UK Museums and Galleries Trivia Quiz

The Tate Modern art gallery opened in May 2000 and houses the UK's national collection of art created since the start of the twentieth century. It is located on the south bank of the River Thames in the old Bankside Power Station designed by Giles Gilbert Scott. Famous works that can be seen there include Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain", Andy Warhol's "Marilyn Diptych", Roy Lichtenstein's "Whaam", and Carl Andre's "Equivalent VIII" (the infamous "Tate bricks").

Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum traces its history back to 1870, when the City Industrial Museum opened in Kelvingrove House. The current building was designed by Sir John W Simpson and E. J. Milner Allen and opened in 1901. It contains a wide-ranging selection of exhibits, including arms and armour, natural history, sculpture and painting.

As well as works by Glasgow artists, its collection includes art by painters such as Rembrandt, Monet, Van Gogh and Salvador Dali (his famous 1951 painting "Christ of Saint John of the Cross").

The Imperial War Museum North in Manchester opened in 2002 as the museum's new northern branch, in a modern building designed by Daniel Libeskind. It is located in the Trafford Park area of the city next to the Manchester Ship Canal, which was once a major industrial area and heavily bombed during the Second World War.

The museum contains artifacts and exhibits related to British military history, especially the First and Second World Wars. It also contains many works of art by official British war artists.

The Tate Britain art gallery is situated on the north bank of the River Thames, and opened in 1897 as the National Gallery of British Art. It is named after its founder Sir Henry Tate, the sugar merchant and philanthropist. Until 2000 it was known simply as the Tate Gallery, but when the twentieth century works in its collection moved to the new Tate Modern building in 2000, it was renamed Tate Britain.

It contains such famous works as Constable's "Flatford Mill", Blake's "Newton" and a large collection of works by J. M. W. Turner.

The Titanic Belfast Museum opened in 2012, one hundred years after the tragic sinking of RMS Titanic on her maiden voyage. The museum is located in part of the former Harland & Wolff shipyard, where Titanic and her sister ships Olympic and Britannic were constructed.

Its striking design is intended to resemble the prows of ships and is the same height (126 feet) as Titanic's own hull. It contains exhibits related to the Titanic and the shipbuilding and maritime heritage of the Belfast area.

London's National Gallery is without doubt one of the world's greatest art galleries and contains major works by artists from all around the world. The collection dates to 1824 and has been housed in its current iconic location on Trafalgar Square since 1838, in a building designed by William Wilkins. Famous artworks that can be seen there include Jan van Eyck's "Arnolfini Portrait", Leonardo da Vinci's "Virgin of the Rocks", J. M. W. Turner's "The Fighting Temeraire", and one of Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" paintings.

Located right on the city waterfront overlooking the River Mersey, a stone's throw from the iconic Liver Building, is the modern Museum of Liverpool. Growing out of the former Museum of Liverpool Life, the new larger building opened in 2011, and contains exhibits telling the history of Liverpool from the earliest settlements in the area up to the present day.

These include its industrial heyday during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as its musical fame in the 1960s as the home of the Beatles and other musical groups.

The National Museum Cardiff is located in the centre of the Welsh capital city. It was founded in 1905 as the National Museum of Wales and moved to a new purpose-built building in 1922. It contains collections related to geology and natural history, although its main focus is a collection of fine art from a wide range of famous international artists.

In the 1950s it received a bequest of a collection of French art including works by world-renowned artists such as Millet, Monet, Van Gogh and Cezanne. Welsh artists are also well represented, including the brother and sister Augustus and Gwen John.

The Royal Armouries collection is sometimes described as the UK's oldest museum, with records showing that a public collection of arms and armour was on display in the Tower of London by the time of King Charles II (reigned 1660-85). The bulk of the collection was held at the Tower for many centuries, but because of space constraints only a small part could be on display at any one time. It was therefore decided to relocate the collection outside London, initially to Fort Nelson in Hampshire, and then to a new purpose-built building in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

The building was designed by Derek Walker and the Buro Happold partnership and opened in 1996. Among its more unusual features is a jousting arena, where an international tournament is held each year, with contests between armour-clad competitors mounted on horseback and armed with lances.

The British Museum in London is one of the world's great museums of historic artifacts and has a collection of around eight million items. It was originally based on the collection of Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), who bequeathed it to the nation with the stipulation that it should be available for anyone to see. This was a novel idea at the time - it had been previously assumed that only educated people would be interested in historic objects - but Sloane wanted all classes to have access to them.

The British Museum thus became the world's first public national museum, and over the following centuries acquired a huge collection of objects of international importance. The present building dates back to around 1850, although it has been extended several times since then.