Museums and Galleries in your city.

[sandblast]

BIRMINGHAM, England.

Thinktank Science Museum





Birmingham City Museum & Art Gallery





Images show just two of Birmingham's museums, one modern and one Victorian.

[SlidellWx]

Some of the museums and galleries in New Orleans. There are several smaller galleries and museums scattered around the city that are not pictured.

Ogden Museum of Southern Art

courtesy of www.tulane.edu

New Orleans Museum of Art

courtesy of www.about.com

Contemporary Arts Center

courtesy of www.tripadvisor.com

Besthoff Sculpture Garden

courtesy of www.doyletics.com

New Orleans African American Museum

courtesy of discoverblackheritage.com

Audubon Aquarium

courtesy of www.railwaypreservation.com

Louisiana Children's Museum

courtesy of www.flickr.com

National World War II Museum

courtesy of www.tripadvisor.com

Louisiana State Museum (The Cabildo)

courtesy of www.parnormalknowledge.com

Long Vue House & Gardens

courtesy of www.flickr.com

[rockyi]

In the Quad Cities....

Figge Art Museum:



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Putman Museum:



A couple smaller galleries-

Bucktown Arts:



Midcoast Galleries:



There are many more galleries scattered across the metro.

[Paul in S.A TX]

Kieth AlanK flickr


jason Rodriguez flickr

Gruenemann flickr












Geeky Artist Librian Flickr

[edmontonenthusiast]

Here are a few of the major ones...I'm not gunna include the small independent galleries:

AGA: Art Gallery of Alberta


by me.

RAM: Royal Alberta Museum

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sfllaw/512709623/sizes/m/

Alberta Aviation Museum

http://www.redtag.ca/travel-guide/Ed...g_Attractions/

TWOSE: TELUS World of Science Edmonton (there is also one in Vancouver and Calgary)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mark81/2775798916/sizes/m/

[jodelli]

Approximate mileages or kms from downtown Windsor, Ontario, Canada:

Windsor Community Museum, 0 km:


Art Gallery Of Windsor, 0 km:


Odette Sculpture Park, from AGW to Ambassador Bridge:




Mackenzie Hall Cultural Centre, 3 km:


Willistead Manor Complex & Paul Martin Gardens, 3 km:


Contemporary Art Detroit, 3.5 miles:


Detroit Institute of Arts, 4 miles:


Inside the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn about 9 miles:





I'll toss in one from Calgary's Military Museum


All photos mine.

[bnk]

The photos on this thread are great. Keep it up.

[muppet]

London has over 300 museums and 300 galleries.

The biggest and best the city has to offer:

British Museum, world's greatest antiquities museum - 7 million exhibits and the cities biggest attraction, with 6 million visitors p/a.
Treasure trove of stolen booty from the worlds largest empire...


www.wikipedia.org

http://carpelondinium.files.wordpress.com

www.wikipedia.org, www.flickr.com


www.easypedia.gr





The V&A (Victoria and Albert Museum), the worlds largest decorative arts collection, with 4 million pieces and 2 million visitors p/a:


www.e-architect.co.uk, www.vandaprints.com

www.polaine.com

www.vam.ac.uk





Science Museum, 2.5 million visitors p/a and that transforms into a nightlife venue at the end of each month


www.pinballnews.com, www.bdonline.co.uk

http://static0.unlike.net, www.allhatnocattle.net

www.christmasparties-london.co.uk, www.bedandbreakfasts.co.uk




Tate Modern, the worlds largest modern art museum/ gallery and London's second largest attraction, designed for 1.8 million visitors p/a it sees in 5 million. The new extension will see an extra 1 million on top of that



www.walktalktour.com, http://theworldsbestever.com

www.architecture.com, StephenK1977, www.flickr.com

www.guardian.co.uk




http://markelt.files.wordpress.com, Daniel Berrange, http://oyez-voyez.org





The Natural History Museum - world's largest natural history collection- 70 million exhibits and specimens, 3.8 million visitors p/a



www.wikimedia.org



http://z.about.com, www.trivago.com

www.guardian.co.uk, www.nhm.ac.uk

www.nhm.ac.uk




The National Gallery - The greatest hits of European painting, London's third biggest attraction, 5 million visitors p/a


