The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum , also known simply as the Gulbenkian Museum, is a major encyclopedic art museum in Lisbon, Portugal, in the civil parish of Avenidas Novas. As part of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, one of the wealthiest foundations in the world, the Gulbenkian Museum houses one of the largest private collections of art in the world. It encompasses the art of the world from antiquity forward, and was the private collection of a single man, oil magnate Calouste Gulbenkian.
Castelvecchio Museum is a museum in Verona, northern Italy, located in the eponymous medieval castle. Restoration by the architect Carlo Scarpa between 1959 and 1973 has enhanced the appearance of the building and exhibits. Scarpa's architectural style is visible in the details for doorways, staircases, furnishings, and even fixtures designed to hold a specific piece of artwork. The renovation carefully balanced new and old, revealing the history of the original building where appropriate. Unusual at the time, this approach has now become a common approach to renovation.
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen is a fine arts museum in the French city of Caen, founded at the start of the 19th century and rebuilt in 1971 within the ducal château.
Milton Keynes University Hospital is a district general hospital serving Milton Keynes, its borough and the surrounding area of north Buckinghamshire, south Northamptonshire and north-west Bedfordshire. It is located in the Eaglestone neighbourhood, and opened in 1984. It is managed by Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. With the projected further growth of Milton Keynes and its population the hospital expects to be expanding its services over the next 20 years. The hospital has an association with the University of Buckingham Medical School.
イスラエル博物館(ヘブライ語: מוזיאון ישראל,ירושלים(Muze'on Yisrael, Yerushalayim)、英語: Israel Museum, Jerusalem)は、イスラエルの首都エルサレムに所在する国立博物館で、配下にロックフェラー博物館も抱えている。
同博物館内の「聖書館」は、死海文書を所蔵・展示していることで有名であり、死海文書は2001年に初台の東京オペラシティにおいて開催された「東京大聖書展」において日本においても公開された。
マウリッツ・エッシャー作品のコレクションも有しており、うち152点が2018年に日本で公開された。
Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt is a large multidisciplinary museum in Darmstadt, Germany. It was founded in 1820 with the donation of the collections of the ruling family of the local princely state, which ended as the Grand Duchy of Hesse. The current main building was begun in 1897, and a large extension in 1980. After major renovations from 2007 onwards, it reopened on September 13, 2014.The museum is especially noted for its art collection, including Pieter Brueghel the Elder's The Magpie on the Gallows, and one of the plaques from the Magdeburg Ivories . There are also strong collections of Art Nouveau objects from several countries, and German, Dutch and Flemish paintings.
It also features an important natural history collection, with for instance fossils from the nearby Messel pit and a historic American mastodon purchased by the Darmstadt naturalist Johann Jakob Kaup
The Kunstmuseum Den Haag is an art museum in The Hague in the Netherlands, founded in 1866 as the 'Museum voor Moderne Kunst'. Later, until 1998, it was known as 'Haags Gemeentemuseum', and until the end of September 2019 as 'Gemeentemuseum Den Haag'. It is renowned for its large Mondrian collection, the largest in the world. His last work, Victory Boogie-Woogie, is on display here.
The museum building was constructed between 1931–1935, designed by the Dutch architect H.P. Berlage.GEM and Fotomuseum Den Haag are part of the Kunstmuseum, though not housed in the same building and with a separate entrance fee.
Craven Museum & Gallery is a museum located in the town of Skipton, North Yorkshire, England in the Skipton Town Hall and has a collection of local artefacts which depict life in Craven from the prehistoric times to the modern day. It is currently closed for refurbishment.
The County Hall is a municipal building complex in Hertford, Hertfordshire, that is the seat of Hertfordshire County Council. It is a Grade II* listed building.
Orvieto Cathedral is a large 14th-century Roman Catholic cathedral dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and situated in the town of Orvieto in Umbria, central Italy. Since 1986, the cathedral in Orvieto has been the episcopal seat of the former Diocese of Todi as well.
The building was constructed under the orders of Pope Urban IV to commemorate and provide a suitable home for the Corporal of Bolsena, the relic of miracle which is said to have occurred in 1263 in the nearby town of Bolsena, when a traveling priest who had doubts about the truth of transubstantiation found that his Host was bleeding so much that it stained the altar cloth. The cloth is now stored in the Chapel of the Corporal inside the cathedral.
Situated in a position dominating the town of Orvieto which sits perched on a volcanic plug, the cathedral's façade is a classic piece of religious construction, containing elements of design from the 14th to the 20th century, with a large rose window, golden mosaics and three huge bronze doors, while inside resides two frescoed chapels decorated by some of the best Italian painters of the period with images of Judgment Day. The cathedral has five bells, dating back to Renaissance, tuned in E flat.
国立マルチャーナ図書館(イタリア語:Biblioteca nazionale Marciana)は、イタリアのヴェネツィア、サン・マルコ広場の一角に建てられたルネサンス建築の図書館である。マルチャーナとは、ヴェネツィアの守護聖人である聖マルコの事である。イタリアでも最も古い図書館の一つで、世界的に見ても随一の古い文献コレクションを保管している図書館である。