Some of the best known paintings of the museum have been digitized by the French Center for Research and Restoration of the Museums of France.

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.

Many living history farms and similar farm and agricultural museums have united under an association known as the Association for Living History, Farm, and Agricultural Museums ( ALHFAM ).

Living history museums have also been criticized for their ability to teach, particularly from those that believe “ living history is antiquarian, idyllic, or downright misleading .” In response to this question, the Association for Living History, Farm, and Agricultural Museums ( ALHFAM ) has stated that they distinguish between an unchanging past and an interpretation of a constantly changing past.

* Harvard Art Museums, with over 81, 000 works, about half of which have very low resolution images.

Founded in 1896, it has been the national social science library of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth and all its collections have been recognised for their outstanding national and international importance and awarded ' Designation ' status by the Museums Libraries and Archives Council ( MLA ).

With very few exceptions, their films have no meaningful spoken dialogue — most have no spoken content at all, while some, like The Comb ( From the Museums of Sleep ) ( 1990 ) include multilingual background gibberish that is not supposed to be coherently understood.

The golden bowl was carried off by the Phocians during the Third Sacred War ( 356 – 346 BC ); the stand was removed by the emperor Constantine to Constantinople in 324, where in modern Istanbul it still can be seen in the hippodrome, the Atmeydanı, although in damaged condition: the heads of the serpents have disappeared, however one is now on display at the nearby Istanbul Archaeology Museums.

Museums, archives and special collections have adopted preservation guidelines from textile practices.

Although the current director of the Kremlin Museums, Elena Gagarina ( Yuri Gagarin's daughter ) advocates a full-scale restoration of the destroyed cloisters, recent developments have been confined to expensive restoration of the original interiors of the Grand Kremlin Palace, which were altered during Stalin's rule.

All four engines have been restored back to working condition, by a dedicated team of volunteers: the Leicester Museums Technology Association.

Museums started holding large loan exhibitions of historic art in the late 19th century, as also did the Royal Academy, but the modern " blockbuster " museum exhibition, with long queues and a large illustrated catalogue, is generally agreed to have been introduced by the exhibitions of artifacts from the tomb of Tutankhamun held in several cities in the 1970s.

Tyne and Wear Museums and North Tyneside Council's head of cultural services have submitted plans for feasibility study into developing the museum into a premier North East railway tourist attraction, with period buildings, a link to Percy Main Metro station, and all year round opening.

In their 2006 book, The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities -- From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums, Peter Watson and Cecelia Todeschini lay out the dynamics of the illegal trade in antiquities and use Leon Levy and Shelby White as an example of collectors whose purchases may have led to unethical dealing in artifacts.

Since 1998, the Ulster Museum, Armagh Museum, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum and the Ulster American Folk Park have been administered by the National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland.

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.

They have also appeared at art and music festivals, The Andy Warhol and Carnegie Museums, planetariums, conservatories, Botanical Gardens, spas and churches throughout the United States.

People have conducted research in the area including the National Museums of Kenya.

Roman roads can still be explored around the village to this day, and many Roman finds have been reported and lodged in Museums throughout Scotland.

His 1972 work Queen Victoria Troubled by Flies is in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and his works have been acquired by permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Brooklyn Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Arts Council of Great Britain and the Library of Congress.

Museums have a variety of top-level domain names.

Museums, besides being popular tourist attractions, often play roles in conservation of, and research on, threatened sites, including as repositories for collections from sites slated for destruction.

Temple Newsam House is one of Leeds Museums and Galleries sites, and has an international reputation for scholarship and research, unusual in a local authority museum service.

The town itself is currently the subject of an archaeological research project, the Speightstown Community Archaeology Project ( SCAP ), which was established in 2010 and involves a collaboration between archaeologists and students of the University of Winchester, the University of the West Indies ( Cave Hill ) and Barbados Museums.

In his website ' Museums of the Mind ' he continues to publish his research, theory and experiments on the telematic future of art, the senses and synaesthesia.

* Norfolk Museums-Research – The research section of Norfolk Museums website including articles, collections and related topics, produced by Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service

Bequeathed to Harvard in 1943, the collection continues to play a pivotal role in shaping the legacy of the Harvard Art Museums, serving as a foundation for teaching, research, and professional training programs.

* Capitoline Museums research website ( English / German / Italian language versions ).

# Museums ' collections will be more dynamic and better used ( pp 15 – 18 ).

No. 2 is in the collections of Leeds Museums and Galleries, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

At the beginning of his papacy in 1471, Sixtus IV donated several historically important Roman sculptures that founded a papal collection of art that would eventually develop into the collections of the Capitoline Museums.

