Many other materials also serve to make decorated nutcrackers, such as porcelain, silver, and brass ; the museum displays samples.

Military museums specialize in military histories ; they are often organized from a national point of view, where a museum in a particular country will have displays organized around conflicts in which that country has taken part.

The Vindolanda site museum conserves and displays finds from the site.

* Museo del Charango ( Museum of Charango ): Located in Calle Linares, the museum displays an important variety of charangos.

Its museum Fragonard Musée du Parfum displays a rare objects that explain the history of perfumery for over 5000 years.

The square next to the museum displays six bronze allegorical sculptural groups in a row, originally produced for the Exposition Universelle ( 1878 ):

It shared the landscape with and was preyed upon by the fearsome Tyrannosaurus, though it is less certain that the two did battle in the manner often depicted in traditional museum displays and popular images.

Thus organized, museum displays would illustrate the evolution of civilization from its crudest to its most refined forms.

Based on his critique of contemporary museum displays, Boas concluded:

Museums include the Turkmen Fine Arts Museum and Turkmen Carpet Museum, noted for their impressive collection of woven carpets as well as a Turkmen history museum and the Ashgabat National Museum of History, which displays artifacts dating back to the Parthian and Persian civilizations.

The museum displays a variety of historical items including Carib and Arawak artifacts, sugar processing machines and equipment, whaling industry items, and Josephine Bonaparte's marble bath.

The museum displays a number of bronze and plaster sculptures by the Maltese artist Antonio Sciortino ( 1879 – 1947 ) and paintings by Edward Caruana Dingli ( 1876 – 1950 ).

museum displays hundreds of skulls and skeletons from all corners of the world.

A small museum sits at the Mission with displays of Chumash Indian artifacts and mission-era items.

Situated 500 metres from the museum, in the new village, is an art gallery which displays permanent and temporary exhibitions.

The museum displays paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, installation art, video, and photography.

Every two years, the museum hosts the Whitney Biennial, an international art show which displays many lesser-known artists new to the American art scene.

Inscribed on large displays are the names of the inductees, and the museum also includes interactive kiosks, a digital portrait gallery, and a theater.

Inside the old city proper lie the town hall and museum, the " Museu da Terra de Miranda " ( museum of the lands of Miranda ), which has displays of archaeological findings, farm life, local clothing, and traditional masks.

The Nathalie P. and Alan M. Voorhees Archaearium museum onsite opened just prior to the 400th anniversary and displays objects that belonged to Jamestown colonists 400 years ago, unearthed from the long lost James Fort site in a 7, 500 sq.

The museum complex consists of the Patton, WWI, WWII and Post World War Galleries as well as a Special Exhibit area, The Emert L. Davis Memorial Library, outdoor static displays and the Armor Memorial Park.

Managers of the complex announced a major renovation project that will include a new visitors center, a 500-room convention hotel and high-tech museum displays.

The museum notably houses " large-scale, site-specific works and installations by contemporary artists, such as Richard Serra's 340 ft-long Snake, and displays the work of Basque artists, " as well as housing a selection of works " from the Foundation's modern art collection.

In tribute, the museum was renamed the " Musée Napoléon " in 1803, and acquisitions were made of Spanish, Austrian, Dutch, and Italian works, either as spoils or through treaties such as the Treaty of Tolentino.

Additionally, Italian sculptor Pietro Consagra and Senator Ludovico Corrao formed an open air museum with a Consagra sculpture " Porta del Belice " or " Door to Belice " at the entrance.

In 1981, the Italian architect, Gae Aulenti was chosen to design the interior including the internal arrangement, decoration, furniture and fittings of the museum.

As Livorno's local museum housed only a sparse few paintings by the Italian Renaissance masters, the tales he had heard about the great works held in Florence intrigued him, and it was a source of considerable despair to him, in his sickened state, that he might never get the chance to view them in person.

Peruggia was an Italian patriot who believed Leonardo's painting should be returned to Italy for display in an Italian museum.

The museum possesses the world's largest collection of post-classical sculpture, the holdings of Italian Renaissance items are the largest outside Italy.

