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.

In 1947, Poland founded a museum on the site of Auschwitz I and II, which by 2010 had seen 29 million visitors — 1, 300, 000 annually — pass through the iron gates crowned with the infamous motto, Arbeit macht frei (" work makes free ").

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

Powers ' son, Francis Gary Powers Jr., founded a museum of Cold War history in 1996.

It was founded in response to the architect's desire to bequeath his entire work to the museum.

In the 1980s, Art-Cloche ( from " clochard ", i. e. tramp – founded by Jean Starck and Nicolas Pawlowski ) promoted " artistic occupation ", organising festivals and creating a fake museum.

In 1954, Van Alen founded the International Tennis Hall of Fame, a non-profit museum in Newport, Rhode Island.

The remaining archaeological wealth consisted of inscriptions, sculptures, and other objects collected in the local museum, founded by Stamatakis in 1872 and enlarged in 1907.

The Ashmolean museum, however, founded in 1677 from the personal collection of Elias Ashmole, was set up in the University of Oxford to be open to the public and is considered by some to be the first modern public museum.

The World's first open-air museum was founded in 1881.

In 1891, inspired by a visit to the open-air museum in Oslo, Artur Hazelius founded the Skansen in Stockholm, which became the model for subsequent open-air museums in Northern and Eastern Europe, and eventually in other parts of the world.

* Museum Of New Art ( MONA )- founded in Detroit, Michigan in 1996 this contemporary art museum is generally acknowledged to be the pioneer of the concept of the pop-up museum.

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.

Among the institutions connected with the university are the national institution for East Indian languages, ethnology and geography ; the botanical gardens, founded in 1587 ; the observatory ( 1860 ); the museum of antiquities ( Rijksmuseum van Oudheden ); and the ethnographical museum, of which P. F. von Siebold's Japanese collections was the nucleus ( Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde ).

The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, founded in 1916, is the oldest and largest fine art museum in the state of Tennessee.

is a children's museum founded in 2006 whose sole mission is to surround children and the adults in their lives with a hands-on, interactive, playful and educational environment that invites curiosity, allows exploration, encourages participation and celebrates the childlike wonder in us all.

That same year, Man Ray, Katherine Dreier, and Duchamp founded the Société Anonyme, an itinerant collection that was the first museum of modern art in the U. S.

MoMA's Department of Architecture and Design was founded in 1932 as the first museum department in the world dedicated to the intersection of architecture and design.

The Academy of Science of Saint Louis was founded in 1856 as the first scientific organization west of the Mississippi ( although the organization managed scientific collections for several decades a formal museum was not created until the mid-20th century ).

The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is a museum and zoo founded in 1952 and located in Tucson, Arizona.

Samos excavations have revealed votive offerings, many of them late 8th and 7th centuries BC, which show that Hera at Samos was not merely a local Greek goddess of the Aegean: the museum there contains figures of gods and suppliants and other votive offerings from Armenia, Babylon, Iran, Assyria, Egypt, testimony to the reputation which this sanctuary of Hera enjoyed and to the large influx of pilgrims.

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.

At Wadowice, birthplace of John Paul II ( 50 kilometers southwest of Kraków ) is a museum dedicated to the late Pope's childhood.

The Flail later was closely related to the ‘’ heqa ’’- scepter, but in early representations the king was also depicted solely with the flail, as shown in a late pre-dynastic knife handle which is now in the Metropolitan museum, and on the Narmer Macehead.

He had a collection worthy of a museum by the late 1960s.

A period of intense museum building, in both an intellectual and physical sense was realized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries ( this is often called " The Museum Period " or " The Museum Age ").

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.

Painting, crafts, and early industrial artefacts from the Biedermeier period and the late 19th century round off a visit to the museum

Many fine boxwood specimens are in the Brussels Conservatory museum ; most of these are from late 16th-century Venice, where Vincenzo Galilei ( Dialogo, 1581 ) said that the best cornetts of his day were made.

In the late 1840s the Tussaud brothers Joseph and Francis, gathering relics for Madame Tussauds wax museum, visited the aged Henry-Clément Sanson, grandson of the executioner Charles Henri Sanson, from whom they obtained parts, the knife and lunette, of one the original guillotines used during the Age of Terror.

Just outside of Taos in Ranchitos is the Martinez Hacienda, the home turned museum of the late Padre Antonio José Martínez.

In the late 1930s the United States Congress mandated a Smithsonian Institution art museum for the National Mall, and a design by Eliel Saarinen was unveiled in 1939, but plans were shelved during World War II.

One archeological site, the Sumpf a late Bronze Age lake shore settlement, is included, as are three museums ; the Burg ( Castle museum ), Kunsthaus ( Art museum ) and Museum für Urgeschichte ( Museum for ancient history ).

The royal apartments on the upper floors of the pavilion wing, including the late Queen's bedroom, were turned into a private museum accessible only to the royal family.

As late as the early 20th century, part of this statue's head were in the British Museum ; some fragments of the reliefs which adorned the pedestal were in the museum at Athens.

Kimble County Library in Junction, Texas | Junction, Texas, contains the museum of the late U. S. Representative O. C.

Then the lower ground floor galleries in the south west part of the museum were redesigned, opening in 1978 to form the new galleries covering Continental art 1600 – 1800 ( late Renaissance, Baroque through Rococo and neo-Classical ).

This operation inspired Mrs. Lewis to earn a mechanical engineering degree late in life and to build the museum as a showplace for her products.

Today it is a museum showcasing primary education of the late 19th century.

Ernie operated a small museum from his adjacent residence until late 2010 and he died in nearby Lincoln, Illinois on 11 April 2012.

As of late 2010, the Board of Directors of the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library is pursuing a plan to move and then elevate its flood-damaged museum building.

Nationally, Laren is well known for its history as a late 20th century art colony, preserved in the museum Singer Laren, as well as its wide array of shops.

The museum houses artifacts and archives that detail the history of life in eastern Montana and western North Dakota since the first pioneers arrived in the late 19th century.