; Museums with collections from the World Heritage Site

Museums, libraries and government agencies with substantial online collections of prints, photographs, and other works on paper include:

Museums, libraries and government agencies with substantial online collections with more focus on paintings and sculpture include:

His work is also exhibited in public collections worldwide, including the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art ( Japan ), the Cleveland Museum of Art, National Museum of Art of Romania, the Courtauld Institute of Art ( London ), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Galleria Nazionale d ' Arte Moderna ( Rome ), Harvard University Art Museums, the Hermitage Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden ( Washington D. C .), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Kimbell Art Museum ( Fort Worth, Texas ), Kröller-Müller Museum ( Otterlo, Netherlands ), the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes ( Buenos Aires ), the National Galleries of Scotland, the National Gallery of Australia, the Ingres museum in Montauban, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, and the Middelheim Museum ( Antwerp, Belgium )

Many important museums include works by Villon in their collections, including: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ; the Columbus Museum of Art ( Ohio ); MOMA, New York City ;, The University of Michigan Collection ; The National Gallery of Art, Washington D. C .; the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia ; La Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris ; and Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland.

Museums with large De Stijl collections include the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague ( which owns the world's most extensive, although not exclusively De Stijl-related, Mondrian collection ) and the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, where many works by Rietveld and Van Doesburg are on display.

Among the public collections holding works by Barnett Newman are the Addison Gallery of American Art ( Andover, Massachusetts ), the Allen Memorial Art Museum ( Oberlin College, Ohio ), the Art Institute of Chicago, the Berlin State Museums, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Harvard University Art Museums, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden ( Washington D. C .), the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art ( Japan ), Kunstmuseum Basel ( Switzerland ), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Menil Collection ( Houston, Texas ), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía ( Madrid ), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Museum of Modern Art ( New York City ), the Nasher Sculpture Center ( Dallas, Texas ), the Nassau County Museum of Art ( Roslyn Harbor, New York ), the National Gallery of Art ( Washington D. C .), the National Gallery of Canada ( Ottawa ), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Sheldon Museum of Art ( Lincoln, Nebraska ), the Smithsonian American Art Museum ( Washington D. C .), Stedelijk Museum ( Amsterdam ), the Tate Gallery ( London ), the Wadsworth Atheneum ( Hartford, Connecticut ), the Walker Art Center ( Minneapolis, Minnesota ), the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum ( Cologne, Germany ), and the Whitney Museum of American Art ( New York City ).

His works are held in the collections of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, the Tate, Museum Ludwig in Cologne, the New York Museum of Modern Art and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

National Museums of Scotland bring together national collections in Scotland.

The Museums Collections Centre in Nechells has brought together 80 per cent of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery ’ s stored collections under one roof.

The original Hawk has survived and is in the collections of National Museums Scotland.

It looks after the federal art collection, operates the Swiss National Library with the Swiss Literary Archives and the Graphic Collection, the National Museums and the Confederation ’ s valuable collections.

Ashmolean Museum ( University of Oxford ), Brooks Museum of Art ( Memphis, Tennessee ), Detroit Institute of Arts, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Hermitage Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, Kunsthistorisches Museum ( Vienna ), the Liechtenstein Museum ( Vienna ), the Musée du Louvre, Musée Condé Chantilly ( Chantilly, France ), Museo Poldi Pezzoli ( Milan ), the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, National Galleries of Scotland, the National Gallery of Art ( Washington D. C .), the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Canada, the National Gallery, London, the Norton Simon Museum ( Pasadena, California ), Pinacoteca Ambrosiana ( Milan ), Pinacoteca di Brera ( Milan ), Rijksmuseum, the Ringling Museum of Art ( Florida ), Studio Esseci ( Padua, Italy ), University of Arizona Museum of Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, National Gallery of Ireland ( Portrait of a Gentleman and his two Children ) and the Uffizi ( Portrait of Giovanni Antonio Pantera ) are among the public collections holding works by Giovanni Battista Moroni.

The Courtauld Institute of Art ( London ), the Frick Collection ( New York City ), Harvard University Art Museums ( Cambridge, Massachusetts ), the Hermitage Museum ( Saint Petersburg, Russia ), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum ( Los Angeles, California ), the Louvre, Beli Dvor ( Belgrade ), the Metropolitan Museum of Art ( New York City ), the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Lyon, France, Musée des Augustins ( Toulouse, France ), Musée des Beaux-arts, Nantes, France, Musée National du Château, Pau, France, the National Gallery of Art ( Washington D. C .), the National Gallery of Australia ( Canberra ) and the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium are among the public collections holding sculpture by Augustin Pajou.