- Albertopolis
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- Museum Mile
Museum Mile may refer to Museum Mile, New York City Albertopolis , also known as Museum Mile, in South Kensington, London disambig de Museum Mile ... more details
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- Exhibition Road
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- Cromwell Gardens
Image vicandal sm.jpg thumb left The main entrance of the Victoria and Albert Museum on Cromwell Gardens. Image cromwell road.jpg thumb right Cromwell Gardens, opposite the Victoria and Albert Museum, looking west. Cromwell Gardens is a short but major road in South Kensington , within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea , London , England . It joins the Cromwell Road at the junction with Exhibition Road to the west with the Brompton Road to the east. To the north, the main facade and entrance of the Victoria and Albert Museum is a dominant feature. To the south, on the corner with Exhibition Road, is the Ismaili Centre , a religious, social, and cultural meeting place for the UK Ismaili community. To the north at the junction with Brompton Road is the Brompton Oratory . The road forms part of the major A4 road Great Britain A4 trunk road into central London. Immediately to the south are Thurloe Place and Thurloe Square . The nearest tube station is South Kensington tube station South Kensington . br clear all See also Albertopolis Albertopolis Museum Mile External links http www.londontown.com LondonStreets cromwell gardens 9a2.html LondonTown.com information coord 51 29 46 N 0 10 17 W region GB type landmark display title Category Streets in Kensington and Chelsea Category Museum places Category Victoria and Albert Museum London road stub ... more details
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- Kensington Gore
coord 51 30 5.6 N 0 10 45.4 W region GB type landmark display title Kensington Gore is a street in central London , England , the same name having been formerly used for the piece of land on which it stands. It runs along the south side of Hyde Park, London Hyde Park , continuing as Kensington Road to both the east and west. A Gore road gore is a narrow, triangular piece of land. The road is part of the A315 road . The nearest tube station is South Kensington tube station South Kensington to the south. History Kensington Gore is the location of the Royal Albert Hall built on the site of Gore House , Royal College of Art , the Royal Geographical Society and in Kensington Gardens the Albert Memorial . Gore House, with its three acre 12,000 m estate, was the residence of William Wilberforce between 1808 and 1821, and was occupied by the Countess of Blessington and the Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count D Orsay Count D Orsay from 1836 to 1849. In May 1851, the house was opened as a restaurant by the chef Alexis Soyer , who planned to cater for the Great Exhibition of 1851. After the exhibition and following the advice of Prince Albert, Gore House and its land were bought by the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 to create the cultural quarter known as Albertopolis . ref cite web url http www.architecture.com LibraryDrawingsAndPhotographs Albertopolis ExploringSouthKensington SouthKensingtonFromAbove 1856 1862.aspx work Albertopolis title South Kensington From Above 1856 1862 publisher Royal Institute of British Architects accessdate 17 December 2010 ref Image The east end of Kingston Gore Knightsbridge London.JPG thumb left The east end of Kensington Gore from Prince Consort Road Gore Hotel Primary sources section date September 2009 After the Great Exhibition it was then rebuilt as a hotel, The Gore Hotel, and opened in 1892 by two sisters, Miss Ada and Ms Cooke, who were descendants of Captain Cooke . Today The Gore is a 50 bedroom luxury hotel. It has been feat ... more details
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- Lowther Lodge
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- Commonwealth Institute
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- Queen's Tower, London
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- Royal College of Science
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- Cromwell Road
Unreferenced date December 2009 Image CromwellRoadSign.jpg thumb left Image cromwell road 2.jpg thumb right Looking west down Cromwell Road from Cromwell Gardens . Cromwell Road is a major road in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea , London , and is designated part of the A4 road Great Britain A4 . It was created in the 19th century and is named after Oliver Cromwell . It starts as West Cromwell Road near West Kensington tube station , continuing eastwards from Talgarth Road . It becomes Cromwell Road proper as it crosses Earl s Court Road . It travels through South Kensington , just south of Cromwell Hospital , then past Gloucester Road, London Gloucester Road and Gloucester Road tube station . The next major crossroads comes at the intersection with Queen s Gate , on the corner of which stands Baden Powell House , the former headquarters of The Scout Association . The road then passes to the south of a museum academic complex informally known as Albertopolis , including the Natural History Museum , the Science Museum London Science Museum , Imperial College London and the Victoria and Albert Museum , near South Kensington tube station . Near this complex, at the junction with Exhibition Road , it becomes Cromwell Gardens for a short stretch before it joins Brompton Road . Another note worthy building is the Embassy of Yemen in London at 57 Cromwell Street, opposite the Natural History Museum . See also List of eponymous roads in London Coord 51.495 N 0.1832 W type landmark region GB display title format dms Category Streets in Kensington and Chelsea Category Museum places Category Natural History Museum no Cromwell Road ... more details
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- Royal School of Mines
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- London IMAX
