Brief tour - Buddy the Lion / art collection - Paisley Museum - International Museum Day
Buddy the Lion is one of the most loved pieces in Paisley Museum so we thought it was fitting to have him first in this quick tour video. We also check out the art gallery. It's all part of our look at the museum for International Museum Day. We think the museum is a great part of Paisley's heritage and is part of our UK City of Culture 2021 bid.
Paisley Museum's collections have been described as internationally-significant by experts - pop in to High Street, Paisley, PA1 2BA to see for yourself or visit renfrewshireleisure.com/paisleymuseum to find out more.
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Brief tour - art collection - Paisley Museum - International Museum Day
On International Museum Day we popped up to Paisley Museum and took a quick tour of the art collections on display. We think the museum is a great part of Paisley's heritage and is part of our UK City of Culture 2021 bid.
Paisley Museum's collections have been described as internationally-significant by experts - pop in to High Street, Paisley, PA1 2BA to see for yourself or visit renfrewshireleisure.com/paisleymuseum to find out more.
You can find out more about Paisley's bid to be UK City of Culture 2021 at:
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Paisley (design)
Paisley or Paisley pattern is a term in English for a design using the boteh or buta, a droplet-shaped vegetable motif of Persian origin. Such designs became very popular in the West in the 18th and 19th centuries, following imports of post-Mughal versions of the design from British India, especially in the form of Kashmir shawls, and were then imitated locally. The pattern is sometimes called Persian pickles by American traditionalists, especially quilt-makers, or Welsh pears in Welsh textiles as far back as 1888.
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Paisley Park may become a tourist attraction
(11 Jun 2016) PAISLEY PARK MAY BECOME TOURIST ATTRACTION
Long before Prince died, he told close friends he wanted to turn his Paisley Park home and studio complex into a museum. Now, the trust company overseeing his estate - likely with the backing of Prince's siblings - is exploring the idea to open it up as a tourist attraction that some have compared with Elvis Presley's Graceland.
Paisley Park, in the Minneapolis suburb of Chanhassen, already has a large soundstage, two recording studios and the inner sanctum where he lived - the basics for operating as a museum, performance space and recording venue. Since no will has surfaced since Prince's April 21 death of an accidental fentanyl overdose, the final decision will be up to whoever the courts determine will inherit the estate.
Bremer Trust, the special administrator of Prince's estate, received permission from a Carver County judge Wednesday to hire entertainment industry experts to help determine how best to make money off Prince's intellectual property.
Details are contained in an affidavit by Bremer Trust President Craig Ordal, which is now sealed due to confidential business information and the sensitive nature of negotiations. But a filing by an attorney for Carlin Williams, a Colorado prison inmate who claims to be Prince's son, said the affidavit shows that Bremer's plans include hiring experts on how to manage public tours of the grounds, facilities and buildings located at Paisley Park.
Prince hosted numerous parties and gatherings - some seemingly impromptu - at Paisley Park for years before his death. Shortly after it, his brother-in-law, Maurice Phillips, told the British tabloid The Sun that the family planned to turn it into a shrine to rival Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee. Longtime Prince collaborator Sheila E told Entertainment Tonight that Prince was already working on making it a museum, gathering memorabilia from his career, including his motorcycle from Purple Rain.
And Jeremiah Freed, aka Dr. Funk and Dr. Funkenberry, a longtime fan and friend of Prince who hosts a podcast and website, said the pop superstar's ideas kept evolving, including ways for fans to hear and see his vast archive of unreleased music and videos, so that it'd be a different experience each time.
Prince had the kind of stature that should generate fan interest for many years, said Meredith Rutledge-Borger, associate curator at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, comparing him with Michael Jackson and John Lennon.
It's a wonderful, wonderful ambition, she said. It's going to be a lot of work. But they're ahead of the game because they've got the stuff ... he kept the majority of everything very much to himself.
And she also expressed hope that the complex would continue Prince's philanthropic work by serving as a music education center for young people.
Prince's 1985 song Paisley Park spoke of a place where admission is easy ... come 2 this place in your heart. Any museum needs multiple revenue streams besides ticket sales, said Allan Hammons, who was instrumental in developing both the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center in Mississippi and the new GRAMMY Museum Mississippi. Such sources can include retail sales and space rentals for meetings and events. It also helps to stage new temporary exhibitions to bring people back, he said.
You have to be creative, there's no doubt about that, Hammons said. And you have to work at it constantly.
One advantage that Graceland and the B.B. King Museum have is that the artists are buried on site, so visitors can pay their respects, he said. Prince's relatives haven't said what they've done or intend to do with his cremated remains.
