Albert had a huge square of land in South Kensington bordering on the site of the Great Exhibition bought for this purpose. As a result of his sudden death in 1861, which Victoria never got over, Albert did not live to see the completion of this city of the arts and sciences, but his widow carried on the work based on the numerous memoranda the prince consort had left. The institutions erected include the Albert Hall, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Science Museum, the Natural History Museum, the Royal College of Art, the Royal College of Music and the Imperial College. Here can also be found the 80-metre-high monument to Albert, which is surrounded by allegorical sculptures representing engineering, agriculture, industry and trade. In his hand the Prince Regent is not bearing the trappings of sovereign rule, but holding the catalogue of his exhibition from 1851. Despite his commitment to his new homeland Albert never lost interest in Germany. He was passionately dedicated to the process of German unification. Like many liberals prior to the revolutions of 1848/49 he believed that Germany should be unified in the form of a monarchally determined federal state under the leadership of Prussia.