Loughborough University is a public research university in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, in the East Midlands of England. It has been a university since 1966, but the institution dates back to 1909, when the then Loughborough Technical Institute began with a focus on skills and knowledge which would be directly applicable in the wider world. In March 2013, the university announced it had acquired the former broadcast centre at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park which opened as a second campus in 2015.
It was a member of the 1994 Group of smaller research intensive universities until the group was dissolved in November 2013. The annual income of the institution for 2017–18 was £300.8 million of which £41.9 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £295.5 million.
Leeds Discovery Centre is the purpose-built display storage facility built for Leeds Museums & Galleries in 2007. It was funded by Leeds City Council and the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The facility stores over one million objects in climate-controlled conditions and hosts regular tours.
Collections stored here include: natural science specimens, social history , textiles, world cultures and archaeology . Objects from different collections areas are displayed alongside each other to maximize visual impact. In 2018, the learning team was awarded The Sandford Award for Excellence in Heritage Learning. The Discovery Centre runs events including art classes.
Il Lake District, conosciuto anche come The Lakes o Lakeland, è una regione montuosa nel nord ovest dell'Inghilterra.
Nota località turistica, è famosa per i suoi laghi e le sue montagne , i suoi legami con la poesia dell'inizio del XIX secolo, in particolare gli scritti di William Wordsworth e dei cosiddetti Poeti del lago.
La parte centrale della zona, è la più visitata, fa parte del parco nazionale del Lake District, diventato Parco Nazionale nel 1951.
È il più grande dei tredici parchi nazionali d'Inghilterra e Galles e il secondo più grande del Regno Unito .
Si trova interamente all'interno della attuale contea di Cumbria, che in passato era parte delle contee storiche del Cumberland, del Westmorland e del Lancashire. In Inghilterra tutte le terre di altitudine superiore ai tremila piedi sopra il livello del mare, fanno parte del Parco Nazionale, incluso lo Scafell Pike, la montagna più alta dell'Inghilterra. Ne fanno parte inoltre i laghi più profondi e più lunghi d'Inghilterra.
Il 9 luglio 2017 è stato inserito nella lista dei patrimoni dell'umanità dell'UNESCO.
Nonostante il nome, solo uno dei laghi nel Lake District in realtà si chiama "lake", il Bassenthwaite Lake, gli altri si chiamano "meres" , "waters" , "tarns" o "reservoirs" .
La Klassik Stiftung Weimar è una delle istituzioni culturali più grandi e significative della Germania. Possiede più di 20 musei, palazzi, case e parchi storici, oltre a collezioni letterarie e d'arte, alcune delle quali sono patrimonio dell'umanità.Si concentra sul periodo del classicismo di Weimar, ma copre anchel'arte e la cultura del XIX e XX secolo con proprietà associate a Franz Liszt, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henry van de Velde e al Bauhaus.Undici delle sue proprietà sono elencate come parte del patrimonio mondiale classico di Weimar e l'Haus am Horn fa parte del Bauhaus e dei suoi siti a Weimar, Dessau e Bernau.La fondazione è stata creata il 1º gennaio 2003 dalla fusione di Stiftung Weimarer Klassik e Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar. Era nota, dal 2003 al 2006, come Stiftung Weimarer Klassik und Kunstsammlungen.
La Klassik Stiftung Weimar è membro della Konferenz Nationaler Kultureinrichtungen, un'unione di oltre venti istituzioni culturali nei cinque nuovi stati della Germania che un tempo facevano parte della Repubblica democratica tedesca.
The Ipswich Historical Society in Ipswich, Massachusetts was founded by Reverend Thomas Franklin Waters in 1890. The Society initially had no headquarters, and met in the studio of artist Arthur Wesley Dow. They eventually found a better place to meet in the Odd Fellows Hall. The Society's first major project would be to restore the John Whipple House, and make part of it their headquarters.
The Ricardo Brennand Institute is a cultural institution located in the city of Recife, Brazil. It is a not-for-profit private organization, inaugurated in 2002 by the Brazilian collector and businessman Ricardo Brennand. It comprises a museum, an art gallery, a library and a large park.The Institute holds a permanent collection of historic and artistic objects of diversified provenience, ranging from Early Middle Ages to 20th century, with strong emphasis in objects, documents and artwork related to Colonial and Dutch Brazil, including the world's largest assemblage of paintings by Frans Post.The Institute also houses one of the largest collections of armory in the world, with 3,000 pieces, the majority of which were produced in Europe and Asia between the 14th and 19th centuries. The library has over 62 thousand volumes, ranging from 16th to 20th century, including a collection of brasiliana and other rare items.
