The December 2024 reopening and how to get in free, the towers' new one-way circuit of 424 steps, the spire that was Viollet-le-Duc's rather than medieval, the bells and the organ, the twenty-eight kings of Judah and their rediscovered heads, and the contested new windows.
Founded with 38 paintings in 1824, free to enter ever since. The National Gallery after its bicentenary, its £85m new entrance and its first full rehang since 1991.
The Great Court opened in 2000 in the courtyard the library had filled until 1997, and the question of where the Parthenon sculptures belong is still open.
The Hall of Mirrors and the two events older accounts omit, the real fountain and estate figures, Le Notre's gardens, the ticketed fountain shows, Trianon, the equestrian academy, and a road closure running to 2027.
An index to the London pages: the royal buildings, the churches, the free museums, the parks and the zoo, the theatre district, the City and the markets, and the squares and the river — with the distinctions that are most often got wrong, and a note on how much time each one really takes.
Officially 875 North Michigan Avenue since 2018, and still the Hancock to everyone in Chicago. The X-braces are the structure, not decoration; the Signature Room closed in 2023; and the wind at the top is not where the Windy City got its name.
SUE left the main hall in 2018 for a gallery inside Evolving Planet, and a 122-foot titanosaur cast called Maximo stands there instead. Also the Tsavo lions, Bushman the gorilla, and why 'most complete T. rex' is the claim that holds.
Renamed in May 2024 after a donation, and still the MSI locally. The building is the last of the 1893 fair left standing; the submarine moved indoors in 2005; and the founder who paid for it refused to have his name on it.
The Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba: begun as the Great Mosque in 785, a consecrated Catholic cathedral since 1236, with its mihrab, its Renaissance nave and a contested ownership.
How admission really works at the Met, MoMA and the Whitney — including which free evening an overseas visitor can actually use — then the big collections, the medieval monastery reassembled above the Hudson, and the specialist museums worth the detour. With the Guggenheim ramp advice its architect intended and most visitors get backwards.
This is two buildings now. The Sydney Modern Project opened a second one on 3 December 2022, close to doubling the exhibition space, and the Yiribana Gallery of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art moved into its ground floor. The buildings were named in the Sydney language only in April 2024, and the gallery joined the State Heritage Register only in November 2024.
