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I'm stacking books on top of my various bookshelves. I'm running out of the space...
If you are interested with the content of my bookshelves : www.librarything.com/profile/adulau
I took the picture for a blog entry : www.foo.be/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/2009-10-25_An_e-Book_Reader_Is...
28.10.2009 // Day 244
I thought it was time for an update of this photograph!
Some of them are recognisable from the original, because I'm using them in my third year as well as my second (whoo! Chaucer!), but most of them are new.
Also, see this photo for more Barnabee-being-a-cutie-patootie action!
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On the 15th January 1759 the British Museum first opened its doors.
In the original Robert Smirke design the courtyard was meant to be a garden. However, in 1852–7 the Reading Room and a number of bookstacks were built in the courtyard to house the library department of the Museum and the space was lost.
In 1997, the Museum’s library department was relocated to the new British Library building in St Pancras and there was an opportunity to re-open the space to public.
An architectural competition was launched to re-design the courtyard space. There were over 130 entries and it was eventually won by Lord Foster.
The competition brief had three aims:
Revealing hidden spaces
Revising old spaces
Creating new spaces
The £100 million project was supported by grants of £30 million from the Millennium Commission and £15.75 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Work on the Great Court's magnificent glass and steel roof began in September 1999. The canopy was designed and installed by computer. It was constructed out of 3,312 panes of glass, no two of which are the same.
The Great Court was opened on 6 December 2000 by Her Majesty the Queen.
The British Museum is a museum in London dedicated to human history and culture. Its permanent collection, numbering some 8 million works,is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence and originates from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.
Today the museum no longer houses collections of natural history, and the books and manuscripts it once held now form part of the independent British Library. With the bookstacks in the central courtyard of the museum empty, the process of demolition for Lord Foster's glass-roofed Great Court could begin.
The Great Court, opened in 2000, while undoubtedly improving circulation around the museum, was criticised for having a lack of exhibition space at a time when the museum was in serious financial difficulties and many galleries were closed to the public. At the same time the African and Oceanic collections that had been temporarily housed in 6 Burlington Gardens were given a new gallery in the North Wing funded by the Sainsbury family – with the donation valued at £25 million.
Wiki: Sterling Memorial Library is the main library building of the Yale University Library system in New Haven, Connecticut. Opened in 1931, the library was designed by James Gamble Rogers as the centerpiece of Yale's Gothic Revival campus. It is elaborately ornamented, featuring extensive sculpture and painting as well as hundreds of panes of stained glass created by G. Owen Bonawit. In addition to five large reading rooms, a Music Library, and courtyard on the ground floor, the library's tower has fifteen levels of bookstacks containing over 4 million volumes. It connects via tunnel to the underground Bass Library, which contains an additional 150,000 volumes.
The organizers of the New York Public Library, wanting an imposing main branch, chose a central site available at the two-block section of Fifth Avenue between 40th and 42nd Streets. It was occupied by the defunct Croton Reservoir. Dr. John Shaw Billings, the first director of the library, created an initial design which became the basis of the new building (now known as the Schwarzman Building) on Fifth Avenue. Billings's plan called for a huge reading room on top of seven floors of bookstacks, combined with a system that was designed to get books into the hands of library users as fast as possible.
Following a competition among the city's most prominent architects, Carrère and Hastings was selected to design and construct the building. The cornerstone was laid in May 1902, and the building's completion was expected to be in three years. In 1910, 75 miles (121 km) of shelves were installed, and it took a year to move and install the books that were in the Astor and Lenox libraries.
On May 23, 1911, the main branch of the New York Public Library was officially opened in a ceremony presided over by President William Howard Taft. After a dedication ceremony, attended by 50,000 people, the library was open to the general public that day. The library had cost $9 million to build and its collection consisted of more than 1,000,000 volumes.
