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

In 1997, Cologne transformed the former regional Gestapo headquarters in Cologne — the EL-DE Haus — into a museum to document the Gestapos actions.

She was paid off in 1997 and opened as a museum ship in 2001.

The Jell-O Gallery museum is operated by the Le Roy Historical Society and located at the Le Roy House and Union Free School, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

In 1970, the Vindolanda Trust, a registered charity, was founded to administer the site and its museum, and in 1997, the Trust took over the running of the Roman Army Museum at Carvoran, another Hadrian's Wall fort, which it had acquired in 1972.

* British — Hockney, David: Troop of Actors and Acrobats ( 1980 ; one of stage designs for Satie's Parade under # Ballet, cabaret, and Pierrot troupes | Ballet, cabaret, and Pierrot troupes above ), paintings on Munich museum walls for group exhibition on Pierrot ( 1995 ); Self, Colin: Pierrot Blowing Dandelion Clock ( 1997 ).

By this time Murdoch had already built a working model of his steam carriage, which was held in the Museum of Science and Industry, Birmingham until its closure in 1997 and is now at Thinktank, Birmingham's new science museum ; accounts exist from witnesses who " saw the model steam carriage run around Murdoch's living room in Redruth in 1784 ".

While the museum is located in Cleveland, prior to 2009 the induction ceremony was annually held in New York City ( except in 1993, when the ceremony was held in Los Angeles, and in 1997, when the ceremony was held in Cleveland ).

In 1997 the Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi beat out ten other international architects to win the competition to execute the redesign of the museum, which after being closed in Manhattan for a time during the process ( a temporary space was opened in Long Island City, Queens ) reopened in 2004.

On October 18, 1997, the museum was opened by Juan Carlos I of Spain.

The exhibition which the museum organised to celebrate the centennial of the 1899 renaming, " A Grand Design ", first toured in North America from 1997 ( Baltimore Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ), returning to London in 1999.

Its international network of museums expanded in 1997 to include the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Bilbao, Spain and the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, and it expects to open a new museum, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, in 2017.

In 1997 the museum was privatised again.

The exhibit opened at the Washington, D. C. museum complex in 1997 and later went on a national tour which lasted until 2002 and visited various museums, including the San Diego Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Toledo Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum.

Formerly located at the Thessaloniki Archaeological Museum, since 1997 ) displayed in the underground museum of Vergina, inside the Great Tumulus.

While continuing to run the Pictureville Cinema and exhibitions in a mill on the other side of the city, the museum closed its main site on 31 August 1997 to allow for a 19-month, £ 16 million redevelopment making the museum 25 percent bigger.

Notable exhibits in the museum are Thrust2 and ThrustSSC, the British jet cars which broke the land speed record in 1983 and 1997 respectively and some of the Royal cars-Queen Mary's and King George VI's State limousines.

This museum was opened in September 2001, after a renovation project beginning in 1997 restored interior and exterior features such as stone sculptures as well as the original floor plan.

The next enlargement was the incorporation of two buildings ( nearby but not adjacent ) into the institutional structure of the museum: the Casón del Buen Retiro, which is equipped to display up to 400 paintings and which housed the bulk of the 20th century art from 1971 to 1997, and the Salon de Reinos ( Throne building ), formerly the Army Museum.

While working at Borgward Focke set up a wind tunnel in a disused hangar in central Bremen ; this wind tunnel was rediscovered in 1997 and is today the centerpiece of a museum devoted to him.

It ran at the museum 1997 – 2005 when the engine needed more boiler work.

Many recent additions to the collection were financed by sales of works from an 1, 800-piece holding of 20th century Mexican art compiled by dealer-collectors Bernard and Edith Lewin and given to the museum in 1997.

ARIN opened its doors for business on December 22, 1997 after incorporating on April 18, 1997.

The Weston Gallery of Roman Britain, opened in 1997, displayed a number of recently discovered hoards which demonstrated the richness of what had been considered an unimportant part of the Roman Empire.

In January 1997, the United Kingdom television station Channel 4 carried a news report that suggested that members of the Royal Anglian Regiment had also opened fire on the protesters and could have been responsible for three of the fourteen deaths.

The Cayman Islands Stock Exchange was opened in 1997.

Charles has opened the National Lottery draw ( 1997 ) and his home has featured on Through the Keyhole.

The Great Belt Fixed Link connecting the islands of Zealand ( Denmark ) | Zealand and Funen across the Great Belt was opened in 1997

The Great Belt Fixed Link ( opened in 1997 ) connecting the islands of Zealand and Funen and the New Little Belt Bridge ( opened in 1970 ) connecting Funen and Jutland have improved the traffic flow across the country on both motorways and rail.

Greenpeace East Asia's first China office was opened in Hong Kong in 1997.

The Electoral success of New Labour in 1997, which would be led by two Prime Ministers with Scottish connections, Tony Blair ( who was brought up in Scotland ) from 1997 to 2007 and Gordon Brown from 2007 – 10, opened the way for constitutional change.

The agreement was opened for signature on January 26, 1994, and entered into force on January 1, 1997.

Recent large infrastructure projects were the construction of the Great Seto Bridge and the Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line ( opened 1997 ).

The National Stadium, which was used by Wales national rugby union team, was officially opened on 7 April 1984, however in 1997 it was demolished to make way for the Millennium Stadium in 1999, which hosted the 1999 Rugby World Cup and became the national stadium of Wales.

In 1997, just thirteen years after the National Stadium had opened, it was considered too small and did not have the facilities required of the time and it was demolished and a new stadium, the Millennium Stadium, was built in its place ( completed to a north-south alignment and opened in June 1999 ).

* 1997 – The Maeslantkering, a storm surge barrier in the Netherlands that is one of the world's largest moving structures, is opened by Queen Beatrix.

" Foundress Court " was opened in 1997 in celebration of the College's 650th Anniversary.

They opened for Super Furry Animals on tour in 1997, and released their debut album for Creation, Mount Everest.

Taco Bell later opened in 1997 in Australia with a store in the cinema district on George St in Sydney and a year later in 1998 within a few KFC stores in the state of New South Wales, but by 2005, the Taco Bell brand was pulled out of the country.

The opening of the first manufacturing plant in Turkey, located in İzmit, was done on the September 20, 1997 and due to the unexpectedly high demand a second plant was opened later in Kozyatağı, in collaboration with Isuzu Anadol, for CKD assembling only.

Gattaca was released in theaters on October 24, 1997, and opened at number 5 at the box office ; trailing I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Devil's Advocate, Kiss the Girls, and Seven Years in Tibet.

After more than five decades of speculation and debate, the decision to construct the link was made in 1986 ; while the original intent was to complete the railway link three years before opening the road connection, the link was opened to rail traffic in 1997 and road traffic in 1998.