The museum's collection of Islamic art, including archaeological material, numbers about 40, 000 objects, one of the largest of its kind in the world.

The Museum's various libraries hold in excess of 350, 000 books, journals and pamphlets covering all areas of the museum's collection.

The Islamic art collection, the museum's newest, spans " thirteen centuries and three continents ".

Currently, Martha ( named after Martha Washington ) is in the museum's archived collection, and not on display.

These expeditions, among others, produced numerous, well-documented objects now in the museum's collection.

Registrars oversee the accessioning process, which formally accepts objects into the museum's collection with an accession number and detailed record.

The museum's collection is the world's largest, including more than 700 original Rockwell paintings, drawings, and studies.

Hochschild records that, on his visit to the colonial Royal Museum for Central Africa in the 1990s, there was no mention of the atrocities committed in the Congo Free State, despite the museum's large collection of colonial objects.

The museum's collection offers an unparalleled overview of modern and contemporary art, They became known variously as " the Ladies ", " the daring ladies " and " the adamantine ladies ".

: The museum's collection includes both a Regulus and a Regulus II missile

The museum's eclectic automobile collection contains 12 Tatra models, including a T-613 ambulance.

The Museum of Contemporary Art ( MCA ) at West Circular Quay is Australia's foremost contemporary art museum, featuring a mixture of exhibitions from the museum's permanent collection and visiting shows by major international artists.

The museum's permanent collection includes works by Contemporary Southeastern artists such as Dale Kennington, Frank Flemming, Dale Lewis and Cal Breed, as well as material by nationally recognized artists including Frank Stella and Jim Dine.

" Krens defended the action as consistent with the museum's principles, including expanding its international collection and building its " postwar collection to the strength of our pre-war holdings " and pointed out that such sales are a regular practice by museums.

The museum's permanent collection includes works by modern and contemporary Basque and Spanish artists like Eduardo Chillida, Juan Munoz and Antonio Saura, as well as works from the foundation, and it has organized various exhibitions curated by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

In 1965, the second floor of the Monitor building was renovated to display the museum's growing permanent collection, and with the restoration of the museum in 1990 – 92, it was turned over entirely to exhibition space and christened the Thannhauser Building, in honor of one of the most important bequests to the museum.

In 2007, Beeny sold the museum's collection of artifacts on eBay, and the museum briefly reopened in Hattiesburg, Mississippi before being placed into storage.

The museum's collection includes a wide variety of marine fossils from the Pleistocene, Pliocene and Miocene eras.

The museum's collection encompasses approximately 100, 000 objects in 94 categories, 60, 000 photographs, and 18, 000 archival and reference documents.

The works will be displayed along with the Fisher collection upon the museum's expansion, slated to be completed in 2016.

In 2008, the museum launched a re-designed website which enables users to browse the museum's permanent collection.

A research library and archives house a significant oral history collection and give the public access to the museum's information resources.

The reputation and popularity of the Beaulieu collection continued to grow: during 1959 the museum's " attendance figures " reached 296, 909.

The collection includes 14 aircraft on display with the museum's Auster, Harvard, Cornell and Stinson HW-75 airworthy.

The museum's four building complex features over 20, 000 square feet of gallery and educational workshop space and includes the historic " Cross Barn " built in 1883, and the impressive Simond's building completed in 1989.

The museum's collection includes this photograph of Bernard Montgomery | Montgomery in his tank along with the tank itself, his command caravans and staff car, and his papers.

The museum's art collection includes paintings, prints, drawings, sculpture, and works in film, photography and sound.

The museum's exhibits collection includes a wide range of objects, organised into numerous smaller collections such as uniforms, badges, insignia and flags ( including a Canadian Red Ensign carried at Vimy Ridge in 1917, a Union flag from the 1942 British surrender of Singapore, and another found among the wreckage of the World Trade Center following the September 11 attacks ); personal mementoes, souvenirs and miscellanea such as trench art ; orders, medals and decorations ( including collections of Victoria and George Crosses ); military equipment ; firearms and ammunition, ordnance, edged weapons, clubs ( such as trench clubs ) and other weapons, and vehicles, aircraft and ships.

The museum's vehicles collection includes Ole Bill, a bus used by British forces in the First World War, and a number of vehicles used by Field Marshal Montgomery during the Second World War.

The museum's aircraft collection includes aircraft that are notable for their rarity, such as the only complete and original Royal Aircraft Factory R. E. 8 in existence and one of only two surviving TSR-2 strike aircraft, and aircraft associated with particular actions, such as a Supermarine Spitfire flown during the Battle of Britain.

The museum's naval collection includes HM Coastal Motor Boat 4 and a midget submarine HMS XE8.

The David Adler Collection includes photographs, research files and materials collected and produced by the museum's Department of Architecture for the 2001 exhibition " David Adler, Architect: The Elements of Style.

The museum's volunteer corps includes both former Republic line workers and air force veterans with direct Republic Aviation flight experience.

The museum's collection also includes a signed warm-up jacket, and a dress with a bolero style top, designed by Teddy Tinling in the early 1970s.

The museum's collection also includes all the bronze sculptures of Degas, including the series of dancers.

The museum's web site describes it as follows: " Housed in a handsome Neo-Classical building designed by Charles A. Platt, the permanent collection includes over 10, 000 paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, furniture and decorative arts, with an emphasis on American art from the 18th through 20th centuries.

The museum's collection includes Marlene Dietrich's Rolls-Royce, a 1915 Stutz Indianapolis race car, gull-winged Mercedes-Benz, a 1950 Cadillac " gangster special " that belonged to gangster Mickey Cohen, and an 1895 Benz Velo, imported to New Zealand in 1900.

The museum's permanent collection includes the art pieces donated from actor Vincent Price.

The museum's collection includes four historic museum ships and one lighthouse:

The hall includes 674 marine specimens and models drawn from the over 80 million specimens in the museum's total collection, the largest in the world.

The museum's Alaskan Arctic collection includes 6, 500 pieces, including " basketry, kayaks, tools, and contemporary carvings ," while the collection for Western Sub-arctic, Plateau, Plains, Great Lakes, and Southwest cultures includes " baskets, beadwork, parfleches, weavings, and pottery.

The museum's coin collection alone includes 1. 7 million coins, making it the largest in Russia.

* Metropolitan Museum of Art page on Brauner's " Prelude to a Civilization " ( 1954 ), part of the museum's permanent collection and continually on exhibit ; page includes color image