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1. A long, covered area acting as a corridor inside or on the exterior of a building, or between buildings.
2. An elevated area, interior or exterior, e.g., minstrel gallery, music gallery, roof gallery.
3. An elevated section of the seating area of an auditorium, esp. the uppermost such space.
4. In buildings for public worship, a similar space, sometimes set apart for special uses.
5. A service passageway within a building, or linking a building underground to exterior supplies or exits. Some service galleries also serve sightseers, e.g., the lighting gallery in the base of the dome at St. Peter’s, Rome.
6. A long, narrow room for special activities like target practice, etc.
7. A room, often top-lit, used for the display of art works.
8. A building serving such art needs.
9. See long gallery. 10. Any raised working platform at the side or rear of a theater stagehouse. 11. An arcade, 2. 12. (Brit.) A device, attached to a lampholder, for supporting a reflector, shade, etc.

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Visitors watch the proceedings of the House of Representatives and Senate from galleries, or balconies, surrounding the chambers. The House, elected directly by the people, opened a public gallery when it first met in 1789, but the Senate, whose members were elected by state legislatures, saw no need for a gallery at first. The Senate's debates were closed until 1794, when a gallery at last was constructed. Today the galleries of both the House and Senate are open whenever that chamber is in session, at any hour of the day or night.

Congress appoints doorkeepers to supervise the galleries. Rules prohibit visitors to the galleries from taking notes or photographs. Visitors may not lean over the railing, a prohibition dating back to 1916, when President Woodrow Wilson addressed a joint session of Congress and activists draped a large banner down from the gallery that read, “Mr. President, What Will You Do For Woman Suffrage? “The rules of the Senate and House also forbid members from addressing the galleries or from calling attention to special visitors.

Before entering the galleries, visitors must obtain tickets from their senators or representatives. The first tickets were issued in 1868 to control the crowds seeking to witness the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. Today, television cameras mounted in the galleries broadcast the proceedings live via C-SPAN. Television has become a nationwide extension of the House and Senate galleries.

In addition to the public galleries, the House and Senate also make gallery space available to their staff, to the members' families, to the foreign diplomatic corps, and to the press. To encourage the widest media coverage of its proceedings, Congress provides separate press galleries for newspaper correspondents, radio and television reporters, magazine writers, and press photographers.

See also C-SPAN; Doorkeepers; Media coverage of Congress

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• Mining - gallery: small tunnel for inspection or drainage; drift
• Entryways and Lateral Extensions - gallery: outdoor balcony; roofed promenade or colonnade
• Parts of Rooms - gallery: balcony or covered walk along wall at second story
• Display of Art - gallery: building devoted to exhibition and sale of artworks
• Stagecraft, Production, and Dramatic Structure - gallery: top balcony, usu. containing the cheapest seats
• Golf

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Gallery may refer to:

• An art museum (art gallery)
• A retail art shop (also often known as an art gallery)
• An exhibition room in a museum
• Long gallery, an element in architecture: a long hallway or long, narrow room, frequently decorated with sculptures and frescoes
• A narrow balcony, usually including a railing, inside or outside of a building
  • A minstrels' gallery, a balcony used by performing musicians
  • An observation deck, usually on the upper floors of a building, used to afford visitors a long-distance view
  • Gallery, in a theatre or concert hall, one or more raised seating platforms towards the rear of the auditorium — see Theater (structure)
  • In UK television production, gallery is used as a substitute for production control room
• An audience or group of spectators
  • A peanut gallery, an audience that heckles performers
• In mining, a horizontal passage in an underground mine
• Gallery Project, an open source project enabling management and publication of digital photographs and other media through a web server

Proper noun

• Gallery (band), a 1970s musical group
• Gallery (song), a song by Mario Vasquez
• Gallery (magazine), a magazine published by Montcalm Publishing
• The Gallery Project, a photo-viewing application built in PHP
• Gallery Hotel, a hotel in Singapore

The Gallery may refer to

• The Gallery (disco), a disco in Manhattan [1972-1977]
• The Gallery (album), a 1995 album by Dark Tranquillity
• "The Gallery", a song on the album Rapture (Bradley Joseph album)
• The Gallery at Market East, a mall in Philadelphia

Surname

• Three brothers in the U.S. Navy during World War II:
  • Rear Admiral Daniel V. Gallery (1901–1977)
  • Rear Admiral William O. Gallery (1904–1981)
  • Rear Admiral Philip D. Gallery (1907–1973)
• Robert Gallery, an American football player for the Oakland Raiders

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - galleri, søjlegang

Nederlands (Dutch)
galerij, galerie, lange smalle gang/kamer, engelenbak, tribune, toeschouwers, veranda

Français (French)
n. - musée, (Archit, gén) galerie, tribune, (Théât) dernier balcon, poulailler, galerie (dans une cave), (US) salle des ventes

Deutsch (German)
n. - Galerie, Empore, Stollen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - γαλαρία, στοά (ορυχείου κ.λπ.), πινακοθήκη, γκαλερί, αίθουσα τέχνης, θεωρείο (της Βουλής), υπερώο, εξώστης, διάδρομος

idioms:

• play to the gallery    δημοκοπώ, δημαγωγώ

Italiano (Italian)
galleria, galleria d'arte, loggione, tribuna, ballatoio, di galleria

Português (Portuguese)
n. - galeria (f), tribuna (f), balcão (m), varanda (f)

Русский (Russian)
галерея, галерка

Español (Spanish)
n. - museo, galería, tribuna, gallinero, gradas, paraíso, palco, balconada, grupo de espectadores, corredor

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - galleri, läktare, publik

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
走廊, 画廊, 最高楼座

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 走廊, 畫廊, 最高樓座

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 화랑, (회관 등의) 특별석

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 画廊, 美術館, 美術品陳列室, 中二階, 桟敷, 傍聴席, 回廊, 細長い部屋, 天井桟敷, 観客, ギャラリー, 傍聴人

idioms:

• rogues' gallery    犯罪者写真台帳
• whispering gallery    ささやきの回廊

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) رواق, بهو‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮יציע, מוזיאון, אכסדרה, ניקבה, גלריה לאמנות, אולם, מנהרה, מסדרון, התא הכי גבוה בתיאטרון‬

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