In January 2012, a work stolen 30 years earlier from a French museum was returned.

During his time in Canada, Sapir also acted as an advocate for Indigenous rights, arguing publicly for introduction of better medical care for Indigenous communities, and assisting the Six Nation Iroquois in trying to recover eleven wampum belts that had been stolen from the reservation and were on display in the museum of the University of Pennsylvania, the belts were only returned to the Iroquois in 1988.

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.

She was returned to Germany in 1965 to become a museum ship in 1971.

The Dresden collection was finally returned to East Germany, despite strong opposition from the museum officials, notably Irina Antonova, who has been running the museum since February 1961.

Peruggia was an Italian patriot who believed Leonardo's painting should be returned to Italy for display in an Italian museum.

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.

By 1948 most of the collections had been returned to the museum.

Minik was adopted by a superintendent of the museum, while Uissakassak returned to his homeland in Greenland.

In 1917 his body was discovered by miners, and moved to an LDS museum in Salt Lake City, but was later returned to Spring Lake.

It was later returned to Armenia at Echmiadzin, where it is always visible to the museum Manougian, enshrined in a reliquary of the seventeenth century.

Arnold was then the featured honoree of the museum's National Aviation Day celebration of August 20, 2011, when Johnson returned the insignia to the museum.

Thefts took place between April 10 and 12, when some staff returned to the building and fended off further attempts by looters to enter the museum until U. S. forces arrived on April 16.

Some looters had returned items after promises of rewards and amnesty, and many items previously reported missing had actually been hidden in secret storage vaults at the museum prior to the outbreak of war.

In December 2008, the museum was opened for a photo opportunity for Ahmad Chalabi, who returned a number of artifacts supposedly handed in to him by Iraqis.

* Hundreds of looted items returned to Iraqi museum, CNN Web Site, November 11, 2003

However, later finding that Gaston Maspero placed little value on them and left them open to the elements in a yard behind the museum to deteriorate, he angrily demanded that they all be returned, forcing Maspero to pick the 12 best examples for the museum to keep and then returning 48 to Petrie, which he sent to London for a special showing at the British Museum.

The museum will receive several artifacts, including a former camera, that were removed from the Hubble Space Telescope and returned to Earth after Space Shuttle mission STS-125.

The art had to be returned across French territory in night trains to the museum upon the commencement of World War II.

He returned in several other episodes having reformed into a nicer character and running a museum of his collection.

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

Is one to judge the painting itself, the work of the painter, or perhaps the painting in its context of presentation by the museum workers?

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.

The museum was the first institution of its kind in Greece, but the collection was transferred to Athens in 1834.

The Bronx Museum of the Arts, founded in 1971, exhibits 20th century and contemporary art through its central museum space and of galleries.

The surrounding fertile plain, its thermal baths, several interesting museums, notably a rich museum of archaeology, and a rather orderly urban growth are further principal elements that complete Bursa's overall picture.

Some important Roman ruins are exposed under the Plaça del Rei, its entrance located by the city museum ( Museu d ' Història de la Ciutat ); the typically Roman grid plan is still visible today in the layout of the historical centre, the Barri Gòtic (" Gothic Quarter ").

During the few years after its foundation the British Museum received several further gifts, including the Thomason Collection of Civil War Tracts and David Garrick's library of 1, 000 printed plays, but yet contained few ancient relics recognisable to visitors of the modern museum.

The museum ’ s first notable addition towards its collection of antiquities, since its foundation, was by Sir William Hamilton ( 1730 – 1803 ), British Ambassador to Naples, who sold his collection of Greek and Roman artefacts to the museum in 1784 together with a number of other antiquities and natural history specimens.

As part of its very large website, the museum has the largest online database of objects in the collection of any museum in the world, with 2, 000, 000 individual object entries, 650, 000 of them illustrated, online at the start of 2012.

The region is known for its production of white truffles, and hosts a festival and a museum dedicated to the rare fungus ( genus Tuber ).

He was appointed surgeon at the Philadelphia Hospital in 1854 and was the founder of its pathological museum.

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

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.

* Grand Rapids Art Museum ( popularly known by its acronym GRAM ), an art museum in Michigan

Gardner would also join the Historical Association, being elected Co-President of its Bournemouth and Christchurch branch in June 1944, following which he became a vocal supporter for the construction of a local museum for the Christchurch borough.

Founded in 1975, the museum is named after its benefactors, Iowa State alumnus Henry J. Brunnier and his wife Ann.

Today, faculty, students, and community members can enjoy the museum while honoring its significance in shaping a nationally recognized land-grant university.

Originally constructed to fill the capacity of a library, museum, and chapel, its original uses are engraved in the exterior stonework on the east side.

The modern museum, he said later, " must pay greater attention to its educational responsibility, especially to the young ".

No. 1, now in a private collection was in the collections of the Time Museum, USA, until that museum closed in 2000 and its collection dispersed at auction in 2004.