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 most modern techniques from the technology sector are presented to the museum's many visitors.

It houses a modern information centre, the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Centre and a collection of books on history, art, travel, and other subjects relevant to the museum's collections, on open shelves.

The museum's documents archive seeks to collect and preserve the private papers of individuals who have experienced modern warfare.

The museum's library is a national reference collection on modern conflict, and holds works on all aspects of warfare, including regimental or unit histories ( such as 789 rare German unit histories from the First World War ), technical manuals, biographical material and works on war's social, cultural, economic, political and military aspects.

The museum's focus on modern art began in the 1940s, when a gift from Mrs. Gilbert Walker made possible the acquisition of works by important artists of the day, including sculptures by Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, Alberto Giacometti, and others.

The museum's carefully restored rooms illustrate the development of the pharmaceutical profession over the centuries and the changes in remedies used, from the testicles of a beaver and pieces of an ancient Egyptian mummy to modern plasters and lyophilisates.

The museum's many highlights include its collection of " Flemish Primitive " art, works by a wide range of Renaissance and Baroque masters, as well as a selection of paintings from the 18th and 19th century neo-classical and realist periods, milestones of Belgian symbolism and modernism, masterpieces of Flemish expressionism and many items from the city's collection of post-war modern art.

The modern skeletons are housed by the museum's Ornithology collection.

The museum's terms of reference was broadened again in 1953 to include all modern conflicts in which British or Commonwealth forces were engaged.

One of the museum's most popular and frequently asked-about pieces is part of the modern and contemporary collection.

The Windows Gallery displays the museum's collection of sculpture and decorative art, ranging from 12th century pieces from Reading Abbey to modern pieces by Rodin and Epstein.

The 159 works by artists such as Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, and Anthony Caro substantially enhanced the museum's permanent collection of 20th century modern and contemporary art.

As a result of this vision, the museum's collections began to expand in many fascinating ways, from the first landscape painters of the 1830s to modern artists of the twentieth century.

This department is one of the museum's oldest ; it began with appropriated royal art, some of which was acquired under Francis I.

These paintings formed a nucleus of the Pushkin museum's collections of Western art.

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the museum's namesake and founder, was herself a well-regarded sculptor as well as a serious art collector.

When Messer took over, the museum's ability to present art at all was still in doubt due to the challenges presented by continuous spiral ramp gallery that is both tilted and has curved walls.

The museum's collections and exhibits include over 500 historic watercraft, a major research library, a large gallery of maritime art, a unique diorama displaying the town of Mystic as it was in the 19th century, a ship restoration shipyard, the Treworgy Planetarium, and a recreation of a 19th century seafaring village.

The museum's collections include archives of personal and official documents, photographs, film and video material, and oral history recordings ; an extensive library, a large art collection, and examples of military vehicles and aircraft, equipment and other artefacts.

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.

Diego Velázquez's Las Meninas is the museum's most famous work of art. Represented by almost 50 works, more than one third of his total output, Velázquez is the towering genius of this period in the Prado's collection.

Further extended under succeeding Prussian kings, the museum's collections of art and archeology were turned into a public foundation after 1918.

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 exhibits include specimens from the Frank Allison gold and silver collection, part of the famous Nininger meteorite collection, and Sweet Home Mine rhodochrosite, as well as a model uranium mine and various pieces of mining related art.

The museum's collection of Indian art and culture has been praised as one of the most valuable collections of Indian architecture.

Andrea Rich won praise for doubling the museum's endowment, to more than $ 100 million, and for increasing attendance and pursuing programs and acquisitions that might appeal to the varied segments of the city's diverse population, like Islamic, Latin American and Korean art.

The museum's archaeology exhibits include a replica of the Bronze Age rock art from Gardom's Edge and many items collected by Thomas Bateman, notably the Benty Grange helmet which closely matches the descriptions of warriors ' helmets in Beowulf.

The Quilt of Belonging in the museum's collections, the largest work of textile art made about Canada

It will increase the museum's available display space by sixty percent and house mostly contemporary sculpture, Asian art, and special exhibitions.

The museum's mission is to elevate awareness of the political, economic, and personal dimensions of art.

To ensure the Walker ’ s creative independence, then-director Kathy Halbreich forswore millions of dollars in potential state aid for the museum's $ 73. 8 million expansion in 2005, a decision that resulted in a one-year salary freeze, some staff cuts, and the elimination of the Walker ’ s new-media art program.