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Museums
Galleries
Theatres
Music halls
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exhibits the works of man from
prehistoric to modern times from
around the world.
About 8 million objects
Highlights include the Rosetta
Stone, the Parthenon sculptures,
and the mummies in the Ancient
Egypt collection.
Entry is free
Founded in 1753 (18th century)
the British Museum’s remarkable
collection spans over two million
years of human history.
up to 6 million visitors per year.
Not only:
Mexico
Egypt, Sudan,
Ethiopia
Greece
Rome
Europe
Japan
China
Korea
Assyria
Mesopotamia
Amphoras,
bottles
Brooches,
earrings
Marble statues
Bricks
Reliefs
Jugs, cups,
bowls
Coins,
banknotes
Furniture
Armoury
drawings
Queen of the Night
relief, Mesopotamia,
between 1800 and
1750 BC
Portland Vase,
Roman, about 5–25
AD
David vases,
China, Yuan
dynasty, 1351 AD
Hoa Hakananai'a.
Easter Island, AD
1000–1200
Situated inside the BM
• Surrounded by the Great Court
• There have been famous exhibitions of:
The Chinese terracotta army (2007 – 2008)
Montezuma (2009 – 2010)
• In the past the Reading room (being a part of
the British Library then) was used by many
famous researchers:
Oscar Wilde, Karl Marx, Virginia
Woolf, Lenin, Mark Twain, Gandhi, …
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Map and objects in British museum:
http://www.britishmuseum.org/visiting/floor_plans_and_galleries/ground_floor.aspx
The British Museum Reading room panorama
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Founded by Sir Henry Tate in 1897
Historical and contemporary British art
situated on Millbank, on the site of the
former Millbank Prison.
William
Hogarth,
The
Painter
and his
Pug,
Sir John Everett Millais,
Ophelia, c. 1851
1745
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on the banks of the Thames
is Tate Modern
Britain's national museum
of modern and
contemporary art
previously being a power
station
temporary exhibitions by
top artists: Picasso, Warhol,
Lichtenstein, Rothko, Monet
Cubism, futurism, pop art,
surrealism, abstract art
Entry is free.
A video:
http://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=m1q6U_BFcmI
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3,000 years of amazing
artefacts from around the
world.
Founded in 1852
over 4.5 million objects of
ceramics, glass, textiles,
costumes, silver, ironwork,
jewellery, furniture,
medieval objects,
sculpture, prints and
printmaking, drawings and
photographs
Entry is free but special
exhibitions require tickets.
A video:
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=QAF24-M63Bo
Henry VIII's writing desk, dated
1525, made from walnut and
oak, lined with leather
 A spinet dated 1570–1580,
made for Elizabeth I
 Bernini: Neptune and Triton,
Donatello, Rodin
 Rembrandt, Botticelli
 James II's wedding suit
 Constable, Turner
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A wax museum
First opened in 1830s by Marie
Tussaud who herself created
wax figures.
Her first figure was Voltaire in
1777
The oldest figure in the museum
in London is Madame du Barry
It displays the waxworks of
historical and royal figures, film stars,
sports stars and infamous murderers.
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Marvel Super Heroes 4D movie
in the former London
planetarium
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiU1HlRzEAM
Who would (n‘t) you take
a photo with and why?
Kate Winslet
David Beckham
Lewis Hamilton
the Queen and
the Royal family
Lady Gaga
Marylin Monroe
Adolf Hitler
Nelson Mandela
Alfred Hitchcock
Arnold
Swarzenegger
Madame Tussauds building (London, England)
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The National Gallery displays over 2000 Western
European paintings from the middle ages to the
20th century
Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci,
Rembrandt, Constable, Turner, Renoir,
Van Gogh …
admission is free.
The crowning glory of Trafalgar Square
Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini
Portrait, 1434
Raphael, The Aldobrandini
Madonna, 1510
John Constable, The Cornfield,
1826
Vincent van Gogh,
Sunflowers, 1888
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=JodenwkHUSc#t=27
a collection of portraits of
historically important and
famous British people
• Opened in 1856 as the
first portrait gallery in the
world
• Photographs,
caricatures, paintings,
drawings and sculpture
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Portraits of:
Shakespeare
Bronte sisters
Queen Victoria
Charles Dickens
Elizabeth I.
Jane Austen
Charles Darwin
Princess Diana
Rudyard Kipling
John Lennon
Isaac Newton
…and more
Opened by Queen Victoria in 1871, named
after her husband
 Each year it hosts over 360 events which
include classical music, jazz, world music,
circus, rock, pop, opera, dance, comedy,
award ceremonies, etc.
 best known for holding the annual summer
Proms concerts since 1941
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VIRTUAL TOUR:
http://www.royalalberthall.
com/virtualtour/index.html
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What venues do the following
terms refer to?
a/ Proms
b/ Caricatures
c/ Sunflowers
d/ Neptune and Triton
e/ Marvel Super Heroes
f/ Easter Island Statue
g/ Pop art
h/ Millbank prison
i/ amphoras
a/ the Royal Albert Hall
b/ the National Portrait
Gallery
c/ the National Gallery
d/ the Victoria and
Albert museum
e/ Madame Tussauds
f/ the British museum
g/ Tate Modern
h/ Tate Britain
i/ the British museum
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