The library structure was a Beaux-Arts design and was the largest marble structure up to that time in the United States. The two stone lions guarding the entrance were sculpted by E. C. Potter[28] and carved by the Piccirilli Brothers. Its main reading room was contemporaneously the largest of its kind in the world at 77 feet (23.5 m) wide by 295 feet (89.9 m) long, with 50 feet (15.2 m) high ceilings. It is lined with thousands of reference books on open shelves along the floor level and along the balcony.
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Hundreds of book stacks spiral four floors in the Seattle Public Library. Visitors can take a long walk up and down the book spiral or take escalators, stairs or elevators.
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Designed in the Gothic Revival style and opened in 1931, Sterling is the main library at Yale. It has 5 large reading rooms and 16 levels of bookstacks containing over 4 million volumes.
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This picture is a little old. We have now (March 2015) raised $437,000 of our inflation-adjusted goal of $538,000, clearly justifying a 10-book stack. We'll add two or three more books when we reach the goal. What subject areas are missing and most need to be added?
My current reading list, i.e. books that I own and a) haven't read, b) have started and not finished, or c) am currently reading. . From the top down:
Holy Bible, ESV Compact Chestnut Edition
Bruce Larson and Ralph Osborne, The Emerging Church
Donald Miller and John MacMurray, To Own A Dragon (autographed)
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics
Elizabeth Raum, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Called by God
Rob Bell, Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith
Paul Shepherd, More LIke Not Running Away
Shane Hipps, The Hidden Power of Electronic Culture : How Media Shapes Faith, the Gospel, and Church
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress in the Capitol, 1800-1897
The law creating the Library of Congress, approved on April 24, 1800, called for its books to be housed in "a suitable apartment" in the Capitol. In 1800 only the north wing of the Capitol was finished. The books brought by Congress from Philadelphia and the new books acquired for the Library were placed in the office of the Clerk of the Senate. During 1801, a temporary structure was built for the use of the House of Representatives, and the act of January 26, 1802, which established the rules and procedures "concerning the Library for the use of both Houses of Congress," provided for the move of the Library into the room in the north wing formerly occupied by the House. Here the Library remained until December 1805.
Library of Congress occupied various spaces in the Capitol building between 1806 and August 24, 1814, when the British burned the Capitol and the Library. On January 30, 1815 Thomas Jefferson's library was purchased by Congress to "recommence" its library, and a law approved on March 3, 1815, authorized the preparation of "a proper apartment" for the books. Blodget's Hotel at 7th and E Streets was serving as the temporary Capitol, and a room on its third floor became the new location of the Library of Congress. Here Jefferson's books were received and organized by Librarian of Congress George Watterston. On February 18, 1817, Library Committee chairman Eligius Fromentin, a senator from Louisiana, introduced a resolution advocating a separate building for the Library, but it failed. In late 1818, however, funds were appropriated to move the Library back into the Capitol.
In 1800, Congress voted to buy books and create a library for its use. From 1800 to 1814, the Library of Congress was housed in various spaces in the Capitol until it was burned by the British in the War of 1812. Congress then purchased Thomas Jefferson's personal library collection in 1815 at cost, to replace their losses. Since the Blodget's Hotel at 7th and E Streets was serving as the temporary Capitol, a room on its third floor housed the new collection of the Library. In 1818, however, funds were appropriated to move the Library back to the Capitol. When the new quarters in the Capitol's north wing proved inadequate, Charles Bulfinch, the Capitol's architect, developed plans for a spacious Library room in the center of the west front of the Capitol. On Christmas Eve, 1851, a disastrous fire in the Library destroyed approximately 35,000 of 55,000 volumes. A new plan was then approved to repair and enlarge the Library using fireproof materials throughout. The restored Library opened in 1853, but by 1865, it was apparent that due to the vast growth of its' collections, the Library of Congress needed a separate building.
The new quarters in the attic story of the Capitol's north wing proved inadequate. In January 1818 Charles Bulfinch became Architect of the Capitol and he soon developed plans for a spacious library room in the center of the west front of the Capitol. The new room, which measured 90 feet in length and 30 feet wide, was occupied on August 17, 1824. On December 22, 1825, a fire started by a candle left burning in the gallery was controlled before it could cause serious damage. Investigations into fireproofing the room concluded that the expense would be too great. In 1832 a separate "apartment" was established for the law collection.
