British Museum

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The Museum is free to all visitors and is open daily
10.00–17.30 h.

The nearest underground stations to the Museum are:

Tottenham Court Road (300m)
Holborn (500m)
Russell Square (800m)
Goodge Street (800m)

The core of today’s building, the four main wings of the British Museum, was designed in the nineteenth century. Other important architectural developments include the round Reading Room with its domed ceiling and the Norman Foster designed Great Court which opened in 2000.


Quadrangle building
The core of today’s building was designed by the architect Sir Robert Smirke (1780–1867) in 1823. It was a quadrangle with four wings: the north, east, south and west wings.

The building was completed in 1852. It included galleries for classical sculpture and Assyrian antiquities as well as residences for staff.

Smirke designed the building in the Greek Revival style, which emulated classical Greek architecture. Greek features on the building include the columns and pediment at the South entrance.

This style had become increasingly popular since the 1750s when Greece and its ancient sites were ‘rediscovered’ by western Europeans.

The building was constructed using up-to-the-minute 1820s technology. Built on a concrete floor, the frame of the building was made from cast iron and filled in with London stock brick. The public facing sections of the building were covered in a layer of Portland stone.

In 1853, the quadrangle building won the Royal Institute of British Architects’ Gold Medal.

The King’s Library
The King’s Library was the first wing of the Smirke design to be built and was completed in 1827.

South entrance and Museum forecourt
The external architecture of the Museum was designed to reflect the purpose of the building. The monumental South entrance, with its stairs, colonnade and pediment, was intended to reflect the wondrous objects housed inside.

The design of the columns has been borrowed from ancient Greek temples, and the pediment at the top of the building is a common feature of classical Greek architecture.

The east and west residences (to the left and right of the entrance) have a more modest exterior.

This is an example of mid-nineteenth century domestic architecture and reflects the domestic purpose of these wings. They housed the Museum’s employees, who originally lived on site.

Weston Hall
The Weston Hall was designed by Sydney Smirke, who took over from his brother, Sir Robert Smirke, in 1845.

The patterns and colours on the ceiling of the Weston Hall were borrowed from classical Greek buildings, which would have been brightly decorated.

The electric lamps in the entrance hall are replicas of the original lighting lamps in the Museum. The Museum was the first public building to be electrically lit.

A £20 million donation from the Weston Foundation enabled the restoration of the hall in 2000.

Reading Room
The Reading Room, built in 1857, stands at the heart of the Museum, in the centre of the Great Court.

White Wing
The White Wing, facing Montague Street, was designed by the architect Sir John Taylor (1833–1912) and constructed 1882–5. It was designed in the same style as the quadrangle building.

The Museum had again been looking to expand and a bequest made by William White (who died in 1823) to enable building works became available after the death of his widow.

White had two requests about the design of the building: that it had a monumental entrance (the steps which run up to the entrance) and an inscription (which is above the doorway). These can both be seen from Montague Street.

King Edward VII galleries
The King Edward VII galleries, designed by Sir John Burnet (1859–1939), were originally intended to be part of a larger development at the north side of the Museum.

The design of these galleries and north entrance are predominantly marked by imperialistic features and draw on Roman rather than Greek characteristics.

Imperial features include the royal coat of arms, above the entrance to the gallery, and sculptures of crowns, lions’ heads and coats of arms of Edward VII on the stonework above the north entrance.

The north entrance was never originally intended to be a public entrance. Instead this entrance and gallery were meant to face a long avenue which would be part of a victory parade route. The saluting gallery, a reminder of this grand scheme, can be seen above the north entrance.

The foundation stone was laid by King Edward VII in 1907 and the building was opened by King George V and Queen Mary in 1914.

The Duveen gallery
The construction of a new gallery for the Parthenon sculptures was funded by Sir Joseph (later Lord) Duveen in 1931. The architect was the American, John Russell Pope (1874–1937), who also designed the National Gallery in Washington.

The gallery was completed in 1939 but, because of damage during the Second World War, it was not opened until 1962.

Great Court
Designed by Foster and Partners, the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court opened in 2000.
 

Brooking Collection of Period Architectural Detail

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Info Telefon: 02083319309
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University of Greenwich

ATTENTION: OPEN ONLY by appointment. Please phone 01483 274203

Bruce Castle Museum

Fax.: 0181-808-4118

Info Telefon: 0181-808-8772
Besucher-Email: museum.services@haringey.gov.uk
http://www.haringey.gov.uk/leisure/bruce...

Wed to Sun 13.00-17.00 h
Summer Bank Holiday Mondays
Closed: Mon + Tues + Good Friday

Bruce Castle Museum is accredited by MLA London. The MLA's Accreditation Scheme sets national standards for UK museums. Entry is free to all visitors

Bruce Castle is a Grade I listed 16th Century manor house in 20 acres of parkland. William Compton - a member of Henry VIII’s court, built the oldest surviving parts of the building.

Since then the building has been modified several times by new owners including the Coleraine family. One of the wives of the 2nd Lord Coleraine is said to haunt the building.

Sir Rowland Hill's family ran a progressive school for boys at Bruce Castle during the Victorian period. Sir Rowland reformed the British postal system and became famous for introducing the Penny Post.