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Prince legacy lives on in London exhibition
Iconic items from Prince's Paisley Park collection go on show at London's 02 Arena. (Oct. 26)
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Glasgow's Peoples Palace and Winter Garden
The People's Palace and Winter Gardens in Glasgow, Scotland is a museum and glasshouse situated in Glasgow Green, and was opened on 22 January 1898 by the Earl of Rosebery.
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Perth 2021 UK City of Culture Bid
A promotional video filmed and produced by Airborne Lens for Perth and Kinross Council to support their bid to become UK City of Culture 2021.
Thanks to local community groups and cultural attractions for their support: Pitlochry Theatre, Birnam Arts Centre, Scone Palace, Perth Museum, Horsecross Arts, Ad-Lib Theatre Arts, Perth City Operatic Group, and the bands at Southern Fried. #PerthIsThePlace
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LBGTQ Tour of the V & A Museum
LBGTQ Tour of the V & A Museum
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'Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll' exhibit set to launch at New York's 'Met' Museum
It's only 'Rock and Roll,' but one of the world's preeminent museums likes it; New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art will display instruments from Chuck Berry, The Rolling Stones, Kurt Cobain, Lady Gaga and more until October 1.
Introducing The Portland Collection
The Harley Gallery is building a new gallery to show The Portland Collection, the historic art collection from the Welbeck Estate. This short film explains why this Collection is so special, and introduces the new gallery building.
Marble Statues: National Portrait Gallery
Marble Statues at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Enjoy your day.
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Glasgow's great exhibition 1901. Then and now.
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The Glasgow International exhibition was held to celebrate the opening of Kelvingrove art galleries with countries from around the world building their own pavillions and attractions in Kelvingrove park.
I have matched each scene as closely as possible and the only buildings left from the exhibition is the art gallery and Kelvin hall with most of the others being temporary structures.
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The Art Factory Exhibit Teaser
This is the teaser for 'The Art Factory Exhibit' that will be happening on Saturday September 14th, 2013
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The 21st century Museum: A place where cultures meet? - Forum on European Culture 2018
How can museums build bridges both within and beyond societies? Museums over the world struggle to become more culturally diverse ranging from their visitors, programmes and exhibitions, to the management teams of museums and cultural organizations. How do museum professionals deal with this struggle? And how can museums – in Europe and the Arab world – build bridges both within and beyond societies?
An interesting example is The Louvre Abu Dhabi, which opened its doors for the first time at the end of 2017. The museum aimed at being a true ‘universal museum’ – a term that refers to famous museums with collections of art and cultural items from around the world. This is not a unique phenomenon. Western museums are increasingly looking to branch out to the Middle East. At the same time we also see an increasing interest in exhibitions with art from the Arab world in Europe, for example if we look at the Institute du monde arabe in Paris. Can we speak of an equal cultural exchange between Europe and the Arab world, which creates a greater mutual understanding between both parts of the world?
We will investigate these developments during a true cultural exchange, with cultural professionals both from Europe and the Arab World. Participants are amongst others:
Wim Pijbes – Emeritus General Director of the Rijksmuseum
Reem Fadda – Independent curator, based in Ramallah
Salama Al Shamsi – Senior Project Manager at Zayed National Museum at Department of Culture and Tourism
Hissa Al Dhaheri – Deputy Director, Louvre Abu Dhabi
Achim Borchardt-Hume – Director of Exhibitions at Tate Modern
Moderated by: Lennart Booij
This programme is a part of the second edition of the Forum on European Culture: “Act for Democracy!”. At a time when the future of Europe is more uncertain than ever before, we bring together leading and inspiring artists, thinkers, economists and politicians during a 4-day interdisciplinary programme to discuss Europe and its future.
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From Kashmir to Paisley: Excerpts from a Textile’s Journey
Presented by BFA Visual & Critical Studies, this talk with curator Melinda Watt will trace the movement of the paisley motif across the Eurasian continent and through the 19th century, using designs and textiles preserved in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Watt has been inspired by the museum's collections as well as the students, scholars and artists who visit the Met's Antonio Ratti Textile Center, and she will discuss paisley-patterned textiles from elaborate shawls to the modest printed cottons.
V&A museum unveils new $70 million expansion
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London's Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum is unveiling a new 54 million British pound (approx. $70 million USD) expansion, bringing it closer to the nearby Natural History Museum and Science Museum.
It includes what's claimed to be the world's first all-porcelain public courtyard and a sprawling 1,100 square-metre gallery space.
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London's Victoria and Albert Museum is unveiling its new Exhibition Road Quarter, a 54 million British pound expansion that brings it face-to-face with the city's Natural History Museum and Science Museum.