On Christmas Eve, 1851, the Library of Congress suffered a disastrous fire. Approximately thirty-five thousand of its fifty-five thousand volumes were destroyed in the flames, which were caused by a faulty chimney flue. Architect of the Capitol Thomas U. Walter presented a plan, approved by Congress, to repair and enlarge the Library room using fireproof materials throughout. The elegantly restored Library room was opened on August 23, 1853. Called by the press the "largest iron room in the world," it was encircled by galleries and filled the west central front of the Capitol. A month before the opening, Pres. Franklin Pierce inspected the new Library in the company of British scientist Sir Charles Lyell, who pronounced it "the most beautiful room in the world."
A drawing of the old Congressional Reading Room by W. Bengough appeared in Harper's Weekly on February 27, 1897. Librarian of Congress Ainsworth Rand Spofford is depicted at the far right, emerging from his desk area with a book for a reader. The man holding the lamp is David Hutcheson, Assistant Librarian.
In 1865, Librarian of Congress Ainsworth Rand Spofford obtained approval for expanding the Library by adding two new fireproof wings. The copyright law of 1870 brought two copies of all copyright items to the Library, however, and it immediately became apparent to Librarian Spofford that the Library would soon run out of space. He suggested a separate building and, in 1872 presented a plan to Congress for such a structure. In 1875, he reported to Congress that the Library had exhausted all shelf space and that "books are now, from sheer force of necessity, being piled on the floor in all directions." Unless Congress took quick action on the question of a separate building, he noted, its Librarian would soon be placed "in the unhappy predicament of presiding over the greatest chaos in America."
Now the Library of Congress is one of the largest and best-equipped libraries in the world. It houses approximately 90 million items on 540 miles of shelves. The Library has far exceeded its mission to make its resources available and useful to the United States Congress and the American people as well as to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations. The Library of Congress glorifies the American contribution to world knowledge, and the buildings stand as monuments to the people who furthered this cause.
NOTE: The “flame” on top of the Jefferson Building, it is called the “ torch of learning or flame of knowledge”
The Thomas Jefferson Building cost $6.1 million to build in 1897 (some $115.3 million in 1996 dollars). A sum of $81.5 million was appropriated by Congress in 1984 to pay for its restoration, along with the upgrading and renovation of the 1939 John Adams Building across the street. Another $10 million has been allocated since 1984 to repair the roof of the Jefferson Building and to complete the renovation of its renowned Coolidge Auditorium
The Jefferson Building of the LIbrary of Congress
Authorized in 1886, the first separate Library of Congress building, the Jefferson Building, was opened to the public in 1897. The Library's design was based on the Paris Opera House and was unparalleled in national achievement. Its 23-carat gold-plated dome capped the "largest, costliest, and safest" library building in the world. More than 40 painters and sculptors decorated the facade and interior making it surpass European libraries in its' devotion to classical culture. John L. Smithmeyer and Paul J. Pelz submitted the plans chosen by Congress for the design. Both architects were dismissed and the building's completion came under Gen. Edward Pearce Casey and civil engineer Bernard R. Green. The building stands today as a unique blend of art and architecture and is recognized as a national treasure.
A stairway in the Great Hall of the Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building, which was designed to demonstrate America's love of learning, science, work, and culture.
The first separate Library of Congress Building, the Jefferson Building, was suggested by Librarian of Congress Ainsworth Rand Spofford in 1871, authorized in 1886, and completed in 1897. When its doors were opened to the public on November 1, 1897, it represented an unparalleled national achievement: its 23-carat gold-plated dome capped the "largest, costliest, and safest" library building in the world. Its elaborately decorated facade and interior, for which more than forty American painters and sculptors could surpass European libraries in grandeur and devotion to classical culture. A contemporary guidebook boasted: "America is justly proud of this gorgeous and palatial monument to its National sympathy and appreciation of Literature, Science, and Art. It has been designed and executed entirely by American art and American labor (and is) a fitting tribute for the great thoughts of generations past, present, and to be." This new national Temple of the Arts immediately met with overwhelming approval from the American public.
