The museum is home to life and earth science specimens comprising some 70 million items within five main collections: Botany, Entomology, Mineralogy, Palaeontology and Zoology.

A related museum, the Museo de Mineralogía ( Museum of Mineralogy ) belongs to the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo.

Administratively, the museum is divided into four sections: Geology ( covering the Palaeontological collections ), Mineralogy ( the mineral and rock collections ), Zoology and Entomology.

In 1993, after the shake-up caused by the reunification of Germany, the museum split into the three divisions: The Institutes of Mineralogy, Zoology, and Paleontology.

Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.

It is the AID's intention to create in the library `` a miniature museum of Americana '' before completed refurbishing is unveiled early this fall.

He pointed out to the young musicians that the National Gallery `` is the only museum in the country to have a full-time music director, Richard Bales.

Last year Beyeler arranged to sell $1,500,000 worth of Klees to the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which will house them in a museum that is yet to be built.

Another haloed Apollo in mosaic, from Hadrumentum, is in the museum at Sousse.

The Museum of Work, or Arbetets museum, is a museum located in Norrköping, Sweden.

It is the largest museum in the United States of America dedicated to a single artist.

The museum building is shaped like a longbow similar to those used at the battle by archers under King Henry.

The home is not a museum, so only the outside murals are able to be seen by the public.

There is a small museum called Casa de la Máscara ( House of Masks ) which is dedicated to masks, most of them from Mexico but there are examples from many parts of the world.

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.

It would be a mistake to praise Warhol for the design of his boxes ( which were designed by Steve Harvey ), yet the conceptual move of exhibiting these boxes as art in a museum together with other kinds of paintings is Warhol's.

* Pictures of the Aster CT-80 model one from a Spanish computer museum, the educational model with an opening for a cassette player is the one on the right

It is now a museum.

Preventive conservation is an important element of museum policy and collections care.

It is an essential responsibility of members of the museum profession to create and maintain a protective environment for the collections in their care, whether in store, on display, or in transit.

A lift will take visitors almost to the top – to the attic, where there is a small museum which contains large models of the Arc and tells its story from the time of its construction.

His apartment is now a museum.

One of the recent attractions is the aircraft carrier USS Hornet, a museum ship now moored at the former Naval Air Station as the USS Hornet Museum.

The Schwarzwälder Freilichtmuseum Vogtsbauernhof is an open-air museum that shows the life of sixteenth or seventeenth century farmers in the region, featuring a number of reconstructed Black Forest farms.

The operating theatre of the University of Leiden in which he once worked as an anatomist is now at the center of a museum named after him ; the Boerhaave Museum.

The museum is run by the Codes and Ciphers Heritage Trust ( an independent registered charity ) and is open to the public.

There have been numerous museum shows of Bearden's work since then, including a 1971 show at the Museum of Modern Art entitled Prevalence of Ritual, an exhibition of his highly prized prints entitled A Graphic Odyssey showing the work of the last fifteen years of his life, and the 2005 National Gallery of Art retrospective entitled The Art of Romare Bearden.

His position as curator of the museum gave him enough visibility to become highly influential on Danish archaeology.

Lexington is home to many thriving arts organizations including a professional orchestra, two ballet companies, professional theatre, several museums including a basketball museum, several choral organizations and a highly respected opera program at the University of Kentucky.

The context into which it is placed ( e. g. a gallery or museum ) is also a highly relevant factor.

" Goldberger thought the building a catalyst for change, making it " socially and culturally acceptable for an architect to design a highly expressive, intensely personal museum.

The newly refitted east end opened in 1968 and proved highly controversial, with the Architects Journal criticising it as " motivated not by the demands of liturgical worship but by those of museum display.

It has been fully restored and is a unique combination of a working watermill and a museum of mill machinery used for water-power, as well as being a highly rated restaurant, earning an " Award of Distinction " from TopRestaurants.

Tourists are often highly interested in visiting this museum.

His sand bottles have become museum pieces and highly prized antiques which nowadays sell at auction for thousands of dollars.

In July 1970, management of the Church passed to Saint Isaac's Cathedral ( then used as a highly profitable museum ) and proceeds from the Cathedral were funneled back into restoring the Church.

The art museum, Victor's Antiques & Fine Arts, Addison Gallery and the upcoming luxurious iPic movie theater are the center's anchor stores, along with highly rated restaurants Max's Grille, Villagio, and Truluck's.

At the Wordsworth museum in Grasmere there is a collection of highly decorated eggs made for the poet ’ s children.

In a highly symbolic action, the M-19 stole one of Simón Bolívar's swords from a museum in 1974, an event which was used by the group to symbolize what they called a civilian uprising against a regime perceived as unjust.

Today, Oualata is home to a manuscript museum, and is known for its highly decorative vernacular architecture.

It was also considered highly endangered ; up to 1975, it was only known from a few museum specimens, at least to western scientists.

Weatherhead was a highly controversial figure on account of his questioning of some of the central tenets of the Christian faith — he once said he regarded " creeds and confessions of faith " as " museum specimens "— and his incorporation into Christianity of elements from other religions and from spiritualism.

With the attention and encouragement of such highly regarded contemporaries as Niels Lauritz Høyen, art critic, historian and Academy professor whom he admired, and Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, noted archaeologist and museum administrator, Skovgaard got the nerve to focus his career goals on art, and turn away from craft painting.

The novel People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks ( 2008 ), crafts a fictionalised and highly imaginative history of the Haggadah from its origins in Spain to the museum in Sarajevo.

In addition to the museum, the college's collection is installed in " focus " areas in the corridors, dining halls and other highly visible and accessible locations across the campus, sparking a spontaneous engagement with art for students, faculty, staff and visitors.

The Irish Jewish Museum () is a small museum located in the once highly Jewish populated area of Portobello, around the South Circular Road, Dublin 8, dedicated to the history of the Irish Jewish community.

A museum in his former residence also commemorates the life of this highly respected former Gloggnitz resident.