In 1842, Johannes Theodor Reinhardt proposed that Dodos were ground pigeons, based on studies of a Dodo skull he had discovered in the royal Danish collection at Copenhagen.

In 1682, Louis XIV chose the Palace of Versailles for his household, leaving the Louvre primarily as a place to display the royal collection, including, from 1692, a collection of antique sculpture.

By the mid-18th century there was an increasing number of proposals to create a public gallery, with the art critic La Font de Saint-Yenne publishing, in 1747, a call for a display of the royal collection '.

On 14 October 1750, Louis XV agreed and sanctioned a display of 96 pieces from the royal collection, mounted in the Galerie royale de peinture of the Luxembourg Palace.

On 10 August 1792, Louis XVI was imprisoned and the royal collection in the Louvre became national property.

The department's origins lie in the royal collection, but it was augmented by Napoleon's 1798 expeditionary trip with Dominique Vivant, the future director of the Louvre.

Initially the collection included only 100 pieces, the rest of the royal sculpture collection being at Versailles.

The collection is organized into three sections: the core Cabinet du Roi, 14, 000 royal copper printing-plates, and the donations of Edmond de Rothschild, which include 40, 000 prints, 3, 000 drawings, and 5, 000 illustrated books.

There were a few institutional or royal libraries which were open to an educated public ( such as the Serapeum collection of the Library of Alexandria, once the largest library in the ancient world ), but on the whole collections were private.

They discovered a royal burial, its timbers recently dated as cut to about 740 BC complete with remains of the funeral feast and " the best collection of Iron Age drinking vessels ever uncovered ".

Out of his practical experience in the Ministry of Justice with evaluating death penalties by Bavarian courts for royal pardon he published the most notable cases 1808 / 11 in Merkwürdige Criminalfälle and 1828 / 29 a much enlarged collection Aktenmäßige Darstellung merkwürdiger Verbrechen ( Notable crimes presented according to the court records ).

The royal collection was swelled by diplomatic gifts including three leopards from Frederick III, the Holy Roman Emperor.

In 1900, Queen Victoria sent the Royal Photographer to Tavolara in order to make an official portrait of the Tavolara Royal Family, and include it in her collection of royal portraits.

It is located in the royal palace and features extensive collections of medieval and modern Romanian art, including works by renowned sculptor Constantin Brâncuși, as well as a prominent international collection assembled by the Romanian royal family.

* In England, first royal ordinance demanding that the knights Templar and Hospitaller assist in the collection of taxes.

In the summer of 1900 the British naval vessel HMS Vulcan visited Tavolara, and the officers took a photograph of King Carlo and his family to hang in Queen Victoria's collection of royal portraits in Buckingham Palace.

The Chancellor is the third-oldest major state office in English and British history, one which originally carried responsibility for the Exchequer, the medieval English institution for the collection of royal revenues.

The Sainte-Chapelle or ' Holy Chapel ', in the courtyard of the royal palace on the Île de la Cité ( now part of a later administrative complex known as La Conciergerie ), was built to house Louis IX's collection of relics of Christ, which included the Crown of Thorns, the Image of Edessa and some thirty other items.

They are one of the biggest and most important collection of royal objects still today, and reflect more than a thousand years of European history.

* The Wawel Tapestries, ( mid 16th century ) a collection of 134 tapestries at the Wawel Castle in Kraków, Poland displaying various religious, natural, and royal themes.

* The biggest collection of Flanders tapestry is in the Spanish royal collection, there is 8000 metres of historical tapestry from Flanders, as well as Spanish tapestries designed by Goya and others.

They are a collection of imperial regalia and jewels dating from the 10th century to the 19th.

At the coronation of Henry III in 1220 the crown was declared to have belonged to Edward the Confessor ; thus the concept of a hereditary collection of regalia came to be.

The Nuyumabales Cultural Centre is located within the Cape Mudge village and holds an important collection of art and regalia from earlier times, items that were repatriated after many years from museums elsewhere.

They are a collection of imperial and royal regalia and jewels dating from the 10th century to the 19th.

From this collection came a new set of regalia, including eventually the Great Imperial Crown, to replace the Crown of Monomakh and other crowns used by earlier Russian Tsars and Grand Princes of Muscovy, as a symbol of the adoption of the new title of Emperor ( 1721 ).

( 1871 destroyed ), Reproduction displayed at the Abeler collection of crowns and regalia in Wuppertal.

The regalia used by these individuals was and is still normally an object or collection of objects of a symbolic significance, such as a coat, robe, mantle, or costume with headgear of same shape or fashion.