Known as the Library of Congress (or Main) Building until it was named for Thomas Jefferson, the Library's principal founder, in 1980, the structure was built specifically to serve as the American national library, and its architecture and decoration express and enhance that purpose. A national library for the United States was the dream and goal of Librarian Spofford; the new building was a crucial step in his achievement. It was a functional, state-of-the-art structure as well as a Temple of the Arts, using the latest technology throughout.
The early years of planning and construction were filled with controversy and delay. After two design competitions and a decade of debate about design and location, in 1886 Congress finally chose an Italian Renaissance plan submitted by Washington architects John L. Smithmeyer and Paul J. Pelz. Structurally the architects followed the basic idea proposed by Librarian Spofford: a circular, domed reading room at the Library's various departments. In the final Smithmeyer & Pelz plan, the reading room was enclosed by rectangular exterior walls, which divided the open space into four courtyards.
Disputes continued after the building was authorized in 1886. Responsibility for clearing the site was unclear (several buildings had to be razed) and Capitol landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted protested the building's location, which shut out "the whole view of the Capitol building from Pennsylvania Avenue-the main approach from Capitol hill." Another controversy, this one about the selection of the proper cement for the foundation, proved to be architect Smithmeyer's undoing, and he was dismissed in 1888. The building's construction was placed under the direction of Brig. Gen. Thomas Lincoln Casey, Chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Casey and his Superintendent of Construction, civil engineer Bernard R. Green, had successfully completed the construction of the Washington Monument and the State, War, and Navy (now the Old Executive Office) Building and were trusted by the Congress. The cornerstone was laid in 1890. Paul Pelz, who replaced Smithmeyer as architect in 1888, was himself dismissed in 1892 by architect Edward Pearce Casey, General Casey's son, who supervised most of the interior decoration.
Known primarily for their ability to keep construction costs to a minimum, General Casey and Bernard Green were infused with a nationalism which complemented Spofford's national library aspirations. They viewed the interior art work as a necessary component in carrying out the building's monumental design and purpose. They also wanted to give American artists an opportunity to display their talents, and employed no less than forty-two American sculptors and painters "to fully and consistently carry out the monumental design and purpose of the building." In a report to Congress in 1896, Superintendent Green stated that the total cost of the mural and decorative painting, the sculpture, and the three massive bronze doors at the main entrance (representing Tradition, Writing, and Painting), was $364,000. In addition, Hinton Perry's fifty-foot wide fountain in front of the building, which depicts a scene in the court of Neptune, cost $22,000. The price of gilding the dome, including the flame of the Torch of Learning at its apex, was $3,800. Yet, the building was still completed for $200,000 less than the total congressional authorization of approximately $6,500,000.
Since 1897, the gilded copper dome has been replaced, and three of the four interior courtyards of the Jefferson Building have been filled. The east courtyards have become bookstacks: the southeast bookstack was completed in 1910, the northeast in 1927. The Coolidge Auditorium, opened in 1925, and the Whittall Pavilion, opened in 1939, occupy the northwest courtyard. The east side of the Jefferson building was extended in the early 1930s providing new quarters for the Rare Book Room when construction was completed in 1934. The Main Reading Room was closed for renovation in 1964-65. In 1984, Congress appropriated $81.5 million for the renovation and restoration of the Jefferson and Adams buildings. Work started in 1986 and is scheduled for completion in 1995.
The Jefferson Building is a heroic setting for a national institution. Today it is generally recognized as a unique blending of art and architecture, a structure that celebrated the universality of knowledge and symbolizes American turn-of-the- century optimism. The elaborate embellishment of its interior is worth careful attention, for a few structures represents human thought and aspiration in such dramatic fashion.