www.artknowledgenews.com



www.wikimedia.org, http://webartgallery.org

www.leeds.ac.uk, www.artnet.com


www.nationalgallery.org.uk, www.guardian.co.uk




Tate Britain - premier collection for British Art, 2 million visitors p/a



www.earthdocumentary.com


www.guardian.co.uk, www.tate.org.uk

www.guardian.co.uk


http://smarthistory.org



Saatchi Gallery - showcase for the worlds biggest contemporary art collector, 1 million visitors p/a:



www.sloanecourtclinic.com

www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk


www.zimbio.com, www.telegraph.co.uk

www.e-architect.co.uk


http://dawntreader.blogharbor.com, www.thisislondon.com



http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3502, www.guardian.co.uk




The Imperial War Museum, 2.5 million visitors p/a


www.londontown.com, www.flickr.com

http://blog.tokyololas.com

http://images.suite101.com, http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com


http://blog.tokyololas.com




http://ep.yimg.com

http://1.bp.blogspot.com, www.judah.co.uk



Kathy @ http://picasaweb.google.com, mattybusiness @ www.flickr.com




And best bit is all these museums are FREE


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[Jarrod]

I am so jealous of all these... The ones from Edmonton have already been posted...

[Vangelist]

>Treasure trove of stolen booty from the worlds largest empire...

I'm sure you're saying this with pride, but one must note that a few of those former colonies are trying to reclaim their stolen treasure...and this escalating conflict is not just happening with London's museums but also at the Met, the Getty and the Louvre..

A new book that tries to examine both sides of the issue: http://www.amazon.com/Loot-Battle-St.../dp/0805086536

I don't know. Should original possessors of said objects, like Egypt, really repossess them when the museums will be taking "better care" of them and their security? On the other hand, when so many of them are bitter legacies of imperialism and colonialism, well...

[texcolo]

WOW! I gotta get to London sometime. Lemme get this straight, the Tate Modern has a huge slide in it???

[muppet]

Im not saying it with pride - I know the politics of the pieces - but saying it as it is.

I for one can see the stolen goods from my own ancestral country there - China, including some of 700 ancient statues decapitated from the Longmen grottoes to be used as paperweights in the West. Also my partner is Greek, and can't bear walking into the Parthenon Galleries - i for one would support a return of many of the relics.

[muppet]

Originally Posted by texcolo

WOW! I gotta get to London sometime. Lemme get this straight, the Tate Modern has a huge slide in it???

Not any more, it basically holds massive temporary installations in the Turbine Hall each season (except for August when it's empty). It was the main space of the former power station.

They had the slides by Karsten Holler (15 injuries):


www.pixelsumo.com, www.leisureopportunities.co.uk, http://wemadethis.typepad.com



The world's biggest sculpture by Anish Kapoor:


www.db-artmag.com, www.guardian.co.uk

http://cinemaelectronica.files.wordpress.com, www.bbc.co.uk




the Shibolleth by Doris Saldego - a hairline crack that grew to a mini-canyon (17 injuries)


www.virginmedia.com

www.alternativeplot.co.uk, www.london-se1.co.uk



giant versions of art by Dominique Gonzales


www.dailymail.co.uk


www.telegraph.co.uk

http://2modern.blogs.com


scaleable watchtowers by the 92 year old Louise Bourgeoise


http://tfy.tkk.fi, http://roselli.org

www.guardian.co.uk, www.independent.co.uk



Rachel Whiteread's sugar cube maze



www.eikongraphia.com






My personal favourite, The Sun by Olaffur Eliasson (plus the worlds biggest mirror, and clouds of sugar mist)




www.eikongraphia.com





https://homepages.westminster.org.uk, http://eliasson.com.au




Robert Morris's Playground for adults - Body Space Motion Things (injuries: 23)





www.thisislondon.co.uk, http://3.bp.blogspot.com

www.guardian.co.uk

http://littlelondonobservationist.files.wordpress.com



Bruce Nauman's invisible installation (it was sound based) - injuries 0


www.roberthouse.com



and the current installation, just opened - utter darkness in Miroslaw Balka's Black Hole - it's meant to be terrifying (injuries so far: 3)


http://dianepernet.typepad.com, www.abc.net.au


www.bbc.co.uk, www.news.com.au

[sandblast]

Originally Posted by edmontonenthusiast

Here are a few of the major ones...I'm not gunna include the small independent galleries:

AGA: Art Gallery of Alberta


by me.

