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Walking through the places where William Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde visited, and seeing the landscapes that inspired the Brontë sisters and Jane Austen, is a good goal for every book lover. The ZagraNitsa portal has collected a dozen locations from different corners United Kingdom, which all connoisseurs of good literature should visit
Whitby
The landscapes and architecture of the seaside town of Whitby in North Yorkshire inspired Irish novelist Bram Stoker to write one of the most famous Gothic works of all time, Dracula. Part of the action of the novel takes place in Whitby, and the city still does not forget about its connection with the legendary literary character. Twice a year, the Whitby Gothic Weekend, a gothic subculture festival, is held here, and in October the Bram Stoker Film Festival is held in the city.
Photo: en.wikipedia.org 2 The Elephant House, Edinburgh
The modest size of Edinburgh's The Elephant House café is hard to match its popularity. There are always a lot of visitors here, and tourists do not miss the opportunity to take pictures at the entrance to the establishment next to the sign “Birthplace of Harry Potter.” It was here, in a small establishment, that JK Rowling, sitting at a table with her little daughter in a stroller for days, wrote her first novel about a boy wizard.
Take a seat in the back room to enjoy beautiful view to Edinburgh Castle.
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British Library
The number of storage items is second only to the Library of Congress in the United States - there are more than 150 million copies of books, magazines, newspapers and manuscripts. Here you can find publications in almost all languages of the world and from different times: from the collection of King George III to modern works.
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The English city of Bath is famous not only for its hot springs, but also as the place where the events of Jane Austen's novels took place. The writer lived here from 1801 to 1806 and was inspired by the city landscapes. Bath still honors her memory and hosts an annual Jane Austen festival. Guests of the event hold costumed meetings and literary readings Regency era.
Photo: bath360.co.uk 5 Broadstairs
The town in Kent was the inspiration for Charles Dickens. Here on the English Channel coast at the Bleak House Hotel the famous English writer stayed with his son and wrote the novel David Copperfield. There is now a museum in Broadstairs in honor of Dickens.
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Stratford upon Avon
The birthplace of the famous English playwright William Shakespeare - beautiful city United Kingdom. Here for all English lovers classical literature The Royal Shakespeare Theater operates and museums named after the great writer are open. It’s worth coming here if only to see the house where the playwright was born and spent his last days.
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Howerth
The English village of Hohert is an iconic place for all fans of the Bronte sisters' work. IN early XIX centuries, their family owned an estate here, which today houses a museum dedicated to them. The landscapes of West Yorkshire inspired writers to create the most famous novels, including Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. Perhaps, looking at the ruined farm of Top Withens, you will recreate in your imagination the story of Heathcliff and Catherine, because it is believed that this particular area is the prototype of the Earnshaw family home and the main inspiration of Emily Brontë.
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Ashdown
A forest in East Sussex is where the world's most famous bear was born - Winnie the Pooh. Here, on the Cotchford farm near the forest, lived the English writer Alan Milne and his son Christopher Robin. Walking along the forest paths inspired Milne so much that he decided to write a series of stories about a bear who lives in the forest and his friendship with the boy Christopher Robin.
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Oxford University
This is not only one of the best in the world: its walls still remember the presence of Clive Staples Lewis, Oscar Wilde and Lewis Carroll, who studied or lectured here. Oxford also has an amazing library that is also worth a visit.
Photo: popsugar.com 10 Jamaica Inn, Cornwall
The English writer Daphne du Maurier was inspired by a trip to the hills of Bodmin Moor to create the novel about smugglers, The Jamaica Inn (which Alfred Hitchcock made into a film of the same name). While still a little girl, Maurier and her friend got lost in the forest while riding horses, and miraculously made it back to the hotel, which was called the Jamaica Inn. One of the rooms still houses a kind of museum with memorabilia of the writer.
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And what are the places in the United Kingdom associated with creativity? famous writers, do you know? Share with us in the comments!
UK Museums. The most famous and famous museums UK cities - photos and videos, addresses, locations, websites, schedules, opening hours.
