/de/london/albertmemorial. /fr/londres/albertmemorial. /nl/londen/albertmemorial. London. Attractions. Map. Hotels. Tours. Facts. Buildings. Posters. Pictures. A View On Cities. London. London Attractions. Albert Memorial. Loading.... Big Ben. Tower Bridge. London Eye. Tower of London. St. Paul's Cathedral. Buckingham Palace. Houses of Parliament. Madame Tussauds. Trafalgar Square. Hyde Park. Covent Garden. British Museum. Westminster Abbey. Piccadilly Circus. V&A Museum. Harrods. National Gallery. Kensington Gardens. Kensington Palace. The Shard. Natural History Museum. Royal Albert Hall. St. Pancras Station. Kew Gardens. Millennium Dome (O2). Royal Mews. Tate Modern. Regent's Park. The City. Imperial War Museum. HMS Belfast. Albert Memorial. The Gherkin. Millennium Bridge. More London Attractions.... Albert Memorial. Info. Location/Map. Nearby. Photos. Posters. Rating. votes. votes. The Albert Memorial was commissioned by Queen
 Victoria as a tribute to her late consort, Prince Albert of 
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The High Gothic monument was completed in 
fifteen years after prince Albert died at the age of forty-two.. Albert Memorial. Prince Albert. Prince Albert. Prince Albert was born in Germany as the second son of the Duke of 
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. In he married his cousin Victoria, who had just 
inherited the throne of Great Britain.. Prince Albert is best known for his support of the Great Exhibition of 
the World of Industry of All Nations which was held in in. Hyde Park. and became a tremendous success. Six million Britons, or one third of the population, visited the exhibition.. Albertopolis. After the closure of the exhibition prince Albert 
put all his energy on an even larger project. He wanted to provide free 
cultural education by creating a permanent national exhibition promoting
 science and culture. Along a broad boulevard near. Hyde Park. museums, concert halls and academies would be built.. The grand project, dubbed 'Albertopolis', was unfinished by the time
 prince Albert died of typhoid in but by the end of the nineteenth
 century a whole cluster of cultural institutions had settled in South 
Kensington; they include the. Royal Albert Hall. the Royal College of Art, the. Natural History Museum. and the. Victoria & Albert Museum. The Monument. Albert's memorial was appropriately erected opposite the. Royal Albert Hall. near the location of the Exhibition of The memorial. was commissioned by Queen Victoria as a tribute to her late consort.. The monument, standing 175ft/53m tall, was built from to 
after a neo-Gothic design by Sir George Gilbert Scott. A 14ft/4m high 
gilded statue shows Albert seated under a pinnacle, holding a catalogue 
of the Great Exhibition. The pinnacle is set on a base with a large
 frieze. It is adorned with marble reliefs of people, mostly 
artists.. At each corner are four statues depicting some of prince Albert's interests: engineering, agriculture, commerce and. 'Asia'. manufacturing. At the bottom of the steps leading to prince Albert's 
statue are four more sculpture groups, symbolizing Europe, Africa, 
America and Asia.. Renovation. Since the monument had been blackened, 
supposedly to avoid becoming a target of German zeppelin bombing raids. 
Between and the decaying monument was restored and Albert's 
statue was re-gilded.. Next:. The Gherkin. Subway. South Kensington (Circle, District, Piccadilly). Location. Kensington Gore, SW7. london. x. Press ESC to close. powered by. www.aviewoncities.com.