Museo colaborador
National Trust for Places of Historic Interest
or Natural Beauty
London, United Kingdom
The National Trust is an independent entity founded in1895 to preserve places of historic interest or natural beauty. It is funded through membership subscriptions (currently over 2.5 million), and relies on gifts, legacies and the contribution of many thousands of volunteers. It protects and opens to the public over 200 historic houses and gardens and 49 industrial monuments and mills. It owns more than 248,000 hectares (612,000 acres) of the most beautiful countryside and almost 600 miles of outstanding coast for people to enjoy. It looks after forests, woods, fens, farmland, downs, moors, islands, archaeological remains, nature reserves and villages. It has the unique statutory power to declare land inalienable, which means that such land cannot be sold, mortgaged or compulsorily purchased against the Trust's wishes without special parliamentary procedure. This special power means that protection by the Trust is forever. All its income is spent on the care and maintenance of the land and buildings in its protection.