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- 14 single animations (7 for women / 7 for men)
- 14 couple animations (7 cuddles/ 7 sex)
Mesh realistic looking it will be a great asset for any rustic, cottage, countryside or vintage decoration, always with the lowest prim number possible.
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Great Court: history and design
In the original Robert Smirke design the courtyard was meant to be a garden. However, in 1852–7 the Reading Room and a number of bookstacks were built in the courtyard to house the library department of the Museum and the space was lost.
In 1997, the Museum’s library department was relocated to the new British Library building in St Pancras and there was an opportunity to re-open the space to public.
An architectural competition was launched to re-design the courtyard space. There were over 130 entries and it was eventually won by Lord Foster.
The competition brief had three aims:
Revealing hidden spaces
Revising old spaces
Creating new spaces
The £100 million project was supported by grants of £30 million from the Millennium Commission and £15.75 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The Great Court was opened on 6 December 2000 by Her Majesty the Queen.
www.britishmuseum.org/about_us/the_museums_story/great_co...
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Apple Fall New Arrival Painting
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ISPACHI - The Arrival - Frolicking Foxes
ISPACHI - The Arrival - March of the Mallards
ISPACHI - The Arrival - The Wisest Owl
ISPACHI - The Arrival - Between Two Squirrels
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{vespertine - book of dreamer.}RARE copy
*bbqq*-The Ming dynasty-China scroll painting B
*bbqq*-The Ming dynasty-China scroll painting C
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I love this section of the library. Its a very quiet place. The Table and wall lights give it a old time feel.
The fabulous vaulting of the Divinity School, part of the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
From Wikipedia : "The Bodleian is used as background scenery in Dorothy L. Sayers Gaudy Night, features in Michael White's Equinox, and is one of the libraries consulted by Christine Greenaway (one of Bodley's librarians) in Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse novel The Wench is Dead. The denouement of Michael Innes's Operation Pax (1951) is set in an imaginary version of the underground bookstack, reached at night by sliding down the 'Mendip cleft', a chute concealed in Radcliffe Square.
Since J. R. R. Tolkien had studied philology at Oxford and eventually became a professor, he was very familiar with the Red Book of Hergest which is kept at the Bodleian on behalf of Jesus College. Tolkien later created his own fictional Red Book of Westmarch telling the story of The Lord of the Rings. Many of Tolkien's manuscripts are now at the library.
The Library's fine architecture has made it a favourite location for filmmakers, representing either Oxford University or other locations. It can be seen in Brideshead Revisited (1981 TV serial), Another Country (1984), The Madness of King George III (1994), and the first two Harry Potter films, in which the Divinity School doubles as the Hogwarts hospital wing and Duke Humfrey's Library as the Hogwarts library. In The New World (2005) the library edifice is portrayed as the entrance to the Royal Court of the English monarchy. The Bodleian also featured in the Inspector Morse televised spin off Lewis, in the episode "And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea", where a murder takes place in the basement."
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05.01.2010 // Day 313
Finished my third essay. Time to get a new pile of books!
My first contribution to FGR! - Book Addicts.
I'm feeling slightly less stressed about the possibility of getting these essays done. Although, I now have less than a week to finish them, draft them, and then produce a folder full of notes for one of them (20% of the mark goes towards preparation... And I rarely prepare!).
And now, I'm off to a charity meeting!
ETA: Happy Birthday to Maart Alcock!
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[LeeZu!] Owls Poster (December Arcade)
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ISPACHI - The Arrival - Frolicking Foxes
ISPACHI - The Arrival - March of the Mallards
ISPACHI - The Arrival - The Wisest Owl
ISPACHI - The Arrival - Between Two Squirrels
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{vespertine - book of dreamer.}RARE copy
*bbqq*-The Ming dynasty-China scroll painting B
*bbqq*-The Ming dynasty-China scroll painting C
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Join us Monday, December 1, 2014 from 2pm – 4pm LT for Bright Metallic’s official launch party!
DJ Xosé will spin indie electro. Come meet the staff and writers, lounge, relax, pick up a copy of the ‘zine.
