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| | Art Galleries and Museums |
| | Information on the architect, location, date, construction system, context and style of a world selection from Great Buildings Online.
http://www.greatbuildings.com/types/types/gallery.html - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | The British Museum: History |
| | 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.
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/the_museum/history/general_history.aspx - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | The Crystal Palace |
| | Computer models of this Victorian marvel designed by Joseph Paxton from the University of Virginia, with an illustrated account of its history and construction.
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/london/model/ - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | The Crystal Palace Foundation |
| | 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.
http://www.crystalpalacefoundation.org.uk/ - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | Exhibition and Exposition |
| | Great Buildings Online provides images and information on a selection of buildings in Europe, North American and Japan designed for exhibition purposes.
http://www.greatbuildings.com/types/types/exhibition.html - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | The Israel Museum, Jerusalem |
| | 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.
http://www.imj.org.il/eng/shrine/building.html - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | Kunsthaus Graz |
| | An extraordinary exhibition hall in Austria designed by London architects Peter Cook and Colin Fournier. Includes images and description of the "friendly alien" design.
http://www.kunsthausgraz.at - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | The Natural History Museum: History and 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.
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/history-architecture/ - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | ArchitectureWeek: Foster and Partners Roof the Great Court |
| | 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. (February 14, 2001)
http://www.architectureweek.com/2001/0214/design_1-1.html - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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