Until the mid-19th century, the Museum's collections were relatively circumscribed but, in 1851, with the appointment to the staff of Augustus Wollaston Franks to curate the collections, the Museum began for the first time to collect British and European medieval antiquities, prehistory, branching out into Asia and diversifying its holdings of ethnography.

The board was formed on the Museum's inception to hold its collections in trust for the nation without actually owning them themselves, and now fulfil a mainly advisory role.

Through its charitable arm The Waterways Trust, British Waterways maintained a museum of its history within the National Waterways Museum's three sites at Gloucester Docks, Stoke Bruerne and Ellesmere Port.

* The Metropolitan Museum's web page on its 1720 Cristofori piano

Metal Gear Solid, along with its sequel, Metal Gear Solid 2, is being featured in the Smithsonian American Art Museum's " The Art of Video Games " exhibition, taking place from March 16 to September 30, 2012.

Its textured concrete walls and roof are somewhat reminiscent of a bunker, while a partially grass-covered roof is consistent with the Museum's theme of regeneration and its environmentally friendly design.

The acquisition of No. 14 enabled the Museum, under its new Director, Tim Knox, to embark on ' Opening up the Soane ', an ambitious project to complete the restoration of the Museum's historic spaces, funded by the Monument Trust, the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Soane Foundation in New York and other private trusts.

The outcome of the Museum's work is to achieve, for all its users at home and overseas, a greater understanding of British economic, cultural, social, political and maritime history and its consequences in the world today.

The collection of Post-War Contemporary Art, from the Norton Simon Museum's acquisition of the Pasadena Art Museum's building and collections, is noteworthy for its strength in collage, assemblage and sculpture, including works by Joseph Cornell, Robert Rauschenberg, Louise Nevelson, George Herms, and Ed Kienholz.

On 17 February 2012 the Museum's collection in its entirety was awarded Designation by Arts Council England ( ACE ).

The Museum's primary purpose is to collect, study, preserve, and present material objects that illuminate the human history of Canada and the cultural diversity of its people.

Penn Museum followed this practice in acquiring the vast majority of its collections, and, as a result, most of the Museum's objects have a known archaeological context, increasing their value for archaeological and anthropological research and presentation.

Thus the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London describes its collection as follows: " The National Maritime Museum's collection of objet d ’ art comprises over 800 objects.

The Museum's most significant collection is its Irish medieval collection which includes the fifteenth century O ' Dea Mitre and Crozier, on loan from the Roman Catholic diocese of Limerick.

The Museum's innovative use of new technologies has been central to its growing international reputation in outreach programming, particularly with regional communities.

MGS2, along with its predecessor, has been featured in the Smithsonian American Art Museum's " The Art of Video Games " exhibition, taking place from 16 March to 30 September 2012.

Museum's signage and cream tiling with maroon highlights are reminiscent of a typical London Underground tube station of the era, however its layout of central tracks under a grand arch are more in keeping with older stations of the Paris Metro.

The Museum's new director, Susan Henshaw Jones, recommitted MCNY to its Upper East Side neighborhood by planning an extension to the Museum.

The Museum has not been able to locate such a shard in its collection, and the original reference to the object in the Museum's collection documentation indicates no reference to Polynesian influences.

The construction of the M11 in 1977 forced the shortening of the runway by 300 m. In its role as a museum, the north side of the site is occupied by the Imperial War Museum's stored collections and is not generally open to the public, while the south side is occupied by various hangars and other historic buildings, purpose-built structures, and by two runways.

Until 2007, the Trust's collection had been storage ( since 1998 ) having been forced to vacate its site at Cheadle, near Manchester, where it operated a two foot gauge railway ( the Moseley Tramway ), using the Museum's collection of ex-industrial locomotives.

The Museum has several major permanent exhibits: The Coal Mine re-creates a working deep-shaft, bituminous coal mine inside the Museum's Central Pavilion, using original equipment from Old Ben # 17 circa 1933.

The Imperial War Museum's original collections date back to the material amassed by the National War Museum Committee.

