Since 2001, the museum has embarked on a major £ 150m renovation programme, which has seen a major overhaul of the departments, including the introduction of newer galleries, gardens, shops and visitor facilities.

The centre promotes cross-community contact, mutual understanding, an appreciation of cultural diversity, and is a major visitor attraction.

Although he is actually a Virginian from Earth and only a visitor to Mars, he is sometimes known as John Carter of Mars, in reference to the setting in which his major deeds are recorded.

The Plantation, which opened in 1953, is now a major visitor attraction in its own right.

Another unwelcome visitor is the highly invasive species Lagarosiphon major ( also known as ' curly-leaved waterweed ' or ' South African pondweed ') which is destroying fish habitat, and the zebra mussel.

Banbury is a major stop on the route because of the large number of visitor moorings on a paved and relatively secure mooring right alongside the shopping centre in the middle of town.

These include visitor mines, mining trails, technical and local history museums and numerous other smaller attractions, especially the medieval town centres in the old mining towns and its major churches, such as Freiberg Cathedral, St. Anne's Church in Annaberg-Buchholz or St Wolfgang's Church at Schneeberg.

Concorde became a semi-regular visitor to the airport, and indeed BA and a number of other major airlines still use Prestwick for pilot training.

After her marriage to Baron Ashcombe, the couple made major renovations to balance a visitor attraction with what is primarily a private residence.

The building is a major visitor attraction in Canberra with about visits each year.

The Trust has overseen a major restoration, and enhanced the visitor attractions.

The 2000s ( decade ) saw a major expansion of medical facilities on North Campus and the construction of the current visitor center, a new engineering center, and George Pearl Hall, as well as renovations and expansions to several buildings on Main Campus, along with the creation of a branch campus in Rio Rancho.

* ' The real meal deal ' ( 2006 ) This report from the Soil Association and Organix takes a look at what's on the menu for children at 10 popular family restaurant chains and 14 major visitor attractions.

Located at the junction of major tourism drives, Central Arnhem Road, the Savannah Way and the Explorers Way, Katherine is an important visitor gateway for the Northern Territory.

Due to its heritage, Stone Town is also a major visitor attraction in Tanzania, and a large part of its economy depends on tourism-related activities.

Yoxall Lodge acted as a major focus of the group, and Wilberforce was a frequent visitor there.

The wing ’ s mission is to train mission-ready special operations, combat search and rescue, missile site support and UH-1 distinguished visitor airlift aircrews in direct support of Air Expeditionary Forces to six major commands in the Air Force.

In the 1980s the airfield site was redeveloped as a major housing area, and Woodley is now largely indistinguishable from Reading to the casual visitor.

In 2000-1, Historic Scotland undertook a major construction programme to create a visitor centre at the site, and to improve the parking.

During major shows with large visitor attendances, extra shuttle trains are run between the venue and Canning Town station, with interchange at Canning Town station to London Underground's Jubilee Line.

expansion before the infrastructure would be severely tested, and over the next few years a Heritage Marquee was set up for the NCCPG and its national collections – initially a rather quiet area, but increasing steadily in public interest ; crafts pavilions, which under Adrian Boyd were the first sight to greet the visitor, were gradually moved to a less prominent position ; there was room for a couple of dozen display gardens, plus a separate section, on the other side of the Long Water from the major part of the exhibition, for ten water gardens.

Residing in Bucharest, Kiselyov took particular care of the city: he acted against the plague and cholera epidemics of 1829 and 1831, instituted a " city beautifying commission " comprising physicians and architects, paved many central streets with cobblestone ( instead of wooden planks ), drained the swamps formed around the Dâmboviţa and built public fountains, settled the previously-fluctuating borders of the city ( it now measured ca. 19 km in perimeter and was guarded by patrols and barriers ), carved out Calea Dorobanţilor and Şoseaua Kiseleff ( major north-south routes ), mapped the city and counted its population, gave Bucharest a garrison for the newly-created Wallachian Army and improved its fire fighting service ; the changing city was described as unusually cosmopolitan and home to extreme contrasts by French visitor Marc Girardin.

In a major science fiction alternative-history novel “ The Man in the High Castle ” by Philip K. Dick, in Chapter 14, the Embarcadero Freeway plays a major part, as a dominant symbol of our noisy and industrialized civilization, in the visions of one protagonist, Mr. Tagomi, who is, at that moment, a visitor from another history, in which the USA has lost the Second World War.

However, a major factor in binding dirt is the attraction between surfaces that goes under the name of Van der Waal's forces.

The major attraction is sail fishing.

The city has traditionally been a pole of attraction, and was a major center for refugees from various ethnic backgrounds who immigrated to Anatolia from the Balkans during the loss of the Ottoman territories in Europe between the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Besides living together under continuous observation, which is the major attraction of the contest, the program relies on four basic props: The stripped-bare, back-to-basics environment in which they live, the evictions, the weekly tasks and competitions set by Big Brother and the " Diary / Confession Room ", in which the housemates individually convey their thoughts, feelings, and frustrations and reveal their nominees for eviction.

Cable cars rapidly spread to other cities, although the major attraction for most was the ability to displace horsecar ( or mule-drawn ) systems rather than the ability to climb hills.

McLean ’ s subsequent albums did not match the commercial success of American Pie but he became a major concert attraction in the US and overseas.

The Lonely Planet travel guide cites Melbourne's street are as a major attraction.

As she wrestles with the case, trying to narrow down the list of suspects and avert a major scandal, Harriet is forced to examine her ambivalent feelings about love and marriage, along with her attraction to academia as an intellectual ( and emotional ) refuge.

The livestock includes the Hungarian Grey Cattle which is a major tourist attraction in the Hungarian National Park of Hortobágy.

The conventional view in biology is that there are two major drives in love: sexual attraction and attachment.

The stalactite cave Dirou, a major tourist attraction, is located south of Areopolis in the southwest of Laconia.

The city is a major tourist attraction in Afghanistan because of its famous shrines as well as the Muslim and Hellenistic archeological sites.

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is another major attraction relating to the popularity of country music.

Despite this, substantial remains remain visible today and it continues to be a major tourist attraction.

His work has been mentioned as a major attraction of the nearby town of Assemini.

Covering the face is the subject of some divergence of opinion amongst the scholars – some consider it to be compulsory since the face is the major source of attraction, whilst others consider it to be highly recommended.

Though their project, like others in the state, had to contend with the Great Depression and World War II, work continued as Colonial Williamsburg became a major tourist attraction.

A major tourist attraction is the medieval town of Gruyères with its castle, containing a regional museum and an arts museum.

After the destructive Lebanese Civil War, Beirut underwent major reconstruction, and the redesigned historic city centre, marina, pubs and nightlife districts have once again made it a tourist attraction.

Tourism is now a major part of the regional economy, with the narrow gauge railway between Durango and Silverton being an attraction in the summer.

Baboons inside the Cape of Good Hope section of the park are a major tourist attraction.

Due to the overwhelming popularity of their first ever race, the club plans to organize more races in the near future over different seasons, and aims to make it a major tourist attraction throughout Donegal.

The Old Market in Downtown Omaha is another major attraction and is important to the city's retail economy.

A major attraction to the coastline of Cork is whale watching, with sightings of fin whales, basking sharks, pilot whales, minke whales, and other species being frequent.