RAM: Royal Alberta Museum

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sfllaw/512709623/sizes/m/

Alberta Aviation Museum

http://www.redtag.ca/travel-guide/Ed...g_Attractions/

TWOSE: TELUS World of Science Edmonton (there is also one in Vancouver and Calgary)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mark81/2775798916/sizes/m/

That AGA Gallery looks absolutely fantastic!

[sandblast]

Trust someone from London to post images of London galleries (tut!)

.... any way, back to the UK's Second City, BIRMINGHAM.

Halcyon Gallery





Ikon Gallery




Soho House


Aston Hall .... anyone heard of the soccer team "Aston Villa"? ... well, maybe not!



Selly Manor


Cadbury World






Barber Institute of Fine Art, Edgbaston, Birmingham




View looking back over West Birmingham from Edgbaston



It's hard to believe some of those medieval buildings are hidden away in the metropolis that is Birmingham ....

[MonkeyRonin]

Some of Toronto's more notable/architecturally significant museums and galleries:

Royal Ontario Museum

Photo from Taller, Better (SSC)


http://www.flickr.com/photos/ettml/

Art Gallery of Ontario



http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/

Gardiner Museum



http://www.architecture.com/Awards/RIBAInternationalAwards/Home.aspx

[FerrariEnzo]

Quote: Aston Hall .... anyone heard of the soccer team "Aston Villa"? ... well, maybe not!

Yeah my ex-neighbors son Randy Lerner owns them and spends more time focusing on his Primiership team then his hometown Cleveland Browns NFL team, what a joke. Nice museusm though.

[sandblast]

Originally Posted by FerrariEnzo

Quote: Aston Hall .... anyone heard of the soccer team "Aston Villa"? ... well, maybe not!

Yeah my ex-neighbors son Randy Lerner owns them and spends more time focusing on his Primiership team then his hometown Cleveland Browns NFL team, what a joke. Nice museusm though.

No kidding?!?

This is what he owns .....





Big English club!

[Lear]

Am I the only one who thinks that endless image clutters in a single post actually lose the focus on the issue? PLus: What have images of chocolate and stadiums to do with the theme here....

Please concentrate on the core information everybody, please !

Berlin

Here is the newly reopened Neues Museum originally built in 1855.
It is part of the Museum Island which is a World Heritage Site.
The museum was heavily bombed in WW2 and not in use for 60 years.
The reconstruction cost were 210 million € and preserved some of the
ruin character making the building an artefact itself...
It houses a stunning collection of archeological items including the 3300 years old bust of
Queen Nefertiti, the most beautiful woman of all times....


http://www.viptapete.de/fototapeten/kunst.htm


http://www.archaeologie-online.de/ma...edereroeffnet/


• Video Link

[sandblast]

Originally Posted by Lear

Am I the only one who thinks that endless image clutters in a single post actually lose the focus on the issue? PLus: What have images of chocolate and stadiums to do with the theme here....

Please concentrate on the core information everybody, please !

Berlin

Here is the newly reopened Neues Museum originally built in 1855.
It is part of the Museum Island which is a World Heritage Site.
The museum was heavily bombed in WW2 and not in use for 60 years.
The reconstruction cost were 210 million € and preserved some of the
ruin character making the building an artefact itself...
It houses a stunning collection of archeological items including the 3300 years old bust of
Queen Nefertiti, the most beautiful woman of all times....


http://www.viptapete.de/fototapeten/kunst.htm


http://www.archaeologie-online.de/ma...edereroeffnet/


• Video Link

Cadbury World in Bournville, Birmingham is also a "Museum" ... the chocolate image was just a bit of fun.

Aston Villa Football Club was also a bit of "fun" for a previous poster on this forum ...... oh, hang on a minute, I see where you are from .... not a lot of "fun" and humour there then?!

Any way, back to museums, galleries .... and fun .... not just artefacts on display, but the actual buildings too please Lear!!

And by the way ... there is a small museum at Aston Villa FC, so it probably does qualify to be represented in this forum!