In 2005, $ 9 million was raised to renovate the building and convert it into a museum.

Two tantalizing photos were given to Louisiana State University museum director George Lowery in 1971 by a source who wished to remain anonymous but who came forward in 2005 as outdoorsman Fielding Lewis.

There have been numerous museum shows of Bearden's work since then, including a 1971 show at the Museum of Modern Art entitled Prevalence of Ritual, an exhibition of his highly prized prints entitled A Graphic Odyssey showing the work of the last fifteen years of his life, and the 2005 National Gallery of Art retrospective entitled The Art of Romare Bearden.

Located across the street from the Governor's mansion at 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive in Oklahoma City, the museum opened in 2005 and is operated by the Oklahoma Historical Society.

He has exhibited at documenta ( 1972, 1982 ) and the Venice Biennale ( 1976 ), and his solo museum shows include the Centre Pompidou ( 1991 ), Los Angeles County Museum of Art ( 2003 ), Art Institute of Chicago ( 2005 ) and Santa Monica Museum of Art ( 2008 ).

According to a report issued in 2007 by the Basque Court of Auditors, the museum paid more than US $ 27 million for the acquisition of art between 2002 and 2005, including Serra's ' The Matter of Time ' for the cavernous ground-floor gallery.

To date several galleries have been redesigned, notably, in 2002: the main Silver Gallery, Contemporary ; in 2003: Photography, the main entrance, The Painting Galleries ; in 2004: the tunnel to the subway leading to South Kensington tube station, New signage throughout the museum, architecture, V & A and RIBA reading rooms and stores, metalware, Members ' Room, contemporary glass, the Gilbert Bayes sculpture gallery ; in 2005: portrait miniatures, prints and drawings, displays in Room 117, the garden, sacred silver and stained glass ; in 2006: Central Hall Shop, Islamic Middle East, the new café, sculpture galleries.

The museum was built in 2005 and is housed in the same building as the Scotland Public Library.

Members of the Chanute Historical Society opened the museum in June 2005.

In 2005, the Arab American National Museum ( AANM ) opened in Dearborn, the first museum in the world devoted to Arab-American history and culture.

Yellowstone National Park Heritage and Research Center, which opened May 18, 2005 is located in Gardiner, MT and houses National Park Service archives, Yellowstone museum collections and reference libraries.

The museum opened its doors in 2005.

A James Paterson museum existed within the village until 2005 displaying photographs and memorabilia from the collection of his grand-daughter, Anne Paterson-Wallace.

Other significant locomotives include: Bonnie Dundee, built in 1900 as a-gauge tank engine before being donated to the R & ER by a member and converted to-gauge, later converted again from tank to tender configuration ; Synolda, a twin to the original loco Sans Pareil, built in 1912, saved from Belle Vue Zoo in 1978 and now in the railway museum ; Shelagh of Eskdale, a 4-6-4 diesel built in 1969 incorporating parts of the Heywood loco Ella ; Perkins, a rebuilt 0-4-4 diesel engine, which started as a quarry shunter before being rebuilt into the steam-outlined Passenger Tractor and then again in 1984 into its current guise ; Douglas Ferreira, a B-B diesel loco constructed in 2005 and named after the general manager of the R & ER from 1961 to 1994.

The museum closed its doors on October 31, 2005, after years of dwindling attendance.

In 2003 the railway received a £ 682, 500 Heritage Lottery grant towards the £ 1, 170, 000 cost of redeveloping Wharf station, and the new station and museum were officially opened by Prince Charles and The Duchess of Cornwall on 13 July 2005.

The Newark Torc, a major silver and gold Iron Age torc, the first in Nottinghamshire and very similar to those found at Snettisham, was found in 2005 in what is now a field on the outskirts of Newark, and in 2008 was acquired by the town's museum.

In 2005 the War Rooms were rebranded as the Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms, with 850 m < sup > 2 </ sup > of the site redeveloped as a biographical museum exploring Churchill's life.

On the south side of the plaza are the Portales de Ex-Palacio de Gobierno, which was vacated by the government in 2005 and then reopened as a museum called " Museo del Palacio ' Espacio de Diversidad '" Other portals include the " Portal de Mercadores " on the eastern side, " Portal de Claverias " on the north side and the " Portal del Señor " on the west side.

Between 1999 and 2005, a stretch of the canal near Moira was restored and re-filled with water, passing the historic Moira Furnace, a blast furnace from the 19th century which has been converted to provide visitor facilities including a craft centre, museum and cafe.

In October 2005, in cooperation with the Majdanek museum, four Majdanek survivors returned to the site and enabled archaeologists to find some 50 objects which had been buried by inmates, including watches, earrings, and wedding rings.

By 2005, the museum had attracted over 90, 000 visitors.

It is a contemporary art museum which opened in 2005.

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

HDMS Absalon ( L16 ) and Esbern Snare ( L17 ) were launched and commissioned by Denmark in 2004 and 2005.

In 2005 The Arbroath Abbey campaign was launched.

The system was formally launched on 1 September 2005, and in 2008 the Bundestag moved to a new system based on its evaluation.

In September 2005, BBCi launched an update to the interactivity available from the BBC's Radio channels on Freeview.

An international version of the countdown was launched on BBC World News on 5 September 2005 featuring more international content and similar music.

Sony officially discourages the payment of real-world money for online goods, except on certain " Station Exchange " servers in EQ2, launched in July 2005.

Cable & Wireless launched " Touch " a GSM 900 mobile service during December 2005.

In 2005, a similar ad campaign was launched by Sony and executed by TATS CRU in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Miami to market its handheld PSP gaming system.

The first experimental satellite, GIOVE-A, was launched in 2005 and was followed by a second test satellite, GIOVE-B, launched in 2008.

GIOVE # GIOVE-A | GIOVE-A was successfully launched 28 December 2005.

It was built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd ( SSTL ), and successfully launched on 28 December 2005 by the European Space Agency and the Galileo Joint.

In 2005 the Irish Government launched Transport 21, a plan envisaging the investment of € 34 billion in transport infrastructure from 2006 until 2015.

In 2005 the RSA launched the Adelphi Charter, aimed at creating an international policy statement to frame how governments should make balanced intellectual property law.

On November 21, 2005 Hezbollah launched an attack along the entire border with Israel, the heaviest in the five and a half years since Israel's withdrawal.

Test production of the Lada 1118 sedan started in November 2004 and full-scale assembly was launched in May 2005.

Several major computer-related organizations have originated at MIT since the 1980s: Richard Stallman's GNU Project and the subsequent Free Software Foundation were founded in the mid-1980s at the AI Lab ; the MIT Media Lab was founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte and Jerome Wiesner to promote research into novel uses of computer technology ; the World Wide Web Consortium standards organization was founded at the Laboratory for Computer Science in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee ; the OpenCourseWare project has made course materials for over 2, 000 MIT classes available online free of charge since 2002 ; and the One Laptop per Child initiative to expand computer education and connectivity to children worldwide was launched in 2005.

* 2005 – The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

ADSL services were launched in 2005 in Oman through the provider Omantel, the only ISP in Oman.

In March 2005, the U. S. and Oman launched negotiations on a Free Trade Agreement that were successfully concluded in October 2005.

* 2005 – The SSETI Express micro-satellite is successfully launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.

* 2005 – The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fèi Jùnlóng and Niè Hǎishèng for five days in orbit.

In September 2005, Playboy launched the online edition of the magazine Playboy Digital.

The busiest, BRT line 1, running on the Nan Zhongzhouxian ( South Central Axis Line ), launched at the end of December 2005.