The current collection consists of musical instruments, sculpture, jewelry, regalia, textiles, early maps, educational materials, a library, and films, slides and photographs.

The museum houses an impressive collection associated with ancient Delphi, including the earliest known notation of a melody, the famous Charioteer, golden treasures discovered beneath the Sacred Way, and fragments of reliefs from the Siphnian Treasury.

It then passed to the Barberini family collection ( which also included sculptures such as the Barberini Faun and Barberini Apollo ) where it remained for some two hundred years, being one of the treasures of Maffeo Barberini, later Pope Urban VIII ( 1623 – 1644 ).

In the East of the county is Sutton Hoo, the site of one of England's most significant Anglo-Saxon archæological finds ; a ship burial containing a collection of treasures including a Sword of State, gold and silver bowls and jewellery and a lyre.

The Duomo's ( Cathedral ) Museum collection keep treasures from the time of Queen Theodolinda, including the Hen with chicks, the Cross of Agilulf, and the famous Iron Crown.

Still in mourning, the group treasures a collection of " evidence " they have gathered (" Exhibits Nos.

Today, owned by the City of Angers, the massive, austere castle has been converted to a museum housing the oldest and largest collection of medieval tapestries in the world, with the 14th century " Apocalypse Tapestry " as one of its priceless treasures.

Because of this, Caillebotte realised that the cultural treasures in his collection would likely disappear into " attics " and " provincial museums ".

It houses the world ’ s largest collection of Pharaonic antiquities, and many treasures of King Tutankhamen.

He became friendly with, among others, the Duke of Chandos, Lord Burlington and the landscape designer William Kent, while amassing a fine collection of paintings, rare books, scientific instruments, and other treasures, including a service of silver made by the famous Paul de Lamerie.

The museum, built on the site of paelontologist Mary Anning's birthplace and family shop off Bridge Street, houses a large collection of local memorabilia, historical items and exhibits explaining the local geological and palaeontological treasures.

Under librarianship of Amyot, the collection was transferred to Paris during which process many treasures were lost.

It is the only library in the world with the first two quartos of Hamlet ; it holds the manuscript of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, the first seven drafts of Henry David Thoreau's Walden, John James Audubon's Birds of America, a collection of manuscripts and first editions of the works of Charles Bukowski, and many other great treasures.

He had an insatiable appetite for collecting, and acquired much of China's " great private collections " by any means necessary, and " reintegrated their treasures into the imperial collection.

It held Mrs. Marcos ' collection of excavated porcelain and pottery, Ban Chieng prehistoric pottery from Thailand and Filipiniana book rarities, and treasures such as a statue from Angkor and Chinese jade furniture.

A patron of the arts, she bequeathed the Medici's large art collection, including the contents of the Uffizi, Palazzo Pitti and the Medicean villas, which she inherited upon her brother Gian Gastone's death in 1737, and her Palatine treasures to the Tuscan state, on the condition that no part of it could be removed from " the Capital of the grand ducal State .... from the succession of His Serene Grand Duke.

The hall contains many treasures, including the dagger with which Lord Mayor Walworth killed Wat Tyler in 1381, Pietro Annigoni's first portrait of Her Majesty The Queen, a collection of 17th-and 18th-century silver, an embroidered 15th-century funeral pall, two portraits by George Romney, and river scenes by Samuel Scott.

Notable works in the collection include the famous Megiddo Ivories ; various treasures from Persepolis, the old Persian capital ; a collection of Luristan Bronzes ; a colossal 40-ton human-headed winged bull ( or Lamassu ) from Khorsabad, the capital of Sargon II ; and a monumental statue of King Tutankhamun.

A collection comparable to the Institute's treasures could not be assembled today, since Middle Eastern governments no longer allow foreign archeologists to take home half of what they find.

The collection was later shown at Museo di Antichità in Turin, Italy, and then at the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam before being moved to the National Gallery of Art in Washington D. C., where it was displayed alongside other ancient Afghan treasures in 2008.

The player completes the game upon collection of all 201 treasures.

His notices of ancient sculpture and its various styles appeared as an appendix to the Saggio di lingua Etrusca, and arose out of his minute study of the treasures then added to the Florentine collection from the Villa Medici.

They have a collection of over two thousand pieces of art treasures and eleven thousand pieces of biological specimens respectively.

After the Bolshevik Revolution, the Armoury collection was enriched with treasures taken from the Patriarch sacristy, Kremlin cathedrals, monasteries and private collections.

Art treasures were sent to distant storage: the National Gallery collection spent the war at the Manod Quarry near Ffestiniog, North Wales.