Although Irbit no longer attracts as many visitors as it once did, the Irbit State Motorcycle Museum is being built in the town with the intention of bringing foreign motorcycle enthusiasts to the IMZ-Ural motorcycle factory.

Irbit had once been an important Trade and Fair centre in Russia before the Revolution of 1917.

In the 19th century, the Irbit fair was an important event for the trade in Siberian fur and Chinese tea.

Contrary to popular accounts, the facility was not dismantled by the Soviets as reparations and sent back to the Soviet Union where it was reassembled in Irbit to make IMZ-Ural motorcycles ; the IMZ plant was supplied to the Soviets by BMW under license prior to the commencement of the Great Patriotic War.

Irbit () is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located from Yekaterinburg by train or by car on the right bank of the Nitsa River.

Water resources are represented by the Nitsa and Irbit Rivers.

* The Irbit fair is mentioned in the novel Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak as a place visited by Yuri Zhivago's father.

The site chosen was the town of Irbit, located on the fringe of vast Siberia in the Ural mountains.

In the late 1950s, the KMZ plant in Ukraine took over the task of supplying the military and the Irbit Motorcycle Works ( IMZ ) began to concentrate on making bikes for domestic consumers.

Founded in 1631 as Irbeyevskaya Sloboda (), its name was changed in 1662 to Irbit.

Each summer thousands of motorcycle enthusiasts come to Irbit from around the world to take part in the Irbit bike show and in the Motocross races.

There are several educational institutions in Irbit.

Irbit dairy plant is the largest milk-processing plant in the Urals.

Irbit bakery plant manufactures different types of breads and batons, cakes, croutons, toasts.

Irbit chemico-pharmaceutical plant produces drugs, chemical substances, fluids for chemical industry.

The Irbit fair ( Russian: Ирбитская ярмарка, irbitskaya yarmarka ) was the second largest fair in Imperial Russia after the Makariev Fair.

: We met many sledges laden with goods en route to the fair which takes place every February at Irbit.

Irbit is on the Asiatic side of the Ural mountains, about two hundred versts northeast of Ekaterineburg.

Long, narrow dormitories are a feature of the old town with enormous wharf areas being found at the juncture of the Nitsa and Irbit rivers.

Irbit is now home to the annual Irbit Bike Show which takes place the last weekend of July.

From September 10, 2001, to January 16, 2002, Ohio State University's Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum exhibited 36 of his Sunday strips.

The memorial is within walking distance of other historic sites including the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, the Alabama State Capitol, the Alabama Department of Archives and History and the Rosa Parks Library and Museum.

* Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum at The Ohio State University

An article in the Albany Times-Union cites Roland Kays, curator of mammals at the State Museum of New York, as contending that preliminary results of DNA evidence in eastern coyotes suggests interbreeding and a genetic makeup of 85 – 90 % coyote, perhaps 10 % wolf and slightly less than 5 % dog.

In 1956, he became the first African-American instructor at the Museum of Modern Art, where he taught for a year before going to Belgium on behalf of MOMA and the State Department.

He created murals for the Harlem Hospital, Golden State Mutual, American Museum of Natural History, Public School 154, the Bronx Family and Criminal Court and the Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, New York.

Due to economic downturn Golden State was forced to sell their entire art collection to ward off its mounting debts and as of spring 2011 the National Museum of African American History and Culture had offered $ 750, 000 to purchase the artworks which led to a controversy regarding the importance of the artworks which have been estimated to be worth at least $ 5 million.

The Wedding of Nicholas II and Grand duke | Grand Duchess Alexandra Fyodorovna ( Alix of Hesse ) | Alexandra Feodorovna, by Ilya Repin | Ilya Yefimovich Repin, 1894 ( Russian Museum | Russian State Museum, Saint Petersburg | St. Petersburg ).

* Nevada State Museum – former state mint featuring rock, mining and prehistoric exhibits, and a recreated Wild West village

* Nevada State Railroad Museum – featuring the Inyo locomotive and relocated Wabuska Railroad Station

* Conservation Corps State Museum at Camp San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, California

* Florida Civilian Conservation Corps Museum at Highlands Hammock State Park, Sebring, Florida

* Iowa Civilian Conservation Corps Museum at Backbone State Park, Strawberry Point, Iowa

* Civilian Conservation Corps Museum at Lake Greenwood State Recreation Area, Ninety Six, South Carolina

* New York State Civilian Conservation Corps Museum at Gilbert Lake State Park, New Lisbon, New York

* Civilian Conservation Corps Museum at Pocahontas State Park, Chesterfield, Virginia

On May 14, 1948, on the day in which the British Mandate over Palestine expired, the Jewish People's Council gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum, and approved a proclamation declaring the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel, to be known as the State of Israel.

* Kröller-Müller State Museum, Otterlo.

Netherlands: Kröller-Müller State Museum, 1973.

File: Karl Briullov, The Last Day of Pompeii ( 1827 – 1833 ). jpg | Karl Bryullov, The Last Day of Pompeii, 1827-1833, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

File: Repin Cossacks. jpg | Ilya Repin, Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, 1880-1891, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

The Lower Saxony State Museum is the largest museum in Hanover.

* Historic New Harmony of New Harmony, Indiana, administered by the University of Southern Indiana and the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites.