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 museum also served as a social meeting place for Frenchmen and American female students, who like Cassatt, were not allowed to attend cafes where the avant-garde socialized.

The space allowed him to arrange his collection of nearly 14, 000 preparations of over 500 species of plants and animals into a teaching museum.

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.

At the time of Catherine the Hermitage wasn't a public museum, very few people were allowed within.

* Molière's body is moved to the " museum of French monuments ", having originally buried in the ground reserved for unbaptised infants because actors were not allowed to be buried on sacred ground.

Before and during World War II the museum was put on a shoestring budget by the Nazi party and many exhibits were allowed to get out of date with a few exceptions such as the new automobile room dedicated 7 May 1937.

In Seine Saint Denis, for example, mothers of children in primary schools have often not been allowed to accompany school visits ( to the gym or the museum ) if the mothers wear a headscarf.

In 1968, Judd bought a five-story building in New York that allowed him to start placing his work in a more permanent manner than was possible in gallery or museum shows.

Otto ordered the building to be used as a museum, in which capacity it remained until 1934, when it reverted to its status of an ancient monument and extensive archaeological research was allowed.

William Brown Library and Museum opened in 1860, named after a Liverpool merchant whose generosity enabled the Town Council to act upon an 1852 Act of Parliament which allowed the establishment of a public library, museum and art gallery, and in 1871 the council organised the first Liverpool Autumn Exhibition, held at the new library and museum.

The JSA, not recognizing the android, was incredulous but allowed the Tornado to accompany them to defeat a theft at a nearby museum.

Derbent, being in practice a huge museum and with magnificent mountains and shore nearby, a great potential for development of the tourism industry exists, further increased by UNESCO's classification of the Citadel, Ancient City and Fortress as a World Heritage Site in 2003 ; however, instability in the region has not allowed further development.

The combination of tennis matches and the museum allowed the building to be saved.

The British Flight Training School # 1 Museum located on the grounds of the Terrell Municipal Airport in Terrell, Texas has a complete Link Trainer assembly with attached instructor's station on display at the museum dedicated to the 2, 000 Royal Air Force Cadets were trained in Terrell from August 1941 through the end of World War II as a part of the Lend-Lease Act that allowed British aviation cadets to be trained in the US by civilian aviators.

Adjacent to his English home " Mon Repos ", the hall continues the role the house played as a historic museum dedicated to the memory of Hinkler ; this has allowed the house to be refurbished to a more domestic state and now serves as a joint attraction with the Hall of Aviation.

Continued popularity of the heritage line allowed the museum to expand from about one city block of track in 1971 to more than one mile of track in operation today.

Photography is allowed inside the museum, however, flash photography is prohibited in certain areas of the museum due to the age of some of the artifacts.

The Brain Cell allowed for hands-on learning exhibits ; this room will be renamed in the new museum.

Kent agreed and purchased the building as a gift for the city with three conditions: It was to be dedicated to the history of Philadelphia ; named for Kent ; and be open to the public free of charge ( in 1994, a City Ordinance allowed the museum to charge an admission fee.

Vasa was towed into the flooded dry dock under the new building in December 1988 and during the summer of 1989, when visitors were allowed onto the construction site, 228 000 people visited the half-finished museum.

Kahn was pleased with this development because it allowed him to design the museum with galleries that resembled the ancient Roman vaults he had always admired.

Returning to his long held idea of building a museum and school at Pontypridd, a local landowner, Sir Benjamin Hall, who wanted to encourage the revival of Welsh culture, allowed him to use his own land, although Price and the Halls subsequently fell out and the project was scrapped.

The Society is currently attempting to turn the original Calypso into a museum and it is raising funds to build a successor vessel, the Calypso II.

In 2004, French officials decided to build a satellite museum on the site of an abandoned coal pit in the former mining town of Lens to relieve the crowded Paris Louvre, increase total museum visits, and improve the industrial north's economy.

The Smithsonian project to build a working model of Q. northropi was the subject of the 1986 IMAX documentary On the Wing, shown at the National Air and space museum in Washington, D. C ..

The idea was to build a museum that would bridge the gap between the Louvre and the National Museum of Modern Art at the Georges Pompidou Centre.

The hall of fame board voted to build the museum in Cleveland.

Denny is later fired from the museum, and begins collecting stones from around the city to build his " dream home ;" Palahniuk based this portion of the novel on the true story of Ferdinand Cheval.

He was so-captivated by the experience that he decided to build a similar museum in home town of Chicago.

She goes on a rampage in the museum and the building site to make people build a pyramid for Tut.

In 2008, the Dodgers announced a $ 500 million project to build a Dodger museum, shops, and restaurants around Dodger Stadium.

In 2006, Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, announced an agreement with the Guggenheim Foundation to build a new museum, " Guggenheim Abu Dhabi ".

In 1943, Hilla von Rebay and Solomon R. Guggenheim commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to build the foundation's first permanent museum.

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.

No matter what, funding will need to be secured in order to build and operate this museum.

ISAW claimed the State of Oklahoma could not or would not follow through on an earlier pledge of immediate donation in fee of 300 acres of land, and was instead offering only a 200-year lease of the land and / or was demanding proof that ISAW had the funding to build the museum prior to transfer of the land.

Recently because of a private gift of $ 300, 000 from a long-time resident, the non-profit organization Little Chute Windmill, Inc. is nearing the completion of the fundraising stage on an ambitious project to build a full-scale working windmill to be known as the Little Chute Windmill and Van Asten Visitor Center, serving as a museum and tourist attraction.

The language and locale have attracted foreign investment with money from Hong Kong building up infrastructure at possible tourist sites and a $ 209, 000 grant from the Ford Foundation to build a Nüshu museum scheduled to open in 2007.

This museum has no exhibition space of its own, despite many proposals and initiatives to build one.

This technique enabled the museum to build the greatest collection of birds in the world.

In 1993, Yad Vashem institute decided to build a larger museum to replace the one built during the 1960s.

There are proposals to build a museum from the cemetery.

As early as 1907, Wilhelm von Bode, the director of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Wilhelm-Museum had plans to build a new museum nearby to accommodate ancient architecture, German post-antiquity art, and Middle Eastern and Islamic art.

Hitler opposed the idea, and told the Egyptian government that he would build a new Egyptian museum for Nefertiti: " In the middle, this wonder, Nefertiti, will be enthroned, ...

Hitler described the bust as " a unique masterpiece, an ornament, a true treasure ", and pledged to build a museum to house it.

With the approach of the golden jubilee of the TRPS in 2000, an appeal was launched for funds to build a new station and museum.