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.

Last year Beyeler arranged to sell $1,500,000 worth of Klees to the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which will house them in a museum that is yet to be built.

#* Understanding of the effectiveness of museum education will be improved further and best practice built into education programmes.

The settlement site, however is an archaeological site, and a museum has been built nearby for exhibition of finds, models and reconstructions.

In 1935, they donated to the Dutch people their entire collection totaling approximately 12, 000 objects, on condition that a large museum be built in the gardens of her park.

The museum itself was built into the mountain, with 80 percent of the building underground.

John Alden's House, now a National Historic Landmark, was built in 1653 and is open to the public as a museum.

The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace ( Palais du Louvre ) which began as a fortress built in the late 12th century under Philip II.

A nearby museum was built to house this boat.

Gustavianum, built 1622 – 1625 and now a museum.

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.

Projects include the new Betile museum of Nuragic and modern art, designed by the Prizker Award winner Zaha Hadid: being built on the Sant ' Elia promenade.

* Palazzo delle Albere, a Renaissance villa next to the Adige river built around 1550 by the Madruzzo family, now hosting a modern art museum.

Some other interesting buildings are the town hall ( Stadhuis ), a 16th-century building that was badly damaged by a fire in 1929 but has its Renaissance façade designed by Lieven de Key still standing ; the Gemeenlandshuis van Rijnland ( 1596, restored in 1878 ); De Waag ( weigh house in Dutch ), built by Pieter Post ; the former court-house ( Gerecht ); a corn-grinding windmill, now home to a museum ( Molen de Valk ) ( 1743 ); the old gymnasium ( Latijnse School ) ( 1599 ) and the city carpenter's yard and wharf ( Stadstimmerwerf ) ( 1612 ), both built by Lieven de Key ( c. 1560 – 1627 ).

A modern museum has been built by the Sussex Archaeological Society, incorporating most of the visible remains including one wing of the palace.

Apart from these, there are also several historical museums that display the city's medieval period, such as the Turku Castle, which has been a functional historical museum since 1881, and the Aboa Vetus museum, built in the late 1990s over the 14th century archaeological site.

This timber-framed Jacobean building, built in 1621, is now a The Old House, Hereford # Museum | museum.

It is now a museum about life in the Jacobean era of the 1600s when it was built.

A museum has been built at Holt to display artifacts from the Midland and Great Northern Railway.

A museum devoted to Simón Bolívar, his family and ancestors was built in Simón Bolívar's patrimonial house.

A number of museums have been built and now the new Munch museum and the Historic Museum is the government's current focus.

Built in the Brucheion ( Royal Quarter ) in the style of Aristotle's Lyceum, adjacent to and in service of the Musaeum ( a Greek Temple or " House of Muses ", hence the term " museum "), the library comprised a Peripatos walk, gardens, a room for shared dining, a reading room, lecture halls and meeting rooms.

It hosts the Risorgimento museum, and the near building of the Pedrocchino (" little Pedrocchi ") in neogothic style.

Rosenwald's vision was to create a museum in the style of the Deutsches Museum in Munich, which he had visited in 1911 while in Germany with his family.

This style of arrangement, designed to highlight the evolutionary trends in human artefacts, was a revolutionary innovation in museum design.

* Palace of Kraków Bishops ( 1637 – 1641 ): summer residence of Bishops of Kraków, built in early baroque style by Giovanni Battista Trevano and Tomasz Poncino ; houses a museum with an important gallery of Polish paintings

The Irkutsk Regional museum with stamped last names of famous researches of Siberia on its walls ( 1883 ), the building of the first public community, city theater ( 1897 ), Kazan ' cathedral, made in new Byzantine style ( 1893 ), and the Roman Catholic cathedral ( 1895 ) completed an architectural style of the city.

The style adopted for this part of the museum was Italian Renaissance, much use was made of terracotta, brick and mosaic, this north façade was intended as the main entrance to the museum with its bronze doors designed by James Gamble & Reuben Townroe having six panels depicting: Humphry Davy ( chemistry ); Isaac Newton ( astronomy ); James Watt ( mechanics ); Bramante ( architecture ); Michelangelo ( sculpture ); Titian ( painting ); thus representing the range of the museums collections, Godfrey Sykes also designed the terracotta embellishments and the mosaic in the pediment of the North Façade commemorating the Great Exhibition the profits from which helped to fund the museum, this is flanked by terracotta statue groups by Percival Ball.

Over his two decades at the head of the foundation, Krens was criticized not only for the deaccessioning of older works of the museum but for both his businesslike style and perceived populism and commercialization.

Today the Prinz-Max-Palais, built between 1881 and 1884 in neoclassical style, houses the organisation and includes its museum.

In Das Haus and in a replica barn called Der Stall, the museum shows the German style of the building they used later, as well as items typical of rural life in the Town during the 19th century.

While the term magical realism in its modern sense first appeared in 1955, the German art critic Franz Roh first used the phrase in 1925, to refer to a painterly style also known as Neue Sachlichkeit ( the New Objectivity ), an alternative championed by fellow German museum director Gustav Hartlaub.

The museum, housed in a 1905 Arts & Crafts style mansion on the main artery of Wick Avenue, is managed by the Mahoning Valley Historical Society.

It was designed by Leo von Klenze in the Greek revival style as a prelude to the museum and features neoclassical marble sculptures by Antonio Canova and his followers.

* Folk Music Center ( Folkemusikksenteret ) is a cultural heritage museum offering a good image of the building style and traditions of the district.

* Schloss Morsbroich-moated castle in the baroque style, now a museum for contemporary art

Aguascalientes historic downtown is home to several outstanding museums including the Aguascalientes Museum ( Museo de Aguascalientes ), the city's art museum, housed in a Classical-style building designed by the beloved self-trained architect Refugio Reyes ; the Guadalupe Posada Museum ( Museo Guadalupe Posada ), located in the historic nationhood of Triana, exhibits the life and work of José Guadalupe Posada ; and the State History Museum, which is housed in an elegant Art Nouveau mansion typical of the Porfirian period with and ornate patio and dining room with vegetable motifs in a Mediterranean style, with a French Academism facade, and interior columns and an arcade of pink stone characteristic of Porfirian Eclecticism.

Here also is the Dean Church of Lord's Conversion on Mount Tabor, built in 1516 in the style of the Bohemian Renaissance, and the town hall, in connection with which a museum has been founded, which contains interesting memorials of the Hussite period, such as farm carts which doubled as battle wagons.

The district also includes the Stone-Otis House ( Federal with Greek revival portico ), built circa 1830 ( now a museum ) and The Academy, a schoolhouse built in 1878 with Stick style elements, including an elaborate gable screen, also now a museum.

With its 24 characteristic Romanesque style churches of the 12th and 13th centuries it has been called a " museum of Romanesque art ".

* Finance palace, today National museum, built in 1894 in Neorenaissance style by István Kiss.

The treasure museum is built in the Azekurazukuri style.