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Dinosaur Stomp! The triceratops. Limit Search Results. Include Exclude. View All. Collapse All. Material Type. Shelf Location. The museum was renamed the Victoria and Albert Museum in , when Queen Victoria laid the cornerstone for the present building, designed by Sir Aston Webb.
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This structure opened in Maintenance of the Apsley House was turned over to English Heritage in , and the Theatre Museum closed in , with some of the collection moving to South Kensington. The Victoria and Albert Museum houses vast tableaux of European sculpture, ceramics including porcelain and other pottery , furniture, metalwork, jewelry, and textiles from early medieval times to the present day.
The East Asian artworks include remarkable Chinese ceramics , jade , and sculpture from the Eumorfopoulos collection. The museum also houses the national collection of British watercolours, miniatures , prints, and drawings, among which is an outstanding group of works by John Constable. The Italian Renaissance and Baroque sculptures are some of the best outside Italy.
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The museum also houses the National Art Library. Victoria and Albert Museum. The most controversial aspect of her work has been the creation of a series of new openings in this listed structure, which are now fitted with gates of perforated aluminium.
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The British Museum opens until 8. There are usually at least two temporary exhibitions running as well. Museum director highlights: Prado Museum. Superlative collections of Western art from the 13th century to the present day, built up by the Thyssen-Bornemisza family and housed in a neo-classical palace.
The Dutch national treasure-house of art has at last re-opened after a decade-long renovation. Read a complete visitor's guide to the Rijksmuseum. The building itself, a huge white monolith designed by Richard Meier, is worth the visit alone. Picasso spent most of his formative years living in Barcelona, and the Museu Picasso documents his time here via sketches, paintings and ceramics produced during the early years of his career.
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Indeed, officials say it would take around 11 years to examine every single exhibit. Wander on the vast Palace Square beforehand. Museum director favourites: The Hermitage Museum. Booking, however, is virtually essential.
Museum director highlights: Uffizi Gallery. But the final rooms are what most visitors come for: a series of increasingly gruesome wax anatomical models, sculpted in eye-popping detail between and as teaching aids for trainee doctors. Inaugurated in June , this light, airy glass-and-concrete building was designed by Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi.
Archaic and classical finds from the Acropolis site are displayed here — proud statues of the ancients and life-like stone carvings of animals. The top floor is devoted to the marble frieze that once ran around the top of the Parthenon. About half of the pieces are originals, while the remainder are white plaster copies. The Greeks have wanted them back for decades, and hope that this blatant presentation will finally convince the British to return them. Housed in a neo-classical building with a lovely roof-terrace cafe, this museum traces Greek art right up the 20th century.
Sculpture, ceramics, jewellery, paintings, furniture and costumes are on display, but top pieces include the Thessaly Treasure a hoard of gold filigree jewellery set with precious stones, dating from the second century BC , two early paintings by El Greco, and the reconstruction of two 18th-century, wood-panelled, Ottoman-inspired living rooms. Details: brusselsmuseums. Without making a song and dance about it, this collection is a showcase for the brilliance of Belgian art. In the late 19th century, Belgium was a centre of Symbolism, producing work of haunting beauty and compelling weirdness.