Under Barr's guidance, the museum's holdings quickly expanded from an initial gift of eight prints and one drawing.

" 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 a smaller scale, the museum's holdings contemplate representative objects of many periods and distinct non-Western civilizations – such as African and Asian arts – and others which stand out for their archaeological, historic and artistic relevance, like the select collections of Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek and Roman antiquities, besides other artifacts of Pre-Columbian cultures and medieval European art.

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.

Works in the medieval collection are the subject of active research by the curatorial and conservation departments of the museum, and visiting researchers frequently make use of the museum's holdings.

Exhibitions draw primarily on the museum's own collection, which numbers approximately 22 million holdings.

Since then the museum's holdings have increased substantially.

The new space allows for some public programming and a small presentation of the museum's holdings

The museum's holdings also include a great variety of sea related objects, including model ships, sea animal skeletons, tools, weapons, etc.

The museum's holdings of over 200 cars are spread over four galleries.

Electroliner trainset 801-802 is preserved at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois ; the museum's holdings also include 15 other passenger and freight cars from the railroad.

The museum's collections include more than 33, 000 artifacts, 20, 000 significant documents and 30, 000 photographs.

Members of the museum's advisory board include Steven Spielberg, Ray Bradbury ( Formerly ), James Cameron, and George Lucas.

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 remit has since expanded to include all conflicts in which British or Commonwealth forces have been involved since 1914.

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 static displays include a Republic F-84 first generation jet fighter, a rare example of the swept-wing RF-84F reconnaissance variant, and an F-105 Thunderchief that reflects Republic's late-production output.

In addition to artifacts from the China Trade period, the museum's grounds include a log cabin replica and a collection of Lincoln memorabilia.

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 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.

In recent years the museum's collection has expanded to include pieces not associated with Michelson.

The museum's exhibits include displays about the ecological history of the Illinois region, a live butterfly house, and a green home demonstration.

Visitor numbers are also not limited to the Hammer's own box office but might also include people around the world who log on to the museum's Web site to view podcasts of public programs, or visit travelling exhibitions which the Hammer organized.

The museum's collections include art, animals, tools, apparel and information about indigenous Arctic people.

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

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.

They normally include no items for sale ; they are distinguished from the museum's permanent displays, and most large museums set aside a space for temporary exhibitions.

With the outbreak of the Second World War, the museum's terms of reference were enlarged to include the conflict.

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

The museum's collections focus on East Central Indiana local cultural history, and include themes of family and community life, entertainment and leisure, industry and work, and East Central Indiana arts.

The museum's collections also include McCudden's uniform ' maternity jacket ' and a half-length portrait of McCudden by William Orpen.

Haacke's solo show at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, which was to include this work and which made an issue of the business and personal connections of the museum's trustees, was cancelled on the grounds of artistic impropriety by the museum's director six weeks before the opening.

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.

In 2007, the island was featured in a museum display at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic which displayed many artifacts from various eras of treasure hunting as part of the museum's exhibit Pirates: Myth and Reality.

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

* The official National Media Museum print website containing many images from the museum's photographic collections

Karlgren had been in close contact with Andersson for many years, and also succeeded Andersson as editor of the museum's journal, the Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities ( BMFEA, 1929 -) and continued in this position until the 1970s.

The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia's foremost museum, did not bid on any of Cope's sales due to bad blood between Cope and the museum's leaders ; as a result, many of Cope's major finds left the city.

MAS acknowledged the museum's growth was not the sole cause of Whitefish Point's popularity that drew many visitors for sunbathing and ship watching.

Recently opened is the National Cold War Exhibition, adding to the museum's already impressive collection, housing examples of all three of the V bombers and other Cold War aircraft, many of which are hung from the Hangar roof.

Olivetti was famous for the attention it gave to design: In 1952, the Museum of Modern Art held an exhibit titled " Olivetti: Design in Industry "; today, many Olivetti products are still part of the museum's permanent collection.

The museum's main focus is its collection of smuggling artifacts that is depicted through the history of the Jamaica Inn and the inn's role in this trade for many years.

The effect of these expansions of remit was to cause the museum's collections to expand enormously, to the point that many parts of the collection, especially those of aircraft, vehicles and artillery, could not be effectively stored or exhibited.

12 July 2008 marked Britain's first trolleybus extension for many decades through the creation of a loop along the Back Road, linking in with the existing overhead wiring near to the museum's entrance.

These same exhibits also printed many of the museum's own leaflets, tickets and flyers.

He has donated both money and many works of art to the Whitney, and is the museum's most prolific fundraiser.

An exhibition entitled Constance Spry: A millionaire for a few pence at the Design Museum, London, in 2004, was controversial in many quarters and resulted in the resignation of the museum's chairman, inventor James Dyson, who considered the show unworthy.

The greater part of the museum's classical sculpture collection largely comes from the Farnese Marbles, important since they include Roman copies of classical Greek sculpture, which are in many cases the only surviving indications of what the lost works by ancient Greek sculptors such as Calamis, Kritios and Nesiotes looked like.

Part of the rationale for the museum's location is Harrisburg's relative closeness to Gettysburg, and the many tourists who visit there.

* The official National Railway Museum print website containing many vintage posters and prints from the museum's collections

At the turn of the 20th Century, the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University, where most Ichthyornis specimens were housed, began placing many of its most interesting or important specimens on display in the museum's Great Hall.

The museum's collection of modern art includes works by international artists ( Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Egon Schiele, Frank Stella and many others ) and Dutch artists ( Charlotte Dumas, Pyke Koch, Piet Mondriaan, Charley Toorop, Jan Toorop, Hans Wilschut and many others.