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The event made a surplus of £186,000 (£33,221,701.65 in 2023), which was used to found the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Science Museum and the Natural History Museum. They were all built in the area to the south of the exhibition, nicknamed Albertopolis , alongside the Imperial Institute .
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It was renamed the Museum of Science in 1939, under the directorship of Henry Bradford Washburn, Jr., a renowned American mountaineer. [3] The Boston Museum of Natural History of 1830/1864–1945 should not be confused with the private Warren Museum of Natural History (1858–1906, formerly on Chestnut Street in Boston).
The Great Exhibition of 1851: A Nation on Display. Yale University Press, 1999. Chadwick, George F. The Works of Sir Joseph Paxton, 1803-1865. Architectural Press, 1961. Hobhouse, Hermione. The Crystal Palace and the Great Exhibition: Science, Art and Productive Industry: The History of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851. A&C Black ...
Massachusetts: Boston: Museum of Science: Lexington: MIT Lincoln Laboratory [70] 52 ft (15.8 m) 8.0 s Northampton: Smith College: 43 ft (13.1 m) 235 lb (106.6 kg) 7.27 s Osterville: Cape Cod Academy: Springfield: Springfield Science Museum: Michigan: Alpena: Besser Museum for Northeast Michigan [71] Detroit: Michigan Science Center: Grand Haven ...
For the Great Exhibition of 1851 Thornycroft made an over-life-sized plaster equestrian statue of Queen Victoria which was much admired by the queen herself and by Prince Albert. [2] He had the royal family's full co-operation in its creation, the queen's horse being sent round to his studio several times during the process. [3]
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The perceived triumph of technology, progress and peaceful trade was celebrated in the 1851 Great Exhibition, organised by Victoria's husband Albert, which attracted over 40,000 visitors per day to view the over 100,000 exhibits of manufacturing, farming and engineering on display.