Image London IMAX cinema 2.jpg thumb The London IMAX Image BFI London IMAX at night.jpg thumb Aerial view at night The London IMAX is an IMAX cinema in the South Bank district of London , England , just north of Waterloo Station . It is operated by the British Film Institute . The cinema is located in the centre of a roundabout on Waterloo Road, London Waterloo Road . Stamford Street is to the north east, York Road, Lambeth York Road is to the south west and Waterloo Bridge is to the north west. The London IMAX was designed by Bryan Avery of Avery Associates Architects ref cite web url http www.avery architects.co.uk imax.html title Avery Associates project description ref and completed in May 1999. The screen is the largest in Britain 20m high and 26m wide . It has a seating capacity of just under 500 and a 12,000 Watt digital surround sound system. Although the site is surrounded by traffic and has an London Underground underground line just four metres below, the architects and engineers accounted for this in their design and the entire upper structure sits on anti vibration bearings to prevent noise transference. The cinema won several awards at the time of opening, including a Design Council Millennium Products Award ref cite web url http www.designcouncil.org.uk about us Who we area and what we do Our History Millennium Products title Design Council website ref in 1999 and a Civic Trust Award ref cite web url http www.civictrust.org.uk awards 2000 award.shtml title Civic Trust Awards website ref in 2000. Other IMAX in London London has another traditional IMAX cinema at the Science Museum London Science Museum in South Kensington Albertopolis and in December 2008 gained IMAX digital cinemas at Odeon Cinemas Odeon cinemas in Greenwich and Wimbledon, London Wimbledon . In 2011 an IMAX screen was also opened at the Odeon Cinemas Odeon in Swiss Cottage . The BFI IMAX is still the biggest cinema screen in Britain it is 540m the Science Museum IMAX is 408m , while t ... more details
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- Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851
Image GtExhib1851.jpg thumb 280px The Great Exhibition Joseph Paxton Paxton s Crystal Palace enclosed full grown trees in Hyde Park. Image Crystal Palace from the northeast from Dickinson s Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851. 1854.jpg thumb left 300px The 1851 Great Exhibition in Hyde Park Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 is an institution founded in 1850 to administer the international exhibition of 1851, officially called the Great Exhibition Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations , held in The Crystal Palace in London , England . The enormous building was designed by Joseph Paxton and construction supervised by William Cubitt using a cast iron space frame for the glass panes, with wooden beams for flooring. The founding President of the Commission was Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha and its chief administrator was Henry Cole . The exhibition was a great popular and financial success, and made a surplus of 186,000. An unusual decision was made to maintain the Royal Commission as a permanent administrative body to use the profits for charitable purposes. Its revised Charter charged the Commission with increasing the means of industrial education and extending the influence of science and art upon productive industry . South Kensington The Commissioners bought convert 86 acre m2 of land in South Kensington that was developed as a centre of educational and cultural institutions, often known as Albertopolis . These include Imperial College, London Imperial College Natural History Museum Royal Albert Hall Royal College of Art Royal College of Music Science Museum London Science Museum Victoria and Albert Museum Since 1891 the role of the Commission has been to provide postgraduate scholarships for students to study in Britain and abroad, and former scholars include 12 Nobel Prize laureates. The Commission currently has capital assets of over 60 million, with an annual charitable disbursement of over 2 million. Fur ... more details
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- Henry Cole
, known half jokingly as Albertopolis . Henry Cole was appointed the first General Superintendent of the Department ... Cole Wing of the V&A. ref cite web title Albertopolis Henry Cole Wing publisher Royal Institute of British Architects url http www.architecture.com LibraryDrawingsAndPhotographs Albertopolis TheStoryOf ... more details
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- Wellcome Collection
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- South Kensington
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- The Great Exhibition
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- 1862 International Exhibition
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- V&A Museum of Childhood
infobox Museum name V&A Museum of Childhood image V&A Museum of Childhood.jpg pushpin map United Kingdom Greater London map type London latitude 51.528889 longitude 0.055 coordinates type type landmark region GB established Founded 1872 collection area convert 1.5 acre m2 , 145 galleries location Bethnal Green , London visitors director Rhian Harris publictransit Bethnal Green tube station Bethnal Green File Central roundel1.PNG 10px website http www.vam.ac.uk moc www.vam.ac.uk moc The V&A Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green in the East End of London is a branch of the Victoria and Albert Museum the V&A , which is the United Kingdom s national museum of applied arts. History File Opening of the Bethnal Green Museum 1872 ILN.jpg thumb left The official opening of the Bethnal Green Museum by the Edward VII of the United Kingdom Prince of Wales in 1872. The museum was founded in 1872 as the Bethnal Green Museum . The iron structure reused a prefabricated building from Albertopolis which was replaced with some early sections of the modern V&A complex. The exterior of the building was designed by James William Wild in red brick in a Rundbogenstil round arched style very similar to that in contemporary Germany. The building was used to display a variety of collections at different times, including the works which can now be seen at the Wallace Collection . In the 1920s, it began to focus on services for children, and in 1974 the director of the V&A, Roy Strong Sir Roy Strong , defined it as a specialist museum of childhood. Of all the branches, the Bethnal Green Museum has the largest collection of childhood objects in the United Kingdom. The mission of the museum is To enable everyone, especially the young, to explore and enjoy the designed world, in particular objects made for and made by children. It has extensive collections of toys, childhood equipment and costumes, and stages a programme of temporary exhibitions. The museum closed in October 2005 for the second pha ... more details
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- Foster and Partners
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- Science Museum (London)
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- Albert Memorial
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- Royal College of Music
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- Royal College of Art
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- Imperial College Business School
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