The annual exhibition has been held beginning the week after Labor Day since the museum's founding in 1976.

" The founding Guerrilla Girls spoke out against the curator's statement and museum's lack of female artist coverage by placing posters throughout SoHo.

The oldest acquisitions in the African art collection were collected by the museum in 1900, shortly after the museum's founding.

The museum's intent is to show how Americans lived and worked since the founding of the country.

The museum's origins can be traced back to the founding of the Denver Artists Club in 1893.

The museum's origins can be traced back to the founding of the Denver Artists Club in 1893. Jones, William C. and Kenton Forest.

The full-size replica ship Nonsuch, whose voyage in 1668 led to the founding of the Hudson's Bay Company, is the museum's showcase piece.

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 museum's origins date to 1968 when Gordon Bell began a quest for a historical collection and, at that same time, others were looking to preserve the Whirlwind computer.

The museum's mineral collections date back to the Prussian Academy of 1700.

The museum's name in Welsh ( also meaning " Welsh Folk Museum ") has remained unchanged since that date, whereas the English title has been modified once to Museum of Welsh Life, and again to its current nomenclature.

The museum's aim is to preserve and exhibit the history of the Quartermaster Corps, which was formed in 1775 and to date it has collected more than 24, 000 items.

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

In the galleries paralleling the Seine, much of the museum's Roman sculpture is displayed.

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

According to the museum's records, the Rosetta Stone is its most-visited single object and a simple image of it has been the museum's best selling postcard for several decades.

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

A project is currently underway to expand the museum's exhibition space in 2006 from some 6, 000 metres² ( 64, 000 ft² ) to almost 13, 000 metres² ( 139, 000 ft² ), allowing public viewing of many artworks that have usually been in storage.

The museum's main emphasis is on rail transport, but it also features exhibits of various sorts of industrial technology.

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

The museum's main hall is devoted to temple carvings, in particular the giant statue and altar blocks from the Neolithic Tarxien Temples.

The museum's Annual and Biennial exhibitions have long been a venue for younger and less well-known artists whose work is showcased by the museum.

The museum's current director is Adam Weinberg ( since 2003 ).

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 X Prize trophy is currently on display in the museum's lobby.

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.

Similarly calls to the cotton museum's phone number are not answered and there is no way to leave a voice mail message.

The museum's website is rudyardmuseum. com where you can find more information and pictures.

The Immel Circus is one of the museum's most interesting collections.

It is now on display in the museum's money gallery.

The space serves as an indoor / outdoor sculpture gallery and is connected to the museum's fifth-floor galleries by a glass-enclosed bridge.

During the run of the exhibition, Abramović performed " The Artist is Present ," a 736-hour and 30-minute static, silent piece, in which she sat immobile in the museum's atrium, while spectators were invited to take turns sitting opposite her.

It is currently awaiting new display panels before being placed into the club museum's Munich display.

The museum's railway line is connected to the national rail network near Ordsall Lane Junction.

The museum's collection of American art dates back to its being given Francis Guy's Winter Scene in Brooklyn in 1846.

A bull's penis similar to this one, intended for use as a cattle whip, was given to the museum's founder when he was a boy and sparked a lasting interest in penises.

" His penis was given priority in accordance with the museum's mission to display the organs of Icelandic mammals.

In 2008, the museum's tower was given a major restoration.

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.

This was the largest fund-raising effort undertaken at the time, and will provide money for the museum's endowment, a new education building, jaguar / mountain lion habitat, and an animal retirement facility.

With the evacuation of British forces from Dunkirk in May / June 1940, however, the British Army's shortage of equipment saw eighteen of the museum's artillery pieces return to military service.

The museum's holdings include many of Thomas Eakins's sketches and studies related to his paintings of Rush, along with the most famous painting: William Rush Carving his Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River ( aka William Rush and His Model ), 1876 – 77, oil on canvas ( mounted on Masonite ), 20 1 / 8 x 26 1 / 8 inches ( 51. 1 x 66. 4 cm ).

Many of these works are on display in the museum's galleries, but works from the medieval collection are also frequently included in special exhibitions, such as Treasures of Heaven, an exhibition about relics and reliquaries that was on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum, and the British Museum in 2010 / 2011.

The museum's active curatorial departments are: Anthropology, Birds, Botany, Herpetology, Invertebrate Paleontology, Invertebrate Zoology, Mammals, Minerals, Mollusks, specimen / exhibit Conservation, and Vertebrate Paleontology.

The museum's exterior features the sculpture Totem urbain / histoire en dentelle, an allegorical representation of Montreal history, by Pierre Granche.

During the 2005 / 2006 school year, a new Outreach program made its debut, and Great Summer Science, the museum's summer science camps, started summer 2006.

van Rijn 050. jpg | Portrait of a Family, by Rembrandt, 1668 / 69, from the museum's collection