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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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y
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.
y
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
y
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.
y
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.
t
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e n t a
project of
theextension
of NewModern
Tate
Original design
forTate Modern
addition, Herzog
de Meur
on
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RevisedNew
Tate
Modern
Project
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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.
y A
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.