Victoria and Albert Museum Established in 1852, the Victoria and Albert Museum's collections span two thousand years of art in virtually every medium, from many parts of the world, and visitors to the museum encounter a treasure house of amazing and beautiful objects. The Victoria and Albert Museum seeks to make works of art [...]
Founded in 1856, the National Portrait Gallery London is ‘to promote through the medium of portraits the appreciation and understanding of the men and women who have made and are making British history and culture’. The National Portrait Gallery London was established with the criteria that the Gallery was to be about history, not about [...]
The Tate Museum Britain was created in 1889 when Henry Tate, a sugar refiner, offered his collection of British art to the nation. This lead to the creation of the Tate Museum because the National Gallery lacked the space. As the collection has grown, the Tate has grown into a family of museums, most importantly [...]
The Tate Museum Britain was created in 1889 when Henry Tate, a sugar refiner, offered his collection of British art to the nation. This lead to the creation of the Tate Museum because the National Gallery lacked the space. As the collection has grown, the Tate has grown into a family of museums, most importantly [...]
The British Museum was founded in 1753, the first national public museum in the world. From the beginning it granted free admission to all 'studious and curious persons'. Visitor numbers have grown from around 5,000 a year in the eighteenth century to nearly 6 million today. Save a life-time of travel and see the most [...]
The National Gallery houses the national collection of Western European painting from the 13th to the 19th centuries. The National Gallery Collection [...]