The number of museums in Britain, steeped in history, is large, and their subjects are very diverse: art, science, literature, all sorts of unusual collections.Start your acquaintance with the world culture and history of Great Britain with London, the cradle of royal dynasties. The British Museum, the pride of the British, can be considered the pearl of the country's museum heritage. This is one of the largest and oldest museums in the world: its exhibitions tell not only about the history of Great Britain - entire galleries are dedicated to Ancient Egypt, Rome and Greece, Mesopotamia, medieval Europe and contain interesting artifacts related to different eras these ancient states.
Art
Connoisseurs of fine art will greatly enjoy visiting the UK's many galleries. Of great interest is the London National Gallery, which houses more than two thousand paintings by great artists. Western Europe, including Rembrandt and Rubens.
Other excellent art galleries are located in many cities of the kingdom, the most interesting of which are in Leeds, Liverpool, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Manchester. Thus, the Leeds City Art Gallery has the status of one of best museums Great Britain. Her exhibition includes paintings by famous English artists, as well as sculptures by the famous modern master Henry Moore.
In Liverpool, don't miss The Beatles Museum.
The science
The scientific view of the world is widely covered in British museums. One of largest museums capital - London Natural History Museum, with stuffed and skeletons of animals, modern and prehistoric. There is a stunning exhibition on the flora of Britain, as well as an impressive collection of rocks, minerals and meteorites.
The Science Museum in London is part of the National Museum of Science and Technology complex. “Science Night” is held here: several hundred children aged 8-11 years, accompanied by their parents, spend the whole night in the museum - immersed in science at game form, sleep in the galleries in the galleries, and in the morning they have breakfast, conduct experiments and watch movies in IMAX format.
Literature
One of the most popular literary heroes has its own museum in London. Every guest of the Sherlock Holmes Museum can sit at the table of the great detective, take a photo with a pipe as a souvenir, and for a moment feel like a character in their favorite books, films and TV series.
And the Shakespeare House Museum in Stratford-upon-Avon, where he was born and lived part of his life, is a real treasure trove for his fans and one of the most beloved tourist attractions in the UK. Here you can trace how William Shakespeare developed as a playwright and actor, see the conditions in which he lived, the objects that surrounded him, and thereby for a few moments feel the closeness and immortality of this talented man. Here the Royal Shakespeare Theater appears to the attention of travelers.
Amazing collections
Great Britain is truly a treasure trove of the most incredible and extraordinary museums. For example, the Teddy Bear Museum in London, which has a fantastic collection of teddy bears, or the Witchcraft Museum in Cornwall, which contains items related to the art of magic.
Images famous people from different eras can be found at Madame Tussauds, where millions of tourists come to take pictures with the figures of their favorite actors, singers or even scandalous political figures.
A tidbit for all the curious is the Dog Collar Museum, located in Leeds Castle. The intricate accessories here are presented in the form of real objects of art, and there are truly masterpieces.
Local museums
Glasgow has one of the best in Britain art galleries, as well as the Hunterian Museum. It was founded by anatomist William Hunter and initially consisted of a collection of scientific instruments and instruments of famous doctors and scientists. The tireless Hunter expanded his collection and included a variety of items: paintings by local artists, artifacts from Ancient Egypt, traces of Roman rule in Scotland, one of the world's largest coin collections.
The pride of Belfast is the Ulster Museum, which contains exhibits related to natural history, zoology, ethnography and archaeology. Cardiff is located National Museum Wales, consisting of exhibits on different topics: archaeology, geology, art, botany and zoology.
And in the town of Keswick, where graphite was mined several centuries ago, the Pencil Museum is now open. Here you can not only view the exhibition, but also take drawing lessons and purchase luxury stationery in a huge store.
For extreme sports enthusiasts, there is a direct route to the city of Inverness, where famous lake Loch Ness - perhaps you will be able to see the famous monster Nessie with your own eyes.
There is nothing like this anywhere except London huge amount attractions, museums, exhibitions that constantly attract tourists. There are numerous tourist sites and exhibitions of almost any type. They are constantly open to visitors, the flow of which does not dry out over time.
The main historical and archaeological museum in the UK and one of the largest in the world is British museum in London.
It is constantly at the top of the ranking in terms of attendance among museums in the world. The British Museum is located in Bloomsbury, a historic district of London.
