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On this day in
1791 died Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, prolific and highly influential composer of Classical music.
1870 Alexandre Dumas, writer, died at 68
1906 Otto Preminger, American producer, director, and actor, was born
1911 Alfred Manessier French painter was born
1926 died Claude Monet, French Impressionist painter.
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Museums United Kingdom  Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery ( Somerset House) | | The Courtauld Institute of Art is one of the world’s leading institutes for teaching and research in the history of art and conservation. Uniquely it houses world famous collections of paintings, prints and drawings in its Gallery, and also manages the Hermitage Rooms. Highlights: works by Paul Cézanne, Edouard Manet, Amedeo Modigliani, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Georges-Pierre Seurat, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec andVincent Van Gogh.
http://www.courtauld.ac.uk
| Somerset House Strand London, England
Opening hours: Daily 10 am - 6pm
Admission: £5.00 / Concessions £4.00
Free admission for Under 18s
Free Admission on Mondays from 10am until 2pm |
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Dean Gallery | | Home to Scotland’s national collection of modern and contemporary art, the Modern Art Galleries include the Gallery of Modern Art and the Dean Gallery. Both Galleries are set in extensive parkland where visitors can discover sculptures by Finlay, Henry Moore, Rachel Whiteread among others. Dean Gallery shows works from the Gallery’s internationally renowned Dada and Surrealist collection alongside pieces by Eduardo Paolozz and important works by Dalí, Miró, Ernst, Magritte and Picasso.
http://www.nationalgalleries.org/
| 73 Belford Road, Edinburgh, Scotland
Normal opening hours: daily 10am-5pm. Thursdays until 7pm.
Festival opening (6 August - 3 September):
Open daily 10am-6pm. Thursdays until 7pm. Admission free. A charge may be made for special exhibitions. |
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Design Museum London | | The Design Museum is one of the world’s leading museums of modern and contemporary design. The institution celebrates design’s richness and diversity and its power to enhance daily life by exploring innovation and excellence in every area of design from industrial design, graphics and multimedia, to fashion and architecture. The exhibitions tour to other museums nationally and internationally.
http://www.designmuseum.org/
| Shad Thames London SE1 2YD England
Opening Hours: Daily 10am - 5.45pm
Admissions: £7 adults / £4 concessions |
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Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art | | The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art opened in London in 1998. Its new home - a Grade II listed Georgian building - was restored with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund and contains six galleries, an art library, cafe and bookshop. The Collection is known internationally for its core of Futurist works, as well as figurative art and sculpture dating from 1890 to the 1950s.
http://www.estorickcollection.com
| 39a Canonbury Square -London, England
Opening Times: Wednesday to Saturday
11 - 18 / Sunday 12 - 17
Closed Monday and Tuesday.
Admission: £3.50 / Concessions £2.50 |
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Hermitage Rooms ( Somerset House) | | The Hermitage Rooms are decorated in the style of The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, and provide a perfect backdrop for rotating exhibitions from the magnificent treasures of the Hermitage and other collections. The Hermitage Rooms are managed by the Courtauld Institute of Art and exhibitions range from the Palaeolithic to the contemporary.
http://www.hermitagerooms.com/
| Somerset House Strand London, England
Opening hours: Daily 10 am - 6pm
Admission: £5.00 / Concessions £4.00 Free admission for Under 18s |
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Hunterian Museum and Gallery | | The Hunterian collections are extensive and wide-ranging with just over one million objects. The recently published Scottish National Audit of all museum collections ranked the Hunterian as third in Scotland in terms of overall collection size from the finest body of Roman material in the west of Scotland to one the most distinguished public art collections in Scotland. The Mackintosh House is also part of the Gallery. The collections include over 450 paintings, 40,000 works on paper, together with more modest holdings of applied and decorative art and sculpture.
http://www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk/
| Museum: Main/Gilbert-Scott Building University Avenue
Art Gallery: 82 Hillhead Street
Glasgow Scotland
Hours: Mon to Sat 9.30 am – 5 pm
Admission free |
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National Museum of Scotland | | Two iconic buildings for one amazing museum. The collection in the landmark Museum of Scotland building tell you the story of Scotland: its land, its people and culture. The Royal Museum building, with its magnificent glass ceiling, houses international collections covering nature to art, culture to science. Some exhibits are millions of years old, others less than a decade.
http://www.nms.ac.uk/nationalmuseumhomepage.aspx
| Chambers Street Edinburgh EH1 1JF Scotland
Hours: daily 10am – 5pm
Admission Free |
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National Portrait Gallery | | The National Portrait Gallery has the largest collection of portraits in the world. As one of the only national collections to commission work combines the contemporary with the historical, making the National Portrait Gallery a living archive of Britain's most influential and famous figures.
http://www.npg.org.uk
| St Martin’s Place London WC2H 0HE England
Hours: daily 10am - 6pm
Late night opening Thursday and Friday until 9pm
Admission: entry to the building is free but there are charges for special exhibitions throughout the year. Ticket prices vary |
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Royal Academy of Arts | | The Royal Academy of Arts is an independent institution, led by distinguished artists and architects whose purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and appreciation of the visual arts through exhibitions, education and debate.
