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 size of the collection increased under Napoleon and the museum was renamed the Musée Napoléon.

In tribute, the museum was renamed the " Musée Napoléon " in 1803, and acquisitions were made of Spanish, Austrian, Dutch, and Italian works, either as spoils or through treaties such as the Treaty of Tolentino.

* 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

* Grissom's boyhood home on Grissom Avenue ( renamed in his honor after his Mercury flight ) in Mitchell, Indiana, is currently being restored into a museum.

By February 1854 discussions were underway to transfer the museum to the current site and it was renamed as the South Kensington Museum.

In the 1980s, Sir Roy Strong renamed the museum as ' The Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Museum of Art and Design '.

Guggenheim died in 1949, and the museum was renamed the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1952.

His house has been preserved as a museum and tourist attraction, and U. S. Highway 11 through Bulls Gap was renamed " Archie Campbell Highway " following his death in 1987.

When Queen Victoria laid the foundation stone for the new building for the Art Museum, she stipulated that the museum be renamed after herself and her late husband.

On 1 December 2006, the museum was renamed the National Media Museum.

In 1972 the museum established the Artistic Records Committee ( since renamed the Art Commissions Committee ) to commission artists to cover contemporary conflicts.

The island formerly known as Kohleinsel ( coal island ) was then renamed Museumsinsel ( museum island ).

This can be seen through his construction of a modern art museum, the Centre Beaubourg ( renamed Centre Pompidou after his death ), on the edge of the Marais area of Paris.

* Fort General Artigas, a military museum on Montevideo Hill ( completed 1809, renamed 1882, rededicated 1916 ).

The property was restored as a museum and renamed the " Palacete Los Moreau ", in honor of Laguerre ’ s fictional characters.

Simon also became responsible for the collection and building projects ; in return the museum was renamed to Norton Simon Museum and renovated at a reported cost of more than $ 3 million.

The museum was built in a style similar to Lincoln Center and the Los Angeles Music Center and consisted of three buildings: the Ahmanson Building, the Bing Center, and the Lytton Gallery ( renamed the Frances and Armand Hammer Building in 1968 ).

To house its growing collections of modern and contemporary art, and to provide more space for exhibitions, the museum hired the architectural firm of Hardy, Holzman, Pfeiffer Associates to design its $ 35. 3-million, 115, 000-square-foot Robert O. Anderson Building for 20th-century art, which opened in 1986 ( renamed the Art of the Americas Building in 2007 ).

The gift also provided an endowment and capital to help build storage facilities for the museum ’ s photographic holdings, leading to the its photography department being renamed the Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography.

The museum was renamed in the 1990s or early 2000s after Shivaji, the founder of Maratha Empire.

* The museum is featured in the How I Met Your Mother episode Natural History, although it is renamed the Natural History Museum.

In conjunction with the opening of a major expansion project the museum was renamed the Britannia Mine Museum in 2010.

Everyday Art Quarterly ( later renamed Design Quarterly ) begins publication as the first U. S. museum journal on design.

In 1964, the school became independent of the museum and renamed itself the Philadelphia College of Art ( PCA ).