https://padlet.com/vikenty_bumbu/la44bvk3uqkw Favorite links about leadership. en-us 2018-12-18 18:06:43 UTC 2025-04-08 17:42:08 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/File.png vikenty_bumbu https://padlet.com/vikenty_bumbu/la44bvk3uqkw/wish/315634116 On a smaller scale, the Gilbert Collection of silver, gold and gemmed ornaments arrived from Somerset House; the Ceramics Galleries have been renovated and supplemented with an eye-catching bridge; there’s lovely Buddhist sculpture in the Robert HN Ho Family Foundation Galleries; and the Theatre & Performance Galleries took over where Covent Garden’s defunct Theatre Museum left off.]]> 2018-12-18 18:06:43 UTC https://padlet.com/vikenty_bumbu/la44bvk3uqkw/wish/315634116 vikenty_bumbu https://padlet.com/vikenty_bumbu/la44bvk3uqkw/wish/315634117 Newer additions include the museum's 'Rapid Response Collection' features examples of contemporary design and architecture, particularly those that represent important events and current affairs.]]> 2018-12-18 18:06:43 UTC https://padlet.com/vikenty_bumbu/la44bvk3uqkw/wish/315634117 vikenty_bumbu https://padlet.com/vikenty_bumbu/la44bvk3uqkw/wish/315634118 The Fashion galleries run from eighteenth-century court dress right up to contemporary chiffon numbers; the Architecture gallery has videos, models, plans and descriptions of various styles; and the famous Photography collection holds over 500,000 images.]]> 2018-12-18 18:06:43 UTC https://padlet.com/vikenty_bumbu/la44bvk3uqkw/wish/315634118 vikenty_bumbu https://padlet.com/vikenty_bumbu/la44bvk3uqkw/wish/315634119  Items are grouped by theme, origin or age: for advice, tap the patient staff, who field a formidable combination of leaflets, floor plans, general knowledge and polite concern.]]> 2018-12-18 18:06:43 UTC https://padlet.com/vikenty_bumbu/la44bvk3uqkw/wish/315634119 vikenty_bumbu https://padlet.com/vikenty_bumbu/la44bvk3uqkw/wish/315634120 Some 150 grand galleries on seven floors contain countless pieces of furniture, ceramics, sculpture, paintings, posters, jewellery, metalwork, glass, textiles and dress, spanning several centuries. ]]> 2018-12-18 18:06:43 UTC https://padlet.com/vikenty_bumbu/la44bvk3uqkw/wish/315634120 vikenty_bumbu https://padlet.com/vikenty_bumbu/la44bvk3uqkw/wish/315634121  It is a superb showcase for applied arts from around the world, appreciably calmer than its tearaway cousins on the other side of Exhibition Road.]]> 2018-12-18 18:06:43 UTC https://padlet.com/vikenty_bumbu/la44bvk3uqkw/wish/315634121 vikenty_bumbu https://padlet.com/vikenty_bumbu/la44bvk3uqkw/wish/315634122 The V&A is one of the world’s – let alone London's – most magnificent museums, its foundation stone laid on this site by Queen Victoria in her last official public engagement in 1899.]]> 2018-12-18 18:06:43 UTC https://padlet.com/vikenty_bumbu/la44bvk3uqkw/wish/315634122 vikenty_bumbu https://padlet.com/vikenty_bumbu/la44bvk3uqkw/wish/315638783 Highlights include the seven Raphael Cartoons painted in 1515 as tapestry designs for the Sistine Chapel; the finest collection of Italian Renaissance sculpture outside Italy; the Ardabil carpet, the world’s oldest and arguably most splendid floor covering, in the Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art; and the Luck of Edenhall, a thirteenth-century glass beaker from Syria.]]> 2018-12-18 18:16:48 UTC https://padlet.com/vikenty_bumbu/la44bvk3uqkw/wish/315638783