Famous Museums and Galleries In the UK and Kazakhstan

GB and Kazakhstan; to practice listening for specific information; to

teach pupils to work creatively and to express their opinions about museums and galleries; to revise Present and Past perfect continuous

keeping and exhibiting everything what has historical value. These may

be monuments, masterpieces of art, pictures, machines, scientific collections and so on. There are a lot museums in the world. They are different – historical museums of regional ethnography, art galleries, zoological, museums devoted to famous writers, poets, scientists, well – known people. Some of them are leading, others unknown. But all are interesting. The leading centers are Rome, Moscow, London, St. Petersburg, Paris, Greece. What can you see in museums? You can see manuscripts, first editions, historical documents, sculptures, drawings, paintings, photographs, own clothes and things of famous people and others».

masterpieces from Leonardo da Vinci’s 15th century to

Van Gogh’s of the 19th century

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to collect the portraits of famous British men and women.

paintings of British painters

do you know about Tate Gallery?

was a repository of books, art treasures, natural history specimens

covering different periods, countries.

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Victoria and Albert Museum

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Musical Instruments

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know that?
1.The British Museum’s collection of books

is the richest collection in the world: it has 13 million volumes.
2.The British Museum’s present home was built between 1823 and 1850 in the Greek style.
3. The famous English painter Gainsborough was fond of music and filled his house with all kinds of musical instruments, which he could play rather well.
4. The Geology Museum of the Academy of Science includes a shop selling jewelry, fragments of ancient rocks, precious and semi-precious stones.
5 A lot of works of art are bought by private collectors. This is a real disaster for museums and picture galleries which can not pay as much money as the private collectors. This may be reason why many works will be lost for the public forever if the owners do not decide to exhibit them.

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