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 three permanent galleries provide a substantial exhibition space for the Museum's African collection comprising over 200, 000 objects.

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 Museo Cantonale d ' Arte has two parallel objectives: the conservation and study of the Museum's permanent collection, which is above all made up of works belonging to the 19th and 20th centuries ; and the planning and presentation of temporary exhibitions.

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.

" Located on the Museum's top level, Face to Face is the Museum of Civilization's newest permanent exhibition.

The Museum's permanent collection includes 19th and 20th century paintings from American and European artist and Tribal Art from Africa, New Guinea, and Pre-Columbian Mexico.

The Burke Museum's permanent collection numbers over 14 million artifacts and specimens, including totem poles, gemstones, and dinosaur fossils.

Funded by Arts Council England it offers four Alchemy Artist Fellowships, curates artist interventions in the permanent galleries and facilitate artists research and the loan of the Manchester Museum's collections for contemporary art projects.

It was included in the 1992 Dennis Potter retrospective at the Museum of Television & Radio and became a permanent addition to the Museum's collections in New York and Los Angeles.

The complete work ( what is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum's permanent collection ) consists of a total of 180 objects.

Canus was welcomed in 2004 as a part of the Northern Life Museum's permanent exhibits.

The Studio Museum's permanent collection contains over 1, 600 works, including drawings, pastels, prints, photographs, mixed-media works and installations.

Tanner's " Etaples Fisher Folk " is among several paintings from the Haverty collection now in the High Museum's permanent collection.

It is one of only two permanent structures built for the World's Fair which still remain ( the other is the Saint Louis Art Museum's Cass Gilbert building ).

A number of international museum exhibitions have featured Lucile garments in recent years, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art's " Cobism and Fashion " ( 1999 ), the Museum of the City of New York's " Fashion on Stage " ( 1999 ) and the Victoria and Albert Museum's " Black in Fashion " ( 2000 ) As of 2006, the V & A included a Lucile suit on permanent exhibit.

Her father, Michael Martin, or Silver Moon, of Verden, Oklahoma was a prolific painter with several pieces in the Caddo Heritage Museum's permanent collection.

Artworks of many renowned international artists are exhibited in the Museum's permanent collection halls.

Hoefler's work is part of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's permanent collection.

Finally, the World Culture Open Gallery ( also in New York ) was the site of a collaborative project called " Positive Still: Artists Respond to AIDS " featuring, among other artwork, five pieces from the AIDS Museum's permanent collection.

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.

By the last years of the 19th century, The British Museum's collections had increased so much that the Museum building was no longer big enough for them.

However, in August 1939, due to the imminence of war and the likelihood of air-raids the Parthenon Sculptures along with Museum's most valued collections were dispersed to secure basements, country houses, Aldwych tube station, the National Library of Wales and a quarry.

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.

They now house the Museum's collections of Prints and Drawings and Oriental Antiquities.

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.

It also oversees the content of the Museum's web site in addition to publishing books and papers on the collections, research and other aspects of the Museum.

The first exhibit at the complex to bring together both music and science fiction in a single exhibit, Sound and Vision draws on the EMP Museum's collections of oral history recordings.

In 1966 the Museum's Southwark building was extended to provide collections storage and other facilities, the first major expansion since the Museum had moved to the site.

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

* The 1837 – 1838 Rebellion in Lower Canada, Images from the McCord Museum's collections, accessdate 2006-12-10

Five other Cristofori instruments are included in the Museum's collections.

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.

The Museum's curatorial and scientific staff in the departments of Anthropology, Botany, Geology, and Zoology conducts basic research in the fields of systematic biology and anthropology, and also has responsibility for collections management, and collaboration in public programs with the Departments of Education and Exhibits.

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.

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.

* The Eli Whitney Museum's extensive A. C. Gilbert Project includes collections, a profile, pictures of Gilbert, and a bibliography

The Jewish Museum's collections date back to the 1970s, when the Association for a Jewish Museum formed.

The Brooklyn Museum has been building a collection of Egyptian artifacts since the beginning of the twentieth century, incorporating both collections purchased from others, such as the collection of American Egyptologist Charles Edward Wilbour ( whose heirs also donated his library-now the Museum's Wilbour Library of Egyptology-to the museum ), and objects obtained in archeological excavations sponsored by the museum.

The National Print Museum's activities include: guided tours ; exhibitions ; workshops ; outreach ; lectures ; demonstrations days ; and many other special events.

* The DigiBarn Computer Museum's Maze War 30 Year Retrospective: " The First First-person Shooter " ( Contains additional text and images that include screenshots )

The Museum's flyable aircraft include:

Recipients include Casey House ($ 5000 donation in 2007 ) and the Royal Ontario Museum's " Darwin: the Evolution Revolution " exhibit ($ 50, 000 in 2008 ).

The Museum's stated goals include the creation of an archive of historical information on the Uprising and the recording of the stories and memories of the still living Uprising participants.

There he performed music from " Insects Awaken ", with the images which include the elements of the National Palace Museum's collection.

The various structures are linked by the Museum's 1. 6 mile ( 2. 5 km ) Black Heritage Trail, and include: