British culture:Cultural venuesBy Mgr. Šárka Jurajdová

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Where can we go to experience something

cultural?

MuseumsGalleriesTheatres

Music halls

British museum• exhibits the works of man from

prehistoric to modern times from around the world.

• About 8 million objects• Highlights include the Rosetta

Stone, the Parthenon sculptures, and the mummies in the Ancient Egypt collection.

• Entry is free • Founded in 1753 (18th century)• the British Museum’s remarkable

collection spans over two million years of human history.

• up to 6 million visitors per year.

Cultures & galleries in BMNot only:

MexicoEgypt, Sudan, EthiopiaGreeceRomeEuropeJapanChinaKoreaAssyriaMesopotamia

Amphoras, bottlesBrooches, earringsMarble statuesBricksReliefsJugs, cups, bowlsCoins, banknotesFurnitureArmourydrawings

Portland Vase, Roman, about 5–25 AD

Hoa Hakananai'a. Easter Island, AD 1000–1200

David vases, China, Yuan dynasty, 1351 AD

Queen of the Night relief, Mesopotamia, between 1800 and 1750 BC

The BM Reading Room• Situated inside the BM• Surrounded by the Great Court• There have been famous exhibitions of:The Chinese terracotta army (2007 – 2008)Montezuma (2009 – 2010)• In the past the Reading room (being a part

of the British Library then) was used by many famous researchers:

Oscar Wilde, Karl Marx, Virginia Woolf, Lenin, Mark Twain, Gandhi, …

The British Museum Reading room panorama

Map and objects in British museum:http://www.britishmuseum.org/visiting/floor_plans_and_galleries/ground_floor.aspx

Tate Britain• Founded by Sir Henry Tate in 1897• Historical and contemporary British art• situated on Millbank, on the site of the former

Millbank Prison.

Sir John Everett Millais, Ophelia, c. 1851

William Hogarth, The Painter and his Pug, 1745

Tate Modern• on the banks of the Thames

is Tate Modern• Britain's national museum

of modern and contemporary art

• previously being a power station

• temporary exhibitions by top artists: Picasso, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Rothko, Monet

• Cubism, futurism, pop art, surrealism, abstract art

• Entry is free.

A video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1q6U_BFcmI

Victoria and Albert Museum

• 3,000 years of amazing artefacts from around the world.

• Founded in 1852• over 4.5 million objects of

ceramics, glass, textiles, costumes, silver, ironwork, jewellery, furniture, medieval objects, sculpture, prints and printmaking, drawings and photographs

• Entry is free but special exhibitions require tickets. 

A video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAF24-M63Bo

The most interesting objects in V&A:

Henry VIII's writing desk, dated 1525, made from walnut and oak, lined with leather

A spinet dated 1570–1580, made for Elizabeth I

Bernini: Neptune and Triton, Donatello, Rodin

Rembrandt, Botticelli James II's wedding suit Constable, Turner

Madame Tussauds• A wax museum• First opened in 1830s by Marie

Tussaud who herself created wax figures.

• Her first figure was Voltaire in 1777

• The oldest figure in the museum in London is Madame du Barry

• It displays the waxworks of historical and royal figures, film stars, sports stars and infamous murderers.

• Marvel Super Heroes 4D movie in the former London planetarium

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiU1HlRzEAM

Who would (n‘t) you take a photo with and why?

Kate WinsletDavid BeckhamLewis Hamiltonthe Queen and the Royal familyLady GagaMarylin MonroeAdolf HitlerNelson MandelaAlfred HitchcockArnold Swarzenegger

Madame Tussauds building (London, England)

National Gallery• The National Gallery displays over 2000 Western

European paintings from the middle ages to the 20th century

• Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Constable, Turner, Renoir, Van Gogh …

• admission is free. • The crowning glory of Trafalgar Square

Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait, 1434

Raphael, The Aldobrandini Madonna, 1510

John Constable, The Cornfield, 1826

Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers, 1888

National Portrait Galleryhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JodenwkHUSc#t=27

• a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people

• Opened in 1856 as the first portrait gallery in the world

• Photographs, caricatures, paintings, drawings and sculpture

Portraits of:ShakespeareBronte sistersQueen VictoriaCharles DickensElizabeth I.Jane AustenCharles DarwinPrincess DianaRudyard KiplingJohn LennonIsaac Newton…and more

The Royal Albert Hall Opened by Queen Victoria in 1871, named after

her husband Each year it hosts over 360 events which

include classical music, jazz, world music, circus, rock, pop, opera, dance, comedy, award ceremonies, etc.

best known for holding the annual summer Proms concerts since 1941

VIRTUAL TOUR:http://www.royalalberthall.com/virtualtour/index.html

Do you know the right words?1/ The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . helped to decode the hieroglyphs.2/ To most of the museums and galleries the . . . . . . . is free. 3/ The building of Tate Modern used to be a . . . . . . . . . . . 4/ Madame Tussauds is a museum of famous people figures made of . . . . . . . 5/ The building that once housed the London . . . . . . . . houses the Marvel Superheroes 4D attraction.6/ The two most famous landscape painters that Britain could boast with are John . . . . . . and J.M.W. . . . . . . . . . .

What venues?What venues do the following terms refer to?

a/ Promsb/ Caricaturesc/ Sunflowersd/ Neptune and Tritone/ Marvel Super Heroesf/ Easter Island Statueg/ Pop arth/ Millbank prisoni/ amphoras

a/ the Royal Albert Hallb/ the National Portrait Galleryc/ the National Galleryd/ the Victoria and Albert museume/ Madame Tussaudsf/ the British museumg/ Tate Modernh/ Tate Britaini/ the British museum

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