The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu House in Bloomsbury, on the site of the current museum building.

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.

In 2008, the BJU Museum & Gallery opened a satellite location, the " Museum & Gallery at Heritage Green " near downtown Greenville, which features rotating exhibitions from the main museum as well as interactive children's activities.

His final home in the area, Manoir de Ban, is in the process of being converted into a museum exploring his life and career, to be opened in 2013.

It opened on February 21, 1828, and today is a dental museum.

A Fujiko F Fujio museum opened in Kawasaki on September 3, 2011, featuring Doraemon as the star of the museum.

Despite this, a museum exhibit opened in his honor, in which its owner claims it to be the country's smallest Presidential Library.

On 27 January 2011 a memorial and museum dedicated to the Holocaust victims killed using Topf ovens was opened at the former company premises in Erfurt.

That exhibition served as a bridge to the museum ’ s plans for an expanded exhibition on first ladies ’ history that opened on November 19, 2011.

Due to the threat of war, plans for a lavish museum were never implemented, but once the war was over it was possible to construct the relatively understated but well-lit modern exhibition extension, opened in 1977, that now houses much of the collection.

She was paid off in 1997 and opened as a museum ship in 2001.

The museum opened on 10 August 1793 with an exhibition of 537 paintings, the majority of the works being royal and confiscated church property.

The museum opened on 10 August 1793, the first anniversary of the monarchy's demise.

On 26 December 2009, Moderna Museet (" the modern museum ") opened its first outpost in the old Rooseum building in Malmö.

In 2007, a new museum opened at the site in which archeological findings are displayed in a theatrical setting.

The artist's birthplace opened as a museum in 1991

Near the Palm House is a building known as " Museum No. 1 " ( even though it is the only museum on the site ), which was designed by Decimus Burton and opened in 1857.

* Riverside Museum, a new museum of transport in Glasgow, Scotland, opened in 2011.

The island ’ s two-floor museum situated in a building near the base of Jacob ’ s Ladder was opened the same year and is operated by the St Helena Heritage Society.

In summer 2010, the world's first permanent airport library opened alongside the museum, providing passengers access to a collection of 1, 200 books ( translated into 29 languages ) by Dutch authors or on subjects relating to the country ’ s history and culture.

* The Urho Kekkonen museum was opened in Tamminiemi in 1987.

* September 5 – In Paris, the Louvre Palace is opened to the public as a museum.

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.

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.

He took two medals, leaving one on the Moon and donating the other to the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base museum.

In 1947, Poland founded a museum on the site of Auschwitz I and II, which by 2010 had seen 29 million visitors — 1, 300, 000 annually — pass through the iron gates crowned with the infamous motto, Arbeit macht frei (" work makes free ").

* 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 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.

His actual eyeglass frames recovered from the crash site are on display inside the museum.

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.

The body of trustees decided on a converted 17th-century mansion, Montagu House, as a location for the museum, which it bought from the Montagu family for £ 20, 000.

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.

At present () the museum is closed for refurbishment but there is a temporary museum, on the site, where all their ' star finds ' are displayed.

File: Suit of chain mail from DHM museum Berlin. jpg | A suit of mail on display at the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin.

* Ancient Roman originals can be seen on the pages of the Roman Military Equipment Web museum, Romancoins. info

Two of the city's largest parks are also located on this side of the city: Jackson Park, bordering the waterfront, hosted the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, and is home of the aforementioned museum ; and slightly west sits Washington Park.

In 1988, Jones contributed to the creation of London's Museum of the Moving Image by spending several days working high on scaffolding creating a chase sequence directly onto the high walls of the museum.

The work of Lee and Jones remained on the walls of the museum.

This expansion pack featured levels that were based on real-world locations, such as the White House, the FBI headquarters, the Smithsonian museum, and the Washington Monument and other places in Washington, D. C.

Today, 78 skins of the Great Auk remain mostly in museum collections, along with around 75 eggs and 24 complete skeletons.

The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford opened on 24 May 1683 as the world's first university art museum.

* The museum is mentioned in Book 1, chapter 24 of Henry James's novel " Portrait of a Lady.

Maud Foster Mill The seven-storeyed Maud Foster Tower Windmill, completed in 1819, by millwrights Norman & Smithson of Kingston upon Hull for Issac and Thomas Reckitt, is currently the tallest operating windmill in England ( 80 ft / 24. 4 metres to the top of the cap ), following extensive restoration during the 1980s and early 1990s and is now a working museum.

The 25 selected works were on view at the museum from October 22 to 24, 2010.

The complete version of ' Shallow 1 – 21 ' was given its full US museum premiere in the Morris Gallery of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts ( PAFA ), in Philadelphia, from 24 October 2009 until 3 January 2010.

* Custer Home, 24 Sheridan Avenue-Historic house museum

In 2012 the museum reported its documents collection to contain 24, 800 collections of papers.

On November 24, 2009, Google announced that it would create a virtual copy of the museum ’ s collections at its own expense, and make images of four millennia of archaeological treasures available online, free, by early 2010.

This museum houses one of the world's greatest Picasso collections: 24 paintings, 44 drawings, 32 lithographs, 11 oils on paper, 80 pieces of ceramics, 2 sculptures and 5 tapestries.

With its 24 characteristic Romanesque style churches of the 12th and 13th centuries it has been called a " museum of Romanesque art ".

On September 24, 2007, a new museum was opened honoring the Little Rock Nine.

The restoration of the furnishings and rooms, under the direction of the Royal Superintendence, meant that the museum could be opened to the public on March 24, 1929.

Eventually, in January 1937, Mellon formally offered to create the new Gallery, and on his birthday, 24 March 1937, an Act of Congress accepted the collection and building funds ( provided through the Trust ), and approved the construction of a museum on the National Mall.

* The 24 Hour Church of Elvis, an art museum and gallery, which is also a commentary on the extreme awe often accorded the Rock musician Elvis Presley.

An abstract sculpture, Infinity standing 24 feet tall, was dedicated at the National Mall entrance to the museum in 1967.

The museum and its contents were auctioned on August 24, 2007, owing to the failure of its parent company, Wild West World.

Viewed August 24, 2006 at http :// museum. nist. gov / index. html

The new World of Coca-Cola museum opened on May 24, 2007, next to the Georgia Aquarium just north of the park, and Imagine It!

Marjorie Eileen Doris Courtenay-Latimer ( 24 February 190717 May 2004 ) was the South African museum official who in 1938 brought to the attention of the world the existence of the coelacanth, a fish thought to have been extinct for sixty-five million years.

The museum caters for young and old, it includes a timeline of organic farming developments, and there are exhibits of traditional Korean farming practices tied to the 24 seasonal divisions of the year.

Tower 24 has undergone renovation and using Tower 23 used as a guide: in 1969 it became the first Martello tower to be opened to the public and remains as a museum of Martello Towers, owned by English Heritage.

The museum also has collections of: American decorative art ; Asian art ; Japanese art ; Korean art ; Chinese art ; Native American art ; Oceanic art ; African art ; Indian art ( contemporary ); rare books, manuscripts & ephemera ( in the Phillips Library ); photography ( a collection comprising more than a half million rare and vintage images ); architecture ( 24 historic American structures and gardens ; 5 buildings are National Historic Landmarks ; 8 others are listed on the National Register of Historic Places ).

The museum owns 24 historic structures and gardens.