All visitors to the British Museum can view the historical and cultural treasures located here free of charge. 94 galleries are open to tourists, with a length of about 4 kilometers.
Naturally, it is impossible to get acquainted with so many exhibits in one or two days. Among the museum staff there are Russian-speaking guides who will help Russian tourists better understand historical facts, as well as cats.
6 cats are officially on the staff of the British Museum : they are decorated with yellow bows, I behave with dignity in the halls and protect museum values from rodent infestation.
History of the museum
Like many other collections in England, the British Museum arose from a private collection. During his lifetime, the famous English collector of antiquities, doctor and naturalist Hans Sloan drew up a will, according to which, for a certain symbolic fee, his entire collection of more than 70 thousand exhibits passed to King George II.
Thanks to this, the English national fund was significantly replenished. This happened in June 1753. At the same time, antiquarian James Cotton donated his library to the state, and Count Robert Harley donated a unique collection of ancient manuscripts. The creation of the historical museum was approved by a special act of the British Parliament.
In 1759 the museum was opened to visitors in Montague House. At first, only selected people could become visitors to the museum. The museum opened for everyone only in 1847, when it was built modern building museum.
The British Museum collection has been constantly expanded. At the end of the 18th century, the museum acquired Greville’s collection of minerals, W. Hamilton’s antique vases, Townley marbles, and bought masterpieces from the Parthenon from Lord Elgin.
Some exhibits in the museum ended up in an almost criminal way: to this day, Greece and Egypt demand the return of some valuable relics (for example, the Rosetta Stone - a slab with text in the ancient Egyptian language) taken illegally from these countries.
In the 19th century, the British Museum in London began to grow and develop rapidly. At this time, it became necessary to divide the museum into departments, some of which were moved to another location. A numismatic department has appeared, where medals and coins are collected different countries belonging to different eras (including ancient Greek, Persian, ancient Roman).
The geological, mineralogical, botanical and zoological departments were separated into a separate Natural History Museum, which was moved to South Kensington in 1845. From 1823 to 1847, the Montagu House mansion was demolished, and in its place stood a modern building in the classicist style, created by the architect R. Smirk.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the number of exhibits from the Middle East increased thanks to exhibitions held in Mesopotamia. archaeological excavations. Since 1926, the museum has published its own magazine quarterly, which covers events taking place in the museum.
At the end of the 20th century, when preparations were being made for the 250th anniversary of the founding of the museum, exhibition halls. Under the leadership of Norman Foster, the space was redeveloped: new premises appeared, the galleries were updated, and an additional area was glazed.
Museum expositions
At first the museum was conceived only as a collection of antiquities from Greece and Rome, but gradually exhibits appeared different eras from other places for which all new departments were organized:
- The Greco-Roman collection in the British Museum is located in 12 rooms. It includes luxury items dating back to the times of the Roman emperors, Lycian sculptures, sculptures from the Temple of Apollo at Phigalia, remains of the Temple of Diana at Ephesus, etc.
- The Oriental Department of the museum displays collections of sculptures, paintings, ceramics and prints from South and Southeast Asia. There are Indian bronze statues of Buddha, monuments of hieroglyphic writing dating back to the 2nd millennium BC, ritual vessels Ancient China and other ancient oriental treasures.
- In the Department of the Middle Ages and Modern Times you can see works of decorative and applied art from the times of early Christianity to the 19th century. There are many religious objects, dishes and jewelry made of silver, knightly armor and medieval weapons, collections of ceramic and glass products of the 18th-19th centuries, church utensils and the world's largest collection of watches.
- British Museum collection of drawings and prints artistic value and size is on a par with the famous Louvre. This department contains paintings by Botticelli , Van Dyck, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Gainsborough, Durer, Van Gogh, Raphael and many others.
- The number of medals and coins in the numismatics department exceeds 200 thousand copies. Here are presented coins from the 7th century BC to modern examples, as well as coins made of precious metals. Also in the department are almost all the medals dedicated to important historical events countries, including medals at the London 2012 Olympics.
- In the ethnography department you can get acquainted with objects of everyday life and culture of the peoples of Australia, Africa, Asia and Oceania, America, starting with the discovery of these lands by Columbus, Cook and other famous navigators.
