During the French Revolution, the National Assembly decreed that the Louvre should be used as a museum, to display the nation's masterpieces.

According to Turner's narrative, he urged — and Hobart agreed — that before its final deposit in the museum, the stone should be presented to scholars at the Society of Antiquaries of London, of which Turner was a member.

While change and growth is often good for a museum, they should not reach outside the original mission statement of the institution.

These positions and all other employees should work together toward the museum ’ s institutional goal.

The agreement does not specify whether the property will become a park, museum, or other public space should the Shakers die out.

This legend is the source of the Grail claim by the Nanteos Cup on display in the museum in Aberystwyth ; however, it should be noted that there is no reference to this tradition in ancient or medieval text.

* In 2006, it was revealed that the Tate was the only national-funded museum not to be accredited to the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council ( MLA ), as it did not wish to abide by guidelines that deaccessioned work should first be offered to other museums.

Peruggia was an Italian patriot who believed Leonardo's painting should be returned to Italy for display in an Italian museum.

This is to ensure that the exhibits are better displayed, more information is available and the Museum meets modern expectations for museum facilities ; it should take about ten years to complete the work.

His intention was that the collection should serve as the nucleus of a national museum of western art.

With the Department of Education still intransigent to the site's conversion to a nationalist museum and with no other apparent function for the building, the Commissioners of Public Works proposed only the prison yard and those cell blocks deemed to be of national importance should be preserved and that the rest of the site should be demolished.

A scheme was then devised that the prison should be restored and a museum built using voluntary labour and donated materials.

He was berated by Richard Dawkins ( among others ), who said: " If the museum was to go down that road then perhaps they should bring in the Stork theory of where babies come from.

Or perhaps the museum should introduce the flat Earth theory ".

The Biodome should not be confused with the Biosphère, a Montreal museum about the St. Lawrence river located inside the geodesic dome that once housed the American pavilion for Expo 67.

As Wolverine rushes to the museum to help from the bar and Cyclops flies in from Utopia, Idie asks if she should kill the Hellfire Club to help.

This led to suggestions that the plate, considered important as the oldest-known written artefact from Australia's European history, should be acquired for an Australian museum, but the Dutch authorities have made it clear that the plate is not for sale.

President Kenneth Paulson stated that the " cuts are spread throughout the organization, but should not affect the experience of museum visitors ".

In 1996, LACMA's board of trustees decided that the traditional dual role of director as chief administrator / artistic director should be split, and appointed Andrea Rich as president and chief executive officer of the museum, while Graham W. J. Beal ran its artistic programs.

A Buddha in the gardens of the Museum In 1904, some leading citizens of Bombay decided to provide a museum to commemorate the visit of the Prince of Wales, the future King George V. On June 22, 1904, the committee passed a resolution saying, " The building should have a handsome and noble structure befitting the site selected, and in keeping with the best style of local architecture ".

James Cubitt, a British architect, who firmly believed that the Parthenon Marbles, as integral architectural members of a unique and internationally valuable monument, should be assembled together in a museum as close to the Acropolis as possible.

The purpose of the museum is that it should house a collection of pictures, specimens and models to illustrate " the history, development and beauty of the various branches of knowledge ".

Pietro Maria Bardi, formerly owner of commercial galleries in Milan and Rome, was in charge of searching and selecting the works which should be acquired, while Chateaubriand had to look for donors and patrons who shared his dream of endowing the country with a museum of international standard.

Microclimates are commonly created and carefully maintained in museum display and storage environments.

Today it is operated as a museum and had been carefully preserved by generations of historical society members.

Footcandles are also commonly used in the museum and gallery fields, where lighting levels must be carefully controlled to conserve light-sensitive objects such as prints, photographs, and paintings, the colors of which fade when exposed to bright light for a lengthy period.

It is well documented, has been carefully restored, and is open to the public as a museum.

The conservatory leads to the second and third domes, which house the museum containing dioramas and exhibits of carefully preserved, exquisite butterflies.

