The Museum of Art Collections contains the collections of a number of well-known Romanian art aficionados, including Krikor Zambaccian and Theodor Pallady.

Among his notable works are a 1952 portrait of Mihail Sadoveanu ( now in Bucharest's National Art Museum ) and a 1957 portrait of Krikor Zambaccian, ( now in the Zambaccian Museum, also in Bucharest ).

The Zambaccian Museum in Bucharest, Romania is a museum in the former home of Krikor Zambaccian ( 1889 – 1962 ), a businessman and art collector.

The Zambaccian collection still resided at the Museum of Art Collections at the time of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 ; it was returned to its historic location in 1992.

* An online gallery of works from the Zambaccian Museum

Other works of Pallady's are features of the National Museum's main collection, at Bucharest's Zambaccian Museum, the Palace of Culture in Iaşi, the Argeş County Museum in Piteşti, and the Brukenthal National Museum in Sibiu. There are also paintings by this painter at the Craiova Art Museum in Craiova, Romania.

It was at the time that he developed on his characteristic style and themes, both of which, Zambaccian contended, were determined by his experiences as a father.

It is located not far from Piaţa Dorobanţilor on a street now renamed after Zambaccian.

The art collector Krikor Zambaccian, whom Tonitza befriended after 1925, indicated that, during its existence, Iaşul sided with the Conservative Party, opposing Romania's entry into World War I.

Evidencing his " tormented life " and " fantasy-driven and bohemian lifestyle ", Zambaccian wondered if these had not been the source of Tonitza's " ingenious art, full of chromatic joys that are nonetheless transited by melancholia ".

Mostly Gregorian Armenians, who originally came from Kamianets-Podilskyi and Rousse, were first mentioned in the 17th century, and left their mark on the entire city with the activities of Manuc-bei and Krikor Zambaccian ( see also: Armenians in Romania ).

* Krikor Zambaccian, " Chapter XII: Tonitza ", in Însemnările unui amator de artă (" The Recordings of an Art Aficionado "), published and hosted by LiterNet

* Interview with Marcel Zambaccian, Krikor Zambaccian's nephew

Its collection includes works by Romanian artists — including a masterful portrait of Zambaccian himself by Corneliu Baba — and works by several French impressionists.

According to Zambaccian, Tonitza's early association with socialism was partly due to the interest taken in him by the leftist press, who was willing to reward his contributions at a time when " one could not live solely by painting ".

According to Zambaccian, Tonitza stopped short of adopting clear Expressionist tenets (" Modigliani and Pascin favored contorting, while Tonitza does not stray away from nature and places an emphasis on feeling "); the two continued to oppose each other on the issue of Henri Matisse's style ( admired by Zambaccian, by hotly contested by Tonitza ).

In Frankfurt, too, he directed the Museum and Opera House concerts which, in addition to the standard repertoire, featured novelties like Erdmann's Piano Concerto and Mahler's Sixth Symphony.

Sculpture depicting Apollo's first triumph, when he slew with his bow and arrows the serpent Python, which lies dead at his feet The Walters Art Museum.

From 8 November 2001-24 March 2002, The British Museum had an exhibit named “ Agatha Christie and Archaeology: Mystery in Mesopotamia ”, which presented a fascinating look at the secret life of Agatha Christie and the influences of archaeology in her life and works.

Today the fort serves as the Museo Histórico de Acapulco ( Acapulco Historical Museum ), which shows the port ’ s history from the pre-Hispanic period until independence.

* A landscape pen-and-ink drawing by Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, c 1650, to which Algardi has added figures of the Holy Family ( Getty Museum )

Some information is known about the family origins of Amasis: his mother was a certain Tashereniset as a bust statue of this lady, which is today located in the British Museum, shows.

This violin, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, may have been part of a set made for the marriage of Philip II of Spain to Elisabeth of Valois in 1559, which would make it one of the earliest known violins in existence.

The work which first established his fame at Rome was Theseus Vanquishing the Minotaur, now in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, in London.

All the valuable ancient artifacts are situated in the Acropolis Museum, which resides on the southern slope of the same rock, 280 metres from the Parthenon.

Thomson was associated with the National Gallery ( London ), it was here that he established a set of guidelines or environmental controls for the best conditions in which objects could be stored and displayed within the Museum Environment.

Meanwhile, in 1868, tombs at Ialysus in Rhodes had yielded to Alfred Biliotti many fine painted vases of styles which were called later the third and fourth " Mycenaean "; but these, bought by John Ruskin, and presented to the British Museum, excited less attention than they deserved, being supposed to be of some local Asiatic fabric of uncertain date.

