A board of 25 trustees ( with the Director as their accounting officer for the purposes of reporting to Government ) is responsible for the general management and control of the Museum, in accordance with the British Museum Act 1963 and the Museums and Galleries Act 1992.

Tate is used as the operating name for the corporate body which was established by the Museums and Galleries Act 1992 as The Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery.

Prior to this, the municipalities of Warrington and Salford established libraries in their museums, under the terms of the Museums Act of 1845. Warrington Municipal Library opened in 1848.

The governance of the museum is the responsibility of a Board of Trustees, originally established by the Imperial War Museum Act 1920, later amended by the Imperial War Museum Act 1955 and the Museums and Galleries Act 1992 and other relevant legislation.

* Museums Act

The Archaeology Museum of Catalonia (, ; abbreviated as MAC ) was created under the Museums of Catalonia Act in 1990 by the Department of Culture of the Government of Catalonia.

This became the Museums Act 1845.

They suggested that the government should issue grants to aid the foundation of libraries and that the Museums Act 1845 should be amended and extended to allow for a tax to be levied for the establishment of public libraries.

The 1850 Act was much more contentious than the Museums Act 1845.

The Bill would repeal the Museums Act 1845 and so, in order to continue funding museums of arts and science as well as the new free libraries, local rates could be increased, but by no more than 1 / 2d.

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.

* John V. Richardson Jr., “ Bookworms: The Most Common Insect Pests of Paper in Archives, Libraries, and Museums ”

One of his first paintings ( c. 1518 – 1521 ) was the “ Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows, adored by the family Van de Velde ”, a diptych that can be seen in the Church of Our Lady in Bruges and its left panel in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels.

“ Arranging Ethnology: A. H. L. F. Pitt Rivers and the Typological Tradition .” In Objects and Others: Essays on Museums and Material Culture.

Henry Keazor: “ L ’ architecture n ’ est pas un art rigoureux ”: Jean Nouvel, Postmodernism and Meta-Architecture / Katharina Bantleon, Jasmin Haselsteiner-Scharner: Of Museums, Beholders, Artworks and Photography: Metareferential Elements in Thomas Struth ’ s Photographic Projects Museum Photographs and Making Time /

Herma | Herm of Pericles bearing the inscription “ Pericles, son of Xanthippus, Athenian ”, Roman copy of the original by Kresilas, Vatican Museums ( no.

# Museums will work more closely with each other and partners outside the sector ( pp 23 – 26 ).

Museums, Theaters and other Cultural Sites: Conservatoire de musique at Place Neuve 5, Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques, Fonds cantonal d ' art contemporain, Ile Rousseau and statue, Institute and Museum of Voltaire with Library and Archives, Mallet House and Museum international de la Réforme, Musée Ariana, Musée d ' Art et d ' Histoire, Museum d ' art moderne et contemporain, Museum d ' ethnographie, Museum of the International Red Cross, Musée Rath, Muséum d ' histoire naturelle, Salle communale de Plainpalais et théâtre Pitoëff, Villa Bartholoni et Museum d ' Histoire et Sciences

; Museums with collections from the World Heritage Site

Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Madhyam jointly with the Directorate of Archaeology, Archives, and Museums, 2005.

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:

* Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, with over 85, 000 works

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

* Ivan the Terrible with videos, images and translations from the Russian Archives and State Museums

A portrait drawing by Cornelius Varley with his patent graphic telescope ( Sheffield Museums & Galleries ) was compared with his death mask ( National Portrait Gallery, London ) by Kelly Freeman at Dundee University 2009 – 10 to ascertain whether it really depicts Turner ( www. faceofturner. com ).

Perhaps the most notable of these are the Apollo Sauroktonos, or the lizard-slayer, a youth leaning against a tree and idly striking with an arrow at a lizard ( Louvre Museum ), and the Aphrodite of Cnidus at the Vatican Museums, which is a copy of the statue made by Praxiteles for the people of Cnidus, and by them valued so highly that they refused to sell it to King Nicomedes, who was willing in return to discharge the whole debt of the city, which, says Pliny, was enormous.

In 1997, the museum opened with " The Guggenheim Museums and the Art of This Century ", a 300-piece overview of 20th-century art from Cubism to new media art.

he V & A exhibits twice a year at the Millennium Galleries in partnership with Museums Sheffield.

Statue of Hermanubis, combining the attributes of the Egyptian gods | Egyptian god Anubis with those of the Greek gods | Greek god Hermes ( Vatican Museums )

Some of the most impressive museums in Belgium are The Royal Museum for Fine Arts, in Antwerp, which has an admirable collection of works by Peter Paul Rubens, the Groeningemuseum, in Bruges, with the Flemish Primitives, the MAS ( Museum Aan De Stoom ) wich is located on't eilandje is the biggest museum in Belgium, and the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels, which has a cinema, a concert hall, and artworks of many periods, including a large René Magritte collection.

He visited France, while in Paris he spent several days at the Musée du Louvre ; Italy, in Rome he sketched, antiquities sculptures and paintings at the Vatican Museums and other galleries, then on to Naples and Pompeii, Bari then to Corfu ; while in Italy Barry had met Charles Lock Eastlake, an architect Mr Kinnaird and a Mr Johnson ( later a professor at Haileybury and Imperial Service College ) with these gentlemen he visited Greece, where their itinerary covered Athens which they left on 25 June 1818, Mount Parnassus, Delphi, Aegina, then the Cyclades, including Delos to Smyrna and Turkey where Barry greatly admired the magnificence of Hagia Sophia, from Constantinople he visited the Troad, Assos, Pergamon and back to Smyrna.

The flag taken to the Moon by Apollo 11, displayed in the Vatican Museums with some moon rock s

* Pre-Raphaelite online resource project website at the Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, with about a thousand paintings on canvas and works on paper by Edward Burne-Jones

Imperial War Museums ( IWM ) is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London.

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However, there has been a move towards improving the district with the building of The Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, which houses the Nitshill Open Museum.

# Museums will fulfil their potential as learning resources ( pp 7 – 10 ).

There was another cemetery nearby, which was opened to the public on 10 October 2006 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Vatican Museums.

In January 2007, it was claimed that as many as 10, 000 visitors passed through the Vatican Museums in a day and that the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is the biggest attraction.

In all about 10 % of the original surface area of the plan has since been recovered, in the form of over one thousand marble fragments, which are kept in the Palazzo dei Conservatori of the Capitoline Museums.

The museum is 115, 000 square feet ( 10, 683 m² ) and has been accredited by the American Association of Museums since 1973.

In 2010, London's The Sunday Times listed the ANMM in its " World's 10 Coolest Museums ".

On 10 July 1991, Strategic Air Command and the 380th Bomber Wing said goodbye to the FB-111A when the last 4 operational aircraft left Plattsburgh AFB for their final flight to preservation in Museums.

* The Era of Sex Museums, by Marianna Beck and Jack Hafferkamp, in Libido, the Journal of Sex and Sensibility, vol 10 ( 3 ), Fall 1998.