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Albertopolis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Albertopolis is a nickname for the area in South Kensington, London, between Cromwell Road and Kensington Gore, which contains several educational and cultural sites, including The area was purchased by the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 with the profits made from the Great Exhibition of 1851, which was held in a site in Hyde Park nearby to the north-east. Prince Albert was a driving force behind the Great Exhibition and President of the Royal Commission, and the name "Albertopolis" was coined to commemorate and somewhat satirise his role in Victorian cultural life. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Albertopolis   (195 words)

Spotlight on Nation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) The Mequeadora macana of Albertopolis is a massive, economically powerful nation, notable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, hard-working population of 1.291 billion are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails. Albertopolis is ranked 4th in the region and 24,763rd in the world for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector. www.nationstates.net /cgi-bin/index.cgi/-1/page=display_nation/nation=albertopolis   (206 words)

Royal Albert Hall - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) The Royal Albert Hall of Arts and Sciences is an arts venue dedicated to Queen Victoria's husband and consort, Prince Albert. It is situated in South Kensington in central London - within the area also known as Albertopolis. It forms the practical part of a national memorial to the Prince Consort - the decorative part is the Albert Memorial directly to the north in Kensington Gardens, now separated from the Hall by the heavy traffic along Kensington Gore. www.open-encyclopedia.com /Royal_Albert_Hall   (769 words)

EZGeography - Great Exhibition The building was later moved and reerected in an enlarged form at Sydenham in south London, an area that was renamed Crystal Palace. The Great Exhibition made a surplus of £186,000 which was used to found the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Science Museum and the Natural History Museum which were all built in the area to the south of the exhibition, nicknamed "Albertopolis", alongside the Imperial Institute. Some conservatives feared that the mass of visitors might become a revolutionary mob, while radicals such as Karl Marx saw the exhibition as an emblem of the capitalist fetishism of commodities. www.ezgeography.com /encyclopedia/Great_Exhibition   (404 words)

Albertopolis - the wisdom of Prince Albert Albertopolis or South Kensington as it is hnow know is or was home to: The Commissioners of the Great Exhibition are still sitting today and have made possible one of the greatest concentrations of arts and science institutions in the world. The area was once nicknamed Albertopolis and Albert insisted that projects using the land should be useful to the public and provide educational access to the masses. www.chr.org.uk /Museums/albertopolis2.htm   (758 words)

Guardian | Dreams of Albertopolis revived in museum plan But the three museums, along with three colleges and a concert hall, occupy a 100 acres landscape seen by Queen Victoria's consort, Prince Albert, as the legacy of the Great Exhibition of 1851. Museum chiefs still call the area Albertopolis, and want to revive Albert's original dream of the area as a festival of learning and culture. Dr Sharp has just unveiled a strategy that is intended to reshape the role of the museum and revive Albertopolis. www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4315884-103690,00.html   (558 words)

Encyclopedia: Royal Albert Hall Albertopolis is a nickname for the area in South Kensington, London, between Cromwell Road and Kensington Gore, which contains several educational and cultural sites, including Imperial College Natural History Museum Royal Albert Hall Royal College of Art Royal College of Music Royal College of Organists Royal Geographical Society Science Museum... A prince consort, generally speaking, is the husband of a Queen regnant, unless he himself is a king. Jump to: navigation, search The Albert Memorial is situated in Kensington Gardens, London, England, directly to the north of the Royal Albert Hall. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Royal-Albert-Hall   (2961 words)

The New British Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum in The AnswerBank: Arts & Literature The present building - part of the so-called Albertopolis - was designed by Sir Aston Webb and was begun in 1899, at which time the museum was given its present name by Queen Victoria. The institutions within Albertopolis include the V & A, the Science Museum, the Natural History Museum, the Royal College of Art, the Royal College of Music, Imperial College, the Royal Albert Hall and, just over the road from the latter, the newly restored Albert memorial. The term Albertopolis first appeared in the 1850s, but it has had to vie with Coleville - after Sir Henry Cole, who implemented much of Albert's plan and who became the first director of the V & A - so it's gone in and out of fashion. www.theanswerbank.co.uk /Article2354.html   (613 words)