The style adopted for this part of the museum was Italian Renaissance, much use was made of terracotta, brick and mosaic, this north façade was intended as the main entrance to the museum with its bronze doors designed by James Gamble & Reuben Townroe having six panels depicting: Humphry Davy ( chemistry ); Isaac Newton ( astronomy ); James Watt ( mechanics ); Bramante ( architecture ); Michelangelo ( sculpture ); Titian ( painting ); thus representing the range of the museums collections, Godfrey Sykes also designed the terracotta embellishments and the mosaic in the pediment of the North Façade commemorating the Great Exhibition the profits from which helped to fund the museum, this is flanked by terracotta statue groups by Percival Ball.

Italian sculptors whose work is held by the museum include: Bartolomeo Bon, Bartolomeo Bellano, Luca della Robbia, Giovanni Pisano, Donatello, Agostino di Duccio, Andrea Riccio, Antonio Rossellino, Andrea del Verrocchio, Antonio Lombardo, Andrea Riccio, Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, Andrea della Robbia, Michelozzo di Bartolomeo, Michelangelo ( represented by a freehand wax model and casts of his most famous sculptures ), Jacopo Sansovino, Alessandro Algardi, Antonio Calcagni, Benvenuto Cellini ( Medusa's head dated c1547 ), Agostino Busti, Bartolomeo Ammannati, Giacomo della Porta, Giambologna ( Samson Slaying a Philistine ( Giambologna ) c1562, his finest work outside Italy ), Bernini ( Neptune and Triton c1622 – 3 ), Giovanni Battista Foggini, Vincenzo Foggini ( Samson and the Philistines ), Massimiliano Soldani Benzi, Antonio Corradini, Andrea Brustolon, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Innocenzo Spinazzi, Canova, Carlo Marochetti and Raffaelle Monti.

In 1923, the Italian State, owner of the building, entrusted the management to the Venetian municipality to be run as a museum.

In addition to the permanent collection, the museum houses 26 works on long-term loan from the Gianni Mattioli Collection, including images of Italian futurism by artists including Boccioni ( Materia, Dynamism of a Cyclist ), Carrà ( Interventionist Demonstration ), Russolo ( The Solidity of Fog ) and Severini ( Blue Dancer ), as well as works by Balla, Depero, Rosai, Sironi and Soffici.

Housed in the former city library, the museum contains an exhibit of the geological history of Sylacauga marble along with works by the Italian sculptor and quarry investor Giuseppe Moretti, his assistant Geneva Mercer, and contemporary artists Frank Fleming and Craigger Browne.

* Giovanni Cobelli ( 1849 – 1937 ), Italian entomologist, director of the Rovereto museum

In 1996 the museum suffered yet another serious blow when the Gilbert Collection of Italian mosaics and other decorative objects, promised as an eventual bequest, and parts of which had been on display for decades, was withdrawn.

The museum became an experiment of the Italian government in privatization of the nation's museums when the Fondazione Museo delle Antichità Egizie was officially established at the end of 2004.

The Brooklyn museum has among others late Gothic and Early Italian Renaissance paintings by Lorenzo di Niccolo (" Scenes from the life of Saint Lawrence "), Sano di Pietro, Nardo di Cione, Lorenzo Monaco, Donatello (" Saint Jerome "), Giovanni Bellini.

Since 2000, it has been the site of the Italian National Park of Peace ( Parco Nazionale della Pace ) with memorials and a museum dedicated to the massacre.

* The founder of the Chantilly museum bought it from the Italian family ( 1856 )

Experts have also questioned the " patriotism " motive on the grounds that — were patriotism the true motive — Peruggia would have donated the painting to an Italian museum, rather than attempt to profit from its sale.

The museum was constructed on their estate in the form of an Italian villa to house a vast collection of seventeenth century sculpture and paintings collected on their travels and at auctions.

In 1977, the Bacon paintings, then valued at an estimated $ 6. 7 million, were seized and turned over by the Italian government to the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan ; thirty-three sketches by George Grosz went to a museum in Caserta.

These include Pioneer Park, a 510 seat Regional Theatre, the Italian museum, the Griffith Regional Art Gallery, craft and antique shops, and its many high standard restaurants.