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Showing posts with label museums. Show all posts
Showing posts with label museums. Show all posts

Bear Grylls likes it outdoors, but the rest of like a bit of us comfort at the weekend


Its now that time of year again when the nights are drawing in and the weather is getting notably chillier. The daylight hours become far more precious; so what do you do to make the most of it during your free time?

If your like me then it usually takes quite a while to get going in the mornings after an over indulgent friday night. Say hello to the cat if he has not started to pester me already and of course feed him. Then I put on the kettle and start to contemplate what I can do with my day instead of wasting it away on the sofa, going from the the kitchen to sofa all day. Does this sound familiar.

Appeal to save Brueghel for the nation

The National trust has joined forces with the Art Fund to launch a £2.7 million fundraising campaign to save an iconic Old Master painting for the nation.

The Procession to Calvary’ by Pieter Brueghel the Younger is the star attraction at Nostell Priory in Yorkshire, owned by the Trust since 1954, where it has hung for over 200 years.Now, however, the painting, which is still owned by Lord St Oswald, has been put up for sale, with the risk that Nostell’s greatest work will no longer be accessible to the public.

I would like to support the cause and urge every one to help where they can.

Support it now

Nostell Priory and Parkland is a fantastic house built on the site of a medieval priory.

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William Shakespeare's Birthplace, Stratford-Upon-Avon



William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith.
Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later.

Natural History Museum



The Natural History Museum first opened its doors to the public on Easter Monday in 1881, but its origins go back more than 250 years.