It has since served as a museum to the independence movement.

His home a few kilometers outside Banyuls, also the site of his final resting place, has been turned into a museum where a number of his works and sketches are displayed.

The settlement site, however is an archaeological site, and a museum has been built nearby for exhibition of finds, models and reconstructions.

Since 2002 the director of the museum has been Neil MacGregor.

As part of its very large website, the museum has the largest online database of objects in the collection of any museum in the world, with 2, 000, 000 individual object entries, 650, 000 of them illustrated, online at the start of 2012.

The museum is one of the best galleries in south west France and has paintings by Degas, El Greco, Botticelli and Goya among others.

The island was made part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument in 1965, and has hosted a museum of immigration since 1990.

Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Christian de Portzamparc, the museum reflects Hergé's huge corpus of work which has, until now, been sitting in studios and bank vaults.

* Fife mining museum, formed 1992, is located in Kinglassie at the back of the Kinglassie Miners Welfare Institute but has recently closed.

Since 2003, the museum has been required to generate funds for projects.

He has more administrative independence for the museum and achieved 90 percent of galleries to be open daily, as opposed to 80 percent previously.

The International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ) has published several standards regarding the management of libraries through its Technical Committee 46 ( TC 46 ), which is focused on " libraries, documentation and information centers, publishing, archives, records management, museum documentation, indexing and abstracting services, and information science ".

The Valkhof museum, on the Valkhof, has a permanent display of the history of Nijmegen, including artifacts from the Roman era.

) As L. C. Croft has written, " Much of Gosse's success was due to the fact that he was essentially a field naturalist who was able to impart to his readers something of the thrill of studying living animals at first hand rather than the dead disjointed ones of the museum shelf.

It is also very popular with film fans, as it has nearly 30 screens in three cinemas, including an IMAX cinema and an English speaking cinema, plus a film academy and a film museum.

Since then, it has served as an ice cream parlor, a bed and breakfast, and a museum.

* The museum Beelden aan Zee in Scheveningen has a large collection of sculptures, mainly from the 20th century artists.

The museum also has an extensive depot, situated at Acton, that contains material impossible to display at the central London museum, including many additional road vehicles, trains, collections of signs and advertising materials.

As the devil is the thylacine's closest relative, there has been speculation that the thylacine could be revived by combining DNA from museum samples of thylacines with ova of the devil.

The use of VR in heritage and archaeology has potential in museum and visitor centre applications, but its use has been tempered by the difficulty in presenting a " quick to learn " real time experience to numerous people at any given time.

* Gladstone, Queensland, Australia was named after him and has a 19th century marble statue on display in its town museum.

Today the museum has three sites including its new headquarters in Leeds.

Today the building is a museum ; on display are his desk and chair, along with a massive collection of arms and armor that he bought.

* Robert Clive's desk from his time at Market Drayton Grammar School is on display at Market Drayton museum complete with his carved initials.

Until recently, General Jackson's desk was exhibited in the museum of the Virginia Military Institute ( VMI ).

He loves to messily eat chocolate and, for an unknown reason, wants to work at the front desk of his local museum, though he has few qualifications.

: This is the foyer of the museum, which consists of the admissions desk, Design Museum shop and Design Museum café, as well as the only toilets in the building.

* During a performance in Harvard's Fogg Art Museum, a band member " lobstered " on the museum curator's desk, which was supporting a piece of artwork undergoing restoration.

Also loaned to the museum was the desk in the Maryland Statehouse on which Washington resigned his commission in the Continental Army at the end of the American Revolution.

In 1802 a Buildings Committee was set up to plan for expansion of the museum, and further highlighted by the donation in 1822 of the King's Library, personal library of King George III's, comprising 65, 000 volumes, 19, 000 pamphlets, maps, charts and topographical drawing.

George Stephenson's Birthplace is an 18th century historic house museum in the village of Wylam, and is operated by the National Trust.

Two tantalizing photos were given to Louisiana State University museum director George Lowery in 1971 by a source who wished to remain anonymous but who came forward in 2005 as outdoorsman Fielding Lewis.

The museum is a National Historic Landmark and is owned by the George C. Marshall International Center

Smithsonian mineralogist George Switzer is credited with persuading Harry Winston to donate the Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History for a proposed national gem collection to be housed at the museum.

Amongst the contents of the museum are the tapestries of Grandmaster Fra Ramon Perellos de Roccaful, portraits of Grandmasters Fra Jean de la Cassiere, Fra Nicolas Cotoner and Fra Manuel Pinto da Fonseca and paintings that were once kept in the Co-Cathedral's many side chapels such as " St George killing the Dragon " by Francesco Potenzano.

The museum has also put up numerous musical films for viewing, such as 2007's temporary exhibit running George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh.

After presenting him with his bone, which she finally found by trailing George, Susan informs David that she has gotten her aunt to donate the million dollars to the museum.

Kirk and Spock discover a pair of whales —" George " and " Gracie "— in the care of Dr. Gillian Taylor at the Cetacean Institute in Sausalito, a museum dedicated to the study of whales, and learn they will soon be released into the wild.

) The museum where Mikey's father works is, in reality, the Captain George Flavel House Museum.

* 2009 The George H. W. Bush Gallery opens at the Nimitz museum.

The Livesey Children's Museum was a free children's museum housed in the former Camberwell Public Library No. 1, which was given to the people of Southwark by the great industrialist Sir George Livesey of the Metropolitan Gas Works in 1890.

George V and Queen Mary both supported the creation of the National Maritime Museum, and Mary presented the museum with many items.

George Wallis ( 1811 – 1891 ), the first Keeper of Fine Art Collection, passionately promoted the idea of wide art education through the museum collections.

In 1901, Sir George Donaldson donated several pieces of art Nouveau furniture to the museum, which he had acquired the previous year at the Paris Exposition Universelle.

Some other points of interest include: the county museum, Lake Alice, George B. Wright Park, Pebble Lake Golf Course, and Veteran's Memorial Park.

National Register sites in Somerville include the white marble 1909 Somerville Court House and the wooden and stone colonial Wallace House ( today a museum ) where George Washington spent a winter during the American Revolutionary War.

Morley ended her 23-year tenure as museum director in 1958 and was succeeded by George D. Culler ( 1958 – 65 ) and Gerald Nordland ( 1966 – 72 ).

The museum is located in a house built by the " shoddy baron ", George Sheard, and features local history, natural history, curios from around the world, and an Ancient Egyptian exhibition.

While George Washington and his troops stayed in Valley Forge, Washington stored his personal effects at the farm of James Burnside in Bethlehem-a historical museum ( Burnside Plantation ).

The museum was pushed to fruition by the late State Representative George " Buddy " West of Odessa.

The museum of St. Andrews University in Scotland has in its collection a snuff box full of pubic hair of one of King George IV's mistresses, possibly Elizabeth Conyngham, which the notoriously licentious monarch donated to the Fife sex club, The Beggar's Benison.

Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in Las Vegas has a " Marrying George Clooney " photo-op, in which museum visitors can put on a wedding gown and stand next to a wax statue of the actor in a tuxedo.

* U. S. Cavalry Museum-housed in the building used as headquarters by George Armstrong Custer, the museum houses exhibits about the U. S. Cavalry from the Revolutionary War to 1950