889. The central section was designed to Scott's intention by David MacKenzie, with the Eastern Galleries by William Alexander. The contents of the Watt Institute, founded in 1848, were incorporated into the collection before the opening of the civic museum and art gallery in 1873. Between 1873 and 1949, the buildings were administrated as part of public library service. From 1959, the city corporation took over the running of the administration. Ironically, following a later refurbishment the building now commemorates the Lord Provost Maurice McManus. Initially retitled McManus Galleries, after refurbishment in 2010, it is now formally known as The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum. In 1976, cracks were discovered in south-east corner of the building. The subsequent survey found that the building was partially subsiding. During 1979, remedial measures involved placing load-bearing concrete piles and cross-beams positioned to replace rotted timbers.The building was closed to the public on 24 October 2005 for a £7.8million redevelopment by Page\Park Architects and was reopened to the public on 28 February 2010. Currently, much of the McManus collection, which includes works by Dundee-based artists James McIntosh Patrick and Alberto Morrocco, is located at the former Carnegie Library on Barrack Street. The collection includes three paintings by Thomas Musgrave Joy which celebrate Grace Darling's rescue of passengers on the paddlesteamer Forfarshire.
El Museo de Arte de Basilea , también conocido como Colección Pública de Arte de Basilea , es una institución estatal dedicada al arte situada en la ciudad suiza de Basilea que alberga la colección de arte público más grande e importante de Suiza, y está catalogado como un sitio patrimonial de importancia nacional.[1] Su colección se distingue por una impresionante amplitud histórica, desde principios del siglo XV hasta el presente inmediato. Sus diversas áreas de énfasis le otorgan un prestigio internacional como uno de los museos más importantes de su tipo. Estos abarcan: pinturas y dibujos de artistas activos en la región del Alto Rin entre 1400 y 1600, y sobre el arte de los siglos XIX al XXI. Organiza además exposiciones temporales periódicamente. El Kunstmuseum se encuentra en la parte antigua de Basilea, cerca de la catedral románica, en una zona de alta concentración museística: Museo Histórico, Museo de Etnografía, Museo Arqueológico, la Kunsthalle, etc. Delante de la entrada del museo, fuera del edificio pero formando parte de su ámbito, se encuentra el célebre grupo escultórico de Rodin Los burgueses de Calais. Su linaje se remonta al Gabinete Amerbach, un gabinete de curiosidades que incluía una colección de obras de Hans Holbein que fue comprado por la ciudad de Basilea en 1661, que lo convirtió en el primer museo de propiedad municipal y, por lo tanto, en el primer museo de arte abierto al público en el mundo.[2].
Museo de Arte del Condado de Los Ángeles
El Museo de Arte del Condado de Los Ángeles - LACMA está localizado en Los Ángeles, Estados Unidos, en el Bulevar Wilshire del distrito Miracle Mile. El LACMA es un museo casi enciclopédico: entre otras secciones, alberga arqueología asiria, egipcia, griega y romana, pintura europea y una de las colecciones más grandes de arte latinoamericano. Más de 2000 obras latinoamericanas fueron donadas por Bernard Lewin y su esposa Edith Lewin. Actualmente, el apoyo del matrimonio Broad, bien conocido en el mercado de arte contemporáneo, ha marcado un nuevo rumbo al museo, con la construcción de un nuevo edificio pensado para la exhibición de su colección privada. Esta relación de mecenazgo ha impuesto ciertas condiciones que son cuestionadas por algunos críticos.
La National Portrait Gallery es uno de los museos más famosos de Londres. No debe confundirse con la National Portrait Gallery de Washington, Estados Unidos. Su colección está formada por retratos de personajes destacados de la historia; el edificio está construido justo detrás de la National Gallery.
The Musée Hébert is a museum located in the Hôtel de Montmorency-Bours at 85, rue du Cherche-Midi, in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France. It has been closed since 2004 for renovations. The museum is housed within the Petit-Montmorency, constructed in 1743 by the Comte de Montmorency, and former home of academic painter Ernest Hébert . After his adopted son's death in 1974, the building became state property and opened as a museum in 1984. Since 2004, the museum Hébert has been affiliated with the Musée d’Orsay, and indefinitely closed for renovations. The museum contains collections of Hébert's work, furniture, decorative items, souvenirs, and photographs, set within rooms almost unchanged since the 18th century. His paintings include portraits of literary critic Jules Lemaître, and two noted grandes horizontales, La Païva and Madame de Loynes.
Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre
The Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre is a heritage attraction at Alexandra Dock, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England, opened in 1991. The attraction is an Arts Council England Accredited Museum and holds a number of awards, including the TripAdvisor Hall of Fame, the Sandford Award for Heritage Education and the VisitEngland Quality Rose Marque. The centre was famed for its multi-sensory interpretation and lifelike manequins when it opened, winning the Attraction of the Year from the English Tourism Board and the Blue Peter Children's Museum of the Year award in 1993. It depicts the 1950s heyday of Great Grimsby's world famous fishing fleet, using displays consisting of preserved trawler interiors and carefully crafted recreations. The centre is also home to three historic fishing vessels. Perseverance is a sail trawler built in Boston Lincolnshire and is displayed in the main atrium of the museum. Ross Tiger is a 1957 side-trawler that is moored in the Alexandra Dock outside of the attraction. The G.I.C. or Esther is a large Grimsby sail trawler, built in 1888 at Alexandra Dock, close to the attraction. Tours of the Ross Tiger are available throughout the year, as well as a programme of temporary exhibitions in the attractions three gallery spaces.
The Cincinnati Art Museum is an art museum in the Eden Park neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 1881, it was the first purpose-built art museum west of the Alleghenies, and is one of the oldest in the United States. Its collection of over 100,000 works spanning 6,000 years of human history make it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Midwest. Museum founders debated locating the museum in either Burnet Woods, Eden Park, or downtown Cincinnati on Washington Park. Charles West, the major donor of the early museum, cast his votes in favor of Eden Park sealing its final location. The Romanesque-revival building designed by Cincinnati architect James W. McLaughlin opened in 1886. A series of additions and renovations have considerably altered the building over its 134-year history. In 2003, a major addition, The Cincinnati Wing was added to house a permanent exhibit of art created for Cincinnati or by Cincinnati artists since 1788. The Cincinnati Wing includes fifteen new galleries covering 18,000 square feet of well-appointed space, and 400 objects. The Odoardo Fantacchiotti angels are two of the largest pieces in the collection. Fantacchiotti created these angels for the main altar of St. Peter in Chains Cathedral in the late 1840s. They were among the first European sculptures to come to Cincinnati. The Cincinnati Wing also contains the work of Frank Duveneck, Rookwood Pottery, Robert Scott Duncanson, Mitchell & Rammelsberg Furniture, and a tall case clock by Luman Watson.
Aberystwyth University Ceramics Collection
The Aberystwyth University Ceramic Collection & Archive is located in Aberystwyth, Wales. It holds one of the major collections of studio ceramics in Britain and is particularly noted for its studio pottery of the period 1920–1940. The permanent and temporary exhibitions from the collection are on display in the Ceramic Gallery in Aberystwyth Arts Centre and the archive office is located in the School of Art, Aberystwyth University. The Ceramic Bulletin is produced every two years by the university and it features news of activities including exhibitions, new acquisitions, research, awards and grants.
The Royal College of Physicians is a British professional body dedicated to improving the practice of medicine, chiefly through the accreditation of physicians by examination. Founded in 1518, it set the first international standard in the classification of diseases, and its library contains medical texts of great historical interest. The college hosts four training faculties: the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine, the Faculty for Pharmaceutical Medicine, the Faculty of Occupational Medicine and the Faculty of Physician Associates. The college is sometimes referred to as the Royal College of Physicians of London to differentiate it from other similarly named bodies. Its home in Regent's Park is one of the few post-war buildings to be granted Grade I listed status. In 2016 it was announced that the North of England centre of excellence was to be based at a new building in the Liverpool Knowledge Quarter in Liverpool. The new centre is set to open in 2020.
Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)
The Ministry of Defence is the British government department responsible for implementing the defence policy set by Her Majesty's Government and is the headquarters of the British Armed Forces. The MOD states that its principal objectives are to defend the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and its interests and to strengthen international peace and stability. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the MOD does not foresee any short-term conventional military threat; rather, it has identified weapons of mass destruction, international terrorism, and failed and failing states as the overriding threats to Britain's interests. The MOD also manages day-to-day running of the armed forces, contingency planning and defence procurement.
La biblioteca Bodleiana es la principal biblioteca de investigación de la Universidad de Oxford, Inglaterra. Es una de las bibliotecas más antiguas de Europa, y en Inglaterra solo la supera en tamaño la Biblioteca Británica. Es una de las cinco bibliotecas de depósito de derechos de autor en el Reino Unido.
