The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu House in Bloomsbury, on the site of the current museum building.

The Great Court, opened in 2000, while undoubtedly improving circulation around the museum, was criticised for having a lack of exhibition space at a time when the museum was in serious financial difficulties and many galleries were closed to the public.

In 2008, the BJU Museum & Gallery opened a satellite location, the " Museum & Gallery at Heritage Green " near downtown Greenville, which features rotating exhibitions from the main museum as well as interactive children's activities.

His final home in the area, Manoir de Ban, is in the process of being converted into a museum exploring his life and career, to be opened in 2013.

It opened on February 21, 1828, and today is a dental museum.

A Fujiko F Fujio museum opened in Kawasaki on September 3, 2011, featuring Doraemon as the star of the museum.

Despite this, a museum exhibit opened in his honor, in which its owner claims it to be the country's smallest Presidential Library.

On 27 January 2011 a memorial and museum dedicated to the Holocaust victims killed using Topf ovens was opened at the former company premises in Erfurt.

That exhibition served as a bridge to the museum ’ s plans for an expanded exhibition on first ladies ’ history that opened on November 19, 2011.

Due to the threat of war, plans for a lavish museum were never implemented, but once the war was over it was possible to construct the relatively understated but well-lit modern exhibition extension, opened in 1977, that now houses much of the collection.

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

The museum opened on 10 August 1793 with an exhibition of 537 paintings, the majority of the works being royal and confiscated church property.

The museum opened on 10 August 1793, the first anniversary of the monarchy's demise.

On 26 December 2009, Moderna Museet (" the modern museum ") opened its first outpost in the old Rooseum building in Malmö.

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

The artist's birthplace opened as a museum in 1991

Near the Palm House is a building known as " Museum No. 1 " ( even though it is the only museum on the site ), which was designed by Decimus Burton and opened in 1857.

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

The island ’ s two-floor museum situated in a building near the base of Jacob ’ s Ladder was opened the same year and is operated by the St Helena Heritage Society.

In summer 2010, the world's first permanent airport library opened alongside the museum, providing passengers access to a collection of 1, 200 books ( translated into 29 languages ) by Dutch authors or on subjects relating to the country ’ s history and culture.

* The Urho Kekkonen museum was opened in Tamminiemi in 1987.

* September 5 – In Paris, the Louvre Palace is opened to the public as a museum.

In his transmittal, he states: " I am transmitting herewith, for the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, and Stockpiling of Bacteriological ( Biological ) and Toxin Weapons, and on their Destruction, opened for signature at Washington, London and Moscow on April 10, 1972.

The stand, which cost £ 334, 000 and held 4, 200 seats, was opened with a friendly game against Benfica in February 1972, ( which included Eusebio ).

First opened for use in 1972, the facility is located on 385 acres ( 1. 6 km < sup > 2 </ sup >) of woodland.

Truman Sports Complex, with Arrowhead and Kaufmann Stadiums, opened in 1972 – 73.

The first highway in Slovenia, the A1 motorway connecting Vrhnika and Postojna, was opened in 1972, but the construction was really speed up in 1994, when the National Assembly enacted the first National Motorway Construction Programme.

The first highway in Slovenia, the A1, was opened in 1972.

The KTA Central Dojang had been opened in South Korea in 1972, and a few months later, the name was changed to the Kukkiwon.

The present route was designated by the Government in 1972, and opened as a National Trail in 1973.

Fonda appeared in a revival of The Time of Your Life that opened in March 17, 1972 at the Huntington Hartford Theater in Los Angeles where Fonda, Richard Dreyfuss, Gloria Grahame, Ron Thompson, Strother Martin, Jane Alexander, Lewis J. Stadlen, Richard X. Slattery and Pepper Martin were among the cast with Edwin Sherin directing.

The palace opened to the public in 1972 as a museum containing such exhibits as statues formerly displayed by the cathedral, treasures of the cathedral from past centuries, and royal attire from coronations of French kings.

The museum was opened in 1952 as the Montagu Motor Museum and became a charitable trust in 1972.

Cardonald College, one of Scotland's largest further education colleges, opened in 1972, and rapidly expanded in recent times.

Officially opened in 1972, the museum focuses on Islamic history, natural history, Brunei artifacts and customs, ceramics and the oil industry of Brunei.

In 1972, the French Navy opened its nuclear weapon-submarine ( deterrence ) base at Île Longue in the Rade de Brest ( Brest roadstead ).

Israel opened its embassy in Seoul in April 1968, which was closed by the Israeli government in February 1972.

During 1972, a musical play based on the screenplay of the film, entitled Sugar, opened on Broadway, starring Elaine Joyce, Robert Morse, Tony Roberts and Cyril Ritchard, with book by Peter Stone, lyrics by Bob Merrill, and ( all-new ) music by Jule Styne.

In 1947 streetcar routes were opened in the city, trolleybus routes in 1972.

This section opened between 1967 and 1972, but in that time, two portions of the Route 35 Freeway had been cancelled.

The Wright's Ferry Bridge, which opened in 1972, only served to divert traffic around Columbia.

In November 1972, the film opened to enthusiastic audiences at Radio City Music Hall, but it fared poorly in theaters.

A second main-line station serving Bristol,, opened in 1972.

The station opened on 1 May 1972 with temporary buildings.

The land along the Paluxy River for Dinosaur Valley State Park was purchased by the State of Texas in 1968, and the park opened to the public in 1972.

Fairfield Lake State Park was opened to the public in 1972.

" World of Birds " first opened in 1972.