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/
| Burlington House Piccadilly - London England -W1J 0BD
Opening Hours: 10am-6pm Everyday except Friday (last admission to galleries 5.30pm)
10am-10pm Fridays (last admission to galleries 9.30pm) |
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Royal Scottish Academy Building - National Galleries of Scotland | | The National Gallery Complex is one of Scotland’s top free visitor attractions and Edinburgh’s second most-visited attraction after the Castle. It is made up of three interconnected buildings, right in the heart of Edinburgh. The National Gallery of Scotland is home to a major part of Scotland’s sensational national collection of fine art; the Royal Scottish Academy Building (RSA) is one of Europe’s premier venues for international exhibitions; and the Weston Link, which lies beneath the two buildings, connects them together with areas for shopping, learning, eating and drinking
http://www.nationalgalleries.org
| The Mound, Edinburgh, Scotland
Opening hours: daily 10am-5pm / Thursdays until 7pm.
Festival opening (6 August - 3 September):
Open daily 10am-6pm. Thursdays until 7pm. Free Entrance. |
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Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art | | The Modern Art Galleries include the Gallery of Modern Art and the Dean Gallery. Both Galleries are set in extensive parkland where visitors can discover sculptures by Finlay, Henry Moore, Rachel Whiteread among others. The Gallery of Modern Art shows special exhibitions and works from c.1900 to the present day featuring French and Russian art from the beginning of the 20th century, Cubist paintings and superb holdings of Expressionist and modern British art. Highlights: works by Matisse, Picasso, Bacon, Freud.
http://www.nationalgalleries.org/
| 75 Belford Road, Edinburgh, EH4 3DR, Scotland
Normal opening hours: daily 10am-5pm. Thursdays until 7pm.
Festival opening (6 August - 3 September):
Open daily 10am-6pm. Thursdays until 7pm. Admission free. A charge may be made for special exhibitions. |
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Scottish National Portrait Gallery | | The Scottish National Portrait Gallery provides a unique visual history of Scotland, told through the portraits of those who shaped it. It explores the lives of great Scots, past and present, who have inspired and changed the world - royals and rebels, poets and philosophers, heroes and villains.
The Scottish National Portrait Gallery was the first purpose-built portrait gallery in the world.
http://www.nationalgalleries.org
| 1 Queen Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1JD Scotland
Normal opening hours: daily 10am-5pm. Thursdays until 7pm.
Festival opening (6 August - 3 September):
Open daily 10am-6pm. Thursdays until 7pm.
Admission free. A charge may be made for special exhibitions. |
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Somerset House | | Somerset House, an imposing mansion built in 1547 by Edward Seymour, saw at the end of the 20th century a major refurbishment to the complex of buildings. Home to the world-renowned permanent collections and special exhibitions of The Courtauld Gallery, and from April 2008, the new Embankment Galleries, Somerset House is now a major cultural hub - an 18th century palace fit for a 21st century city.
http://www.somerset-house.org.uk
| Somerset House, Strand - London WC2R 1LA, UK
Opening hours : Daily 10 am - 6 pm
Admissions Over 18 £5.00 (concessions £4.00) |
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Tate Britain | | Tate Britain is the national gallery of British art, home of British art from 1500 to the present day. Located in London, it is one of the family of four Tate galleries which display selections from the Tate Collection. The other three galleries are Tate Modern, also in London, Tate Liverpool, in the north-west, and Tate St Ives, in Cornwall, in the south-west. The entire Tate Collection is available online.
http://www.tate.org.uk/
| Millbank London SW1P 4RG England
Opening Hours: Daily 10am-5:50 pm
First Friday of each month until 10 pm
Admission to Tate Britain is free, but donations from visitors are needed to support the gallery’s work. See individual visiting information pages for ticket prices for special exhibitions |
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Tate Liverpool | | House of international modern and contemporary art, Tate Liverpool is located in the port city of Liverpool in the north of England and is one of the family of four Tate galleries which display selections from the Tate Collection. Tate Liverpool opened in 1988 and displays selections from the national collection of international modern art.
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool
| Albert Dock Liverpool L3 4BB England
Opening Hours: Daily 10am-5:50 pm First Friday of each month until 10 pm
Admission to Tate Britain is free, but donations from visitors are needed to support the gallery’s work. See individual visiting information pages for ticket prices for special exhibitions |
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Tate Modern | | Tate Modern is the national gallery of international modern art. Located in London, it is one of the family of four Tate galleries which display selections from the Tate Collection.
Created in the year 2000 from a disused power station in the heart of London, Tate Modern displays the national collection of international modern art. This is defined as art since 1900. Tate Modern includes modern British art where it contributes to the story of modern art, so major modern British artists may be found at both Tate Modern and Tate Britain.
