Its expansion over the following two and a half centuries was largely a result of an expanding British colonial footprint and has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the British Museum ( Natural History ) in South Kensington in 1887.

Museum expansion slowed after World War I, and the collection did not acquire many significant new works ; exceptions were Georges de La Tour's Saint Thomas and Baron Edmond de Rothschild's ( 1845 – 1934 ) 1935 donation of 4, 000 engravings, 3, 000 drawings, and 500 illustrated books.

This ship's triple expansion steam engine is now on display in the Science Museum in London.

Some of these include the amphitheater and aquarium at the Toledo Zoo and a major expansion to the Toledo Museum of Art.

Two years later, Enterprise returned and was placed in a storage hangar near Runway 12 / 30 to await the construction of a planned expansion to the National Air and Space Museum.

* Newark Museum expansion, Newark, New Jersey, 1982

* Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas ( 1961 ; also expansion in 2001 )

In April 2011, the Museum broke ground on an ambitious expansion project at the old skating rink that will almost double its floor space, bringing the total to about 100, 000 square feet.

Current construction at University Park includes an independent art museum for the Frost Art Museum, a Graduate Business School Complex, a Molecular Biology Building, a Student Services Building, a Social Sciences Building, a Medical School Complex, and an expansion to FIU Stadium for a seating capacity of 45, 000.

Examples of these municipal projects including the construction of a softball complex which hosted the 1996 Olympic softball competition, construction of the Chattahoochee RiverWalk along the Chattahoochee River, construction of the National Civil War Naval Museum at Port Columbus, construction of the Coca-Cola Space Science Center, the expansion of the Columbus Museum, and road improvements to include a new downtown bridge crossing the Chattahoochee River to Phenix City.

The Wenham Historical Association and Museum became independent from the Village Improvement Society and underwent a major renovation and expansion in 1997.

On March 19, 1985, the City Council approved the site plan recommended by the Historical Commission for the expansion and renovation of the historical Museum.

The Industrial Revolution brought railways, canals, and new roads to the city, which saw substantial expansion and development – Chester Town Hall and the Grosvenor Museum are examples of Victorian architecture from this period.

Polshek and his firm, Polshek Partnership, were involved since 1978 in four phases of the Hall's renovation and expansion including the creation of a Master Plan in 1980 ; the actual renovation of the main hall, the Stern Auditorium, and the creation of the Weill Recital Hall and Kaplan Rehearsal Space, all in 1986 ; the creation of the Rose Museum, East Room and Club Room ( later renamed Rohatyn Room and Shorin Club Room, respectively ), all in 1991 ; and, most recently, the creation of Zankel Hall in 2003.

In 1966 the Museum's Southwark building was extended to provide collections storage and other facilities, the first major expansion since the Museum had moved to the site.

The main plan for the Museum Island dictates an expansion of the Pergamon Museum, which will become the centre of the museum complex.

The Museum closed in 2009 for a two-year renovation and expansion.

In the 1930s an expansion was approved for the National Museum of Natural History building, which would not begin until the 1960s.

Since its creation, the numerous efforts of the Houston Museum District organizations have included community improvement projects, tree planting, sidewalk planning, construction and expansion, esplanade design, development and beautification, establishment of public transportation to and from the area, police support and various cultural events

The BP Grand Entrance and the adjacent Broad Contemporary Art Museum ( BCAM ) comprise the $ 191 million ( originally $ 150 million ) first phase of the three-part expansion and renovation campaign.

By issuing $ 383 million in tax-free construction bonds, the museum paid for its ongoing expansion and renovation, which has yielded the new Broad Contemporary Art Museum and the Resnick Exhibition Pavilion as well as other improvements.

The Museum of London Docklands charts the history of London as a port, beginning 2000 years ago with the Roman trading post set up on the banks of the Thames and following London's expansion into the biggest port the world had ever known.

