Museums and Galleries - Links to places to visit in Person

[melanie]

I thought it would be great to start a guide for students who are intending on visiting museums and galleries. The resources we can collect here would be for great for student to perhaps share their experience of galleries they have visited, perhaps ones that you can recommend. It can be anywhere worldwide.

I have just found a fantastic website which lists all of the museums and art galleries in the UK & Ireland. The title of the site is below and the link. Hope you can visit one near you.

http://www.artguide.org/index.html

[melanie]

The Tate Modern in London is a great place to visit if you would like to broaden your taste in art. It is full of International modern and contemporary art and entry is free.

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/

[ranunkel]

The National Portrait Gallery UK

http://www.npg.org.uk/home.php

The Gallery was founded in 1856 to collect portraits of famous British men and women. Explore over 160,000 portraits from the 16th Century to the present day.

The Gallery is close to Trafalgar Square, near Leicester Square and Charing Cross Underground stations. Explore clickable floor plans.

[lisapencil]

If you ever find yourself in Paris, I recommend the Musee D'Orsay which has works from the 1840s to 1934 (I think).

[andrea.barber]

Hi - This will be a very helpful forum. I look forward to seeing peoples recommendations.

I would suggest keeping an eye on the London National Galleries website. I have just attended an exhibition of 17th Century Spanish Sacred art there. It was absolutely stunning especially as some of the work on show had never left Spain before. I only found out about it by accident through a friend who had seen an advert in a national newspaper. When I visited the website all the information was there. The exhibition has now unfortunately finished but I will certainly keep a close eye on theire website for further exhibitions. Unfortunately I am not clever enough on computers to know how to do a link to the website but I typed 'National Gallery London' into google and found it.

Andrea

[melanie]

Hi Andrea,

Sounds great and we would love to hear more recommendations in the future.

Adding a link is really easy, all you need to do is go to the page you want people to see. Right click once in the address bar so that it highlights blue and there will be a drop down which gives you the option of 'copy'. Choose Copy. Go to the message box in the forum and right click and choose paste. You will see the address pasted from the address bar in your message box - and thats it!

[andrea.barber]

Hi,
I have just seen an exhibition advertised which may be of interest to people. It is called Watercolour in Britain: Travelling with colour. It is currently at Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery and contains some local artists but also works by Turner and other famous artists. A bit of an awkward place to get to, and I have not managed to get there myself yet, but I believe it is going to travel around the country. I have tried to do a link - hope it works.

http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/defau ... 0.21.10.27

Andrea

[NickBeall]

HI Andrea, the link works great. I very much like the Mackintosh painting, the colours are very subtle.

[andrea.barber]

Hi,

I have discovered a lovely art gallery in Cambridge called the Fitzwilliam Museum

http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/index.html

I found the art gallery itself excellent with a variety of paintings from different time periods and countries. It also has some excellent exhibitions which are free entry and well worth a look. At present they have two exhibitions I would recommend. The first is the work of John Singer Sargent, Walter Sickert and Stanley Spencer which was very good. The second was an unexpected treat - miniature Japanese carvings called Netsuke, I had never encountered these before and I thought they were exquisite.

Admission to the gallery and the exhibitions was free (although they make up for it in the cafe - £1.75 for a cup of tea!), and it is open Tuesday to Saturday. Hope link works o.k. Well worth a visit if you are ever in the area.

Andrea

[Stewart Roberts]

Re. Places to Visit in Person
I've several favourite galleries ranging from the Kettles Yard gallery in Cambridge (not the main gallery but the small house gallery that adjoins it - idiosyncratic and delightful) to the wonderful Musee National de Art de Catalunya (MNAC) in Barcelona. This huge building on the hill of Montjuic is often overlooked by those visiting the Miro Foundation, Picasso Museum and Gaudi sites in the city. It has traditional galleries arranged in chronological order with a fantastic collection of medieval and gothic art and other periods up to the present day. Catalan artists and designers are the focus of main exhibition but there are usually visiting exhibitions of the highest standard too. At the bottom of the huge flight of steps that lead down from the museum there is also the CaixaForum, a new gallery complex in a converted Art Nouveau factory - Well worth a visit.
P.S. Its interesting that in Britain we separate the term museum from that of a gallery whereas in the rest of Europe and in the USA major art galleries are titled museums?
Stu