famous museums in london

8/8/2019 Famous Museums in London

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How many museums inLondon?y

Avisitor to London could spendseveral trips to the city just visitingits museums if they so wished and

still be left with more to see. Thereare more than 200 museums inLondon


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British Museumyestablished in 1753

yThe world renowned and the oldestpublic museum in the world


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Welcome to the

British Museum

Greek-inspired faade


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The British Museum was actually startedwhen naturalist and physician Sir HansSloane died in 1753.

yHis will had entrusted his collection of40,000 books, 7,000 manuscripts, artifactsfrom Egypt, Rome, Greece, and otherancient Asian civilizations, as well as several

specimens of dried leaves and plants, to thenation of Great Britain and Ireland, underthe care of King George II.


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It is the easiest way to travel from

Europe to Africa to Asia to the

Americas and back again in just

one afternoon


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y Here you'll find:

y Cleopatra's mummy,

y the Mausoleum ofHalikarnassos,

y the Rosetta Stone,

y textiles and weaponsfrom Aztec and Incatribes,

y the entire history of

coinage from 7BC totoday as well as

y thousands of sculptures,drawings, paintings,

prints, and ceramics.


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yThis, of course, eventually didn't sit well withthe countries that the artifacts originated from.

yThe argument is that these artifacts belong to

their own countries and it's a pity that they'retoo far from those cultures they helped shape.

yFor example, Nigeria is claiming its right to theBenin Bronzes, Greece is demanding thereturn of the Elgin or Parthenon Marbles, andEgypt is trying to reclaim the Rosetta Stone.


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Almost 100 galleries

yCurrently, the British museum houses morethan 13.5 million objects in almost 100galleries stretched out over 588,000 squarefeet.


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It is also a harmonious blend of old and

modern artifacts and architecture as it

has been continuously renewed andcompleted with new masterpieces and

architectural landmarks.

An example is the Great Court that hasbeen completed by Queen Elizabeth II

in the 20th century


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Great Court, originally an open

garden in the center ofBritish

Museum, now one of the greatest

covered open spaces.


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In the centre of it there is a round

Reading Room. It looks small yet it

is HUGE! Look how little people

are!


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If you are lucky you can see it like

this with the sun setting shadows


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Overview of the British Museum

from above


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Inside the Round Reading room


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yThe Reading Room was also

used by a large number offamous figures, includingnotablyMohammad Ali

Jinnah, Karl Marx, OscarWilde, Bram Stoker,Mahatma Gandhi, RudyardKipling, George Orwell,

George Bernard Shaw, MarkTwain, Norbert Elias,Virginia Woolf, ArthurRimbaud and H. G. Wells.


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A panorama of the interior of the

Reading Room.


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Face by Igor Mitoraj at British

Museum


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It is an outstanding museumabsolutely worth visiting!


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Science Museum in London


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AstoundingScience

Spectacular

Museum


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The Science Museum now holds a

collection of over 300,000 itemsy Famous items as Stephenson's Rocket, Puffing Billy(the

oldest surviving steam locomotive), the firstjet engine, areconstruction ofFrancis Crick and James Watson's modelofDNA, some of the earliest remaining steam engines, aworking example ofCharles Babbage's Difference engine,the first prototype of the 10,000-year Clock of the LongNow, and documentation of the first typewriter. It also

contains hundreds of interactive exhibits.y Arecent addition is the IMAX3D Cinema showing science

and nature documentaries, some of them in 3-D, and theWellcomeWing which focuses on digital technology.


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Stephenson's Rocket

DNAreconstruction model built byCrickandWatson in 1953.


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Old and Newy It shows the development of machines, gadgets and

science in general from the beginnings up to now

offering even a glimpse into the FUTURE of thescience development.

y It also has a dedicated library.


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in the 21 Century what role

should a museum play?y To my mind

y It is not only to familiarize people with the latestdiscoveries of the great HUMAN MINDS or to presentthe newest gadgets meant to improve our lives but

y it has to make people aware of their influence onnature and teach us how to be environmentallyfriendly.

y The following Science Galleries are meant to do thatto make you think.

y From Homo Habilis (=Skillful Man) to HomoSapiens (=Wise, Knowing Man)


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Who am I? GalleryyWhat makes you smarter

than a chimp? What makes

you smile? What makes you,you?

y Who am I?invites you toexplore the science of who

you are through intriguingobjects, provocative artworksand hands-on exhibits.


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With hands-on, interactive exhibits

you can:

Discover what your voice sounds like as a

member of the opposite sex, morph your face tosee what youll look like as you age, or collectDNAto catch a criminal in our brand-newinteractive exhibits.


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Antenna Gallery

What's New in Science?

yWant to know how the latest sciencediscoveries could change your life?

y The science news gallery Antennawill bring you news from everyangle.

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Plus, it'll be asking you to review andrate the latest ideas along withleading scientists, engineers,designers and thinkers.