Imperial College London The main campus of the college is situated near the Albert Hall on the boundary of the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The area is dense with institutions of learning: the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal College of Music and the Royal College of Art are all nearby (see Albertopolis). There are two other major campuses - at Silwood Park (near Ascot in Berkshire) and at Wye (near Ashford in Kent). www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/i/im/imperial_college_london.html   (537 words)

Albert Memorial - Review - Albertopolis! The Albert Hall and the directly across the road, the centrepiece of all: The Albert Memorial, sometimes irreverently nicknamed the Albertopolis. For my mum’s essay we couldn’t have picked a better place to visit as the Albertopolis is a typical piece of Victoriana. Location-wise, the Albertopolis is situated in a pleasant area of Kensington Gardens, near the entrance. www.dooyoo.co.uk /sightseeing-national/albert-memorial/226723   (459 words)

New Statesman: Buildings stand mausoleum-like, four-square and heavy. "Albertopolis" is soberness made marble - Albert ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) "Albertopolis" is soberness made marble - Albert Memorial in Hyde Park, London, England - Column From the Natural History Museum and the V&A, right through to the Memorial, you are in "Albertopolis". Albertopolis is his great achievement (far greater than anything Prince Charles looks like notching up). www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_n4399_v127/ai_21108837   (871 words)

Encyclopedia: Albertopolis The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster which contains Big Ben Tower Bridge at night A red double-decker bus crosses Piccadilly Circus. Hyde Park is one of the largest parks in central London, England, and one of the Royal Parks of London. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (Francis Charles Augustus Albert Emmanuel, of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha branch of the House of Wettin) (26 August 1819 - 14 December 1861) was the husband and consort of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Albertopolis   (924 words)

Geological Society - News - BA to open in ecumenical spirit The Steering Group for the event was chaired by Geological Society President, Lord Oxburgh. Mr Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, describes the event as "the greatest celebration of creativity that this part of London has seen since the Great Exhibition of 1851". Albertopolis was, of course, built from the proceeds of that exhibition, as those prommers who read the inscription that encircles the Albert Hall will know. www.geolsoc.org.uk /template.cfm?name=Batest   (253 words)

Albertopolis - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Albertopolis is a nickname for an area in South Kensington, London, between Cromwell Road and Kensington Gore, which contains several educational and cultural sites, including Close scrutiny of a map of the area reveals that there is a central axis between the Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens to the north, and the central portal of south facade of the Natural History Museum. This page was last modified 12:41, 10 Apr 2005. www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Albertopolis   (226 words)

Cities of Science - London - Celebrating science, technology and art Some of the money was used to buy the land which is now occupied by the Albert Hall, the Royal College of Music, Imperial College of Science and Technology and the three South Kensington Museums. This area is sometimes called Albertopolis because of the leading role of Prince Albert in the whole project The first museum in Albertopolis was established in 1852 as the Museum of Manufactures. www.citiesofscience.co.uk /go/London/ContentPlace_1829.html   (316 words)

Albertopolis - Natural History Museum Prince Albert, Queen Victoria’s husband, championed the area around South Kensington as a centre for science, technology and the arts, and from around 1851 a complex of museums, colleges and concert halls developed here. His involvement was so influential that the area, which can be seen clearly from the left hand side of the Minerals Gallery, became known as Albertopolis. The green dome of the Imperial Institute tower - now part of Imperial College - and those of the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum, Imperial College and the dome of the Royal Albert Hall are all in line. www.nhm.ac.uk /visit-us/history-architecture/architecture-tour/minerals-gallery/albertopolis/index.html   (144 words)

Lectures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) The Great Exhibition ran from May to October 1851 and in that time the 100,000 exhibits were seen by over six million people who came to celebrate Britain's industrial ascendancy and a renewed confidence in the possibilities of peaceful social progress. Financially, the Exhibition was a greater success than anyone dared hope, and the profit was invested in the advancement of education in art, industry and science at a new "Albertopolis" in London - containing eventually the South Kensington museums, the Albert Hall, Royal College of Music and Imperial College of Science and Technology. This volume provides an accessible history of the way the Exhibition was organized and took place. www.kingston.ac.uk /cusp/Publications/davisbook.htm   (306 words)

IC Reporter Special - The Queen's visit After a welcoming speech by the rector, in which he paid tribute to Prince Albert’s far-sighted vision for Albertopolis, The Queen unveiled a commemorative plaque and the new Charter. Sir Denis Rooke, chairman of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 - IC landlords - replied on behalf of the guests, saying: “Albertopolis is organic, with in-built life and vitality, and this Sir Alexander Fleming Building is the latest manifestation of that vitality.” Her Majesty The Queen unveils the new College Charter and the commemorative plaque on Level 6 of the Sir Alexander Fleming Building. www.ic.ac.uk /publications/reporterarchive/queen   (713 words)

Telegraph | News Pokey departments have been replaced, irritating changes in level eliminated and, most dramatically of all, the original two-storey atrium carried through all six floors. From the new top-floor restaurant, the great glass wall presents breathtaking and unexpected views of the romantic Victorian towers of Albertopolis - the Victoria and Albert and Natural History Museums and Imperial College. Escalators, which were inaccessible and underused, have been moved into the centre of the building, rising through the atrium in a zigzag of crisp, dramatic lines. news.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/05/22/npj122.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/05/22/ixhome.html   (577 words)

National Museum of Childhood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) The National Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green in the East End of London is a branch of the Victoria and Albert Museum (the "VandA"), which is the United Kingdom's national museum of applied arts. The museum was founded in 1872 as the "Bethnal Green Museum", reusing a prefabricated building from Albertopolis which was replaced with some early sections of the modern VandA complex. It was used to display a variery of collections at different times, including the works which can now be seen at the Wallace Collection. www.voyager.in /Museum_of_Childhood   (510 words)

PBS : Empires : Queen Victoria : The Changing Empire : Great Exhibition The Prince's plan was to use some of the funds to purchase eighty-seven acres in South Kensington to continue the technological and educational goals of the Great Exhibition. Sceptics would label the idea "Albertopolis," but the cultural and scientific institutions initiated by Albert's foresight would materialize into a great complex of museums, colleges, and concert halls that would keep the then-widowed Victoria busy at dedications for decades. The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 operates, still -- now under the presidency of another queen's husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. www.pbs.org /empires/victoria/empire/great.html   (1301 words)

H-Net Review: Geoffrey Tyack on The Great Exhibition of 1851: A Nation on Display Yet the optimistic, rationalistic and enquiring spirit of the Exhibition still lives on in the South Kensington estate bought by the Commissioners out of its profits, and subsequently laid out with educational and cultural buildings including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Natural History Museum, the Albert Hall and many more. Though somewhat perfunctorily treated here, South Kensington or Albertopolis was surely the most valuable of the Exhibition's gifts to posterity. Reference to the cultural legacy of 1851 cannot help but provoke comparisons with later exhibitions in which the British have endeavoured to define themselves to each other and to the world at large. www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=15801965243952   (1125 words)

Weird Words: Albertopolis In 1852 eighty acres of farmland were bought by the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition (who still exist), but most of the scheme was completed long after Prince Albert’s untimely death in 1861. The term Albertopolis seems to have been invented in the 1850s, but quickly vanished again and reappeared only as the result of an unsuccessful proposal earlier this decade to extend Albert’s vision. But at least the Albert Memorial has now been restored and his gaudy gold-leafed gaze now looks out to his posthumous creation once more after years behind scaffolding. www.worldwidewords.org /weirdwords/ww-alb1.htm   (235 words)

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