#temple place

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Temple Place, London

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Cotton to Gold

Two Temple Place is a spectacular, magnificent and eccentric neo-Gothic mansion on London’s Victoria Embankment originally created as the London headquarters for the American-born millionaire Lord Astor. For the past four years they have been showcasing publicly-owned museum and art gallery collections from outside of London.

'Cotton to Gold - Extraordinary Collections of the Industrial North West' is a stunning collection held by the museums of Lancashire: Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, Haworth Art Gallery in Accrington and Towneley Hall in Burnley showcasing the riches gathered by the great collector-philanthropists of the booming industrial North West.

THIS IS A MUST-SEE exhibition, held in a MUST-SEE, beautiful building.

Rare Roman coins, medieval manuscripts, Turner watercolours, Tiffany glass, Japanese prints, a Peruvian mummy, preserved beetles and even a working Lancashire loom.  Plus so much more.

Some of the photos I took:

Extraordinary beetle collection

Print by Edwin Landseer.  He also designed the four sculpted lions at the base of Nelson's column

J W T Turner

Japanese prints including the artists Hiroshige and Hokusai

Alexander The Great

H M Brock 1906

Life drawings by John Everett Millais

Tiffany glass from the Briggs Collection

Lancashire loom manufactured by Pemberton and Co Burnley 1894

Please see my short video of 2 Temple Place below:

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Man in a hurry on Temple Place.