London museums and galleries презентация

THE BRITISH MUSEUM
The Museum preserves its universality in its collections of artifacts representing the cultures of the world, ancient and modern. Popular exhibitions including "Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum" and "Ice Age Art".

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
Is a museum of natural history that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. 4 фото-Given the age of the institution, many of the collections have great historical as well as scientific value, such as specimens collected by Charles Darwin.2 ф- The museum is particularly famous for its exhibition of dinosaur skeletons and ornate architecture

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design.The museum owns the collectons from different parts of the world include art from South Asia, China, Japan,North Africa.In the centre of the Museum located John Madejski Garden

MADAME TUSSAUD'S
It's a wax museum in London with smaller museums in a number of other major cities.3ф-In the world-famous wax museum you will find also the Room of Horror. Here are, for example, King Louis XVI and his family's heads on sticks.

SCIENCE MUSEUM
The Science Museum is a major museum on exhibition Road in South Kensington, London. It was founded in 1857 and today is one of the city's major tourist attractions, attracting 3.3 million visitors annually

COLLECTIONS
The Science Museum now holds a collection of over 300,000 items, including such famous items.
Stephenson's Rocket.

SCIENCE NIGHT
The Science Museum also organises "Science Night", "all night extravaganza with a scientific twist". Up to 380 children aged between 8 and 11, accompanied by adults, are invited to spend an evening performing fun "science based" activities and then spend the night sleeping in the museum galleries amongst the exhibits. In the morning, they're woken to breakfast and more science, watching an film before the end of the event

GALLERIES
Power: The East Hall
The East Hall is the first area that most visitors see as they enter the building

MAKING THE MODERN WORLD
Apollo 10 Command Module in the Modern World Gallery
Making the Modern World is a relatively new gallery, in which some of the museum's most iconic objects, including Stephenson's Rocket, Watson and Crick's double helix and an Apollo spacecraft, are imaginatively displayed along a timeline chronicling man's technological achievements.
Apollo spacecraft

INFORMATION AGE
The landmark gallery explores the six networks that have transformed global communications: The Cable, The Telephone Exchange, Broadcast, The Constellation, The Cell and The Web
It was opened on 24 October 2014 by the Queen, Elizabeth II, who sent her first tweet. It replaced the former Shipping galleries, on the second floor, which closed on 15 May 2012. Their contents were 3D scanned and made available online
Information Age Gallery at the Science Museum London

THE NATIONAL GALLERY
is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900

IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
Imperial War Museums (IWM) is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London. Founded as the Imperial War Museum in 1917, the museum was intended to record the civil and military war effort and sacrifice of Britain and its Empire during the First World War

THE TATE GALLERY
the Tate Gallery) is an art museum on Millbank in the City of Westminster in London. It is part of the Tate network of galleries in England, with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It is the oldest gallery in the network, having opened in 1897. It houses a substantial collection of the art of the United Kingdom since Tudor times, and in particular has large holdings of the works of J. M. W. Turner who bequeathed all his own collection to the nation. It is one of the largest museums in the country.