- The British Museum is also the largest library in Great Britain, numbering more than 7 million volumes of various publications, about 200 thousand items of manuscripts on European languages, more than half a million geographical maps and almost a million copies of sheet music. About 20 thousand technical and scientific journals. The British Museum library has 6 reading rooms for 670 visitors.
The museum regularly hosts thematic excursions; on Sundays, the “Young Friend of the British Museum” children's club operates, whose members have access to additional interesting exhibitions. “Nights at the Museum”, held 4 times a year, are popular here, as throughout the world. Each night has a specific theme, such as "Egyptian Night" or "Japanese Night".
Tourist information
The museum is open daily, its opening hours: 10-00 – 17-30. From Thursday to Friday, some departments work longer, up to 20-30.
Now the museum's fund is replenished mainly through donations from patrons or collectors. Some exhibits were purchased with parliamentary money. Entry to the British Museum is free, but it is considered in good form leave a small donation, for which special boxes are installed in the museum.
The British Museum is huge in area and in the number of exhibits on display, so you shouldn't try to get around it in one or two days. It is better to choose one or two exhibitions that are most interesting to you and devote your time entirely to them. Otherwise, visiting the museum will leave you with no positive emotions and new knowledge, but fatigue and a sore head.
This museum has become an innovation; there has never been anything like it before. The Museum of Modern Design in London became the first dedicated to this field of activity. Its concept was developed by Terence Conran, the head and director of the Kornan Group company, which developed the main project. The basis was taken from buildings that served as a banana warehouse in the 40s of the 20th century, located near the Tower Bridge on the banks of the Thames.
Here, from the very entrance, unobtrusive music sounds. Over 300 thousand visitors come here annually. This is a museum of the legend of the 20th century - the famous Beatles. Official name- “The History of the Beatles.” It is located on the territory of the Port of Liverpool in the basement of Albert Dock, part of an ensemble of administrative buildings, which are themselves recognized as a monument historical heritage and are under the protection of UNESCO.
It all started with the fact that after the death of Benjamin Pollock, a manufacturer of traditional puppet theaters on cardboard, many clichés for their printing, among which were the very first, dating back to 1830, were sold by his daughters to an antiques dealer.
Just recently this seemingly ordinary an old house on Doughty Street, was little known. In 1923, it was decided to demolish it, however, as it turned out, it was the only remaining house in London, where the great English writer Charles Dickens once lived.
This museum simply could not help but appear in London, the capital of Great Britain, which was once the “queen of the seas.” National maritime museum was founded by official decree of the country's parliament in 1934 and opened on April 27, 1937 by King George VI. It is located in Greenwich (London area), and is a complex historical buildings XVII century, which are objects of world cultural heritage.
This museum was created by London Film Institute employees David Francis and Leslie Hardcastle back in 1988, but due to funding difficulties it ceased operation in 1999, even despite its popularity.
This caused strong discontent among the London public, and after 9 long years the museum was revived in 2 branches - in the South Bank and in Covent Garden, under a new name - the London Film Museum.
The appearance of the Natural History Museum, or as it is sometimes called, the Natural History Museum, in the capital of Great Britain was preceded by the creation of the British Museum in 1759. This happened after Hans Sloane, a famous doctor and naturalist, handed over his huge collections The people of Britain and Parliament decided to open the museum. He was then located in Montague House in Bloomsbury, one of the districts of London.
A world of magic and fairy tales - this is how you can call this unique museum. Actually, this is not a museum at all, but a colorful show, a journey into a fairy tale, Magic world Harry Potter. And all this magic was made possible by the creator of the much-loved Harry Potter saga, the Warner Bros. concern, by converting one of its Leavesden Studios, which is located 30 km from London in the town of Watford.
In the UK, in London, a public museum of the history of urban transport opened in 1980. It is this museum that we will talk about in this article. In 2005, the museum had to be closed for reconstruction, but already in 2007 it began to function as before.
, and many other equally interesting English museums. By visiting any of museums in England you will be satisfied and greatly impressed, which will not go away soon.Of course, not everyone has the opportunity to visit this wonderful country. Therefore, on our website we will try to describe in as much detail as possible museums in England, provide bright and colorful photographs directly from the halls of museums, and, if possible, we will also post videos.
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