Stavronikita Monastery is an Eastern Orthodox monastery at the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece, dedicated to Saint Nicholas. It is built on top of a rock near the sea near the middle of the eastern shore of the Athonite Peninsula, located between the monasteries of Iviron and Pantokratoros. The site where the monastery is built was first used by Athonite monks as early as the 10th century. Stavronikita was the last to be officially consecrated as an Athonite monastery in 1536 and ranks fifteenth in the hierarchy of the Athonite monasteries and currently has 30 to 40 monks.
The State Historical Society of Missouri, a private membership and state funded organization, is a comprehensive research facility located in Columbia, Missouri specializing in the preservation and study of Missouri's cultural heritage. Established in 1898 by the Missouri Press Association and made a trustee of the state in 1901, the Society is the official historical society of the state of Missouri and is located on the campus of the University of Missouri in Downtown Columbia, Missouri. The Society publishes the quarterly Missouri Historical Review, the only scholarly academic journal produced in the state.
The Society engages in a number of outreach programs to bring Missouri's history to the public. Such programs are the Missouri History in Performance theatre, the Missouri History Speakers' Bureau, and the Missouri Conference on History. The collection of the Society, concerning pamphlets, books, and state publications, is over 460,000 items. In addition, the Society has over 500,000 manuscript items, 2,900 maps, over 150,000 state archival records, and over 57,000 reels of microfilm. In 2011, the Western Manuscript Collection, accessible in Columbia, Kansas City, Rolla, and St. Louis, Missouri, specializing in the preservation and collection of Missouri and Middle West history, was absorbed into the Society.
O Museu do Estado de Artes A. Kasteyev é o maior museu de arte do Cazaquistão, localizado em Almaty.O museu abriu em 16 de setembro de 1976, com base nas coleções da Shevchenko Kazakh State Gallery e do Museu Republicano de Arte Decorativa e Aplicada. Em 1984, o museu foi renomeado para homenagear o artista cazaque Abilkhan Kasteev .O museu possui uma coleção de mais de 23.000 obras, incluindo arte histórica e contemporânea do Cazaquistão, obras da era soviética , obras de arte russas , arte da Europa Ocidental e arte do Leste Asiático .O museu de Kasteyev é especialmente conhecido por sua coleção de pintura e escultura cazaques, que provavelmente será a maior do mundo, incluindo obras de N. Nurmukhammedov, M. Kim, K. Yeserkeyev, K. Mullashev, T. Abuov e Y. Tolepbai.
The Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan is the largest state art museum in Uzbekistan. Its permanent collection contains more than several thousands works, divided among four curatorial departments. The museum was established in 1918 as a Museum of People University and renamed as a Central Arts Museum later. It was named as Tashkent Art Museum in 1924 and finally Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan in 1935.
The St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, is a combined library and art gallery. The building in which it is housed is architecturally and historically significant because of its construction. The Athenaeum is also noted for the American landscape paintings and books in its collection and its having been funded by Horace Fairbanks, manufacturer of the world's first platform scale. The art collection contains a number of Hudson River School paintings. This building retains a strong Victorian flavor of the 19th century.
St Antony's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1950 as the result of the gift of French merchant Sir Antonin Besse of Aden, St Antony's specialises in international relations, economics, politics, and area studies relative to Europe, Russia, former Soviet states, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Japan, China, and South and South East Asia.The college is located in North Oxford, with Woodstock Road to the west, Bevington Road to the south and Winchester Road to the east. As of 2018, St Antony's had an estimated financial endowment of £43.8m. Formerly a men's college, it has been coeducational since 1962.
Sorø Art Museum is an art museum located in Sorø, Denmark. It displays a representative collection of Danish art as well as a collection of Russian art, covering both painting from 1870 to 1930 and Russian icons, and also hosts special exhibitions both of classical and contemporary art. The museum is housed within a listed Neoclassical house, part of a traditional Danish market town setting along Sorø's main street, which was expanded by the architects Lundgaard & Tranberg in 2011, tripling its size.
Instituto Smithsoniano é uma instituição educacional e de pesquisa associada a um complexo de museus, fundada e administrada pelo governo dos Estados Unidos. Com grande parte de seus prédios localizados em Washington, D.C., o instituto compreende 19 museus e sete centros de pesquisa, e tem 142 milhões de itens em suas coleções.Foi fundado para a promoção e disseminação de conhecimento pelo cientista britânico James Smithson . No testamento de Smithson, ele declarou que se o herdeiro, seu sobrinho Henry James Hungerford, morresse sem deixar descendentes, o patrimônio dos Smithson deveria ser doado ao governo dos Estados Unidos para a criação de um "estabelecimento para a expansão e difusão de conhecimento entre os homens". Após Henry James morrer em 1835 sem deixar herdeiros, o presidente Andrew Jackson informou o Congresso do patrimônio de Smithson, que consistia de 100 000 moedas de ouro e 500 000 dólares .
O Instituto Smithsoniano foi então estabelecido como um truste por uma lei do Congresso, sendo funcional e legalmente um órgão do governo dos Estados Unidos. Faz parte do acervo de um dos seus museus, a motocicleta V8, criada em 1907 por Glenn Curtiss, para estabelecer a maior velocidade atingida por um equipamento motorizado até então.
Sizergh Castle and Garden is a stately home and garden at Helsington in the English county of Cumbria, about 4 miles south of Kendal. The castle, a grade I listed building, is in the care of the National Trust along with its garden and estate. It is the home of the Hornyold-Strickland family.
In 2016 the Sizergh estate was included in the newly extended Lake District National Park.
Mareel is a multi-purpose entertainment venue located on the waterfront of Lerwick, the capital of Shetland. Opening in 2012, the facility includes a music venue, cinema, conference rooms and educational facilities.
The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, is the geology museum of the University of Cambridge. It is part of the Department of Earth Sciences and is located on the University's Downing Site in Downing Street, central Cambridge, England. The Sedgwick Museum is the oldest of the eight museums which make up the University of Cambridge Museums consortium.
A Igreja de São Sebaldo é uma igreja medieval em Nuremberg, Alemanha. É uma das mais importantes igrejas da cidade e uma das mais antigas. Fica localizada na Albrecht-Dürer-Platz, na frente da velha prefeitura. Seu nome é uma homenagem a São Sebaldo, ermitão e missionário do século VIII e padroeiro de Nuremberg.
Na igreja, podem ser encontradas obras de Veit Stoss.
Schloss Weißenstein is a Schloss or palatial residence in Pommersfelden, Bavaria, southern Germany. It was designed for Lothar Franz von Schönborn, Prince-Bishop of Bamberg and Archbishop of Mainz, to designs by Johann Dientzenhofer and Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt. Weißenstein, built as a private summer residence, remains in the Schönborn family. It is considered a masterwork of Baroque architecture.
Santa Maria presso San Satiro is a church in Milan. The Italian Renaissance structure houses the early medieval shrine to Satyrus, brother of Saint Ambrose. The church is known for its false apse, an early example of trompe l'œil, attributed to Donato Bramante.
