During the facility's early years, a studio for XM Satellite Radio was housed in the museum's gift shop ( it has since been moved to a private location across the street inside Bridgestone Arena ).

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.

Articles mentioning Discovery World date back to 1986 in the Milwaukee Sentinel and suggest that the museum's early location was the Milwaukee Public library.

The story of the museum's evolution beginning in the early 1970s with Ken Olsen at Digital Equipment Corporation is described in the Microsoft Technical Report MSR-TR-2011-44, " Out of a Closet: The Early Years of The Computer * Museum ".< ref > Bell, Gordon ( 4 April 2011 ).

His donations formed the museum's collection of Greek and Roman antiquities, medieval and early Renaissance sculptures, and much of the collection of European decorative arts.

Many of the museum's early members were formerly part of the Minnesota Railfans Association, which had organized railfan trips from the 1940s-1960s.

Among the museum's outstanding works of Asian art is a late 12th-or early 13th-century Cambodian bronze of the eight-armed Avalokiteshvara, a T ’ ang Dynasty earthenware camel, and an intricately painted Ming Dynasty wine jar.

In the early 1980s Chambers also served as honorary chair of the fund-raising effort to construct the museum's Richard Meier complex.

The museum's exhibits focus on the early history of Greek immigration and immigrant life in Utah and the Salt Lake Valley.

One of the early highlights of the museum's collection was the Victoria Cross of Milton Fowler Gregg which was donated in 1979, but was stolen the following year and never recovered.

In the museum's single room are a variety of mementos of the early life of Hammerfest, including a profusion of stuffed animals, early Arctic hunting, traveling and camping equipment, and perhaps most interestingly, a gallery of photographs, paintings, drawings and writings of and from the town's history.

Among the museum's early exhibits, artifacts and documents from the World War II Manhattan Project were displayed upon declassification.

The museum's aircraft was added to the collection after retirement from the RNZAF in early 1978.

In 1985 he published a history of the museum, Dinosaurs In The Attic: An Excursion into the American Museum of Natural History, which chronicled the explorers and expeditions of the museum's early days.

The museum's exhibits follow the early history of the city, originally known as Bytown, and the construction of the Rideau Canal.

His brother, David Rockefeller, also joined the museum's board of trustees, in 1948, and took over the presidency when Nelson took up position as Governor of New York in 1958.

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.

A 2009 retrospective of Frank Lloyd Wright at the original building in New York showcased the architect on the 50th anniversary of the opening of the building and was the museum's most popular exhibit since it began keeping such attendance records in 1992.

Until the 1920s the museum's entrance was under the portico supported by five-metre high atlantes of grey Serdobol granite from Finland in the middle of the southern facade of the New Hermitage building.

To reflect the museum's Imperial remit the board included appointees of the governments of India, South Africa, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

He left most of his collection, valued at some $ 3 million, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, to pass into the museum's hands after the death of his stepson, Archer.

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.

Works from the American Art collection can be located in various areas of the museum, including in the Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden and in the exhibit American Identities: A New Look, which is contained within the museum's Visible Storage ▪ Study Center.

The museum's collection of Pacific Islands art began in 1900 with the acquisition of one hundred wooden figures and shadow puppets from New Guinea and the Dutch East Indies ( now Indonesia ); with that hundred items as its foundation, the collection has grown to encompass close to five thousand works.

Determining that they need a symbol of equally-powerful positivity to break through the slime, the Ghostbusters use positively-charged mood slime from their slime blowers, an adapted NES Advantage Controller, and a remix of " Higher and Higher " to animate the Statue of Liberty and pilot it through the streets of New York, using its torch to break through the museum's ceiling to attack Vigo and Janosz.

* Sam Augustini-The editor-in-chief of the New York newspaper, he is Laura's boss and the one who hired her to write a story of the museum's benefit party.

In 2007, Time magazine ranked the museum's new Bloch Building number one on its list of " The 10 Best ( New and Upcoming ) Architectural Marvels " which considered candidates from around the globe.

The museum's collections include paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs featuring New York City and its residents, as well as costumes, decorative objects and furniture, toys, rare books and manuscripts, marine and military collections, police and fire collections, and a theater collection ( documenting the golden age of Broadway theater ).

Among the rare items in the museum's collection is a chair that once belonged to Sarah Rapelje, daughter of Joris Jansen Rapelje of Nieuw Amsterdam, and said to be the first child born in New York State of European parentage.

