The Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library is a library of psychoactive drug-related literature created in 1970 by Michael D. Horowitz, Cynthia Palmer, William Dailey, and Robert Barker, who merged their private libraries. It was named for Fitz Hugh Ludlow, author of the first full-length work of drug literature written by an American, The Hasheesh Eater . It was the largest such library in the world and was based in San Francisco, California. The Ludlow Library became part of the Ludlow Santo Domingo Library in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2003. After the death of its owner, Julio Mario Santo Domingo, Jr., his family loaned the book collection to the Houghton Library at Harvard University and the music collection to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio.
During the 1970s the library grew rapidly and operated out of San Francisco as an international resource for psychoactive drug research, and for the study of psychoactive drug use in contemporary and historical societies. The Ludlow Library flourished during a period of perhaps the most intense media interest ever focused on the personal, social, scientific and political aspects of drug experience. The Library helped hundreds of writers, filmmakers, and news media researchers collect accurate historical information on cannabis, the opiates, coca and cocaine, and psychedelics for their publications.
The library was curated by Michael R. Aldrich, holder of the first Ph.D. ever granted from an American university in the mythology and folklore of cannabis , and he and his wife Michelle Aldrich joined the co-founders as members of the Board of Directors in 1974. The Library's advisory Board of Trustees included a number of eminent researchers and writers, including Chauncey Leake, Richard Evans Schultes, Albert Hofmann, Alexander Shulgin, Andrew Weil, Oscar Janiger, Ralph Metzner, Laura Huxley, Allen Ginsberg, Weston LaBarre, R. Gordon Wasson, Tod H. Mikuriya, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Lincoln College est l'un des Collèges de l'Université d'Oxford, situé sur Turl Street dans le centre d'Oxford. Lincoln a été fondé en 1427 par Richard Fleming, alors évêque de Lincoln. C'est le neuvième plus ancien collège de l'université d'Oxford encore existant.
Parmi les plus célèbres étudiants de ce collège, il y a lieu de citer John Radcliffe, Howard Florey, Edward Abraham, Norman Heatley, Nevil Sidgwick, John Wesley, John le Carré, Rachel Maddow et le dessinateur Theodor Seuss Geisel . L'association Mensa a été fondée par deux étudiants : Roland Berrill, un avocat australien, et le Dr. Lancelot Ware, chercheur et juriste britannique, en 1946. Lincoln College a conservé l'une desplus anciennes cuisines médiévales du Royaume-Uni.
The State Museum for Art and Cultural History is an art museum consisting of three separate buildings located close to each other in the city of Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany.The three museum locations are:
Schloss Oldenburg
Augusteum
Prinzenpalais The museum was established in 1919 after the abdication the previous year of Frederick Augustus II, the last Grand Duke of Oldenburg. The initial collection consisted of the former Grand Duke's picture gallery, a collection of antiquities, and the collections of the Museum of Decorative Arts and the former National Picture Gallery.
The three buildings are all located close to the northeast corner of the Schlossgarten Oldenburg, now Oldenburg's main public park.
La Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen est la collection d'œuvres d'art de l'État de Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie et conservée à Düsseldorf, la capitale du Land.
Le musée a été fondé en 1961 par le gouvernement provincial en tant que fondation privée.
L'Institut néerlandais est un ancien institut représentant la culture des Pays-Bas en France. Il était installé dans l'hôtel de Lévis-Mirepoix au 121 rue de Lille, dans le 7e arrondissement de Paris. Inauguré en 1957, il a fermé ses portes fin 2013 avant de rouvrir en février 2014 sous la forme du Nouveau centre néerlandais . En août 2020, le NCL passe à son tour sous l'égide de la Cité internationale universitaire de Paris.
La résidence de Wurtzbourg, pouvant être abrégée en la Résidence, est une construction de style baroque située sur la Residenzplatz au centre de la ville de Wurtzbourg, chef-lieu de la Basse-Franconie .
Elle a été occupée par les princes-évêques. Le château compte parmi les plus belles réalisations du baroque tardif de l'Allemagne du Sud et peut être considéré, par son importance dans l'architecture européenne, au même titre que le château de Schönbrunn à Vienne ou celui de Versailles. L'Unesco a élevé le bâtiment en 1981 au titre de Patrimoine mondial de l'humanité.
Horsham Museum is a museum at Horsham, West Sussex, in South East England. It was founded in August 1893 by volunteers of the Free Christian Church and became part of Horsham District Council in 1974. It is a fully accredited museum and serves both Horsham and its district with the support of the Friends of Horsham Museum and an active volunteer base.
Hertford Museum is a local museum in Hertford, the county town of Hertfordshire, England.The museum first opened in 1903 and is located in a 17th-century town house with a Jacobean-style knot garden. The galleries on the ground floor present the early history of the museum. Objects include exotic animals, fossils, and Japanese armour. The first floor presents the town and people of Hertford. The collections cover local, military, natural, and social history, as well as archaeology, fine art, and geology.The museum undertakes educational activities with schools. For example, Little Munden Primary School took part in a pilot project, working with the museum, to create an exhibition about their locality covering the period 1830–1930.The museum closed in Winter 2008 for major refurbishment, largely funded by a Heritage Grant from the UK Heritage Lottery Fund. It reopened on 27 February 2010.
The Haggin Museum is an art museum and local history museum in Stockton, San Joaquin County, California, located in the city's Victory Park. The museum opened in 1931. Its art collection includes works by European painters Jean Béraud, Rosa Bonheur, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean-Léon Gérôme, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and sculptures by René de Saint-Marceaux, Alfred Barye, and Auguste Rodin. The museum also features a number of works by Hudson River School and California landscape painters, including the largest collection of Albert Bierstadt works in the region, and in 2017 dedicated a gallery to display the largest public collection of original artworks by J. C. Leyendecker.
Le musée Granet est un musée de beaux-arts, d'archéologie et d'art décoratif situé place Saint-Jean de Malte à Aix-en-Provence. Ouvert au public en 1838, ce musée a fait l'objet de plusieurs chantiers de rénovation depuis les années 1990 pour garantir de meilleures conditions d'exposition à ses riches collections permanentes. Il programme régulièrement des expositions temporaires.
Depuis 2013, la chapelle des Pénitents blancs, inscrite en tant que monument historique et située à proximité, constitue une annexe du musée, sous le nom « Granet xxe », et présentant de nombreuses œuvres du XXe siècle mises en dépôt par la fondation Planque (notamment des peintures de Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet ou Jean Dubuffet.
Gloucester Shire Hall is a municipal building in Westgate Street, Gloucester. It is the main office and the meeting place of Gloucestershire County Council. It is a grade II listed building.
Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service, formerly Tyne and Wear Metropolitan Fire Brigade, is the fire and rescue service for the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear. The service provides emergency fire cover to the five comprising metropolitan boroughs of Sunderland, Gateshead, Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and South Tyneside, serving a population of 1.09 million people and a total geographical area of 538 square kilometres. Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Authority is responsible for the running of the service, as well as the publication of performance indicators in accordance with its legal obligations. In April 2017, Chris Lowther was appointed Chief Fire Officer. In November 2018, the service announced proposals to cut frontline operations in order to meet budget requirements imposed by the Government. The proposals are currently under public consultation and members of the public are welcome to complete the consultation survey and attend the remaining meetings, a full list of which can be found at the Tyne and Wear Fire Service website. The public consultation ends in January 2019.
Le palais Abatellis, également connu sous le nom de palais Patella, est situé en Sicile, à Palerme. Il se trouve dans la via Alloro, artère principale du quartier de la Kalsa, à proximité du port.
Construit à la fin du XVe siècle, le palais abrite aujourd'hui la Galleria Regionale della Sicilia dont l'aménagement muséal est confié, en 1953-54, à l'architecte et designer Carlo Scarpa.
La galerie nationale de Parme est un musée situé au no 6, piazza della Pilotta, à Parme, à l'intérieur du Palazzo della Pilotta. Il expose des œuvres de Fra Angelico, de Canaletto, Giovanni Battista Pittoni, du Corrège, de Sebastiano del Piombo, du Guerchin, de Léonard de Vinci, du Parmesan et du Tintoret, entre autres.
Le Palazzo Rosso ou Rodolfo e Francesco Maria Brignole est un édifice historique situé au numéro 18 via Garibaldi dans le centre historique de Gênes.
Depuis le 13 juillet 2006, le palazzo Rosso fait partie des 42 palais des Rolli inscrits dans la liste du patrimoine mondial de l'humanité de l'UNESCO.
Exemple remarquable d'un palais-musée du Seicento, il accueille la première partie des collections des Brignole-Sale, léguée à la ville de Gênes en 1874. Le palazzo Rosso avec les collections des proches Palazzo Bianco et Palazzo Doria-Tursi, constituent le pôle muséal de la Strada Nuova.
The National Art Gallery also known as Gallery of National Art is located in the Plaza Morelos area of Caracas, Venezuela. The museum opened in May 1976. In 2009 it moved to a new building designed by Carlos Gómez de Llerena, Venezuela's largest museum building.
Le Frederick Weisman Art Museum est un musée d'art de l'Université du Minnesota à Minneapolis aux États-Unis fondé en 1934. L'actuel bâtiment design du célèbre architecte canadien Frank Gehry a été inauguré en 1993.