The Pushkin House , formally the Institute of Russian Literature , is a research institute in St. Petersburg. It is part of a network of institutions affiliated with the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The Huntington Museum of Art is a nationally accredited art museum located in the Park Hills neighborhood above Ritter Park in Huntington, West Virginia. Housed on over 50 acres of land and occupying almost 60,000 square feet, it is the largest art museum in the state of West Virginia. The museum's campus is home to nature trails and the C. Fred Edwards Conservatory, a subtropical and tropical plant conservatory. The museum's collection includes American and European paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings, as well as glass pieces manufactured in West Virginia and the Ohio Valley, American folk art, Chinese and Japanese decorative objects, Haitian art, firearms, and decorative arts from the Near East. In addition to its permanent collections, the museum hosts traveling exhibitions and houses the James D. Francis Art Research Library, the Grace Rardin Doherty Auditorium, and five art studios where artists in residence are periodically hosted and classes are held. The Huntington Museum of Art holds one of the largest collections of art in the state of West Virginia.
The Hunter Museum of American Art is an art museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The museum's collections include works representing the Hudson River School, 19th century genre painting, American Impressionism, the Ashcan School, early modernism, regionalism, and post World War II modern and contemporary art.
The building itself represents three distinct architectural stages: the original 1904 classical revival mansion designed by Abram Garfield, the son of president James A. Garfield, which has housed the museum since its opening in 1952, a brutalist addition built in 1975, and a 2005 addition designed by Randall Stout which now serves as the entrance to the museum.
Il palazzo Huis ten Bosch è un palazzo reale situato a L'Aia, nei Paesi Bassi. È una delle tre residenze ufficiali della Famiglia Reale, essendo le altre due il Palazzo Noordeinde sempre a L'Aia ed il Palazzo Reale ad Amsterdam.
Huis ten Bosch è stata dal 1981 al 2014 la residenza di Beatrice dei Paesi Bassi, e l'attuale re Guglielmo Alessandro vi si è trasferito con la sua famiglia il 13 gennaio 2019. Una replica del palazzo è stata costruita nella città di Sasebo in Giappone in un parco a tema dello stesso nome.
Highgate School, formally Sir Roger Cholmeley's School at Highgate, is an English co-educational, fee-paying, independent day school, founded in 1565 in Highgate, London, England. It educates over 1,400 pupils in three sections – Highgate Pre-Preparatory School , Highgate junior school and the senior school – which together comprise the Highgate Foundation. As part of its wider work the charity was from 2010 a founding partner of the London Academy of Excellence and it is now also the principal education sponsor of an associated Academy, the London Academy of Excellence Tottenham, which opened in September 2017. The principal business sponsor is Tottenham Hotspur FC. The charity also funds the Chrysalis Partnership, a scheme supporting 26 state schools in six London boroughs.
Il Museo di Groninga è un istituto museale d'arte fondato nel 1894. Il museo è ospitato dal 1994 in un edificio progettato dagli architetti Alessandro Mendini, Michele de Lucchi, Philippe Starck e Coop Himmelbau; precedentemente era ospitato in un edificio neogotico sul Praediniussingel.
Grand Valley State University is a public liberal arts university in Allendale, Michigan. It was established in 1960 and its main campus is situated on 1,322 acres approximately 12 miles west of Grand Rapids. The university also offers classes at a campus in downtown Grand Rapids, its international campus in Holland, and through Traverse City established in cooperation with local community colleges.
GVSU is a comprehensive coeducational university serving nearly 25,000 students as of fall 2018, from all 83 Michigan counties and dozens of other states and foreign countries. It is one of America's 100 largest universities, and employs more than 3,000 people with about 1,780 academic faculty and 1,991 support staff. The university has alumni in all 50 U.S. states, Canada, and 25 countries.GVSU's NCAA Division II sports teams are called the Lakers, and compete in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in all 19 intercollegiate varsity sports . They have won 20 NCAA Division II National Championships since 2002 in seven different sports.
Godalming is a historic market town, civil parish and administrative centre of the Borough of Waverley in Surrey, England, 4 miles SSW of Guildford. The town traverses the banks of the River Wey in the Greensand Ridge – a hilly, heavily wooded part of the outer London commuter belt and Green Belt. In 1881, it became the first place in the world to have a public electricity supply and electric street lighting.Godalming is regarded as an expensive residential town, partly due to its visual appeal, favourable transport links and high proportion of private housing.In 2007 it was voted the fourth best area of the UK in which to live. The borough of Waverley, which includes Godalming, was judged in 2013 to have the highest quality of life in Great Britain, and in 2016 to be the most prosperous place in the UK.Godalming is 30.5 mi southwest of London and shares a three-way twinning arrangement with the towns of Joigny in France and Mayen in Germany. Friendship links are in place with the US state of Georgia and with Moscow. James Oglethorpe of Godalming was the founder of the colony of Georgia.
