Museum; The National Glass Centre
The National Glass Centre is a unique venue situated in Sunderland thats allows people to see how how glass works from all over the world are produced. It also lets them explore there own visual creative ideas with glass by allowing them to mould and sculpt pieces from themselves.The building is made from steel and glass the entire roof is created from glass allowing people to go up and look down ‘Not good if your scared of heights trust me!’The Centre provides local exhibitions and National exhibitions for the general... Read The Rest →
Museum; HMS Belfast
Although it is not on land the boat is still a facinating museum to look around, its just on water!! Being from a family where my Grandad served in the navy, on vesels similar to Belfast, during the war he always talked about them through my child hood and it became an interest to me to know about them and learn about them. HMS Belfast played its part during the second world war and helped in the destruction of Germanys biggest battlecruiser the Scharnhorst. It is amazing to see the... Read The Rest →
Museum; Guggenheim New York
I was lucky enough to visit this museum when I went to New York with 25 friends and our design teacher on an expedition to to view design, innovation, architecture and design within Manhattan. The building itself is a tribute to architecture and was created by Frank Loyd Wright. Quoted from the museum entrance “I need a fighter, a lover of space, an agitator, a tester and a wise man. . . . I want a temple of spirit, a monument!”—Hilla Rebay to Frank Lloyd Wright, 1943 The museum itself... Read The Rest →
