LONDON’S MUSEUMS

1. LONDON’SMUSEUMS Massaro Lucia & La Puma Graziella II A A.S. 2017/18

2. The Victoria & Albert Museum The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.3 million objects that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The Museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, drama

3. The Renaissance City

4. The history… The history of the V&A is a story like no other. From its early beginnings as a Museum of Manufactures in 1852, to the foundation stone laid by Queen Victoria in 1899, to today's state-of-the-art galleries, the Museum has constantly evolved in its collecting and public interpretation of art and design.  The tea room. The world's first museum café.

5. The National Art Library is a major public reference library for the fine and decorative arts, and it is the V&A's curatorial departmet for the art, craft and design of then book

6. The National Gallery It is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900.

7. The inside

8. The history… In 1824 the British government purchased a collection of 38 paintings from the estate of a wealthy insurance broker named John Julius Angerstein, paying £57,000 for the collection. From this small start, one of the world's great collections of fine art was born. Just 2 years later the painter Sir George Beaumont offered his collection of art to the nation on the condition that a suitable venue be found for their display. Sir George Beaumont

9. Seurat: Bagnanti (1884) Van Gogh – Girasoli (1888) Botticelli: Venere e Marte (1485)

10. The Natural HistoryMuseum The Natural History Museum in London houses the most important collection in the world, with 80 million specimens relating to botany, entomology, zoology, palaeontology and mineralogy. Visitors to the institute, which is also a thriving research center, can expect to be face to face with animatronic dinosaurs, an extinct dodo, an earthquake simulator and much more.

11. The entrance hall, known as Hintze Hall

12. The history… It was opened in Alfred Waterhouse’s purpose-built Romanesque cathedral of nature in Cromwell Road in 1881. The museum has, over 4 floors, more than 33 large-scale exhibition sales. The rooms are divided into 4 zones: red zone (Earth); green area (Ecology); blue area (animals and Biology); and orange area (nature).

13. «Dippy» the dinosaur

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