Loose_Grip/Pete's photos with the keyword: museum

A selfie by the wall. Designed by French architect Jean Nouvel the National Museum of Art in Doha takes its form from the desert rose - crystals of gypsum that form in arid sandy conditions. HWW to everyone. Enjoy the day.

The National Railway Museum in York was relatively quiet so I could get a clear shot of world speed record holder LNER A4 4-6-2 4468 Mallard in the main hall of the museum. One of the diesels that replaced the A4s on the ECML, Deltic 55002 KOYLI is on the turntable behind. HFF to everyone. Have a great weekend.

We visited the City of Arts & Sciences in Valencia to view the Ninot exhibition which was on as part of the Falles festival. The museum area is a state-of-the-art science complex set within a landscaped park with a huge aquarium & IMAX screen. The buildings are very modern and impressive.

General Aung San was instrumental in Burma/Myanmar's struggle for independence from British rule but he was assassinated just six months before his goal was realized. He is considered the founder of modern-day Myanmar. The Bogyoke Aung San Museum was the residence of Aung San and his family just before his assassination in July 1947. His better-known daughter Aung San Suu Kyi grew up here as a child. This is part of a beautiful circular wooden fence around a shady verandah overlooking the garden. HFF to everyone. Have a great weekend.

We visited the City of Arts & Sciences in Valencia to view the Ninot exhibition which was on as part of the Falles festival. The museum area is a state-of-the-art science complex set within a landscaped park with a huge aquarium & IMAX screen. The buildings are very modern and impressive. HBM to everyone. Continue enjoying the Easter weekend!

Now all the deep coal mines in the UK are closed the only way to go underground today is in a museum like The Big Pit National Museum at Blaenavon. The Big Pit used to be connected to the LNWR line to Pontypool by a steeply graded mineral line. Today Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0ST (Works No 544 1900) NCB No 10 stands on the truncated remains by the pit head coupled to a rail-mounted crane.

Part of the large Doncaster Grammar School collection of railwayana, including numerous name and numberplates, is on display at the new museum/library opened on the corner of Waterdale & Chequer Road. Name & numberplates from steam locomotives representing all 4 of the post-Grouping railways are on the wall in the main hall.

The Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft, near Doncaster, is the world's largest collection of preserved trolleybuses. It's actually located on what was RAF Sandtoft, an abandoned Second World War airfield. Sunday was the 60th anniversary of the formation of the British Trolleybus Society and the museum ran services with some of the society's fleet. In the afternoon this line-up was arranged for photographers. Right to left are BTS vehicles: South Shields 204, Huddersfield 631, Reading 113, Manchester 1344 and privately owned Nottingham 506. Full details & histories of the fleet can be found at www.britishtrolley.org.uk/bts-fleet-list .

Light and shade in the Museo del Ferrocarril - the former Madrid Delicias railway station.

Preserved FS Class 691 4 cylinder Pacific 691022 was one of the 33-strong class which were the fastest and most powerful locomotives on the Italian railway. They were rebuilds of the 1911-14 Class 690 carried out by Ferrovie dello Stato and Ernesto Breda between 1928 & 1934. 691.011 of the class held the Italian steam speed record, recorded between Verona and Padova, of 150 kilometres per hour)

A Macchi MC 205 V used by the Regia Aeronautica Militare Italiana during the Second World War.