Bright Metallic #1 features
VOIDAR by Ashley Carter
Cover art and “Singularity Blues” by Sian Pearl of Chariot
“Fish on Friday” by Elinor Caiman Sands
“Virtual Reality News” by RoblemVR
“Sci-fi Exploration” by Tara De Vries
“Cyberpunk Writings” by Felice Nightfire
Bookstacks Sci-fi Book club
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El Museo Británico (British Museum) es un museo de la ciudad de Londres, Reino Unido. Sus colecciones abarcan campos diversos del saber humano, como la historia, la arqueología, la etnografía y el arte.
El museo fue una de las primeras instituciones de este tipo en Europa. Custodia más de siete millones de objetos de todos los continentes, muchos de los cuales se encuentran almacenados para su estudio y restauración, o guardados por falta de espacio para exhibirlos. También cuenta con la mayor sala de lectura de la Biblioteca Británica, biblioteca que aunque ahora tiene sede propia, hasta el año 1973 también formaba parte del museo, al igual que el Museo de Historia Natural de Londres, que cambió a sede propia en el año 1963.
La sección del Antiguo Egipto es la más importante del mundo después de la del Museo Egipcio de El Cairo. La entrada al museo y a muchos de los servicios que ofrece –como el de la sala de lectura–, son libres y gratuitos, a excepción de algunas exposiciones temporales.
El museo abrió oficialmente al público el 15 de enero de 1759, en la mansión Montagu, pero cuando ésta se quedó pequeña se inició, en 1852 y en la misma ubicación, la construcción de un nuevo edificio de estilo neoclásico, diseñado por Robert Smirke. La construcción de la nueva sede del museo, la que ha llegado hasta nuestro días, finalizó en 1857 con la construcción de la Sala de estudio circular. En su fachada principal, en el frontón, se instaló en el año 1852 un conjunto escultórico construido por el escultor británico Richard Westmacott.
La sala Duveen, que alberga la colección del Partenón, fue construida en el año 1938 por el arquitecto John Russell Pope, pero en el año 1940 fue dañado por una bomba en los bombardeos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, reconstruyéndose y abriéndose de nuevo al público en el año 1962.
Una de las últimas ampliaciones del Museo Británico se inauguró en diciembre de 2000. Se trata del Gran Atrio de la Reina Isabel II. Ubicado en el centro del museo, está diseñado por el estudio del arquitecto Norman Foster. Ocupa el sitio que antes ocupaba la Biblioteca Británica, ya trasladada a su nueva sede. El Gran Atrio se ha convertido en la mayor plaza cubierta de Europa (90 x 70 metros). El techo del atrio es de cristal y acero, y está compuesto por 1.656 pares de cristales.
En el centro del Gran Atrio está ubicada la sala de lectura, que antes formaba parte de la Biblioteca Británica. Los volúmenes de sala fueron consultados por muchas grandes personalidades a lo largo de su historia, como Karl Marx, Oscar Wilde, Mohandas Gandhi, Rudyard Kipling, George Bernard Shaw, Vladimir Lenin o H. G. Wells. La sala de lectura está abierta para cualquier persona que lo desee.
La colección
El Museo Británico es, ante todo, un museo de antigüedades, sobre todo desde que por problemas de espacio ya no contiene las colecciones de ciencias naturales ni la Biblioteca Británica. Además, su colección de pintura es bastante escasa. Esto lo distingue de otros museos como el Louvre, el Metropolitan de Nueva York o el Hermitage en San Petersburgo, considerados museos universales de arte y cultura. Sin embargo, este museo tiene un área etnológica muy importante.
En Londres, las principales colecciones de arte occidental y de arte mundial se encuentran en la National Gallery y en el Museo Victoria y Alberto. Sin embargo, muchas de las exhibiciones del Museo Británico tienen un gran mérito artístico además de una importancia histórica, y también contiene dibujos de Miguel Ángel, de Rembrandt, de Goya y una colección de Durero.
