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The museum was originally called the National Air Museum when formed on August 12, 1946 by an act of Congress and signed into law by President Harry S. Truman, some pieces in the National Air and Space Museum collection date back to the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia after which the Chinese Imperial Commission donated a group of kites to the Smithsonian after Smithsonian Secretary Spencer Fullerton Baird convinced exhibiters that shipping them home would be too costly.
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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.
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The Huis van Alijn ( House of the Alijn family ) was originally a beguinage and is now a museum for folk art where theatre and puppet shows for children are presented.
Other points of interest in the town include the prison museum and the town churchyard which houses the graves of French and American prisoners of war who were originally housed at the prison.
* was originally named Kearsarge, but renamed in honor of CV-8 and active through the rest of World War II and is preserved as a museum ship in Alameda, California
The first publicly owned museum in Europe was the Amerbach-Cabinet in Basel, originally a private collection sold to the city in 1661 and public since 1671 ( now Kunstmuseum Basel ).
NASA originally planned to make the Hubble a Smithsonian museum display, but decided to keep it in space until a successor is launched.
The gladiators initially were described from old museum specimens that originally were found in Namibia ( Mantophasma zephyrum ) and Tanzania ( M. subsolanum ), and from a 45-million-year-old specimen of Baltic amber ( Raptophasma kerneggeri ).
The museum was originally named after Alexander III, although the government provided only 200, 000 rubles toward its construction, in comparison with over 2 million from Nechaev-Maltsev.
The museum building was originally a railway station, Gare d ' Orsay, constructed for the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans and finished in time for the 1900 Exposition Universelle to the design of three architects: Lucien Magne, Émile Bénard and Victor Laloux.
The square next to the museum displays six bronze allegorical sculptural groups in a row, originally produced for the Exposition Universelle ( 1878 ):
The museum building was originally a powder magazine ; during the Second World War anti-aircraft gun crews trained there.
The adobe museum building was built in 1812 and was originally used for sleeping quarters and book storage.
The museum was open every day since its founding in 1929, until 1975, when it closed one day a week ( originally Wednesdays ) to reduce operating expenses.
His former house ( originally purchased by chemists from Pennsylvania State University after a colloquium that founded the American Chemical Society ) is a historical museum.
The remains of the great temple and its premises are displayed as an open-air museum near the great colossus of Rameses II, which originally marked the southern axis of the temple.
The museum was originally the private collection of the American heiress Peggy Guggenheim, who began displaying the artworks to the public seasonally in 1951.
The Errea House, originally built in the early 1870s in Williamsburg, was moved to Techachapi in 1900 and is now a museum ; it is also listed on the NRHP.
The facility, originally opened in 1936 as both a wildlife exhibition and a refuge for injured animals, also boasts a botanical garden and a natural history museum.
Many artifacts from Prairie City's history are housed in the museum including the Dowden Potato Digger, which was originally manufactured in Prairie City.
Outside the museum stands Big Ole, a 25-foot-tall statue of a Viking originally built for the World's Fair in New York in 1964.
The museum was originally intended for use as a town hall but quickly developed into an underground meeting place ( for unknown activity ) which led to strict media scrutiny.
According to a sign at the museum, there were originally two trains a day to Seattle, later only one.
The museum ( originally the Wilton Park Museum ) is named after its first curator Walter Bagshaw, a Batley councillor and extensive traveller.
The National Motor Museum ( originally the Montagu Motor Museum ) is a museum in the village of Beaulieu, set in the heart of the New Forest, in the English county of Hampshire.
This impressive concrete faced monument featured a fine bronze letters, plaque and related inscription summarising the site's history from 1907 – 57 and was originally located at the North end of the aerodrome, was designated as a Scheduled Monument in 2002 then relocated and restored in a new position just east of the River Wey on the museum site to make way for the new Mercedes-Benz World complex which opened in 2006.
It originally began as a private museum or pinacotheca.
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