Bruce Castle opened as a Museum in 1906 and now houses local history collections relating to the Borough of Haringey. The building is also home to the borough archive service.

Bruce Castle Park was the first public park in Tottenham. There is a Tree Trail to follow through the park, and the park is part of the Better Haringey Walking Trail.
 

Brunel Engine House

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Besucher-Email: education@brunel-museum.org.uk
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10am to 5pm
Closed: 24 December to 25 December and 27 December to 1 January

Nearest tube stations are Bermondsey and Canada Water on the Jubilee line.

Lots of buses run down Jaimaca Road and Brunel Road from Greenwich, Peckham and London Bridge. Use the Journey Planner link on this page to find your best route

Cabinet War Rooms

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Info Telefon: 020 7930 6961

Secret Governement HQ during WW II.
 

Camden Arts Centre

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Info Telefon: 44 020 7472 5500
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Tuesday-Sunday 10am-6pm
Wednesday 10am-9pm
Closed Mondays & Bank Holidays


We’re closer than you think – choose from 4 tube lines: Jubilee, Metropolitan, Northern and Overground.

•10 minutes by tube from Kings Cross and St Pancras (Eurostar)
•20 minutes by tube from Liverpool Street
•30 minutes by bus from central London
Closest tube stations: Finchley Road, Hampstead, and Finchley Road and Frognal.

Cannizaro Park

Info Telefon: 020 8946 7349

All year daily 8am to dusk.

Carew Manor and Dovecote

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Info Telefon: 020 8770 4781
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There was a dovecote at Carew Manor in Tudor times which stood in Pigeon House Meadow, which may have been to the east of the present site. It was probably demolished and replaced by the existing building between 1707 and 1727, when the first Baronet, Sir Nicholas Carew, reorganised the grounds around the house. The existing Dovecote almost certainly dates from the early 18th century. It originally contained about 1360 nesting boxes built into the inner face of the wall, giving it a complex honeycomb-like structure. The birds came and went through the wooden turret at the apex of the roof. The large rotating ladder or potence was used by the keepers who raided the nesting boxes to provide the Carews with eggs and meat. The dovecote is exceptionally large, as most buildings of this type contain under 1000 nesting boxes, and it may have been erected as a commercial operation rather than simply to supply the house with fresh meat.

The first floor, which is not original, was probably inserted to reduce the capacity of the building as the nesting boxes below it have been bricked up. It is not known when this was done or when the dovecote went out of use, although this had almost certainly happened before the mid-19th century.

There is a Roman Coffin on the ground floor with was found in the 1930s when a pipe trench on the east side of Church Road just south of the churchyard. It is made of non-local limestone and dates from the 3rd or 4th century.

The interior of the dovecote showing the nesting box entrances in the wall and the potence - a rotating timber ladder which gave access to the boxes.
 

Centre of the Cell

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Chelsea Physic Garden

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Chelsea Physic Garden Company

Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays 12-5pm
Sundays and Bank Holiday Mondays 12-6pm
Last admission 30 minutes before closing

The Chelsea Physic Garden was founded in 1673, as the Apothecaries' Garden, with the purpose of training apprentices in identifying plants. The location was chosen as the proximity to the river created a warmer microclimate allowing the survival of many non-native plants - such as the largest outdoor fruiting olive tree in Britain - and more importantly, to allow plants to survive harsh British winters. The river was also important as a transport route that linked the garden to other open spaces such as Putney Heath, facilitating easy movements of both plants and botanists. In fact the garden has always sought to achieve good communications with others working in the same field: by the 1700's it had initiated an international botanic garden seed exchange system, which continues to this day.


Statue of Sir Hans Sloane in the centre of the Garden
Some years later, Dr. Hans Sloane, after whom the nearby locations of Sloane Square and Sloane Street were named, purchased the Manor of Chelsea from Charles Cheyne. This purchase of about 4 acres was leased to the Society of Apothecaries for £5 a year in perpetuity.

Environments for supporting different types of plants were built, including the pond rock garden, constructed from a variety of rock types, namely stones from the Tower of London, Icelandic lava (brought to the garden by Sir Joseph Banks in 1772 on a ship named St. Lawrence), fused bricks and flint. This curious structure has been listed Grade II* and is the oldest rock garden in England on view to the public. It was completed on 16th August 1773.

In 1848 Robert Fortune used Wardian cases, which are rather like miniature greenhouses, to transport seedlings of Camelia sinensis (tea) from China leading to the establishment of the tea industry in India.

In 1876 the Garden enlarged its educational aspirations by deciding to run a lecture course for young women who were training as botany teachers. At the end of the 19th century the trustees of the City Parochial Foundation agreed to take over the running of the Garden from the Society of Apothecaries. In 1983 The Garden became a registered charity and open to the general public for the first time.

The Chelsea Physic Garden has developed a major role in public education focusing on the renewed interest in natural medicine. The Garden of World Medicine which is Britain's first garden of ethnobotany (or the study of the botany of different ethnic groups and indigenous peoples) is laid out together with a new Pharmaceutical Garden.