Controversia
Alrededor de los grandes Museos de Antigüedades, sobre todo el museo del Louvre (Francia) y el Museo Británico, siempre se ha mantenido la polémica sobre la obtención de ciertas obras de arte ya que muchos sectores lo consideran un expolio. Muchos países que se consideran expoliados, han pedido en repetidas ocasiones la devolución de ciertas obras por parte de las autoridades británicas. El gobierno británico responde diciendo que según una ley promulgada por el Parlamento en el año 1753, se prohíbe la salida del país de cualquier pieza a no ser que sea un duplicado, para preservar toda esta cantidad de obras. Además, el gobierno británico esgrime como argumento el que esas obras no podrían haber sido conservadas adecuadamente en sus países de origen.
El caso más paradigmático del Museo Británico, es el de los frisos y esculturas del frontón del Partenón. El gobierno de Grecia lleva solicitando formalmente desde hace varios años la devolución de los restos de este templo. El gobierno británico dice que el estado compró oficialmente los restos del Partenón que se conservan en el museo a Lord Elgin, y que éste a su vez se lo compró al Imperio otomano y es la postura oficial desde la página web del Museo. Hay algunas voces discordantes en este punto, en las que dicen que en realidad no fueron compradas, sino que diversos funcionarios públicos fueron sobornados por Lord Elgin para conseguir sacar las esculturas del país. Además, consideran al Imperio otomano como país invasor, con lo cual aunque hubiera vendido las obras, no hubiera sido una venta legítima. Desde el Ministerio de Cultura de Grecia exigen la devolución de las esculturas ya que consideran que éstas deberían estar junto con el resto del templo, y no esparcidas por museos de medio mundo.
A raíz de las exigencias del Gobierno Griego, otros países también están pidiendo la devolución de materiales, como Nigeria y Egipto. De momento, el Museo Británico se ha negado a devolver toda pieza. Sin embargo, en el 2006 devolvieron a Australia unas cenizas de aborígenes de Tasmania.
Información
La admisión es libre y gratuita, exceptuando determinadas galerías y exposiciones no permanentes. Los horarios difieren, ya que el espacio del gran Atrio suele estar abierto durante más tiempo que las salas.
Dirección:
Great Russell Street
Londres WC1B 3DG
Horario de apertura del museo:
Sábados a jueves 10:00 – 17:30
Los viernes 10:00 – 20:30
Horario de apertura del Gran Atrio:
Sábados a jueves 9:00 – 18:00
Los viernes 9:00 – 20:30
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Museum
The British Museum is a museum in London dedicated to human history and culture. Its permanent collection, numbering some 8 million works, is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence and originates from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.
The British Museum was established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane. The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu House in Bloomsbury, on the site of the current museum building. Its expansion over the following two and a half centuries was largely a result of an expanding British colonial footprint and has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the British Museum (Natural History) in South Kensington in 1887. Some objects in the collection, most notably the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon, are the objects of intense controversy and of calls for restitution to their countries of origin.
Until 1997, when the British Library (previously centred on the Round Reading Room) moved to a new site, the British Museum was unique in that it housed both a national museum of antiquities and a national library in the same building. The museum is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and as with all other national museums in the United Kingdom it charges no admission fee, except for loan exhibitions. Since 2002 the director of the museum has been Neil MacGregor.
Foundation (1753)
On 7 June 1753, King George II gave his formal assent to the Act of Parliament which established the British Museum.[b] The Foundation Act, added two other libraries to the Sloane collection. The Cottonian Library, assembled by Sir Robert Cotton, dated back to Elizabethan times and the Harleian library, the collection of the Earls of Oxford. They were joined in 1757 by the Royal Library, assembled by various British monarchs. Together these four "foundation collections" included many of the most treasured books now in the British Library[9] including the Lindisfarne Gospels and the sole surviving copy of Beowulf.[c]
Montagu House, c. 1715
The British Museum was the first of a new kind of museum – national, belonging to neither church nor king, freely open to the public and aiming to collect everything. Sloane's collection, while including a vast miscellany of objects, tended to reflect his scientific interests. The addition of the Cotton and Harley manuscripts introduced a literary and antiquarian element and meant that the British Museum now became both national museum and library.
