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 building was designed by Roman Klein and Vladimir Shukhov and financed primarily by Yury Nechaev-Maltsov.

A science museum or a science centre is a museum devoted primarily to science.

The popular museum is open year-round and is aimed primarily at children ages infant to ten years old.

The 2003 fire was contained to the building's exterior and the museum suffered minimal damage, primarily cosmetic.

A tiny chapel, called the " Stille-Nacht-Gedächtniskapelle " ( Silent Night Memorial Chapel ), was built in the place of the demolished church and a nearby house was converted into a museum, attracting tourists from all over the world, not only but primarily in December.

School programs are offered, primarily in Cupertino and Sunnyvale, and each year the museum creates public art projects with young area students, De Anza student interns and Euphrat artist / teachers.

In 1808-09 he constructed his drawing office and " museum " on the site of the former stable block at the back, using primarily top lighting.

There are also many other tourist attractions available, for example the switchback railway near Nová Bystrica, or museum of the Kysuce village also near Nová Bystrica, which was created in 1974 primarily for the purpose of saving buildings from the villages inundated by the Nová Bystrica reservoir.

The museum houses approximately 50, 000 exhibits of ancient Indian history as well as objects from foreign lands, categorized primarily into three sections: Art, Archaeology and Natural History.

The collection of the museum is categorized primarily into three sections: art, archaeology and natural history.

Today, it is primarily used as the museum for the Elgin Area Historical Society.

The museum is used primarily for internal corporate events and tours but will occasionally be open to the public.

The game is set in 1926, primarily in a museum, and reflects the Egyptology craze of the period.

Initially, the museum was conceived primarily as a space for temporary exhibitions, in the German kunsthalle model.

The machines designed in FDS, among others, are Glibo I, Glibo II, Glibo III, Glibo IV and Glibo V. Today, the machines are primarily important as museum pieces, as they indicate the technological process in the factory.

The older pieces of the museum collection, consisting of primarily religious themes, are Haarlem relics from the Reformation, when all Roman Catholic art was formally seized by the city council in 1648.

Kennedy ’ s home will, upon his death, be open as a museum and archive and offer educational exhibits and whatnot, primarily about Woody Guthrie and William Bartram in addition to Kennedy himself, and will be operated by the Kennedy Foundation which will share office space in an adjacent home with the William Bartram Scenic and Historic Highway corridor group.

It is primarily a fishing village, but it also has a popular museum, the Tanje Village Museum in which artisans and craftsmen engage in traditional crafts.

There's a museum for the Truman White House and the Navy continues to own and maintain the piers and that portion of the Naval Station property to the south of Fort Taylor, primarily in support of Joint Interagency Task Force South ( JIATFS ) and the Naval Security Group Activity.

Funding for the museum comes primarily from three sources: biennial legislative appropriations ; exhibit floor and special event admissions ; grants, contributions, and other locally generated funds such as the rental of the museum's facilities, and the sale of its publications, audiovisuals, library services, and merchandise from The Museum Store.

A heritage centre ( or heritage center ) is a museum facility primarily dedicated to the presentation of historical and cultural information about a place and its people, including, to some degree, natural features.

The Quapaws host cultural events happen throughout the year, primarily at the tribal museum.

It opened on 1 April 1987, the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the RNZAF, and is primarily a museum of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, its predecessor, the New Zealand Permanent Air Force and New Zealand squadrons of the Royal Air Force.