The museum's buildings fall into one of three categories: buildings that were already part of the industrial site ( e. g. the brickworks ); buildings that simply represent a generic type ( e. g. the sweet shop ), some adaptively reusing existing premises on site or being replicas of those still standing elsewhere ; and original buildings that have been relocated to the museum ( e. g. The New Inn public house, which originally stood between Green Lane and Hospital Street in Walsall ).

Set to open in New York City on May 7, 2008, the Sports Museum of America will showcase both the Lacrosse Museum and National Hall of Fame and US Lacrosse in its Hall of Halls Gallery ( along with providing an annual donation ) in return for sharing some of the museum's valuable lacrosse artifacts and their support of the creation of the Nation's first all-sports museum experience.

This gallery also houses the museum's only acknowledgment of " New Coke ", one of history's most infamous commercial failures, in the form of a video, some original marketing and packaging materials, and artifacts from protests.

In April 2008, the museum's new building was named one of the architectural New Seven Wonders of the World by Conde Nast Traveler.

Further, in Ghostbusters: The Video Game, while the Ghostbusters are on a mission in the New York History Museum, Zeddemore reminisces about the time he spent studying for his doctorate in the museum's Egyptology wing.

The museum's paintings from late in the career Claude Monet were exhibit at the New Orleans Museum of Art and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in 1995.

:: The museum's aircraft is the sole surviving RNZAF example in New Zealand and was added to the collection after retirement.

Fingeroth serves on the board of advisors of the New York-based Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, and is also the museum's Senior Vice-President of Education.

Restored trolleys are used on the museum's demonstration railway, which follows the route of the Atlantic Shore Line, a trolley line that ran on the current museum property and connected Kennebunkport to York Beach.

In the late 19th century, the museum's collection was beginning to outgrow its building so a competition was launched to design a combined extension to the museum and college of technology.

Falaises près de Dieppe ( Cliffs near Dieppe ) has been stolen on two separate occasions: once in 1998 ( in which the museum's curator was convicted of the theft and jailed for five years and two months along with two accomplices ) and most recently in August 2007.

The museum's coordinators were pleased with the project ; its official website describes its " true splendour unveiled in the sunlight ", and speaks of " the shades of colour and the interplay of shadows paying tribute to the essence of Islamic architecture ".

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

At the museum's PDP-1 restoration celebration in May 2006, Alan Kotok said his Macintosh PowerBook G4 laptop was 10, 000 times faster, came with 100, 000 times the RAM and 500, 000 times the storage, was 1 / 2000 the size, and cost 1 / 100 as much.

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

The cost of construction of the World's Congress Building was shared with the Art Institute of Chicago, which, as planned, moved into the building ( the museum's current home ) after the close of the fair.

The museum's name is misleading, as it has nothing to do with the famous Russian poet.

In August 2012, a renovated exhibit about Raymond Burr with information about him as an actor, a benefactor and a shell collector, opened in the museum's Great Hall of Shells.

The V & A has its origins in the Great Exhibition of 1851, with which Henry Cole, the museum's first director, was involved in planning ; initially it was known as the Museum of Manufactures, first opening in May 1852 at Marlborough House, but by September had been transferred to Somerset House.

Recently, controversy surrounded the museum's proposed building of an £ 80 million extension called The Spiral, designed by Daniel Libeskind, which was criticised as out of keeping with the architecture of the original buildings.

The library covers all areas and periods of the museum's collections with special collections covering illuminated manuscripts, rare books and artists ' letters and archives.

" 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.

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.

Located just below the large rotunda, this 8, 200-square-foot education facility provides classes and lectures about the visual and performing arts and opportunities to interact with the museum's collections and special exhibitions through its labs, exhibition spaces, conference rooms and the Peter B. Lewis Theater.

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

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

In March 2011, a Maryland court with jurisdiction over Patricia Still's estate ruled that four of Still's works could be sold before they officially become part of museum's collection.

1770, museum building from 1930 with the museum's administration, permanent exhibitions and collections, and Lyche pavilion from 1990 with the gallery, temporary exhibitions and museum café, Halling yard, with 5 old buildings, the oldest from 1760's.

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 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 sound collection originated in 1972 with the creation of the Department of Sound Records and the instigation of an oral history recording programme.

He later became acquainted with Charles ffoulkes, who invited him to join the museum where he was initially engaged in assembling the museum's poster collection.