The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art is an art museum located on the campus of the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. The permanent collection has over 15,000 objects. Admission is free and open to the general public.The Smart Museum and the adjacent Cochrane-Woods Art Center were designed by the architect Edward Larrabee Barnes.
O Jardim do Castelo de Sissinghurst situa-se perto de Cranbrook, Goudhurst e Tenterden, em Kent, e é propriedade do National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty. É um dos mais famosos jardins de Inglaterra, e um dos mais visitados.
The Sioux City Art Center began as a Works Progress Administration project in 1937 when the Art Center Association of Sioux City, the Sioux City Junior League, as well as other community supporters, received a grant of $3,000 to create the first art center. After the Federal Assistance Program ended in 1940, the Sioux City City Council voted to fund the Art Center and established the Board of Trustees, the City's fiscal governing board for the Art Center in 1941. It is located in Sioux City, Iowa.
O Museu Nacional de Singapura é o museu mais antigo de Singapura. A sua história remonta a 1849, quando começou como uma secção de biblioteca do Instituto Raffles chamada Raffles Library and Museum. Após várias mudanças de local, em 1887 passou a estar no atual local permanente em Stamford Road, na área prevista para museus na zona central da cidade-estado.
O museu é especializado em exposições relacionadas com a história de Singapura. É um dos quatro museus nacionais do país, sendo os outros três os dois Museus das Civilizações Asiáticas no Empress Place Building e Old Tao Nan School, e o Museu de Arte de Singapura. Foi designado como museu nacional em 1965, e entre 1993 e março de 2006 era conhecido como o Museu de História de Singapura.
O Museu Nacional de Singapura sofreu um restauro de três anos e meio tendo reaberto as portas ao público em 2 de dezembro de 2006, com a reabertura oficial em 7 de dezembro a ser presidida pelo ex-presidente da Singapura Sellapan Ramanathan e pelo ministro da Informação, das Comunicações e das Artes. A Galeria de História de Singapura abriu em 8 de dezembro do mesmo ano.
The Sinebrychoff Art Museum is an art museum located on Bulevardi in Helsinki, Finland. The museum exhibits the old European art collections of the Finnish National Gallery. In addition, half of the museum acts as a historic house museum, displaying the 19th century estate of the Sinebrychoff family.
See also: New Shute House
Old Shute House , located at Shute, near Colyton, Axminster, Devon, is the remnant of a mediaeval manor house with Tudor additions, today in the ownership of the National Trust. It was given a Grade I listing on 14 December 1955. It is one of the most important non-fortified manor houses of the Middle Ages still in existence. It was built about 1380 as a hall house and was greatly expanded in the late 16th century and partly demolished in 1785. The original 14th-century house survives, although much altered. This article is based on the work of Bridie , which has however been superseded as the standard work of reference on the architectural history of the building by the unpublished Exeter Archaeology Report of 2008 produced for the National Trust. This report draws on new evidence gained from the recently discovered survey of 1559 made by Sir William Petre, which lists each main room of the then existing house together with its contents. From this evidence a conjectural ground plan of the house pre-1785 was recently produced by Roger Waterhouse.
Shizuoka Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Shizuoka Prefecture has a population of 3,637,998 and has a geographic area of 7,777.42 km² . Shizuoka Prefecture borders Kanagawa Prefecture to the east, Yamanashi Prefecture to the northeast, Nagano Prefecture to the north, and Aichi Prefecture to the west.
Shizuoka is the capital and Hamamatsu is the largest city in Shizuoka Prefecture, with other major cities including Fuji, Numazu, and Iwata. Shizuoka Prefecture is located on Japan's Pacific Ocean coast and features Suruga Bay formed by the Izu Peninsula, and Lake Hamana which is considered to be one of Japan's largest lakes. Mount Fuji, the tallest volcano in Japan and cultural icon of the country, is partially located in Shizuoka Prefecture on the border with Yamanashi Prefecture. Shizuoka Prefecture has a significant motoring heritage as the founding location of Honda, Suzuki, and Yamaha, and is home to the Fuji International Speedway.
The Shimane Art Museum opened in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, Japan in 1999. Designed by Kiyonori Kikutake and with a total floor area of 12,500 square metres, it houses a collection of Japanese and Western art, including Momoyama folding screens and paintings by Corot, Sisley, Monet, and Gauguin.