The Museum today
Today it no longer houses collections of natural history, and the books and manuscripts it once held now form part of the independent British Library. The Museum nevertheless preserves its universality in its collections of artefacts representing the cultures of the world, ancient and modern. The original 1753 collection has grown to over thirteen million objects at the British Museum, 70 million at the Natural History Museum and 150 million at the British Library.
The Round Reading Room, which was designed by the architect Sydney Smirke, opened in 1857. For almost 150 years researchers came here to consult the Museum's vast library. The Reading Room closed in 1997 when the national library (the British Library) moved to a new building at St Pancras. Today it has been transformed into the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Centre.
With the bookstacks in the central courtyard of the museum empty, the process of demolition for Lord Foster's glass-roofed Great Court could begin. The Great Court, opened in 2000, while undoubtedly improving circulation around the museum, was criticised for having a lack of exhibition space at a time when the museum was in serious financial difficulties and many galleries were closed to the public. At the same time the African and Oceanic collections that had been temporarily housed in 6 Burlington Gardens were given a new gallery in the North Wing funded by the Sainsbury family – with the donation valued at £25 million.
As part of its very large website, the museum has the largest online database of objects in the collection of any museum in the world, with 2,000,000 individual object entries, 650,000 of them illustrated, online at the start of 2012. There is also a "Highlights" database with longer entries on over 4,000 objects, and several specialised online research catalogues and online journals (all free to access).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Museum
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These are a collection of my very favorite books as well as some that I have been reading this summer and have loved. My quote journal is also included because many of these books have had lines in them that I wrote in the journal. These are books that both inspire and encourage me, and a couple are just for fun.
"The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
I just finished this one. It was as great as I had hoped it would be. I recently went to the house that was The Pink House in the movie and it made the whole story seem that much more real now. Truly a great southern classic.
"The Shack" by William Young
I love the way this book shows the true relationship of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit and how there could not be one without the other. It's a very emotional plot, but I think the author did a fine job of describing how even in our darkest times, grace is there. God is there. Love is there.
"The Captain's Verses" by Pablo Neruda
"Lily's Crossing" by Patricia Reilly Giff
This was my favorite book when I was little. It's about a little girl who spends her time at her family's beach house while her father is at war. It's emotional and informative but also made it very easy for someone young to understand and enjoy. I still love it.
"How to be a Canadian" by Will Ferguson and Ian Ferguson
One of my dear friends that lives in Alberta sent me this as a joke and a guide. It's witty, sarcastic and makes me want to go to Canada immediately.
"To KIll a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
This has been my favorite book since my father gave me a copy of it twelve years ago, when I was 8. The characters, the town, and the morals are all something that I can both relate to and learn from, each time I read it.
"Eat. Pray. Love." by Elizabeth Gilbert
"Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
This book surprised me by being better that I thought. It was so captivating. It was about a topic I had never really put much thought into, a train circus via 1930s. But, it was outstanding. It had murder, mystery, love, and action. It's one of my favorites now.
"Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
I went into this knowing Chris Mccandless story, but not understanding it. It's a dramatic and emotional story with what can only be called a tragic ending, but I also found it inspiring and raw. It's real and it's sad, but it also encourages you to make your own life and to fill it with adventure. To take care of the love you are given, and share it.
"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gatsby is another one of those that I didn't want to read but had to and wound up loving it. The era, the setting, the characters...it's all blended into one really great novel.
"Three Weeks With My Brother" by Nicholas Sparks and Micah Sparks
"Oh, The Places You'll Go!" by Dr. Suess
read it. love it. live it.
facts for life in this one.
This would be the reason for my recent lack of photos and attention to flickr.
Each stack is for one of the modules I am studying and the stacks actually go higher than is visible in this photo. Is it any wonder my head often feels ready to explode!!
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