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The Museum's collection represents some of the leading artists of the first half of the 20th century and many of the major movements of modern art in this period: Fauvism, German Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Russian Constructivism, the De Stijl movement and Surrealism, French art, from the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists to the School of Paris including works of Chaim Soutine, and key works by Pablo Picasso from the Blue and Neo-Classical Period to his Late Period, and Surrealists works of Joan Miró.
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The bequest of a collection of books, engraved gems, coins, prints and drawings by Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode in 1800 did much to raise the Museum's reputation ; but Montagu House became increasingly crowded and decrepit and it was apparent that it would be unable to cope with further expansion.
In autumn 2001 the eight million objects forming the Museum's permanent collection were further expanded by the addition of six million objects from the Wendorf Collection of Egyptian and Sudanese Prehistory.
The second-floor galleries have a selection of the Museum's collection of 140 mummies and coffins, the largest outside Cairo.
Between 1878 and 1882 Rassam greatly improved the Museum's holdings with exquisite objects including the Cyrus Cylinder from Babylon, the bronze gates from Balawat, and a fine collection of Urartian bronzes.
File: Sleeping Reindeer 4512630872 d31dcb1207 o. jpg | Room 3-Swimming Reindeer carving, France, Ice-Age 13, 000 years ( both one of the world's oldest works of art, as well as the oldest work of art in the British Museum's collection )
The three permanent galleries provide a substantial exhibition space for the Museum's African collection comprising over 200, 000 objects.
The Museum's various libraries hold in excess of 350, 000 books, journals and pamphlets covering all areas of the museum's collection.
Enterprise was stored at the Smithsonian's hangar at Washington Dulles International Airport before it was restored and moved to the newly built Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles International Airport, where it was the centerpiece of the space collection.
Sir Hans Sloane's personal collection of curios provided the initial foundation for the British Museum's collection.
A few years later there was a public scandal when it was discovered that Hawkins had inserted fake bones to make some ichthyosaur skeletons seem more complete, and later sold them to the government for the British Museum's collection without the appraisers knowing about the additions.
Paintings by Pueblo artists Albert Looking Elk ( Martinez ), Albert Lujan, Juan Mirabal, Juanito Concha and the works of other Pueblo artists are included in the Museum's collection.
Only one of them, Dr. Raleigh Ashlin Skelton, keeper of the Museum's map collection, had significant expertise relevant to the problems posed by the map ( his colleague George Painter, the first person to whom Davis had shown the map in 1957, was brought in for the transcription and translation of the Relation ) and the secrecy almost completely ruled out consultation with specialists.
The Museum's collections of South and South-East Asian art are the most comprehensive and important in the West comprising nearly 60, 000 objects, including about 10, 000 textiles and 6000 paintings, the range of the collection is immense.
One of the most spectacular items in the collection is the chandelier by Dale Chihuly in the rotunda at the Museum's main entrance.
After her death in 1938, other works were sold off, and eventually another large collection of art and personal material was purchased by Joseph Hirshhorn, and now is part of the Hirshhorn Museum's collection.
* Gardermoen Culture Park-An area close to Gardermoen Airport, which serves as the Norwegian Air Force's airplane collection and the Scandinavian Airlines Museum's location.
* Oxford University Museum's geology collection
The National Railway Museum's collection at York includes a commemorative plaque and E. H. Bailey's statue of George Stephenson, both from the Great Hall, the entrance gates and an 1846 LNWR turntable discovered during demolition.
The Museum's collection has over 680 artefacts in nine galleries occupying some 480 square metres.
While the artist worked for many years in the service of the Spanish royal family, only a few works in the Museum's collection are from royal residences, such as The Family of Charles IV.
The most important artist in this section of the Museum's collection is undoubtedly El Greco.
Numerous bequests have enriched the Museum's holdings, such as the outstanding collection of medals left to the Museum by Pablo Bosch ; the drawings and items of decorative art left by Pedro Fernández Durán as well as Van der Weyden's masterpiece, The Virgin and Child ; and the Ramón de Errazu bequest of 19th-century paintings.
The nearly complete surviving set of Catlin ’ s first Indian Gallery, painted in the 1830s, is now part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection.
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Closeup of the London Science Museum's difference engine showing some of the number wheels and the sector gears between columns.
The Museum's catalog includes a mixture of artistic, scientific as well as some unclassifiable exhibits, and evokes the cabinets of curiosities that were the 16th century predecessors of modern natural history museums.
Many of Binyon's books produced while at the Museum were influenced by his own sensibilities as a poet, although some are works of plain scholarship-such as his four-volume catalogue of all the Museum's English drawings, and his seminal catalogue of Chinese and Japanese prints.
In 1966 – 68 he hosted a series of educational TV programs on the ( then new ) Icelandic National Television ( RÚV ), in which he showed the audience some of the National Museum's artefacts and explained their historical context.
It landed a notable third credit in Avildsen's Best Picture-winning Rocky ( 1976 ), where it was an integral part of the film's Philadelphia street jogging / training sequences and the run up the Art Museum's flight of stairs, as well as the fight scenes ( where it can even be plainly seen in operation at the ringside during some wide shots of the final fight ).
The Museum's collection, mostly derived from the imperial collection, includes some 30, 000 pieces.
The Perelman Building opened in 2007, and houses some of the more popular collections, as well as the Museum's library, with over 200, 000 books and periodicals, and 1. 6 million other documents.
* A reconstructed Mithraeum in the Brukenthal Museum's Lapidarium, with some of the items unearthed at Apulum ( Alba Iulia ).
Nevertheless, the Art Gallery partially reopened in February 1941, now also housing some of the Museum's surviving material on a ‘ temporary ’ basis.
The Museum's collection comprises some 7, 000 items of art and crafts-paintings, prints, drawings, painted screens, textiles, antique illustrated texts, ceramics, miniature carvings ( netsuke ), lacquer and metal work, antique swords and functional art works, mainly from the 17th to 19th centuries, as well as a collection of modern Japanese art.
Since the re-opening of the museum in December 1995, there were some 100 new exhibits most, of which were curated by the Museum's chief curator, Ilana Singer, who won the award by the Minister of Science and Culture ( 2007 ).
* Download complete text of Wandsworth Museum's recent exhibition about John Archer, plus some pictures
It had been dismissed as ' some Ancient carvings in ivory ', and turned down by the Museum's Trustees in 1858 when offered to them for 100 guineas.
Despite the fact that Egmore had been a part of the East India Company's possessions since 1720, it was not until the " Golden age of British rule " stretching from 1858 to 1947 that Egmore witnessed some real growth. The Egmore Museum was one of the first notable monuments to be constructed here. The construction of this famous landmark was undertaken immediately after the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857. The Connemara Library was created as an annexure housing the Museum's vast book collection and became operational in 1896.
Parts of it were found outside the Museum's main entrance some months later after snow had melted.
The British Museum's Department of Scientific Research reports " it would seem likely that the whole plaque was moulded " with subsequent modelling of some details and addition of others, such as the rod-and-ring symbols, the tresses of hair and the eyes of the owls.
The Museum is scheduled to open in 2012, but the Old Mint is used for special events, some open to the public, prior to the Museum's official opening.
The British Museum's ownership of the Cyrus Cylinder has been the cause of some controversy in Iran, although the artifact was obtained legally and was not excavated on Iranian soil but on former Ottoman territory ( modern Iraq ).
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