Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.

Until 1997, when the British Library ( previously centred on the Round Reading Room ) moved to a new site, the British Museum was unique in that it housed both a national museum of antiquities and a national library in the same building.

The British Museum was the first of a new kind of museum – national, belonging to neither church nor king, freely open to the public and aiming to collect everything.

The Government suggested a site at St Pancras for the new British Library but the books did not leave the museum until 1997.

* Florida International University's Wolfsonian museum hosted the Thoughts on Democracy exhibition that displayed posters created by sixty leading contemporary artists and designers, invited to create a new graphic design inspired by American illustrator Norman Rockwell ’ s “ Four Freedoms ” posters of 1943.

Most of the old park was to be demolished to make room for new development, with one section remaining to house a baseball museum and public park.

Large crowds visited the new museum, and critics generally voiced their approval.

At the same time, Pei designed a new museum for Luxembourg, the Musée d ' art moderne Grand-Duc Jean, commonly known as the Mudam.

The four Industrial art works atop the support towers of the Kansas City Convention Center ( Bartle Hall ) were once the subject of ridicule but now define the night skyline near the new Sprint Center along with One Kansas City Place ( the tallest office tower structure in Missouri ), the KCTV-Tower with its hundreds of lit bulbs ( the tallest freestanding structure in Missouri ), and the Liberty Memorial, a WWI memorial and museum, which flaunts simulated flames and smoke billowing into the night skyline.

During the Second French Empire, between 1852 and 1870, the French economy grew ; by 1870 the museum had added 20, 000 new pieces to its collections, and the Pavillon de Flore and the Grande Galérie were remodelled under architects Louis Visconti and Hector Lefuel.

When the d ' Orsay train station was converted into the Musée d ' Orsay in 1986, the collection was split, and pieces completed after the 1848 Revolution were moved to the new museum.

But he discovers that the new country he is sent to is in fact the country of the Tree and Forest of his great painting, now long abandoned and all but destroyed ( except for the one perfect leaf of the title which is placed in the local museum ) in the home to which he cannot return — but the Tree here and now in this place is the true realization of his vision, not the flawed and incomplete form of his painting.

In 2007, a new museum opened at the site in which archeological findings are displayed in a theatrical setting.

* Photographic tour of old and new Pergamon, including the museum

The notion of selling a brand rather than marketing clothes was further emphasised in the Prada store in New York, which had previously been owned by the Guggenheim: the museum signs were not removed during the outfitting of the new store, as if emphasizing the premises as a cultural institution.

* Riverside Museum, a new museum of transport in Glasgow, Scotland, opened in 2011.

It enabled the construction of the world's largest facility dedicated exclusively to stem cell research, an entirely new campus for the business school, added dramatically to the law school, a brand-new engineering quad, created a new art and art history building, an on-campus concert hall, a new art museum, and a planned expansion of the medical school, among others.

This new city-center was planned to include a public museum, library, sports stadium, and city hall.

In 1924, museum president Henry Fairfield Osborn designated the skull and claw ( which he assumed to come from the hand ) as the type specimen of his new genus, Velociraptor.

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.

Today the museum has three sites including its new headquarters in Leeds.

A change in leadership may ultimately effect changes at the museum, as new directors commonly have new ideas for the institution they work for.

The hands and their bosses saw him as a lone knight of the range, waging a dedicated crusade against a lawless new society that was threatening a beloved way of life.

In 1929 a new church in Bath was dedicated to Saint Ælfheah, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in homage to the ancient Roman church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin.

* 1093 – The new Winchester Cathedral is dedicated by Walkelin.

Aelia came from Hadrian's nomen gentile, Aelius, while Capitolina meant that the new city was dedicated to Jupiter Capitolinus, to whom a temple was built on the site of the former Jewish temple, the Temple Mount.

However, with the exception of the Grammy Award-winning " Nightshift " (# 3 in the U. S., a tribute to Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson ; in 2010 a new version was recorded dedicated to Michael Jackson ), the band never achieved the same level of success it had enjoyed with Richie.

Tramlink runs on a mixture of street track shared with other traffic, dedicated track in public roads, and off-street track consisting of new rights-of-way, former railway lines, and one section of alignment, though not track, shared with a third rail electrified Network Rail line.

After the battle of Plataea, the Greek cities extinguished their fires and brought new fire from the hearth of Greece, at Delphi ; in the foundation stories of several Greek colonies, the founding colonists were first dedicated at Delphi.

Most established DBMSs now support unstructured data in various ways, and new dedicated DBMSs are emerging.

The German American Rockefeller family's Rockefeller Foundation made a large donation enabling the development of a new dedicated building for the institute, along Kraepelin's guidelines, which was officially opened in 1928.

The London Short Film Festival is a BAFTA-affiliated festival which takes place in January every year and is dedicated to finding and showcasing the work of new UK talent, including specific screenings for low budget work.

On January 6, 2012, NBC president Robert Greenblatt announced at the Television Critics Association winter press tour that Harry Connick, Jr. had been cast in a four-episode arc of NBC's long-running legal drama, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as new Executive ADA, David Haden, a dedicated, straight-shooting prosecutor who is assigned a case with Detective Benson ( Mariska Hargitay ).

He introduced a centralized, dedicated, and disciplined military force not seen in the region, with a new weapon in the short stabbing-spear.

The new backbone as a result of the SuperJanet5 project is a hybrid network offering, providing both a high speed IP transit service and private bandwidth channel services provisioned over a dedicated fibre network.

Pioneering efforts came from such dedicated and learned people like Prof. Hemchandra Das Gupta, Prof. Hiralal Roy, Prof. Satish Chandra Bhattacharyya, and many others, who introduced new disciplines and domains of engineering and changed the dimensions of the colonial engineering education.

Two weeks after Booker T. Washington came to visit Occidental, on March 27, 1914 — the school ’ s 25th anniversary — Swan, Fowler, and Johnson halls were dedicated at its new Eagle Rock campus.

During his pontificate, he added a new chapel to the Papal Palace and dedicated it to St. Peter.

He turned his family mansion in Rome into a monastery, St. Agatha in Suburra, endowing it with expensive and precious vessels for use at the altar, and also established a new church, dedicated to Sant ' Eustachio.

The new gate was officially dedicated on 23 August 1824.

Bedford Associates started a new company dedicated to developing, manufacturing, selling, and servicing this new product: Modicon, which stood for MOdular DIgital CONtroller.

It led Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture ( OMA ) to create a new company, AMO, exclusively dedicated to the investigation and performance in this realm.

In 2002 an entire special show was dedicated to her on sister show TOTP2, in which Twain herself introduced some past performances of her greatest hits and new singles from Up!