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museum and was
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.
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.

museum and temporarily
During museum reconstruction in the 1990s the original pendulum was temporarily displayed at the Panthéon ( 1995 ), but was later returned to the Musée des Arts et Métiers before it reopened in 2000.
It was then temporarily displayed as a major attraction at the Rover Group's museum.
On October 8, 2011, the museum was temporarily closed after demonstrators associated with the Occupy D. C. demonstration attempted to enter the museum.
The museum experienced a fire on September 19, 2008 and was temporarily closed.
In 2003, with the permission of the Barnett Newman Foundation, a fourth edition of the sculpture Broken Obelisk ( 1963 ) by Barnett Newman was cast and temporarily installed in front of the museum.
In late 2005, the museum was temporarily closed for inventory and renovations in the wake of Arroyo's unexpected death and significant weather damage to the museum facilities.
The ball was moved temporarily to accommodate the expansion project at the museum and returned in 2008.
After the September 11, 2001 attacks, the museum was forced to close temporarily as its space was commandeered as an emergency information center.
The Mallard which is regularly displayed in the NRM's main branch was temporarily on display in the museum from June 2010 to July 2011 before returning to its original location.
Unfortunately, during the anarchy that followed the collapse of the communist regime in 1990, the archeological collection was plundered and the museum was temporarily closed.
Before moving into its permanent home in 1929, however, the museum temporarily moved to the Garrett house at 101 West Monument in July 1922.
Soon the museum will be temporarily showing Egyptian treasures especially King Tutankhamun.
The statue now resides temporarily in the Archeological Museum in Zagreb while the Lošinj museum where it is to be permanently housed from 2009 undergoes renovation.
The museum has historically been located in the Old Courthouse on Whetstone Square, but has been temporarily located in the Ginocchio since 2001 awaiting the completion of a restoration project of the Old Courthouse.
The main museum building is located on the upper end of Wenceslas Square and was built by prominent Czech neo-renaissance architect Josef Schulz from 1885-1891 ; before this the museum had been temporarily based at several noblemen ’ s palaces.
Between 1994 and 1998, the museum was temporarily moved while the building in Skeppsholmen was rebuilt by the Spanish architect Rafael Moneo.

museum and closed
At present () the museum is closed for refurbishment but there is a temporary museum, on the site, where all their ' star finds ' are displayed.
After several years of losing money, the original museum closed down in 1989 and the Evoluon was converted into a conference center, opening in 1998.
No. 1, now in a private collection was in the collections of the Time Museum, USA, until that museum closed in 2000 and its collection dispersed at auction in 2004.
* Fife mining museum, formed 1992, is located in Kinglassie at the back of the Kinglassie Miners Welfare Institute but has recently closed.
Because of structural problems with the building, the museum was closed in 1796 until 1801.
The Museums Department and the National War Museum Association established the museum, which opened to the public in 1975 ; the museum reopened in 2008 after having been closed for more than a year for refurbishment.
Although the dockyard has long been closed and is now being redeveloped into a business and residential community as well as a museum featuring the famous submarine, HMS Ocelot, major naval buildings remain as the focus for a flourishing tourist industry.
In 1997 the Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi beat out ten other international architects to win the competition to execute the redesign of the museum, which after being closed in Manhattan for a time during the process ( a temporary space was opened in Long Island City, Queens ) reopened in 2004.
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.
The museum closed this location and March 1, 2009 redirected its efforts to become an online museum.
Louvre employee Vincenzo Peruggia had stolen it by entering the building during regular hours, hiding in a broom closet and walking out with it hidden under his coat after the museum had closed.
The closed North Bundaberg railway station formerly served the Mount Perry railway line and is now a museum.
The museum opened in 1994, but is currently closed for redevelopment.
The narrow-gauge line to Racibórz via Rudy closed in 1991 although a short section still remains as a museum line.
Thomsen's study of artifacts within the Copenhagen museum were based on associations between stylistic change, decoration and context ; he recognised the importance of examining objects from " closed finds ", allowing him to determine the associations of common artifacts for various periods ( stone-bronze-iron ).
For many years, Robby the Robot was on display at the Movie World / Cars of the Stars Museum in Buena Park, California ; the museum eventually closed.
It later housed the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, until that closed in 2008 for relocation to London, although this relocation has since been delayed and the museum remains closed.
The museum was closed by Southwark council in 2008.

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