From 1886 dates the finding of Mycenaean sepulchres outside the Argolid, from which, and from the continuation of Tsountas's exploration of the buildings and lesser graves at Mycenae, a large treasure, independent of Schliemann's princely gift, has been gathered into the National Museum at Athens.

A map of Cyprus in the later Bronze Age ( such as is given by J. L. Myres and M. O. Richter in Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum ) shows more than 25 settlements in and about the Mesaorea district alone, of which one, that at Enkomi, near the site of Salamis, has yielded the richest Aegean treasure in precious metal found outside Mycenae.

He travelled by a private rail car, which today can be found in the Rahmi M. Koç Museum in Istanbul.

It is this reluctance which was felt by the Rijksmuseum to reattribute works to other painters ( Abraham van Calraet does not even appear in a Museum catalogue until 1926, and even then he is not given his own entry ) which shows how important it is to art historians that painters are accurately connected to their works — and this is continuously necessary for those of Aelbert Cuyp, as Dordrecht ’ s most famous painter may not in fact be Dordrecht ’ s most famous painter.

The city is also famous for the Convento de Jesus ( now known as the City Museum " Santa Joana "), built in the 15th century, which contains the tomb of the daughter of Afonso V, St. Joana, who died in 1490.

In 1928 he first presented a paper at the International Congress of Americanists in which he presented his translation of a Nahuatl document held at the Peabody Museum at Harvard.

The operating theatre of the University of Leiden in which he once worked as an anatomist is now at the center of a museum named after him ; the Boerhaave Museum.

Bletchley Park is an estate located in the town of Bletchley, in Buckinghamshire, England, which currently houses the National Codes Centre and the National Museum of Computing.

The Babe Ruth Birthplace Museum is located at 216 Emory Street, a Baltimore row house in which Ruth was born and which is three blocks west of Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

Berthe Morisot, Child among Staked Roses ( common mistranslation of Child among Hollyhocks ), 1881, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne It was Morisot who persuaded Manet to attempt plein air painting, which she had been practicing since having been introduced to it by Corot.

On 7 June 1753, King George II gave his formal assent to the Act of Parliament which established the British Museum.

The neoclassical architect, Sir Robert Smirke, was asked to draw up plans for an eastern extension to the Museum "... for the reception of the Royal Library, and a Picture Gallery over it ..." and put forward plans for today's quadrangular building, much of which can be seen today.

Another theory by Yule and Burnell ( 1886 ) is based on an entry in the Catalogue of Indian Serpents from the Leyden Museum ( Ray, 1693 ) that reads: Anacondaia Zeylonensibus, id est Bubalorum aliorumque jumentorum membra conterens, meaning " the anacondaia of the Ceylonese, i. e. he that crushes the limbs of buffaloes and yoke beasts.

The Museum of Work, or Arbetets museum, is a museum located in Norrköping, Sweden.

It is in fact a private memento, and for this reason it is never awarded to either England or Australia, but is kept permanently in the MCC Cricket Museum where it can be seen together with the specially made red and gold velvet bag and the scorecard of the 1882 match.

As its condition is fragile and it is a prized exhibit at the MCC Cricket Museum, the MCC were reluctant to agree.

) Henry Babbage's " Analytical Engine Mill " is on display at the Science Museum in London.

It is now the Gaudi House Museum ( Casa Museu Gaudí ) since 1963.

As of May 2012, it is on loan to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California for a major exhibition.

Amber's place in culture and tradition lends it a tourism value ; Palanga Amber Museum is dedicated to the mineral.

This word is usually conceded to be derived from the Hebrew ( Aramaic ), meaning " Thou art our father " ( אב לן את ), and also occurs in connection with Abrasax ; the following inscription is found upon a metal plate in the Carlsruhe Museum:

* 1870 – The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.

The laboratory at St Mary's Hospital where Fleming discovered penicillin is home to the Fleming Museum, a popular London attraction.

The Carnegie-donated library is now owned by the Johnstown Area Heritage Association, and houses the Flood Museum.

The original fossil skeleton is assembled and stands in the Hall of Dinosaurs at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The Alvar Aalto Museum, designed by Aalto himself, is located in what is regarded as his home city Jyväskylä.

The last one is in the Museum of Forlì, in Italy.

The Nimrud Lens is held in the British Museum.

Because of its pioneering efforts, Acadia is a laureate of Washington ’ s Smithsonian Institution and a part of the permanent research collection of the National Museum of American History.

Today the altarpiece is dismantled and the predellas depicting the two final scenes, Entombment and Resurrection were sold to Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna in 1923 and 1930.