In 2010 the Space Needle Corporation submitted a proposal for an exhibition of Chihuly's work at a site in the Seattle Center, in competition with proposals for other uses from several other groups. The project, which sees the new Chihuly exhibition hall occupy the site of the former Fun Forest amusement park in the Seattle Center park and entertainment complex, received the final green light from the Seattle City Council on April 25, 2011. Divisive Dale Chihuly Glass-Art " Museum " Approved for Former Seattle Amusement Park ARTINFO. com It opened May 21, 2012. Chihuly Garden and Glass Opens with Dedication Ceremony on Monday, May 21 prnewswire. comDale Chihuly's ' Glass House ' shines in Seattle publicbroadcasting. net

The new project was the Miho Museum, to display Koyama's collection of tea ceremony artifacts.

Commenting on her design of a new home for the Museum of Chinese in America near New York City's bella Chinatown, Lin attached a personal significance to the project being a Chinese-related project because she wanted her two daughters to " know that part of their heritage.

At the Walters Art Museum where the palimpsest is now conserved, the project has focused on experimental techniques to retrieve the remaining fifth.

Following Pearl Harbor, officials grew apprehensive that the film could project an unduly negative image of the US internationally, and although a prestige opening was held at the Museum of Modern Art in 1942, the film was never authorized for general release.

The critic Jonathan Meades has scathingly referred to the Millennium Dome as a " Museum of Toxic Waste ", and apart from the dome itself, the project included the reclamation of the entire Greenwich Peninsula.

Johnson's publicly held archive, including architectural drawings, project records, and other papers up until 1964 are held by the Drawings and Archives Department of Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University, the Getty, and the Museum of Modern Art.

The historical and artistic value of the project was recognised in 2008 when the National Museum of Australia decided to acquire the entire Canning Stock Route Project collection.

* Germantown Colony and Museum, a historical preservation project in Louisiana

The Museum of Modern Art ( MoMA ) had promised to fund and circulate the poster, but after seeing the 2 by 3 foot poster MoMA pulled financing for the project at the last minute.

It is currently administered by the Palace Museum, which is carrying out a sixteen-year restoration project to repair and restore all buildings in the Forbidden City to their pre-1912 state.

The first full-scale, stand-alone museum of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history in the United States ( and only the second in the world after the Schwules Museum in Berlin ), The GLBT History Museum is a project of the GLBT Historical Society.

William Noel, the curator of manuscripts and rare books at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland and the director of the Archimedes Palimpsest project, called Hypereides " one of the great foundational figures of Greek democracy and the golden age of Athenian democracy, the foundational democracy of all democracy.

" The first project known as the Guthrie Transportation Museum became the hub project of the renewal effort.

November 17, 2009, marked the grand opening of the Damascus Heritage Society Museum — a project years in the making that aims to preserve the history of Damascus, MD.

The city's cultural institutions include the Reading Symphony Orchestra and its education project the Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra, the GoggleWorks Art Gallery, the Reading Public Museum and the Historical Society of Berks County.

The Meadowlands Museum, which began as a project of parents of children in the public schools in 1961 and was originally based in a room at Sylvan School, moved to the Yereance-Berry House at 91 Crane Avenue in 1974.

* Mullens West Virginia Caboose Museum a community project with photos ( Defunct as of 8 / 09 )

These include: the Centre d ' Observació de l ' Univers ( Centre for Observing the Universe ), or PAM, of Montsec, which is an ambitious project that combines research, education and diffusion within the field of cultural and scientific tourism ; the establishment of the Tren dels Llacs ( Lakes Train ), a touristic railway that connects the provincial capital to the Pre-Pyrenees ; the creation of new exhibition spaces ( including the Museum of Lleida, the Paper Dresses Museum of Mollerussa and the Skiing Museum of the Val d ' Aran ); the organisation of routes to help discover the natural, cultural and monumental treasures of Lleida ( with the Castles of Sió Route, the Pyrenean Counties and Nostalgic Pallars Route, the Wine Route of Les Garrigues, and the Literary Routes of Pallars, etc.