' Scheduled ' listed buildings include the St. John's Guildhall of 1681, and the carefully restored Foresters Cottages, Chantry House with its 15th-century window, the 16th-century town house ( now a local museum ), the Maltings ( now converted into flats ), and a small brick house which was first built in 1681 as a school by the Merchant Taylors.

From the foundation of the heritage harbour in 1977, the south side of the canal has been reserved for museum ships owned by the Danish National Museum, which received a donation of carefully restored ships from A. P. Møller, while the northern side of the canal was put at the disposal of the Nyhavn Society and privately-owned, still usable wooden ships.

In 1935, they donated to the Dutch people their entire collection totaling approximately 12, 000 objects, on condition that a large museum be built in the gardens of her park.

More than 100 instruments, including approximately 50 historical viola da gambas in playable condition, are the property of this new concept of museum: the Orpheon Foundation Museum of Historical Instruments.

The winner of the Daytona 500 is presented with the Harley J. Earl Trophy in Victory Lane, and the winning car is displayed, in race-winning condition, for one year at Daytona 500 Experience, a museum and gallery adjacent to Daytona International Speedway.

It now serves as a museum containing possessions and works of art from the Glastonbury Lake Village which were preserved in almost perfect condition in the peat after the village was abandoned.

The Aquarium was built in 1882 on land leased from the city on condition that only a museum ever be built on it.

In the last few years of her life, she gave up acting altogether and worked at a museum in Pittsburgh while receiving treatment for her condition at an outpatient clinic.

The museum is a rich response to Melbourne ’ s urban condition, and provides a place for education, history, culture and society to engage with each other in a contemporary setting.

The Society also wishes to create a memorial and museum for Luckner in Halle, and to restore Luckners ' yacht, Seeteufel, which is currently in a poor condition in Russia.

In 1986, the State turned over the property to the City of Los Angeles on the condition that it be operated as a Civil War museum.

In 1965, he sold his collection to the municipality of Portalegre with the condition of it buying his house, restore it and transform it into a museum.

In 1929, the Markeaton Hall and twenty acres ( 81, 000 m² ) of its gardens were given to the Corporation by the Reverend Clarke Maxwell who had inherited the estate from the late Mrs Mundy, on condition that the whole area would be used as a public park and that the mansion would be maintained for cultural purposes, for example a museum or and art gallery.

The railway also has a number of other steam locomotives from various sources, either on static display in its museum or in operating condition.

He found that most of the items donated to the museum by Hans Sloane were in very bad condition.

Unlike most other collections displayed in a static museum environment, many of the historic aircraft have been restored to flying condition.

He subsequently became Head of Education and Research at the resulting National Railway Museum ( NRM ), where he was responsible for refurbishment to running condition of major locomotives and vehicles, so that national tours would promote the museum.

The museum was founded in 1884 by General Augustus Pitt Rivers, who donated his collection to the University of Oxford with the condition that a permanent lecturer in anthropology must be appointed.

The museum maintains a steam locomotive in operating condition and its use is scheduled for each third Saturday, September through May, certain special events and major holidays.

New York Central # 2500 is preserved in operating condition but lacking a cooling fan at the Lake Shore Railway Historical Society museum in North East, Pennsylvania.

Ludborough station has been restored to its original condition and is a working station museum, complete with an operational signal box.

While living in the Villa des Brillants Rodin used the Hôtel Biron as his workshop from 1908, and subsequently donated his entire collection of sculptures ( along with paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Pierre-Auguste Renoir that he had acquired ) to the French State on the condition that they turn the buildings into a museum dedicated to his works.

The museum showcases the community's history, including an exhibition of antique farm tractors all freshly restored and in running condition.

The lions ' skins arrived at the museum in very poor condition.

The laboratory where Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin has been restored to its cramped condition of 1928 and incorporated into a museum about the discovery and his life and work.

While the museum's own aircraft were not restored to flying condition, by cooperating with private groups the museum was able to mount its first airshow in 1973.