Is one to judge the painting itself, the work of the painter, or perhaps the painting in its context of presentation by the museum workers?

His house is now a museum and a memorial chapel and the island itself is a national monument.

The museum, designed by the architect David Chipperfield, features information on the River Thames, the sport of rowing, and the town of Henley itself.

Abby's husband was adamantly opposed to the museum ( as well as to modern art itself ) and refused to release funds for the venture, which had to be obtained from other sources and resulted in the frequent shifts of location.

Bartholdi's hometown Colmar prides itself with a number of statues and monuments by the sculptor, as well as with a museum, founded in 1922 in the house in which he was born, at 30 Rue des Marchands.

Caesarea has recently become the site of what bills itself as the world's first underwater museum, where 36 points of interest on four marked underwater trails through the ancient harbor can be explored by divers equipped with waterproof maps.

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The structure's covering later burned, but the structure itself still stands and, under the name Biosphère, currently houses an interpretive museum about the Saint Lawrence River.

On its website, the cotton museum advertises itself as being open M-F, but this information is unreliable.

Cohutta also prides itself on the Red Clay State Historic Park that serves as a national Native American meeting ground, Cherokee memorial with a museum, as well as an outdoor park and recreation center for visitors.

For more information about the museum, or the Damascus Heritage Society itself, visit http :// www. dhsm. org, where you will find the links to the Damascus Heritage Society newsletters, and even articles that tell the stories of past towns people, like John Thomas Baker, Arnold Hawkins, and Sallie Souder.

The Hull residence itself was preserved as a museum and monument to Jane Addams.

The museum itself is the biggest exhibit.

In 2011 the museum rebranded itself as IWM, standing for ' Imperial War Museums '.

In October 2011 the museum rebranded itself as Imperial War Museums, the acronym IWM forming the basis of a new corporate logo.

The collection originated during the First World War, when the museum acquired works that it had itself commissioned, as well as works commissioned by the Ministry of Information's British War Memorials Committee.

In Tadenava, not far from Jēkabpils itself, there is a memorial museum to the great Latvian poet Rainis.

As a part of the museum experience, it is possible to walk through the cutting itself and along a section of the former railway track bed.

The museum counts itself among the few worldwide that actually maintain and fly historic aircraft, and it counts an original Republic P-47D fighter among its airworthy fleet.

The prado (" meadow ") that was where the museum now stands gave its name to the area, the Salón del Prado ( later Paseo del Prado ), and to the museum itself upon nationalisation.

Lambic is a very distinctive type of beer brewed traditionally in the Pajottenland region of Belgium ( southwest of Brussels ) and in Brussels itself at the Cantillon Brewery and museum.

In some cases, archaeologists have discovered traces of ships and boats where there are no extant physical remains to be preserved, such as Sutton Hoo, where museum displays can show what the vessel would have looked like, although the vessel itself no longer exists.

When the Museum of London carried out the excavation work, the staff found many objects which are now stored in the museum itself.

The first occasion was in 1988 for a museum tour as part of the Australian Bicentenary celebrations ; the second was for the 2006 / 7 Ashes series.

Fleming's Nobel Prize medal was acquired by the National Museums of Scotland in 1989 and is on display after the museum re-opened in 2011.

Rutherford John Gettens was the first chemist in the U. S. to be permanently employed by an art museum.

* Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first leader of free modern Greece ( 1776 – 1831 ), had a large building erected ; intended as a barracks, it was subsequently used as a museum, a library and a school.

The museum was the first institution of its kind in Greece, but the collection was transferred to Athens in 1834.

The museum was temporarily closed in 2006 while it underwent a major expansion designed by the architectural firm Arquitectonica.

In 1985, the museum was designated by Baltimore mayor William Donald Schaefer as the official archives of the Baltimore Colts, which had moved the previous year to Indianapolis.

The centre of the museum was redeveloped in 2001 to become the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court | Great Court, surrounding the original British Museum Reading Room | Reading Room.

Until 1997, when the British Library ( previously centred on the Round Reading Room ) moved to a new site, the British Museum was unique in that it housed both a national museum of antiquities and a national library in the same building.

Although principally a museum of cultural art objects and antiquities today, the British Museum was founded as a " universal museum ".

The British Museum was the first of a new kind of museum – national, belonging to neither church nor king, freely open to the public and aiming to collect everything.

The museum ’ s first notable addition towards its collection of antiquities, since its foundation, was by Sir William Hamilton ( 1730 – 1803 ), British Ambassador to Naples, who sold his collection of Greek and Roman artefacts to the museum in 1784 together with a number of other antiquities and natural history specimens.

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.

In 1962 the Duveen Gallery was finally restored and the Parthenon Sculptures were moved back into it, once again at the heart of the museum.

The Great Court, opened in 2000, while undoubtedly improving circulation around the museum, was criticised for having a lack of exhibition space at a time when the museum was in serious financial difficulties and many galleries were closed to the public.

At that time, survivor Clive Doyle was living at the Mount Carmel Center with supporter Ron Goins, operating a small visitor museum as well as holding weekly Bible studies on the Sabbath.

The original barracks house the regimental museum and it was founded in 1925.

In 1662 the Amerbaschsches Kabinett was established in Basel as the first public museum of art.