Museums, such as the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, have popular collections of mineral specimens on permanent display.

Monuments and museums such as the Vatican Museums and the Colosseum are amongst the world's 50 most visited tourist destinations ( the Vatican Museums receiving 4. 2 million tourists and the Colosseum receiving 4 million tourists every year ).

Various departments and offices report to the Governorate, handling such issues as communications, internal security, fire protection, and the Vatican Museums.

* Museums such as National Packard Museum, the John Stark Edwards House and Museum, the Sutliff Museum and the Trumbull Art Gallery.

Mail Art has been exhibited in alternative spaces such as private apartments, municipal buildings, and shop windows, as well as in galleries and important Museums worldwide.

Museums, cinemas, and galleries are abundant in all the large urban centers, as well as traditional establishments such as literary bars, or bars offering live music of a variety of genres.

They later became known for their philanthropy in diverse areas such as modern art and aviation, including several Guggenheim Museums as well as the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory and I. M. Pei's Guggenheim Pavilion at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City.

Together with other museums such as Stockholm Maritime Museum, the museum belongs to the Swedish National Maritime Museums ( SNMM ).

It is not to be confused with the various other Museums of Glass, such as the one in Corning, New York, as the museum focuses on Contemporary and Pacific Northwest glass-art.

Baldwin Locomotive Works manufactured Steam Dummy or Steam Motors for many American tramways and exported to places such as Australia and New Zealand, where two both built in 1891 survive at Museums today.

This is also why the material culture of ' civilized ' nations such as China have historically been displayed in fine arts museums alongside European art while artifacts from Africa or Native North American cultures were displayed in Natural History Museums with dinosaur bones and nature dioramas.

For one such example, in the early eighteenth century Pierre-Étienne Monnot restored a torso that is now recognized as an example of Myron's Discobolus as a Wounded Gladiator who supports himself on his arm as he sinks to the ground ; the completed sculpture was donated before 1734 by Pope Clement XII to the Capitoline Museums, where it remains.

Examples of such decoration can be seen in the Victoria and Albert, and British Museums.

Another such library is the Museums Library, located in the Ruthven Museums building.

The Bowers has been accredited by the American Association of Museums and has been widely acclaimed in broadcast and in print, including many national magazines such as U. S. News & World Report.

Consisting of the Canberra Museum and Gallery, the Nolan Collection and ACT Historic Places ( Lanyon, Calthorpes ’ House and Mugga Mugga ), ACT Museums and Galleries delivers a range of cultural services to the community in providing activities such as exhibitions, public and education programs, as well as through collecting, conserving and presenting significant aspects

A board of 25 trustees ( with the Director as their accounting officer for the purposes of reporting to Government ) is responsible for the general management and control of the Museum, in accordance with the British Museum Act 1963 and the Museums and Galleries Act 1992.

A. Bennett, ' Museums and the Establishment of the History of Science at Oxford and Cambridge ', British Journal for the History of Science 30, 1997, 29 – 46

The system was featured in a conference held by the British Museum in November 1994, and in the subsequent technical paper, Imaging the Past-Electronic Imaging and Computer Graphics in Museums and Archaeology.

It has perished, but late copies exist, of which the most faithful is in the Vatican Museums. Marble lion on display in the British Museum, London In a temple enclosure Newton discovered a fine seated statue of Demeter, which he sent back to the British Museum, and about three miles south-east of the city he came upon the ruins of a splendid tomb, and a colossal figure of a lion carved out of one block of Pentelic marble, ten feet in length and six in height, which has been supposed to commemorate the great naval victory, the Battle of Cnidus in which Conon defeated the Lacedaemonians in 394 BC.

That Livy's euhemerist and realist deflation of this myth, so central to the origins of Rome, was not general is demonstrated by the recurring theme of Mars discovering Rhea Silvia – the Latinists ' " invention " ( to come upon ) of Rhea Silvia " – in Roman arts: in bas-relief on the Casali Altar ( Vatican Museums ), in engraved couched glass on the Portland Vase ( British Museum ), or on a sarcophagus in the Palazzo Mattei.

Imperial War Museums ( IWM ) is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London.

Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Australia ; The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois ; Arts Council, England ; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, England ; The British Museum, London, England ; City Art Gallery, Leeds Museums and Galleries, England ; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio ; Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine ; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts ; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York ; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C .; Imperial War Museum, London, England ; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin ; Iziko Museum of Cape Town, South Africa ; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York ; The Fred Jones, Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman ; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska ; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ; Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, England ; MIT-List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts ; Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany ; Museum Neuhaus — Sammlung Liaunig, Austria ; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois ; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California ; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts ; The Museum of Modern Art, New York ; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C .; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra ; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York ; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D. C .; Portland Museum of Art, Maine ; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Gallery, Edinburgh ; Southampton City Art Gallery, England ; Tate Gallery, London, England ; Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland ; The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor ; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England ; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond ; The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England ; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York ; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut.

The Norwich Society of Artists, 1805-1833: a dictionary of contributors and their work ( Norfolk Museums Service for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 1976 ).

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He was a member of the Board of the British Council ( and Chairman of its Scottish Committee ) from 1993 – 2002 ; a Director of the Martin Currie Pacific Trust from 1993 – 2002 and Chairman of the Trustees of the National Museums of Scotland from 2002-06.

Among the works attributed to him are the so-called Horses of Saint Mark, Eros Stringing the Bow ( of which various copies exist, the best in the British Museum ), Agias ( known through the marble copy found and preserved in Delphi ), the similar Oil Pourer ( Dresden and Munich ), the Farnese Hercules ( which was originally placed in the Baths of Caracalla, although the surviving marble copy lies in the Naples National Archaeological Museum ) and Apoxyomenos ( or The Scraper, known from a Roman marble copy in the Vatican Museums ).

In Britain his work is represented in the Tate, Arts Council of Great Britain, Henry Moore Institute and Leeds Museums & Galleries, British Museum.

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' Museums and the Establishment of the History of Science at Oxford and Cambridge ', British Journal for the History of Science 30, 1997, 29 – 46

Tea cosy needlework art is captured by a collection of the Norfolk Museums and Archeology Service on contemporary British artists and artisans.

He is also President of the British Association of Friends of Museums, a position he has held since 1995, and was a member ( 1988 – 1998 ) and Vice Chairman ( 1996 – 1998 ) of the Museums and Galleries Commission.

Category: Museums in Victoria, British Columbia

It seems the series of Pericles portrait busts derive from it, of which there are examples at the Vatican Museums, British Museum ( found at Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, and owned by Charles Townley ) and Altes Museum.

Marsyas under Apollo's punishment ; Istanbul Archaeology Museums | İstanbul Archaeology Museum.

Conservation, as a distinct field of study, initially developed in Germany, when in 1888 Friedrich Rathgen became the first chemist to be employed by a Museum, the Koniglichen Museen, Berlin ( Royal Museums of Berlin ).

Likewise, the Museum of the Ancient Orient, part of the Istanbul Archaeology Museums, also has a " Code of Hammurabi " clay tablet, dated to 1750 BC, in ( Room 5, Inv # Ni 2358 ).

Zeitschriftenverzeichnis des Museums für Naturkunde Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 14: 1 – 187

* Museum and Virtual Library ( Museums of Central Bank of Ecuador ) english

Museums, Theaters and other Cultural Sites: Conservatoire de musique at Place Neuve 5, Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques, Fonds cantonal d ' art contemporain, Ile Rousseau and statue, Institute and Museum of Voltaire with Library and Archives, Mallet House and Museum international de la Réforme, Musée Ariana, Musée d ' Art et d ' Histoire, Museum d ' art moderne et contemporain, Museum d ' ethnographie, Museum of the International Red Cross, Musée Rath, Muséum d ' histoire naturelle, Salle communale de Plainpalais et théâtre Pitoëff, Villa Bartholoni et Museum d ' Histoire et Sciences

The University Museums consist of the Brunnier Art Museum, Farm House Museum, the Art on Campus Program, the Christian Petersen Art Museum, and the Elizabeth and Byron Anderson Sculpture Garden.

As part of University Museums, the Christian Petersen Art Museum at Morrill Hall is the home of the Christian Petersen Art Collection, the Art on Campus Program, the University Museums ’ Visual Literacy and Learning Program, and Contemporary Changing Art Exhibitions Program.

* Impressionism: Paintings collected by European Museums ( 1999 ) was an art exhibition co-organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Denver Art Museum, touring from May through December 1999.

Museums: The main Museum of Karachi is National Museum of Pakistan others are Air Force Museum and Pakistan Maritime Museum.