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Event
- Title:
- A Day in the Eighteenth Century: Happy Birthday Louis
- When:
- 20.02.2010 10.00 h - 17.00 h
- Where:
- The Wallace Collection - Westminster
- Category:
- Miscellaneous
Description
Free entry
Our annual Day in the Eighteenth Century will be a huge celebration for all the family: come and help us celebrate Louis XV’s 300th birthday! Dance in the Great Gallery, make a paper firework and join a celebratory parade or design your very own piece of paper porcelain fit for a banquet with the king! Madame de Pompadour will also be conducting special tours of the Collection. There will be something for the whole family, we hope you’ll join us for a right royal party!
From 11am
-gamble your fortune away
-handle real and replica arms and armour
-talks by Curators and Guide Lecturers
-family activity making paper fireworks
-decorate a paper Sevres plate to contribute to a fine dinner set.
From 1.30pm
-all the above plus
-live 18th-century music and dancing in our Great Gallery
-meet Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV.
Venue
- Venue:
- The Wallace Collection - Website
- Street:
- Hertford House, Manchester Square
- ZIP:
- W1U 3BN
- City:
- Westminster
- State:
- London
Description
The Wallace Collection is a national museum which displays the wonderful works of art collected in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by the first four Marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace, the son of the 4th Marquess. It was bequeathed to the British nation by Sir Richard's widow, Lady Wallace, in 1897.
It is probably best known for its paintings by artists such as Titian, Rembrandt, Hals (The Laughing Cavalier) and Velázquez and for its superb collections of eighteenth-century French paintings, porcelain, furniture and gold boxes, probably the best to be found anywhere outside France.
Free Admission
Phone: +44 (0)207 563 9500
Fax: +44 (0) 207 224 2155
Open: Daily 10am - 5pm.
Closed 24, 25, 26 December
Tube: Bond Street/Baker Street/Oxford Circus
Bus: Numbers 2, 10, 12, 13, 30, 74, 82, 94, 113, 137, 274 all stop nearby.
Access: Full Details on their website
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