Her twin sister, Jessica Higgins, a New York based intermedia artist closely associated with seminal curator Lance Fung, late Fluxus gallerist Emily Harvey and The Artists Museum's and Construction In Process, performed and collaborated as a youth in original Fluxus related events.

The cars range from imaginatively painted vehicles to extravagant fantasies whose original bodies are concealed beneath newly sculptured shells " ( from Petersen Automotive Museum's Spring 2003 Los Angeles, California exhibit Wild Wheels: Art for the Road Gallery Guide )

The Museum's Trustees remained completely independent, relying only on Soane's original endowment, until 1947.

Also on the Museum's first level, this permanent exhibition narrates the history and accomplishments of Canada's Aboriginal peoples from their original habitation of North America to the present day.

The collection of original documents that Ehrenburg handed down to the Vilnius Jewish Museum after the war was secretly returned to him upon the Museum's termination in 1948.

The depot provides 6, 000 square metres of storage space in secure, environmentally controlled conditions and houses over 370, 000 items of all types, including many original works of art used for the Museum's collections of posters, signs, models, photographs, engineering drawings and uniforms.

In 2004, Empire was added to the National Film Registry in the Library of Congress in recognition of the cultural, historical and aesthetic significance of the movie, as well as the risk of the original movie reels " no longer being preserved " ( even though the Andy Warhol Museum's own preservation of the huge Warhol film / videotape catalogue is unusual in the world of underground film ).

Of particular note is the Museum's collection of over 500 original, wartime, battle flags that were carried by the Confederate Army.

These have included Helmand: The Soldiers ' Story ( from August 2007 to August 2009, on soldiers ' current experiences in Helmand province during the current conflict in Afghanistan ) and War Boy: The Michael Foreman Exhibition ( from September 2009 to August 2010, showing original artwork by Michael Foreman on themes from the First and Second World Wars alongside medals won by Foreman's family and objects from the Museum's own collection ).

She has twin daughters: Jessica Higgins, a New York-based intermedia artist closely associated with seminal curator Lance Fung, late Fluxus gallerist Emily Harvey, The Artists Museum's Construction In Process and having performed and collaborated as a youth in original Fluxus related events ; and Hannah Higgins, a writer and art historian residing in Chicago, Illinois.

Later reports of the specimen, even by the Peabody Museum's staff, therefore mistakenly stated that the original I. dispar specimen comprised most of the skeleton, when it was in fact only three bones.

In late 2005, Flying Scotsman entered the Museum's workshops for a major overhaul to return it to Gresley's original specification and in order to renew its boiler certificate ; originally planned to be completed by mid 2010 if sufficient funds were raised, but late discovery of additional problems meant it would not be completed until late spring 2012.

" Friday the 13th " original reconstruction of Handley Page Halifax-part of Yorkshire Air Museum's World War II | WW II aircraft collection

Everything else inside the hangar was destroyed, including the original prototype North American YOV-10A Bronco, Waco CG-4A Glider, a former Thunderbirds Republic F-105, Aero L-39, Link Trainer, artifacts, spare parts, tools, and the Museum's library.

The term " National Museum of Science and Industry " had been in use as the Science Museum's subtitle since the early 1920s.

The Museum's principal activity is in education and the history of flight, through which it is involved with aerospace manufacturers and organisations via its long term " Reach for the Sky " project which in 2008 delivered the first KS2 History of Aviation educational resource book to all 26, 000 primary schools in UK, supported by RAeS and the Ministry of Transport.

Since the passing of the Museum of Transport and Technology Act in 2000, new management and the support of full-time professional museum staff and a large number of dedicated long term volunteers have ensured the Museum's future.

On January 6, 1977, Governor Godwin, then in his second term, presided over the dedication of the Science Museum's first exhibit gallery, The Discovery Room.

From 2002-2008 Jahn served as a board member of the Portland Art Museum's Contemporary Art Council and was elected to the vice president's post for a three year term 2005-2008.

* In January 2009, Silva was appointed to a five-year term on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's United States Holocaust Memorial Council.