Start watercolour the right way: reserve the white of the paper, choose paper that won't buckle, learn the core washes and paint a first landscape today.
Lady Wallace's will never forbade lending — that was the trustees' own reading of it, abandoned in 2019 by a Charity Commission order rather than an Act of Parliament. What does bind is a statute of 1992 barring this museum, alone among the national collections, from ever adding or disposing of an object. Hertford House is Grade II; the fountain in front of it is Grade II*.
The portico on Millbank is shut until 2027 and the way in is round the side. Four official names in a hundred and thirty years, Henry Tate's money and what Tate itself has published about it, a Turner bequest that built no almshouses, the flood of 1928, and the restaurant that is now a gallery.
Tate Modern occupies Giles Gilbert Scott's Bankside power station, a building the state formally declined to protect in 1993. Admission to the collection displays is free. The top-floor viewing level reopened as Level 10 in 2023 after a Supreme Court ruling in favour of the neighbouring residents who overlook it.
The Victoria and Albert Museum began in 1852 as the Museum of Manufactures. The Great Exhibition's surplus bought the eighty-seven-acre South Kensington estate rather than founding the museum, and the Royal Commission that spent it still owns the land. Victoria named the museum in 1899; Edward VII opened the building in 1909, the same day the science collections became a separate museum.
The building is the Reichstag; the parliament inside it is the Bundestag. The two are used interchangeably by visitors and never by Germans. The Reichstag was the imperial and Weimar assembly, a body whose name the Federal Republic chose not to revive, so the building kept the old word and the institution took a new one.
The Brandenburg Gate began as a peace gate on a customs wall. How it became a war trophy, a border, a symbol of reunification, and what to know before visiting.
A first visit to Berlin: which district to stay in, what to see, what has closed, and the practical details, entry rules, cash, Sundays, that catch people out.
Vienna is more than just a city; it's a grand stage where history, art, and modern life perform a captivating waltz. Once the heart of the Habsburg Empire, its streets echo with the genius of Mozart and the ideas of Freud. But what truly makes Vienna special? Perhaps it's the way a grand imperial palace can sit just a short ride away from a wonderfully bizarre apartment block, or how the aroma of coffee and cake drifts from centuries-old coffee houses. Let's explore some of the most compelling experiences this remarkable city has to offer.
Malaga is no longer just the airport: a Roman theatre, the Alcazaba and the Gibralfaro, six museums opened since 2003, and a cathedral whose roof is finally being built.
