‘Monuments and Landmarks’ Archives
Barbican Centre
Barbican Centre The Barbican Centre was set up in 1982 to be both a national centre for the Arts and also to cater for the constituency of its immediate locality in the heart of London. It houses the largest of the City’s lending libraries and its main Children’s Library. The Royal Shakespeare Company has a full programme at the Barbican [...]
Carnaby Street
Carnaby Street During the late 1950s and early 1960s, Carnaby Street, located in London’s Soho district, was transformed when a group of ‘youthquake’ fashion designers, including John Stephen, Sally Tuffin and Marlon Foale, were attracted there by the combination of low rents and West End location. Carnaby Street rapidly became both stage [...]
Knightsbridge
Knightsbridge Knightsbridge is the fashionable area in London, between Chelsea and Kensington, where Harrods department store, designer shops and a very few expensive homes are located. Part of its mystique comes from the fact that the wealthy and powerful from all over the world are drawn to shop there; newspapers referred to the [...]
MOMI
MOMI The Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI) is situated within the BFI’s South Bank complex, promoting British film and television culture. Established in 1988, MOMI charts the development of moving images from pre-cinema experiments in photographic projection and optical illusion to today’s industrialized and commercialized film and [...]
The Holy Land Experience
The Holy Land Experience The Holy Land Experience is a theme park in Florida based on religion. This is ‘The Holy Land Experience.’ First conceived in 1991, and opened on February 5, 2001, it is the brainchild of Baptist minister, Marvin Rosenthal. It occupies some five acres, was designed at a cost of US$16 million by ITEC entertainment, [...]
Haw Par Villa
Haw Par Villa Haw Par Villa is a themed attraction based on a religious or moral set of ideas is Haw Par Villa in Singapore. Originally a gift in 1937 from the indigenous entrepreneur, Aw Boon Haw, to his brother, Aw Boon Par, to mark their joint success in the Tiger Balm menthol ointment business, it was intended as a Chinese mythological [...]
The History of Colosseum
Colosseum The greatest structure erected during the age of the Flavian emperors (69–96 C.E.) and arguably the finest architectural achievement in the history of the Roman Empire. The Colosseum was originally called the Flavian Amphitheater, but it became known as the Colosseum after a colossal statue of Nero that once stood nearby. Its [...]
Louvre
Louvre The public display of parts of the collections (paintings and furniture) of the kings of France on the first floor of the Luxembourg Palace in Paris was an initiative similar to that taken by many European monarchs during the second half of the eighteenth century and was the direct result of the Enlightenment. It was also proof of just [...]
Arthur’s Pass National Park
Arthur’s Pass National Park Arthur’s Pass National Park, national park in New Zealand in the west central region of South Island. Established in 1929, the park covers 980 sq km (380 sq mi) of mountainous landscape in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. The peaks inside the park's boundaries include Mount Murchison (about 2,400 m/7,900 ft), [...]
Bargello National Museum
Bargello National Museum Bargello National Museum (in Italian, Museo Nazionale del Bargello), museum of sculpture and decorative arts, located in Florence, Italy, and housed in a massive medieval fortress-building called the Palazzo del Bargello (also known as the Palazzo del Podestà). The museum came into existence in the mid-1800s, when the [...]
