The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) was established by a group of artists, poets and writers to champion contemporary arts and culture across all art forms. It is a not-for-profit, multi-disciplinary arts centre with two galleries, two cinemas, a theatre and a reading room, and has brought some of the most radical and influential art […]
You only see a quarter of the V&A’s vast collections at any time. That is because the V&A is home to more than 2,241,700 items, including almost 1,200,000 museum objects and works of arts, over a million books and periodicals, and 811 archival collections; manuscripts, letters, business papers and other things. The Museum’s […]
The Science Museum in London has over 600,000 items in its collections covering everything from Flight, Geophysics and Oceanography to Mathematics, Psychology, Space, Time, Medicine, Computing, Spying and Materials. However, the Science Museum is just one of five museums in the Science Museum group, together with the National Railway Museums in York and Shildon, […]
The National Portrait Gallery holds the largest collection of portraits in the world. Its portraits are displayed across the UK in museums and galleries, and several houses managed by the National Trust. The gallery was founded in 1856,‘to promote through the medium of portraits the appreciation and understanding of the men and women who have […]
Sir John Soane’s Museum is the house-museum of 18th century architect and Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy Sir John Soane. In 1806 he began to arrange the books, casts and models in his house for students to look at and use. Soane then proposed opening his house the day before and after his lectures so that his students could look at the collection, and soon it became known as an “Academy of Architecture”. It has been open to students and the public for free ever since and welcomes 110,000 visitors every year.
The British Library holds a copy of every publication produced in the UK and Ireland, with over 150 million items and 3 million more are added to the collection every year. It is open to the public, and online, in London and in Yorkshire over 16,000 people use it every day. However, the British Library’s funding has been cut.
Taunton is to lose the Brewhouse Theatre and Arts Centre as a direct result of arts cuts from central and local Government.