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Books > Travel > Travel & holiday guides > Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides
The appeal of the Beatles is everlasting. Millions of fans from all
over the world continue to revel in the band's eternal hits and
their music stands out as one of Britain's greatest cultural
successes. This book takes the reader on a journey to the Fab
Four's home town of Liverpool and explores the significant sites
and locations associated with the band's unparalleled rise to
stardom. We delve into the archives and uncover nostalgic images of
Mathew Street, Strawberry Field and Penny Lane, as well as many
other familiar landmarks and witness the changes that have taken
place in the city through time. This book will appeal to any true
Beatles fan who wishes to discover that little bit extra about the
world's most famous boy band.
The mosaics in the Rotunda in Thessaloniki are the most significant
decorations that remain from the early Byzantine period. Th is
richly illustrated book invites the reader to enter the building
and experience the splendid golden and silver mosaics that cover
the cupola and vaults. It includes a timeline and a list of recent
publications. Colour photographs, many specially taken for this
publication, document the spectacular qualities of these
magnificent mosaics. After an introduction to the architecture of
the Rotunda, the authors focus on the mosaics, discussing such
issues as imperial patronage, the martyr portraits, the pictorial
programme, as well as mosaic technique and the aesthetic qualities
of the multi-coloured images. The succinct text provides an
up-to-date introduction to the mosaics.
The Royal Castle in Warsaw is one of the most important
museums-residences in Poland. Its history and the provenance of its
collections are extremely complex and symbolise the turbulent
history of the country. The last king of Poland, Stanislaw August,
created a great collection of works of art and commissioned the
interior design in a classicist style. With the loss of
independence by Poland, works of art and furnishings were
transported to Russia, then later returned under the Treaty of Riga
in 1921. Looted by the Germans during World War II, the Castle was
blown up in 1944. The castle finished being rebuilt in 1984 and
today is a museum of interiors and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The highlights of the Castle's collections include paintings by
Rembrandt and Canaletto as well as valuable objects of decorative
arts and historical memorabilia, showcased in this latest
Director's Choice with the expertise of Director Wojciech
Falkowski.
The British Television Location Guide reveals the actual settings
of Britain's favourite television shows and tells readers how they
can visit them. It is meticulously researched, right up to date and
includes details of the real-life filming locations for all the top
series including: Downton Abbey, Broadchurch, Call The Midwife,
Midsomer Murders, Doc Martin, Endeavour, Doctor Who, Miss Marple,
The Great British Bake-off, Foyle's War, Game of Thrones, The White
Queen, Mr Selfridge and dozens more.
The fashion, history, and development of Jewish dress tells a
story that spans the globe and crosses many cultures. In this
colorful volume, Jewish communities--particularly those established
for centuries in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and North
Africa--are revealed through their garments. Stunning photographs
spin tales of family traditions and religious devotion, with a
special section dedicated to jewelry worn by brides and grooms.
Superb photographs of specific garments, with many close-up
details, are juxtaposed with rare contextual photographs from the
Israel Museum's archives to create a tapestry of a people revealed
through textiles, costume, and images. More than 350 revelatory
illustrations tell us how these precious articles of dress were
originally worn.
Writers’ relationships with their surroundings are seldom straightforward. While some, like Jane Austen and Thomas Mann, wrote novels set where they were staying (Lyme Regis and Venice respectively), Victor Hugo penned Les Misérables in an attic in Guernsey and Noël Coward wrote that most English of plays, Blithe Spirit, in the Welsh holiday village of Portmeirion.
Award-winning BBC drama producer Adrian Mourby follows his literary heroes around the world, exploring 50 places where great works of literature first saw the light of day. At each destination – from the Brontës’ Yorkshire Moors to the New York of Truman Capote, Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin to the now-legendary Edinburgh café where J.K. Rowling plotted Harry Potter’s first adventures – Mourby explains what the writer was doing there and describes what the visitor can find today of that great moment in literature.
Rooms of One’s Own takes you on a literary journey from the British Isles to Paris, Berlin, New Orleans, New York and Bangkok and unearths the real-life places behind our best-loved works of literature.
An utterly charming and heart-warming love story and the perfect
tonic for difficult times. Daisy is the night security guard at the
Manchester Museum of Social History. She takes her job very
seriously, protecting the museum from teenage troublemakers. Nate
works the day shift, though he'd be more suited as a museum guide
the way he chats with the visitors. Daisy doesn't approve: how does
he find it so easy to talk to strangers? For five minutes each day
their shifts overlap at handover. He passes the torch over to Daisy
- always with a smile on his face, and she asks him for a full
report of the day, which he gives reluctantly. It's the only
interaction they have... until mysterious things begin to happen at
the museum. They soon discover they have a lot more in common than
they realised... and their investigations uncover more than just
the truth. Could they have feelings for one another?
This highly-illustrated book reveals a brand-new story of the royal
castle of Lincoln - how it was imposed on the late Anglo-Saxon town
and how it developed over the next 900 years in the hands of the
king or his aristocratic associates. Today, we have been left a
surviving monument of three great towers, each with its own
biography. Led by FAS Heritage, archaeologists, architectural
historians and a large cohort of the general public have come
together to produce a revealing and accessible account of the story
of Lincoln Castle; in doing so, we gain further insight into the
history, culture and society of medieval England.
A star par excellence, Dolly Parton is one of country music's most
likable personalities. Even a hard-rocking punk or orchestral
aesthete can't help cracking a smile or singing along with songs
like "Jolene" and "9 to 5." More than a mere singer or actress,
Parton is a true cultural phenomenon, immediately recognizable and
beloved for her talent, tinkling laugh, and steel magnolia spirit.
She is also the only female star to have her own themed amusement
park: Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Every year thousands of
fans flock to Dollywood to celebrate the icon, and Helen Morales is
one of those fans. In Pilgrimage to Dollywood, Morales sets out to
discover Parton's Tennessee. Her travels begin at the top celebrity
pilgrimage site of Elvis Presley's Graceland, then take her to
Loretta Lynn's ranch in Hurricane Mills; the Country Music Hall of
Fame and the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville; to Sevierville,
Gatlinburg, and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park; and
finally to Pigeon Forge, home of the "Dolly Homecoming Parade,"
featuring the star herself as grand marshall. Morales's adventure
allows her to compare the imaginary Tennessee of Parton's lyrics
with the real Tennessee where the singer grew up, looking at
essential connections between country music, the land, and a way of
life. It's also a personal pilgrimage for Morales. Accompanied by
her partner, Tony, and their nine-year-old daughter, Athena (who
respectively prefer Mozart and Miley Cyrus), Morales, a recent
transplant from England, seeks to understand America and American
values through the celebrity sites and attractions of Tennessee.
This celebration of Dolly and Americana is for anyone with an old
country soul who relies on music to help understand the world, and
it is guaranteed to make a Dolly Parton fan of anyone who has not
yet fallen for her music or charisma.
Olympia is part of the volume entitled "treasures of the Greek
Museums" which introduces the reader to the priceless works of art
housed in the museums of Greece. The texts, written by experts,
furnish details of the historical and cultural context of these
masterpieces. The most important achaeological sites are also
presented, with exclusive aerial photographs and other lavish
illustrations.
This fourth edition of Museum Basics has been produced for use in
the many museums worldwide that operate with few professional staff
and limited resources. The fourth edition has been fully updated to
reflect the many changes that have taken place in museums around
the world over the last six years. Drawing from a wide range of
practical experience, the authors provide a basic guide to all
aspects of museum work, from audience development and learning,
through collections management and conservation, to museum
management and forward planning. Museum Basics is organised on a
modular basis, with over 100 units in eight sections. It can be
used both as a reference work to assist day-to-day museum
management, and as the key textbook for pre-service and in-service
museum training programmes, where it can be supplemented by case
studies, project work and group discussion. This edition includes
over 100 diagrams to support the text, as well as a glossary,
sources of information and support and a select bibliography.
Museum Basics is also supported by its own companion website, which
provides a wide range of additional resources for readers. Museum
Basics aims to help the museum practitioner keep up to date with
new thinking about the function of museums and their relationships
with the communities they serve. The training materials provided
within the book are also suitable for pre-service and in-service
students who wish to gain a full understanding of work in a museum.
Julius Baer, established in Zurich in 1890, is the leading Swiss
wealth management group and an icon of Swiss banking tradition. For
nearly as long, the founder family has been engaged in supporting
visual and performing arts and in 1981, on the initiative of Hans
J. Bar (1927-2011), the company began to build its own collection
of contemporary art, guided by a firm belief that art in a business
environment enhances the culture of discussion and is inspirational
to employees and clients alike. Today, the Julius Baer Art
Collection comprises more than 5,000 works in a range of media
painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, and video-by Swiss
artists, internationally renowned ones as well as emerging talents.
This book offers a survey of the collection that is on rotating
display at the bank's offices around the world and highlights its
origins and development over the past four decades. Artistic
positions of 35 contemporary Swiss artists, such as John M
Armleder, Silvia Bachli, Miriam Cahn, Lutz & Guggisberg, Markus
Raetz, Shirana Shahbazi, and Roman Signer, are introduced through
brief texts and illustrated with some 300 works from the
collection.
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