It's the V&A's largest architectural intervention in the last 100 years and creates 6,400 square metres of new space for the museum in London's South Kensington district.
Its centrepiece is this Sackler Courtyard, an open, public space that's accessible through the remaining arches of a 19th century screen designed by Sir Aston Webb.
Part of the screen, an integral part of the museum's original structure, has been painstakingly removed and put into storage, making the courtyard a bright, open space for visitors, tourists and art lovers.
It's very important that part of the role of the museum in the 20th century is to engage in contemporary life and the design of this courtyard makes that very explicit, says architect Amanda Levete.
You also see the V&A in a much more heightened relationship to the other two museums on Exhibition Road - the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum - so they now really read as an ensemble, which is how they were originally designed to be.
What sets this sprawling public space apart is the material it was constructed with.
The Sackler Courtyard is claimed to be the world's first all-porcelain public courtyard, it's inspired by the rich tradition of ceramic at the V&A.
It's paved with 11,000 handmade porcelain tiles in 15 different patterns. The cafe and shop roof use a further 4,300 handmade tiles.
Porcelain is one of the hardest materials, says Levete.
It's harder than granite, but we have a preconception of porcelain as a very kind of fragile material in chinaware, but actually it's very strong.
And then we've introduced colour into the tiles, by putting a grove, so we can lay glossy glaze, but your foot never touches that, so it's doesn't present a slip risk.
We made life very difficult for ourselves by really pushing the limits of porcelain, but the reason we wanted to use it is because of the base clay is such a beautiful colour, it's this pale-ish, white-ish, blue-ish grey and it tones perfectly with the portland stone of the existing fabric.
But the new Exhibition Road Quarter doesn't stop here.
It also includes the new Blavatnik Hall, a new entrance to the museum, and this cavernous underground exhibition space, named the Sainsbury Gallery.
Stretching 1,100 square metres - the equivalent of five-and-a-half tennis courts - the column-free gallery is intended to host a programme of temporary exhibitions.
For now, there's the gallery's Oculus skylight and an immersive audio work by Liam Byrne, one of the V&A's 2015 Artists in Residence, named 'Partials.'
Byrne, a viol player, deconstructed the sound of his instrument one note at a time.
Former Labour MP Tristram Hunt was only appointed the V&A's new director in January. Work on this expansion has been going for the last six years.
Before we did this, it was a kind of collection of old boiler rooms, and workshops, and sort of old loos, and it was a dead space at the heart of the museum, he says.
And what we wanted to do was create a fantastic new exhibition space, but also a public space, a living room for London which kind of merged the road with the museum.
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House of Stuart
The House of Stewart (latterly gallicised to Stuart), is a European royal house. Founded by Robert II of Scotland, the Stewarts first became monarchs of the Kingdom of Scotland during the late 14th century, and subsequently held the position of the Kings of England, Ireland, and Great Britain. Their patrilineal ancestors (from Brittany) had held the office of High Steward of Scotland since the 12th century, after arriving by way of Norman England. The dynasty inherited further territory by the 17th century which covered the entire British Isles, including the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Ireland, also maintaining a claim to the Kingdom of France.
In total, nine Stewart monarchs ruled just Scotland from 1371 until 1603. After this there was a Union of the Crowns under James VI & I who had become the senior genealogical claimant to The Crown holdings of the extinct House of Tudor. Thus there were six Stewart monarchs who ruled both England and Scotland as well as Ireland (although the later Stuart era was interrupted by an interregnum lasting from 1649 to 1660, as a result of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms). Additionally, at the foundation of the Kingdom of Great Britain after the Acts of Union, which officially united England and Scotland politically, the first monarch was Anne, Queen of Great Britain. After her death, the kingdoms passed to the House of Hanover, under the terms of the Act of Settlement 1701 and the Act of Security 1704, which deprived the Catholic legitimist line of the Stewarts of the right to mount the throne.
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James Acaster On The Absurdity Of The British Empire
The hilarious James Acaster takes centre stage with his stand up special about 'Old Blighty' and how we still showcase the property we stole from other countries in glass boxes in museums.
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SMA' SHOT DAY, Paisley, Renfrewshire - including the Johnstone Pipe Band - Scotland
Sma Shot Day celebrates the victory of Paisley’s weavers over the town’s mill owners in the 19th century. The owners refused to pay their staff for the Sma’ (small) Shot thread which was unseen but held together the famous Paisley-patterned cashmere shawls. A long fight and political battle ensued which the weavers eventually won and renamed the traditional July holiday Sma Shot Day.