The first occasion was in 1988 for a museum tour as part of the Australian Bicentenary celebrations ; the second was for the 2006 / 7 Ashes series.

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.

Rutherford John Gettens was the first chemist in the U. S. to be permanently employed by an art museum.

* Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first leader of free modern Greece ( 1776 – 1831 ), had a large building erected ; intended as a barracks, it was subsequently used as a museum, a library and a school.

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

The museum was temporarily closed in 2006 while it underwent a major expansion designed by the architectural firm Arquitectonica.

In 1985, the museum was designated by Baltimore mayor William Donald Schaefer as the official archives of the Baltimore Colts, which had moved the previous year to Indianapolis.

The centre of the museum was redeveloped in 2001 to become the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court | Great Court, surrounding the original British Museum Reading Room | Reading Room.

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.

Although principally a museum of cultural art objects and antiquities today, the British Museum was founded as a " universal museum ".

The British Museum was the first of a new kind of museum – national, belonging to neither church nor king, freely open to the public and aiming to collect everything.

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.

In 1802 a Buildings Committee was set up to plan for expansion of the museum, and further highlighted by the donation in 1822 of the King's Library, personal library of King George III's, comprising 65, 000 volumes, 19, 000 pamphlets, maps, charts and topographical drawing.

In 1962 the Duveen Gallery was finally restored and the Parthenon Sculptures were moved back into it, once again at the heart of the museum.

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.

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.

The original barracks house the regimental museum and it was founded in 1925.

In 1662 the Amerbaschsches Kabinett was established in Basel as the first public museum of art.

The Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa ’ s only accredited museum emphasizing a decorative arts collection, is one of the nation's few museums located within a performing arts and conference complex, the Iowa State Center.

The house was accredited as a museum in 1988.

The University of Kentucky Art Museum is the premier art museum for Lexington and the only accredited museum in the region.

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is accredited by the American Association of Museums, certifying that the museum operates according to the highest standards, manages its collection and provides quality service to the public.

* In 2006, it was revealed that the Tate was the only national-funded museum not to be accredited to the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council ( MLA ), as it did not wish to abide by guidelines that deaccessioned work should first be offered to other museums.

The museum is an accredited member of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums ( AZA ), and attracts over 500, 000 visitors each year.

The museum, accredited by the American Association of Museums, displays and preserves World War II artifacts and memorabilia, as well as a collection of original WWII nose art panels.

The museum opened in 1989 and is accredited by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council.

The museum is accredited by the American Association of Museums.

The museum has been accredited by American Association of Museums since 1993.

The UAM was the first accredited museum in the CSU system.

The Royal Roads Museum is an accredited museum within the Canadian Forces Museum System.

The museum began offering accredited education courses with teachers in 1977.

The museum has been accredited by the American Association of Museums since the 1970s, and by 1980, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The only accredited museum of its kind in the coastal region, it holds both permanent and traveling educational programs which include interactive and hands-on programs for children, adults, families, and teachers.

In 2008 the museum became the first museum in London to be accredited by the Green Tourism Business Scheme, achieving a bronze award in the scheme, known in the capital as Green Tourism for London.

The museum program is fully accredited by the American Association of Museums and houses over 4, 000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculpture, decorative, and cultural objects representing a broad array of art historical genres.

The town has two nationally accredited University colleges, a public library, one museum, an art gallery, more than four hotels, a motel, and two student halls of residence.

The museum is accredited by the American Association of Museums, with accreditation through 2024.

The Nevada Museum of Art, located at 160 West Liberty Street in Reno, Nevada, is the only American Association of Museums ( AAM ) accredited art museum in the state of Nevada.

The museum is 115, 000 square feet ( 10, 683 m² ) and has been accredited by the American Association of Museums since 1973.

The Polk Museum of Art is a nationally accredited art museum in Lakeland, Florida.

Commissioned by Philips to publicise the museum, it was shown as a trade test colour film on the BBC from 1968 to 1972.

In 1970, the Vindolanda Trust, a registered charity, was founded to administer the site and its museum, and in 1997, the Trust took over the running of the Roman Army Museum at Carvoran, another Hadrian's Wall fort, which it had acquired in 1972.

The palace opened to the public in 1972 as a museum containing such exhibits as statues formerly displayed by the cathedral, treasures of the cathedral from past centuries, and royal attire from coronations of French kings.

The museum was opened in 1952 as the Montagu Motor Museum and became a charitable trust in 1972.

Officially opened in 1972, the museum focuses on Islamic history, natural history, Brunei artifacts and customs, ceramics and the oil industry of Brunei.

He has exhibited at documenta ( 1972, 1982 ) and the Venice Biennale ( 1976 ), and his solo museum shows include the Centre Pompidou ( 1991 ), Los Angeles County Museum of Art ( 2003 ), Art Institute of Chicago ( 2005 ) and Santa Monica Museum of Art ( 2008 ).

* USS Albacore Museum & Park – a museum featuring the USS Albacore, a U. S. Navy submarine used for testing, which was decommissioned in 1972 and moved to the park in 1985.

In 1972, the museum campus was totally redesigned.

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad discontinued its service to Menard in 1972, but donated the depot to the county for use as a history museum.

The house was bought by Salford City Council in 1959, and opened to the public in 1972, as a period house and local history museum.

After major restoration work, it was opened to the public in April 1972, as a period house and local history museum.

In a ceremony performed by the Duke of Kent the new purpose-built museum building in the parkland surrounding Palace House was opened on 4 July 1972: the name was changed to the National Motor Museum, reflecting a change of status from a private collection to a charitable trust and highlighting Montagu's stated aim to provide Britain with a National Motor Museum " worthy of the great achievements of its motor industry ".

An unusual feature of the new museum building in 1972 was a monorail passing through the interior of the building.

The 1970s saw oral history gain increasing prominence and in 1972 the museum created the Department of Sound Records ( now the Sound Archive ) to record interviews with individuals who had experienced the First World War.

In 1972 the museum established the Artistic Records Committee ( since renamed the Art Commissions Committee ) to commission artists to cover contemporary conflicts.

* Marjorie Quennell née Courtnay ( 1884 – 1972 ), artist, writer and museum curator.

Since 1972 it has housed the Black River Academy Museum and Historical Society, a museum of local history.

In 1966 it was relocated at St Vigeans and finally moved to Dundee museum in 1972.

Since his first early career retrospectives in 1972 organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, and the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, he has been the subject of several gallery and museum exhibitions, both in the United States and abroad.

It has an excellent modern art museum, the Kasama Nichido Museum of Art which opened on November 11, 1972.

It opened as a museum in 1972.

The museum is run by a charitable trust, incorporated in 1972.

By 1972, the museum had ten full-time, permanent staff members, working within three departments: director's office, education, and a research and exhibitions department.

Renovated in 1972 to a museum for keeping and promoting the development of culture.