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Atmosphere: exploring climate

science

y This interactive and immersiveexperience will give you thechance to explore the sciencebehind climate change, the

ways it could impact on ourlives and some of the things

that can be done to tackle it.


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Fashion Gallery:

y Trash Fashion - designing out waste

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Fashion may be fabulous, but the way your clothes aremade is incredibly wasteful.

y Can designers use new technology to create stylewithout waste?

y Find out how the latest scientific technologies canreduce waste. New types of material and dyeing andcutting techniques can create fashion without cloggingup landfill.

yYou can even use your old clothes to refashion


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Gorgeous gallery of refashioned

clothes


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Here are the names of some other

exhibitions at Science Museum:y "Glimpses of Medical History, "Science and the Art of

Medicine,

y Telecommunications, Challenge of Materials

y Cosmos & Culture, Exploring Space, Making theModern World, Measuring Time

y In Future, Computing, Mathematics, Ships

y Science in the 18th Century, Fast Forward

y The Secret Life of the Home Things, The Garden

y Psychology - Mind Your Head

y The Theatre


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Tatey Tate is a family of four art galleries housing the UK's

collection of British art from 1500 and of International

Modern and ContemporaryA

rt.y It is a network of four art museums:

y Tate Britain, London (previously known as the TateGallery, founded 1897),

y Tate Liverpool (founded 1988),y Tate St Ives, Cornwall (founded 1993) and

y Tate Modern, London (founded 2000)


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Tate Britain


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The home ofBritish art from 1500

to the present dayy The Tate is an institution that houses the United

Kingdom's national collection of British Art, and

International Modern and ContemporaryA

rt. It is anetwork of four art museums: Tate Britain, London(previously known as the Tate Gallery, founded 1897),Tate Liverpool (founded 1988), Tate St Ives, Cornwall(founded 1993) and Tate Modern, London (founded

2000)


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Named afterSir Henry Tateywho was a sugar magnate and a major collector of

Victorian art.

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He offered to fund the building of the gallery to houseBritish Art on the condition that the State pay for thesite and revenue costs. Henry Tate also gifted thegallery his own collection. It was initially a collectionsolely of modern British art, concentrating on the

works of modernthat is Victorian erapainters.

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Tate Moderny Founded in 2000

y now exhibits the

nationalcollection ofmodern art from1900 to thepresent day,including somemodern Britishart


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Liverpool Tate

Opened in 1988 it

shows variousworks from theLondon Tates as

well as mountingits own temporarydisplays


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Tate St. Ivesy Opened in 993

y It exhibits work bymodern British

artists, particularlythose of the St IvesSchool. Additionallythe Tate also managesthe Barbara

Hepworth Museumand SculptureGarden, whichopened in 1980.


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Famous paintings exhibited in TateAnAllegorywith Venusand Cupid

-created in or around 1540to 1550 byAgnoloBronzino.Historians believe that

this masterpiece may havebeen presented to FrancisI of France.


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Jan van Eycky created in or around

1434

y The ArnolfiniMarriage


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Sir Anthony van

Dyck

y created in or about 1638

y Lord John Stuart and hisBrother, Lord BernardStuart


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George Stubbsy created in or about 1762

y Whistlejack


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Rubbens, Rafael, Botticelli,

Constable, Durer, Rembrandt

are other famous names


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The National Gallery London


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You can see over 2,300

masterpieces here for freeyJohanes Vermeer, Titian, Paul Cezanne,

George Seurat, Claude Monet, Giovanni

Bellini, Anthony van Dyck, Rubens,Rembrandt, Vincent van Gogh,Michelangelo, John Constable, Raphael,Canaletto, Caravaggio, Velasquez, Leonardoda Vinci, Sandro Boticelli, George Stubbsare only some names of the painters that areexhibited there.


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Victoria and Albert museum


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Often abbreviated as the

V&A

y the world's largest museum of decorative arts and

design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5million objects.

y The holdings ofceramics, glass, textiles,costumes, silver, ironwork,jewellery, furniture,

medieval objects, sculpture, prints andprintmaking, drawings and photographs areamong the largest and most comprehensive in the

world.


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yThe museum possessesthe world's largest

collection of post-classical sculpture,

y the holdings ofItalian

Renaissance items arethe largest outside Italy.


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Natural History Museum


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y The museum is

home to life andearth sciencespecimenscomprising some

70 million itemswithin five maincollections:

y Botany,

Entomology,Mineralogy,PalaeontologyandZoology.


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Moving to London for some years?y This is not by far a complete overview of the London

Museums.

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s it was emphasized in the beginning of this slide oneneeds more that one day to visit the British Museumalone. And if you plan to see all the museums ofLondon thoroughly then you probably need to spendat least 5 years in London , your full time occupationbeing visiting museums.


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Good Luck and I hope you enjoyed

our imaginary tour to some of the

London museums.

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