The Museums Department and the National War Museum Association established the museum, which opened to the public in 1975 ; the museum reopened in 2008 after having been closed for more than a year for refurbishment.

In 1997 the Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi beat out ten other international architects to win the competition to execute the redesign of the museum, which after being closed in Manhattan for a time during the process ( a temporary space was opened in Long Island City, Queens ) reopened in 2004.

During museum reconstruction in the 1990s the original pendulum was temporarily displayed at the Panthéon ( 1995 ), but was later returned to the Musée des Arts et Métiers before it reopened in 2000.

A museum of natural history and a museum dedicated to the history of the textiles industry, both closed in January 2007, have merged, and have reopened in April 2008 in new premises on a new location under the name TwentseWelle ( Source / Well of Twente ).

In 2007, Beeny sold the museum's collection of artifacts on eBay, and the museum briefly reopened in Hattiesburg, Mississippi before being placed into storage.

This school, and the building, closed completely in 1978, then reopened as a museum and cultural center in 1994, administered jointly by UNAM, the National Council for Culture and Arts and the government of the Federal District of Mexico City.

After an extensive 18 month programme of building and gallery refurbishment the museum reopened in the summer of 2010.

It was restored to working order and reopened to the public as a museum by North West Water Authority ( later part of United Utilities ).

In October 1945 the evacuated collections were brought back, and in November 1945 the museum reopened.

Kræmmerholmen was reopened in 1991, and was a restaurant / hotel / museum area, but closed in September 2008.

In 1963 the theatre was restored and reopened, with a theatre museum added in 1979.

The museum was reopened by the Duke of York ( later King George VI ) in its new accommodation on 7 July 1936.

The museum reopened a portion of its galleries in November 1946.

This first phase cost £ 16. 7 million ( of which £ 12 million was provided by the government ) and the museum was reopened by The Queen on 29 June 1989.

On the south side of the plaza are the Portales de Ex-Palacio de Gobierno, which was vacated by the government in 2005 and then reopened as a museum called " Museo del Palacio ' Espacio de Diversidad '" Other portals include the " Portal de Mercadores " on the eastern side, " Portal de Claverias " on the north side and the " Portal del Señor " on the west side.

City staff have recommended that the museum not be reopened.

The bust returned to the Neues Museum as its centerpiece when the museum reopened in October 2009.

After extensive renovation it was reopened as a museum in 2007.

After the People Power Revolution, the Palace was reopened to the public and was converted into a museum.

On June 29, 1950 the castle was reopened as a museum and youth hostel, while the Niederhagen kitchen had been renovated into a village fire station.

The station was fully restored and reopened as a museum, the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre.

The building remained closed, and reopened in 2006 as luxury housing, due to its prime location directly next to the Dick Institute, the town's primary library and museum, and the centre of town.

The galleries, which the museum had initially hoped to open by 2009, represent the first major architectural intervention at the Louvre since the addition of I. M.

The museum consequently returned in 2009 five Egyptian fragments of frescoes ( 30 cm x 15 cm each ) whose existence of the tomb of origin had only been brought to the authorities attention in 2008, eight to five years after their good-faith acquisition by the museum from two private collections and after the necessary respect of the procedure of déclassement from French public collections before the Commission scientifique nationale des collections des musées de France.

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

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 2009, the museum reported 119, 000 members and 2. 8 million visitors over the previous fiscal year.

The museum's director Glenn D. Lowry earned $ 1. 6 million in 2009 and lives in a rent-free $ 6 million apartment above the museum.

The museum closed this location and March 1, 2009 redirected its efforts to become an online museum.

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.

Between 2006 and 2009, the museum was expanded to the designs of architect Rick Mather and the exhibition design company Metaphor, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

In 2009, as part of the Jim Henson Foundation's donation of puppets to the Center for Puppetry Arts, the Atlanta museum displayed many of the original puppet characters from Fraggle Rock in their exhibition Jim Henson: Wonders from his Workshop.

* 2009 The George H. W. Bush Gallery opens at the Nimitz museum.

It was a fully functioning hospital until June 2009, it is currently undergoing restoration for use as a museum and cultural center.

The toy train museum closed in 2009.

In June 2009, the Delmarva Discovery Center on the Pocomoke River, an interactive museum focusing on local ecology and history, opened.

The museum was officially opened on April 26, 2009, and it houses a number of exhibits depicting life in the early days of Bohemia, a photograph collection, and a book collection that includes many historical Czech manuscripts.

In 2009 the museum gained a custodial relationship for the important contemporary art collection of Doris and Donald Fisher of The Gap.

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.

In February 2009, additional funding allowed the doors to reopen to the Presidential Museum, with negotiations pending for the University of Texas of the Permian Basin to take control of the museum.

The sculpture was featured at the Rock Stars, Cars And Guitars 2 exhibit during the summer of 2009 at The Henry Ford museum.

The most noteworthy example of this was his gift in 1883 of $ 50, 000 dollars ($ 1, 136, 269 2009 U. S. dollars ), to establish a museum and hall for the Department of Natural History, which today houses the department of biology.

The Centre Pompidou-Metz museum under construction in Metz, France in 2009.

The first museum of caricature in the Arab world was opened in March, 2009, at Fayoum, Egypt.