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.

A stone altar found in 1914 ( and exhibited in the museum ) proves that the settlement was officially a vicus, and that it was named Vindolanda.

In 1928, the name of the museum was officially changed to the Museum of Science and Industry.

The museum officially opened in December 1986 by then-president, François Mitterrand.

* Malay Technology Museum-The museum was officially opened in 1988.

Instead, in 1860 the Armory was officially opened as Malta ’ s first public museum.

It was Heinemann's idea to found a museum for the commemoration of German liberation movements, and he was able to officially open such a place in Rastatt in 1974.

In 2003 the railway received a £ 682, 500 Heritage Lottery grant towards the £ 1, 170, 000 cost of redeveloping Wharf station, and the new station and museum were officially opened by Prince Charles and The Duchess of Cornwall on 13 July 2005.

This was the first time photography was officially recognized as an art form worthy of a museum collection, and it signaled a definite shift in many photographers ' thinking.

The museum was officially inaugurated on September 10, 1992 and is named for Queen Sofia of Spain.

In 1961, Raul Hilberg estimated the number of the Jewish victims at 50, 000, though at the time other sources, including the camp museum, officially estimated 100, 000 Jewish victims and up to 200, 000 non-Jews killed.

In its place will be a new two-tier stand ( seating 7, 798 ), complete with mega-store, museum, café, hospitality facilities and video screen, that will be officially opened for the 2012 – 13 season.

The museum was officially inaugurated on October 6, 1990.

The museum was officially opened in June 1926, shortly before Bell's death.

The Titanic Belfast museum, a visitor attraction in the Titanic Quarter, east Belfast, Northern Ireland on the regenerated site of the shipyard where Titanic was built, was officially opened to the public in March 2012.

The Queen and Prince Philip then officially opened the refurbished Beacon, a museum set on the harbour.

This museum officially opened in March 1991.

The museum was officially established in 1934 within the of Greenwich Royal Park in the buildings formerly occupied by the Royal Hospital School, before it moved to Holbrook in Suffolk.

The Musée de Cluny (), officially known as Musée National du Moyen Âge ( National Museum of the Middle Ages ), is a museum in Paris, France.

The memorial officially opened to the public on September 12, 2011, while the museum will open one year later, on or around September 11, 2012.

So Emmons was officially ordered and detached from active service to write the Ethnological report on the Native tribes of Southeast Alaska, elaborated from the museum collections.

The plant collections of the Geological and Natural History Survey of Canada were officially incorporated into the museum in 1882.

The museum became an experiment of the Italian government in privatization of the nation's museums when the Fondazione Museo delle Antichità Egizie was officially established at the end of 2004.

The museum was officially opened by An Taoiseach John Bruton on 14 February 1997.

The museum officially opened in 1947.