Knowledge: exhibition
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- Art Galleries and Museums
http://www.greatbuildings.com/types/types/gallery.html - Information on the architect, location, date, construction system, context and style of a world selection from Great Buildings Online.
- The Crystal Palace
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/london/model/ - Computer models of this Victorian marvel designed by Joseph Paxton from the University of Virginia, with an illustrated account of its history and construction.
- Exhibition and Exposition
http://www.greatbuildings.com/types/types/exhibition.html - Great Buildings Online provides images and information on a selection of buildings in Europe, North American and Japan designed for exhibition purposes.
- ArchitectureWeek: Foster and Partners Roof the Great Court
http://www.architectureweek.com/2001/0214/design_1-1.html - Don Barker explains the history of the great neoclassical British Museum designed by Robert Smirke in the context of the new steel and glass roof.
- The Crystal Palace Foundation
http://www.crystalpalacefoundation.org.uk/ - Group dedicated to preserving the history of the Crystal Palace, who have created a museum on the site. Includes images and a history of the building after the Great Exhibition closed in October 1851.
- Kunsthaus Graz
http://www.kunsthausgraz.at - An extraordinary exhibition hall in Austria designed by London architects Peter Cook and Colin Fournier. Includes images and description of the "friendly alien" design.
- The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
http://www.imj.org.il/eng/shrine/building.html - The Shrine of the Book, erected in 1965 for the preservation and exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Brief illustrated history of this remarkable building designed by American-Jewish architects A.Bartos and F. Kiesler.
- The Natural History Museum: History and Architecture
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/history-architecture/ - An illustrated outline from the official site of the remarkable Victorian buildings in South Kensington, designed by Waterhouse and decorated with carvings of animals and plants.
- The British Museum: History
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/the_museum/history/general_history.aspx - The official site gives a history and an historic image of the buildings at its core designed by Sir Robert and Sidney Smirke and erected between the 1820s and 1850s.
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