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

The Peggy and David Rockefeller Building on the western portion of the site houses the main exhibition galleries, and The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building on the eastern portion provides over five times more space for classrooms, auditoriums, teacher training workshops, and the museum's expanded Library and Archives.

Inspired by traditional middle-eastern covered courtyards and wind towers, used to cool structures exposed to the desert sun, the museum's clusters of horizontal and vertical galleries of various sizes are connected by catwalks and planned around a central, covered courtyard, incorporating natural features intended to maximize the energy efficiency of the building.

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

Dr Noble Frankland, the museum's Director from 1960 to 1982, described the museum's galleries in 1955 as appearing ' dingy and neglected in a dismal state of decay ' the museum's ' numerous stunning exhibits ' notwithstanding.

In November, 2003 Coalition officials reported a few dozen of the most important items remained missing from the museum's public galleries, along with another 10, 000 other items — most of them tiny and some of them fragments.

A glass-roofed and wedge-shaped foyer now contains the museum's shops and cafeteria, removing them from the main building to make more room for galleries.

There are six permanent exhibition galleries for the display of the museum's collections and six thematic galleries for temporary exhibitions.

In 2000, the Brooklyn Museum started the Museum Apprentice Program in which the museum hires teenagers in high school, to give tours in the museum's galleries during the summer, assist with the museum's weekend family programs throughout the year, participate in talks with museum curators, serve as a teen advisory board to the museum, and help plan teen events.

The Bloch building houses the museum's contemporary, African, photography, and special exhibitions galleries as well a new cafe, the museum's reference library, and the Isamu Noguchi Sculpture Court.

The main floor's north and south galleries will present exhibitions showcasing the museum's permanent collection and work by post-emerging contemporary artists.

Upset by the museum's plans to display his paintings in galleries that are part of the Frances and Armand Hammer Wing but named for other donors, Hammer withdrew from a non-binding agreement with LACMA to transfer his paintings and instead founded his own museum, built adjacent to Occidental's headquarters and designed by architect Edward Larrabee Barnes.

Kahn, however, insisted on a vaulted roof, which would enable him to create galleries with a comforting, room-like atmosphere yet with minimal need for columns or other internal structures that would reduce the museum's flexibility.

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.

Two galleries feature the museum's decorative art collections, including costume, textiles, jewellery, glass, ceramics and silverware, and a large display of ceramic teapots.

In 2005 it was temporarily removed from display pending reorganisation of the museum's sculpture galleries but is now back on display in the sculpture court adjoining the central courtyard.

The museum's natural history galleries include a large selection of taxidermied animals

The museum's Asian art collection, the only such resource in the Rocky Mountain region, includes four main galleries devoted to the arts of India, China, Japan and Southwest Asia.

The 1988 extension, in addition to expanded exhibition galleries, also contains the museum's store and public cafe.

When war was formally declared a year later, most of the museum's paintings were sent there as well.

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

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

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

Allée des peupliers de Moret ( The Lane of Poplars at Moret ) has been stolen three times from the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nice-once in 1978 when on loan in Marseilles ( recovered a few days later in the city's sewers ), again in 1998 ( when the museum's curator was convicted of the theft and jailed for five years with two accomplices ) and finally in August 2007 ( on 4 June 2008 French police recovered it and three other stolen paintings from a van in Marseilles ).

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 numbers nearly 5, 500 objects and is best known for its quality and breadth of eighteenth-century French paintings, Sèvres porcelain and French furniture.

Among the museum's notable exhibitions ( besides the aforementioned Treasures of Tutankhamun ) were a 1954 exhibition of 25 European paintings and sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation ; these pieces were donated to SAM in 1961.

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 ).

One of the best collections of medieval art in the United States, the museum's holdings include examples of metalwork, sculpture, stained glass, textiles, icons, and other paintings.

The museum's primary collections are those of the Habsburgs, particularly from the portrait and armour collections of Ferdinand of Tirol, the collections of Emperor Rudolph II ( the largest part of which is, however, scattered ), and the collection of paintings of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm.

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 ).

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.

Featuring highlights from the private collections of the museum's cofounders, it comprised eight paintings and over 120 works on paper by the Austrian avant-garde artist Gustav Klimt.

The museum's permanent collection includes European and American decorative arts from the late seventeenth century to the present, works on paper, paintings, prints ( notably Japanese prints ), sculptures and installations.

Sometime between 1995 and 2007, the museum's entire collection disappeared, along with paintings by León Zurita, the visitor log and a stamp collection.

The National Army museum's permanent Art Gallery houses a large number of the oil paintings in museum's collections from the 16th century to the 20th century, including works by Jan Wyck, John Wootton, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, Benjamin West, Sir Henry Raeburn, Francis Cotes, George Jones, Lady Butler, Richard Caton Woodville, Rex Whistler and John Keane.

The core of the museum's exhibit is Dr. Dahesh's collection of more than 2, 000 academic paintings created in a style that struggled for years to compete with Impressionism.

In 2009, the Prado selected The Garden of Earthly Delights as one of the museum's fourteen most important paintings, to be displayed in Google Earth at a resolution of 14, 000 megapixels.

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.

The museum's collection includes 96 oil paintings, over 100 watercolors and drawings, 1, 300 graphics, photographs, sculptures and objets d ' art, and an extensive archival library, and displays are periodically rotated.

The Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Archive, an administratively independent section of the Museum of Modern Art's department of architecture and design, was established in 1968 by the museum's trustees.

Visitors saw examples of his cartooning dating back to childhood, publications he has appeared in, some of his awards, and Marginal-style sketches by Aragonés literally drawn onto the museum's walls and display cases.

The painting was on display at the Art Institute until its purchase by the Polish Women's Alliance on the museum's behalf.

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.

This was wholly masterminded by Barr, a Picasso enthusiast, and the exhibition lionized Picasso as the greatest artist of the time, setting the model for all the museum's retrospectives that were to follow.

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.

In April 1974, a handicapped woman, upset by the museum's policy for the disabled, sprayed red paint at the painting while it was on display at the Tokyo National Museum.

The museum's claims are contradicted by former prisoners ' published memoirs and oral histories broadcast on C-SPAN identify the room ( and other nearby locales ) as the site of numerous acts of torture.

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 museum's founding date is given in the AP interview / article by Sharon Cohen, which appeared in the Standard-Times on February 17, 2003, and is quoted in the IDS interview, see above.

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.

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.

" 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.

A large display of General Chennault's orders, medals and other decorations has been on loan to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum ( Washington D. C .) by his widow Anna since the museum's opening in 1976.

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.

Trains are hauled by the museum's two operational steam locomotives:

On the August Bank Holiday 1920, the first public holiday since the museum's opening, 94, 179 visitors were received, while 2, 290, 719 had visited the museum by November 1921.

The museum's trench clubs were used by the Home Guard, while other items such as sights and optical instruments were returned to the Ministry of Supply.