Shetland Library is a Scottish public library service, with its main branch based in Lerwick and membership open to both residents of and visitors to the islands. The library has a range of digital, online and physical material and collections that support the literary traditions of the northern isles.Aside from the main branch, the service also provides seven school libraries, two of which are community libraries open to the public, and a mobile library. The Shetland Library service is provided by the Shetland Islands Council .
Sheffield Archives collects, preserves and lists records relating to Sheffield and South Yorkshire and makes them available for reference and research.
Sheffield Archives is a joint service with Sheffield Local Studies Library. They are part of the Sheffield Libraries Archives and Information Service delivered by Sheffield City Council
Shandy Hall is a writer's house museum in the former home of the Rev. Laurence Sterne in Coxwold, North Yorkshire, England. Sterne lived there from 1760 to 1768 as perpetual curate of Coxwold. He is remembered for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy.
The Senate is one of the two chambers of the bicameral Federal Parliament of Belgium, the other being the House of Representatives. It is considered to be the "upper house" of the Federal Parliament. Created in 1831 as a chamber fully equal to the Chamber of Representatives, it has undergone several reforms in the past, most notably in 1993 and 2014. The 2014 elections were the first without a direct election of senators. Instead, the new Senate is composed of members of community and regional parliaments and co-opted members. It is a chamber of the communities and regions and serves as a platform for discussion and reflection about matters between these federated entities. The Senate today plays a minor role in the federal legislative process. However, the Senate, together with the Chamber, has full competence for the Constitution and legislation on the organization and functioning of the Federal State and the federated entities. Since the reform of 2014, it holds about ten plenary sessions a year.
Seaton Delaval Hall é um palácio rural inglês situado em Northumberland, entre Seaton Sluice e Seaton Delaval. Foi desenhado segundo o estilo arquitectónico conhecido por Barroco Inglês, pelo arquitecto Sir John Vanbrugh, em 1718, para o Almirante George Delaval.
Scripps College is a private liberal arts women's college in Claremont, California. Founded in 1926, it had an enrollment of 1,109 students as of 2019. It is a member of the Claremont Colleges and is known for its extensive interdisciplinary core curriculum and historic campus.
Scripps is an undergraduate institution with an emphasis in the humanities and in interdisciplinary education. It is widely regarded as the most prestigious women's college in the Western United States, and is consistently ranked the top such college by U.S. News and the other major rankings. The college is a top producer of Fulbright students.
O Palácio de Schönbrunn , conhecido também como o Palácio de Versalhes de Viena, é um dos principais monumentos históricos e culturais da Áustria. Está localizado no Hietzing, o 13º distrito de Viena. O seu nome deriva de uma frase atribuída ao imperador Matias, que teria "descoberto" um poço enquanto caçava por ali, exclamando "Welch' schöner Brunn" . No interior da igreja, há pinturas importantes do pintor Giambattista Pittoni que mostram a educação de Maria e San João Nepomuceno, durante seu tempo ele era o pintor mais solicitado de todos os tribunais europeus reais.
Construído como residência para a imperatriz Leonor Gonzaga entre 1638 e 1643, foi severamente danificado durante o segundo cerco turco a Viena, em 1683. Em 1687, Leopoldo I encomendou a Johann Bernhard Fischer um novo edifício representativo para o seu sucessor, José I.
O palácio e o parque só foram reconstruídos e expandidos para a sua forma atual em 1743, sob a imperatriz Maria Teresa, por Nikolaus von Pacassi e Johann Ferdinand Hetzendorf von Hohenberg.
O palácio barroco foi residência de verão da família imperial austríaca desde meados do século XVIII até ao final da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Nesse período, o edifício foi habitado quase continuamente por várias centenas de pessoas da vasta corte, tornando-se num centro cultural e político do império Habsburgo. Aqui viveu até 1817, data de seu casamento com o futuro imperador brasileiro Pedro I, a arquiduquesa D. Leopoldina de Habsburgo, que teve tão grande papel na independência do Brasil.
O Schönbrunn tem sido uma das principais atracções turísticas da cidade de Viena desde o século XIX, sendo um dos mais importantes e mais visitados monumentos culturais da Áustria. O palácio e o seu parque de cerca de 160 ha está classificado desde 1996 como parte do Património da Humanidade pela UNESCO. Tem aparecido em postais, documentários e diversas produções cinematográficas. Uma das principais atracções do parque palaciano é o Tiergarten Schönbrunn, o mais antigo jardim zoológico do mundo, com os seus 16 ha.
