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 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.

* Canova's Three Graces ( first version ) in the Hermitage museum, St. Petersburg

StuG III with 75 mm gun, first in service for the Syrian army, now in an Israeli museum.

In 1983, the building became the official museum of the Baltimore Orioles, which signed Ruth to his first professional contract.

The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu House in Bloomsbury, on the site of the current museum building.

During his time at the museum he produced numerous publications on bird taxonomy, and in 1942 his first book, Systematics and the Origin of Species, which completed the evolutionary synthesis started by Darwin.

That exhibition served as a bridge to the museum ’ s plans for an expanded exhibition on first ladies ’ history that opened on November 19, 2011.

* 1683 – The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.

* 1773 – The first public Colonial American museum opens in Charleston, South Carolina.

He was elected on the first ballot, becoming the first black player inducted into the Cooperstown museum.

Down the hill from the museum, visitors can wander among the Outer Kerameikos ruins, the Demosion Sema, the banks of the Eridanos where some water still flows, the remains of the Pompeion and the Dipylon Gate, and walk the first blocks of the Sacred Way towards Eleusis and of the Panethenaic Way towards the Acropolis.

The museum opened on 10 August 1793, the first anniversary of the monarchy's demise.

The galleries, which the museum had initially hoped to open by 2009, represent the first major architectural intervention at the Louvre since the addition of I. M.

On 26 December 2009, Moderna Museet (" the modern museum ") opened its first outpost in the old Rooseum building in Malmö.

The first American Methodist bishops were Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury, whose boyhood home, Bishop Asbury Cottage, in West Bromwich, England, is now a museum.

In 2011, Smith announced the first museum exhibition of her photography in the United States, Camera Solo.

The notion of selling a brand rather than marketing clothes was further emphasised in the Prada store in New York, which had previously been owned by the Guggenheim: the museum signs were not removed during the outfitting of the new store, as if emphasizing the premises as a cultural institution.

A museum is an institution that cares for ( conserves ) a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary.

The roles associated with the management a museum largely depends on the size of the institution, but every museum has a hierarchy of governance with a Board of Trustees serving at the top.

A change in leadership may ultimately effect changes at the museum, as new directors commonly have new ideas for the institution they work for.

While change and growth is often good for a museum, they should not reach outside the original mission statement of the institution.

A concept developed in the 1990s, the pop-up museum is generally defined as a short term institution existing in a temporary space.

Among the institutions connected with the university are the national institution for East Indian languages, ethnology and geography ; the botanical gardens, founded in 1587 ; the observatory ( 1860 ); the museum of antiquities ( Rijksmuseum van Oudheden ); and the ethnographical museum, of which P. F. von Siebold's Japanese collections was the nucleus ( Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde ).

He held it until 1923, when he sold it to the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which operates it as a house museum and educational institution.

The Foundation operates Monticello and its grounds as a house museum and educational institution.

The Mission was home to the first learning institution in Alta California and today serves as a museum as well as a parish church of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

He and the Rockefeller family in general have retained a close association with the museum throughout its history, with the Rockefeller Brothers Fund funding the institution since 1947.

The Oscar is currently displayed at the Virginia Military Institute museum in Lexington, Virginia, the same institution that generations of Pattons have attended.

In exchange, the Foundation agreed to manage the institution, rotate parts of its permanent collection through the Bilbao museum and organize temporary exhibitions.

North Central Massachusetts ' most treasured cultural institution is a world-class family-friendly museum with a permanent collection spanning 5, 000 years.

Founding director Grace Morley held film screenings at the museum beginning in 1937, just two years after the institution opened.

* Schools and the arts: 4 Gymnasium secondary schools, commercial college ( HAK ), technical college ( HTL ), upper secondary business schools ( Höhere Lehranstalt für wirtschaftliche Berufe ), 3 Berufsschulen vocational schools, crafts colleges, Academy of Social Sciences, nursing school ; adult education centre, school boarding houses, provincial archives, provincial library, provincial museum, Kunsthaus Bregenz ( modern arts centre ), Künstlerhaus art centre-Thurn and Taxis Palace, five monasteries, Heimatwerk ( autonomous institution fostering the manufacturing of traditional craft products, etc.

This institution was established by industrialist Joseph G. Butler, Jr., in 1919 as the first museum in the country dedicated to American art.

A museum for contemporary arts was exactly the institution she could see herself supporting.

Admission is free to the museum, which serves both as a teaching resource for Colby College and as an active cultural institution for the residents of Maine and visitors to the state.

The museum has a number of antecedents beginning from the colonial period, but the current institution was created in the 1960s with the building and grounds designed by architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez.

The museum examines the work of the Foundling Hospital's founder Thomas Coram, as well as the artist William Hogarth and the composer George Frideric Handel, both major benefactors of the institution.

Thus, a museum is seen as just another business competing for entertainment dollars from the public, rather than as an institution that serves the public welfare through education or historical preservation.