The story also features a supporting cast of animal characters, the most commonly appearing of which is the physically strong and heavy Hippopotamus ( Begemot, " Behemoth "), who participates in various roles ( e. g., a museum caretaker, shop keeper, passer-by, etc.

The museum participates in the Scholastic Art Awards program by providing secondary school students from northern Nevada a place to exhibit their works.

By 28 December, the museum was cleared of most works, except those that were too heavy and " unimportant paintings were left in the basement ".

The museum annex houses an Air France Concorde ; the Enola Gay B-29 ; the Space Shuttle Discovery ; the Boeing 367 – 80, which was the prototype of the Boeing 707 ; the SR-71 ; and other famous aerospace artifacts, particularly those too large for the main building on the National Mall.

But in 1914 at the age of 63, when he was too old to take part in the War, he took on the Presidency of the Antiquaries which carried with it an ex officio appointment as a Trustee of the British Museum and he spent the War successfully fighting the War Office who wanted to commandeer the museum for the Air Board.

Note too the Gallo-Roman sarcophagus, allegedly that of the 4th-century consul Jovinus, preserved in the archaeological museum in the cloister of the abbey of Saint-Remi.

For years visitors entered the museum through its original main entrance, but it was too small to handle an increasing volume of visitors.

Most industries in Ironbridge are now tourist-related ; however, the Merrythought teddy bear company ( established in 1930 ) is still manufacturing in Ironbridge and has a small museum there too.

When the museum announced the 2011 exhibition " The Luminous Interval ", a show of artwork belonging to Greek businessman Dimitris Daskalopoulos, who is also a museum trustee, this met with criticism of, among other things, too much curatorial power for a serious benefactor.

In 1855 the German architect Gottfried Semper, at the request of Cole, produced a design for the museum, but it was rejected by the Board of Trade as too expensive.

There is modern architecture at Nîmes too: Norman Foster conceived the Carré d ' art ( 1986 ), a museum of modern art and mediatheque ; Jean Nouvel the Nemausus, a post-modern residential ensemble, and Kisho Kurokawa a building in the form of a hemicycle to reflect the Amphitheatre.

This time the loss was too great, and Barnum retired from the museum business.

The museum soon moved to Boulaq in 1858 because the original building was getting to be too small to hold all of the artifacts.

Here too, the Roman ruins are being excavated and a museum has been open to the public since the late 80s.

The museum was originally called the National Air Museum when formed on August 12, 1946 by an act of Congress and signed into law by President Harry S. Truman, some pieces in the National Air and Space Museum collection date back to the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia after which the Chinese Imperial Commission donated a group of kites to the Smithsonian after Smithsonian Secretary Spencer Fullerton Baird convinced exhibiters that shipping them home would be too costly.

This happens often in museum shells of this genus which are stored dry ; when they dry too much, the shell shatters explosively into fairly small pieces.

It was at this time too that a number of artist-controlled alternatives began to develop to provide a forum and venue for many artists denied access to the traditional gallery and museum structure.

When the University moved west to its new site at Gilmorehill ( to escape crowding and pollution in the city centre ) the museum moved too.

Somerset House, while larger than Crane Court, was not satisfying to the Fellows ; the room to store the library was too small, the accommodation was insufficient, and there was not enough room to store the museum at all.

Cool maidens which look as if they have stepped out of a museum of classical antiquity are never too far from dragons, winged warriors, giant lizards and other extravagant beings which look as if they have come from one of Richard Wagner's romantic operas.

The larger, back part was considered too large to fit into the constraints of the structure of the museum ; it is in storage.

What they later learn is that this mission was somewhat altruistic — they came to prevent Time Master from stealing an artifact from the museum that would make him too powerful to control.

In 1836, he had been made curator of the hospital museum, and in 1838, demonstrator of morbid anatomy at the hospital, but his advancement there was hindered by the privileges of the hospital apprentices, and because he had been too poor to afford a house-surgeoncy, or even a dressership.

The museum was asking too much for the Friends to pay, especially while in the middle of a large overhaul.

But Ampata feels too much for Xander and leaves for the museum.

Regular sessions find shanty singers keeping museum visitors in line as they haul sails or turn a capstan.

She instructed the police who served as tour guides to attend sessions at Winterthur ( to learn how tours were guided " in a real museum "), and arranged for them to wear less menacing uniforms, with their guns hidden underneath.