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern
| Bankside London SE1 9TG England
Sunday to Thursday, 10am- 6pm
Friday and Saturday, 10am-10pm
Last admission into exhibitions 5.15pm (Fri and Sat 9.15pm)
Admission to the gallery is free, but donations from visitors are needed to support the gallery’s work. See individual visiting information pages for ticket prices for current exhibitions. |
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Tate St. Ives | | The small Cornish town of St Ives has attracted painters for over a century, amongst its early visitors were J.M.W. Turner, Whistler and the young Sickert. The Gallery occupies a spectacular site overlooking Porthmeor Beach close to the home of Alfred Wallis and to the studios used by many of the artists whose works are exhibited. It is designed to show works of art in the surroundings and atmosphere in which they were created.
http://www.tate.org.uk/stives/
| Porthmeor Beach St Ives Cornwall England
Hours: March - October: Monday - Sunday 10 am - 5.20 pm
November - February: Tuesday - Sunday 10 am - 4.20 pm
Admission: Joint Site Admission adults: £8.75, concs: £4.50 / Tate St Ives Only: adults: £5.75, concs: £3.25 / Barbara Hepworth Museum Only: adults: £4.75, concs: £2.75 |
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The Ashmolean Museum | | With the opening of its doors on 24th May 1683, the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology provided a setting in which the private collection emerged into the public domain. The archaeological collections, forming the basis of the present-day Department of Antiquities, now found themselves in the distinguished company of the paintings forming the founding collection of the Department of Western Art; additionally, both Departments were considerably enriched by the arrival of what would become of the Fortnum collection.
http://www.ashmolean.org/
| Beaumont St Oxford OX1 2PH England
Opening times: Tuesdays to Saturdays 10am to 5pm / Sundays: 12pm to 5pm
Bank holidays: 10am to 5pm
Admission Free |
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The British Museum | | The British Museum holds in trust for the nation and the world a collection of art and antiquities from ancient and living cultures. Housed in one of Britain’s architectural landmarks, the collection is one of the finest in existence, spanning two million years of human history. The British Museum was founded in 1753 to promote universal understanding through the arts, natural history and science in a public museum.
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
| Great Russell StreetSaturday London WC1B 3DG England
Opening Hours: Wednesday 10am -5.30pm ; Thursday - Friday 10 am-8.30 pm
Free Entrance. Additional fee might be required on temporary exhibitions. |
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The Gilbert Collection ( Somerset House) | | The Gilbert Collection of decorative arts is one of the most important gifts ever to be made to the British nation. It comprises some 800 works including magnificent silver, gold snuffboxes, Italian mosaic and enamel treasures, representing centuries of craftsmanship and 40 years of the skill and passion of its collector, Sir Arthur Gilbert.
http://www.gilbert-collection.org.uk
| South Building and Embankment Building, at Somerset House ( London WC2R 1LA) UK
Hours: daily 10 am - 6pm
Admission includes permanent collection and all temporary exhibitions : £5.00 / Concessions £4.00 |
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The National Gallery | | The National Gallery’s permanent collection consists of Western European paintings dating from about 1250 onwards.
Photo:National Gallery East Wing Project © The National Gallery, London and Hayes Davidson
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk
| Trafalgar Square London WC2N 5DN England
Open daily 10am-6pm, Wednesday 10am-9pm
Free entrance. Some exhibitions might require an admission charge. |
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The National Gallery of Scotland | | The National Gallery Complex is one of Scotland’s top free visitor attractions and Edinburgh’s second most-visited attraction after the Castle. It is made up of three interconnected buildings, right in the heart of Edinburgh. The National Gallery of Scotland is home to a major part of Scotland’s sensational national collection of fine art; the Royal Scottish Academy Building (RSA) is one of Europe’s premier venues for international exhibitions; and the Weston Link, which lies beneath the two buildings, connects them together with areas for shopping, learning, eating and drinking.
http://www.nationalgalleries.org
| The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL Scotland
Hours: Open daily 10am-5pm. Thursdays until 7pm. Festival opening (6 August - 3 September): Open daily 10am-6pm. Thursdays until 7pm.
Admission free. A charge may be made for special exhibitions. |
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The Wallace Collection | | The Wallace Collection is a national museum in an historic London town house. In 25 galleries are unsurpassed displays of French 18th century painting, furniture and porcelain with superb Old Master paintings and a world class armoury.
http://www.wallacecollection.org
| Hertford House - Manchester Square London England
Opening Hours: daily 10am - 5pm
Admission is Free |
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Victoria and Albert Museum | | The purpose of the Victoria and Albert Museum is to enable everyone to enjoy its collections and explore the cultures that created them; and to inspire those who shape contemporary design. The V&A is the greatest museum of art and design, a world treasure house with collections of fabulous scope and diversity. The Museum holds over 3000 years worth of artefacts from many of the world’s richest cultures. The V&A comprises the museum at South Kensington, the V&A Museum of Childhood at Bethnal Green, and the archives and stores at Blythe House, Kensington Olympia.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/
| South Kensington Cromwell Road London SW7 2RL UK
Hours: 10 am to 5.45 pm daily /10 am to 10 pm Fridays (selected galleries remain open after 6 pm).
Closed 24, 25 & 26 December
Admission to the V&A is free
Some exhibitions and events carry a separate charge |
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