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The museum opened on August 6, 2005, and is the renamed successor to the Davenport Museum of Art, which was opened on October 10, 1928, as the Davenport Municipal Art Gallery.
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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.
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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.
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* August-Macke-Haus ( museum dedicated to Expressionist painter August Macke )
The museum is named after August Kestner and exhibits 6, 000 years of applied art in four areas: Ancient cultures, ancient Egypt, applied art and a valuable collection of historic coins.
Examples of the latter include the Walhalla temple built by Leo von Klenze for Ludwig I of Bavaria between 1830 – 1847 near Regensburg, Germany, and the Tresco Abbey Gardens Valhalla museum built by August Smith around 1830 to house ship figureheads from shipwrecks that occurred at the Isles of Scilly, England, where the museum is located.
* August 10 – At the Vienna Hofburg, the grand opening ceremony is held for the Imperial Natural History Museum (), begun in 1871 ; from August 13 to the end of December, the museum counts 175, 000 visitors.
The Memorial Museum to the Landings in Provence ( Mémorial du débarquement de Provence ) is located on the summit of Mount Faron, this small museum, opened in 1964 by President Charles De Gaulle, commemorates the Allied landing in Provence in August 1944 with photos, weapons and models.
On 2 August 2009, a Russian woman, distraught over being denied French citizenship, threw a terra cotta mug or teacup, purchased at the museum, at the painting in the Louvre ; the vessel shattered against the glass enclosure.
The museum was founded by two antique collectors, an American, Dallas Pratt ( August 21, 1914 – May 20, 1994 ) and a Briton, John Judkyn ( 1913 – July 27, 1963 ) and opened to the public for the first time on July 1, 1961.
Open since August 2003, Booth Museum is the second largest art museum in the state of Georgia, and houses the largest permanent exhibition space for Western art in the country.
There is a large population of artists in Loveland, which has drawn three foundries, an art museum, and the annual sculpture shows in August.
Until recently, the Pig Hip building was still open as a museum of Route 66 memorabilia, with Ernie Edwards ( born 5 August 1917 ) as your host.
The New Mexico Veterans Museum, a new state-owned museum, was announced in August 2008 and is planned to be constructed in Las Cruces.
The museum is open June through August daily except Monday from 10 a. m. to noon and 1 to 5 p. m. From September to May, it is open Friday through Sunday from 1: 15-5: 15 p. m. South of Llano halfway to Fredericksburg is Enchanted Rock State Natural Area, one of the highlights of the Texas Hill Country famed in Indian legend.
File: Baal Shem Tov's shul restored. jpg | Baal Shem Tov ’ s shul reconstructed ( as a museum ); August 4, 2008
As part of these celebrations, a museum was dedicated to her at Kwaso in the Ejisu-Juaben District on 3 August 2000.
The bus museum re-opened as the London bus museum at Brooklands Museum on 1 August 2011 and its former premises were demolished a few weeks earlier to be replaced by a new care home.
The museum is open everyday from 1 July to 12 August.
While continuing to run the Pictureville Cinema and exhibitions in a mill on the other side of the city, the museum closed its main site on 31 August 1997 to allow for a 19-month, £ 16 million redevelopment making the museum 25 percent bigger.
On the August Bank Holiday 1920, the first public holiday since the museum's opening, 94, 179 visitors were received, while 2, 290, 719 had visited the museum by November 1921.
In October 1945 the museum mounted a temporary exhibition, the first since the end of the war in August, which showcased technologies developed by the Petroleum Warfare Department.
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