Although for-credit classes are conducted by Cornell's academic departments rather than the museum, the museum does provide curriculum-structured gallery sessions for specific classes.

The result is a cedar-wood boat long, its timbers held together by ropes, which is now currently housed in a special boat-shaped, air-conditioned museum beside the pyramid.

The original is held at the art museum Ateneum, but copies cast from the original mould exist in Turku, in Jyväskylä, in front of the Helsinki Olympic Stadium and at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland.

The villa at 56 – 58 Am Großen Wannsee, where the Wannsee Conference was held, now a memorial and museum

* 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 Pop-Up Museum of Queer History-a series of pop-up museum events held at various sites across the United States focusing on the history and stories of local LGBT communities.

By the end of the 19th century the museum held one of the largest collections in the world of watches and clocks.

He held it until 1923, when he sold it to the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which operates it as a house museum and educational institution.

The International musical festival Svyatoslav Richter's December nights has been held in the Pushkin museum since 1981.

Yiwarra Kuju ( One Road ) – The Canning Stock Route, a joint initiative between the National Museum of Australia and FORM, was held at the museum from July 2010 to January 2011.

After exhibiting in small galleries in Shoreditch, London, the Stuckists ' first show in a major public museum was held in 2004 at the Walker Art Gallery, as part of the Liverpool Biennial.

By this time Murdoch had already built a working model of his steam carriage, which was held in the Museum of Science and Industry, Birmingham until its closure in 1997 and is now at Thinktank, Birmingham's new science museum ; accounts exist from witnesses who " saw the model steam carriage run around Murdoch's living room in Redruth in 1784 ".

While the museum is located in Cleveland, prior to 2009 the induction ceremony was annually held in New York City ( except in 1993, when the ceremony was held in Los Angeles, and in 1997, when the ceremony was held in Cleveland ).

In 1967, his first museum retrospective exhibition was held at the Pasadena Art Museum in California.

In the early 1980s the museum held works of the Hispanic art movement, the first major cultural organization in New Mexico to do so.

As Livorno's local museum housed only a sparse few paintings by the Italian Renaissance masters, the tales he had heard about the great works held in Florence intrigued him, and it was a source of considerable despair to him, in his sickened state, that he might never get the chance to view them in person.

In 2010, the Fondation de l ' Hermitage museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, held an exhibition that covered Hopper ’ s entire career, with works drawn largely from the Whitney Museum in New York City.

The museum also gained international prominence with the hugely successful and now famous Picasso retrospective of 1939 – 40, held in conjunction with the Art Institute of Chicago.

The museum houses a large collection of quilts, most of which are winning entries from the annual American Quilter's Society festival and quilt competition held in April.

With the opening of the new gallery, the RIBA Drawings and Archives Collection has been transferred to the museum, joining the already extensive collection held by the V & A.

Italian sculptors whose work is held by the museum include: Bartolomeo Bon, Bartolomeo Bellano, Luca della Robbia, Giovanni Pisano, Donatello, Agostino di Duccio, Andrea Riccio, Antonio Rossellino, Andrea del Verrocchio, Antonio Lombardo, Andrea Riccio, Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, Andrea della Robbia, Michelozzo di Bartolomeo, Michelangelo ( represented by a freehand wax model and casts of his most famous sculptures ), Jacopo Sansovino, Alessandro Algardi, Antonio Calcagni, Benvenuto Cellini ( Medusa's head dated c1547 ), Agostino Busti, Bartolomeo Ammannati, Giacomo della Porta, Giambologna ( Samson Slaying a Philistine ( Giambologna ) c1562, his finest work outside Italy ), Bernini ( Neptune and Triton c1622 – 3 ), Giovanni Battista Foggini, Vincenzo Foggini ( Samson and the Philistines ), Massimiliano Soldani Benzi, Antonio Corradini, Andrea Brustolon, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Innocenzo Spinazzi, Canova, Carlo Marochetti and Raffaelle Monti.

Heritage Jubilee, held the third weekend in April at Ben Gill Park, is a family celebration with a BBQ cook-off, museum tours, arts and crafts exhibition, carnival, live music, a quilt show, an auto show, and other attractions.

Founding director Grace Morley held film screenings at the museum beginning in 1937, just two years after the institution opened.