The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace ( Palais du Louvre ) which began as a fortress built in the late 12th century under Philip II.

In 1794, France's revolutionary armies began bringing pieces from Northern Europe, augmented after the Treaty of Tolentino ( 1797 ) by works from the Vatican, such as Laocoön and His Sons and the Apollo Belvedere, to establish the Louvre as a museum and as a " sign of popular sovereignty ".

The museum ’ s founder, Arthur Hazelius, began the museum by using his personal collection of buildings and other cultural materials of pre-industrial society.

This museum began as an open air museum and, by 1891, had several farm buildings in which visitors could see exhibits and where guides demonstrated crafts and tools.

The museum was primarily federally funded, although New York financier Joseph Hirshhorn later contributed $ 1 million toward building construction, which began in 1969.

In 1961 the museum began seeking a site for a larger building.

The museum is in his former workshop, and began operation in 1903.

In the first part of the 20th century, the city of Saumur acquired the castle and began a restoration program to house the museum of the decorative arts.

Major attractions along U. S. Route 66 include the Old Stagecoach Stop in downtown Waynesville, which is now a museum but began as a tavern and boarding house and is the oldest standing structure in the county.

The museum was originally the private collection of the American heiress Peggy Guggenheim, who began displaying the artworks to the public seasonally in 1951.

Major attractions along U. S. Route 66 include the Old Stagecoach Stop in downtown Waynesville, which is now a museum but began as a tavern and boarding house and is the oldest standing structure in the county.

Major attractions along U. S. Route 66 include the Old Stagecoach Stop in downtown Waynesville, which is now a museum but began as a tavern and boarding house and is the oldest standing structure in the county.

The Menard County Historical Society began collecting artifacts in 1975 and dedicated the museum in 1978.

The settlement began to develop around the bridging point of the river, including the locally-famous Pudding Cake Lane where travellers visited a public house for slices of pudding cake ; and the 15th-century Bridge Cottage, the oldest house still standing in Uckfield, now a museum.

The museum began its second year with an exhibition of works by Henri Matisse.

Currently located in Jupiter, Florida, the museum collection began in the late 70's and exhibits over 1, 200 works by more than 175 international artistamp creators.

Cuvier's papers on the so-called Mollusca began appearing as early as 1792, but most of his memoirs on this branch were published in the Annales du museum between 1802 and 1815 ; they were subsequently collected as Mémoires pour servir à l ' histoire et à l ' anatomie des mollusques, published in one volume at Paris in 1817.

It originally began as a private museum or pinacotheca.

During the 1970s the museum began to expand onto other sites.

With the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, the museum began to collect material documenting the conflict.

In 1953, with Commonwealth forces engaged in Korea and Malaya the museum began its current policy of collecting material from all modern conflicts in which British or Commonwealth forces were involved.

Model of the site in the site museum In 1937, a series of eleven seasons of work at the site began to clean the site, consolidate it and reconstruct the main architectural elements.

A project is under way to rebuild ' K7 ', aimed at returning Bluebird to run again at safe demonstration speeds on Coniston before housing her at the Ruskin museum.

The architect made three secretive trips to Paris, to determine the feasibility of the project ; only one museum employee knew why he was there.

Pei finally agreed that a reconstruction project was not only possible, but necessary for the future of the museum.

The Smithsonian project to build a working model of Q. northropi was the subject of the 1986 IMAX documentary On the Wing, shown at the National Air and space museum in Washington, D. C ..

After the project gradually lost the support of many of the museum ’ s trustees, the plans were dropped in 1989.

The first full-scale, stand-alone museum of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history in the United States ( and only the second in the world after the Schwules Museum in Berlin ), The GLBT History Museum is a project of the GLBT Historical Society.

Managers of the complex announced a major renovation project that will include a new visitors center, a 500-room convention hotel and high-tech museum displays.

* The Globalized City, a publication doing case studies on the museum as a large scale development project

* In December 2010, the town museum was involved in a Coca-Cola Christmas project called Santa's Forgotten Letters.

The new museum is located partly in a renovated old textile factory, in reference to Enschede's textile history, and partly in an adjourning new building, designed by the Amsterdam-based firm SeARCH ( project architect: Bjarne Mastenbroek ).

In 2008, the Dodgers announced a $ 500 million project to build a Dodger museum, shops, and restaurants around Dodger Stadium.

For each phase of the project, the museum plans to invite one curator from the chosen region to New York for a two-year residency, where he or she will work with a team of Guggenheim staff to identify new artworks that reflect the range of talents in their areas.

Currently, the Port Alexander Historical Society is undertaking the project of creating a small museum celebrating the town's history.

This planned project will include a museum facility and the runway that will support both museum flight operations as well as serve the private aviation needs of both museum visitors and local aviators.

Recently because of a private gift of $ 300, 000 from a long-time resident, the non-profit organization Little Chute Windmill, Inc. is nearing the completion of the fundraising stage on an ambitious project to build a full-scale working windmill to be known as the Little Chute Windmill and Van Asten Visitor Center, serving as a museum and tourist attraction.

The proposal is a joint state, city and museum project.

Seventy-one sites were offered for consideration by 36 local councils and in January 1999 the then Culture Secretary Chris Smith formally launched a project to construct a new branch of the museum, Imperial War Museum North, in Trafford, Greater Manchester.

Between 2004-2010 the museum was a partner in a national learning project entitled ' Their Past Your Future ' ( TPYF ), part of the Big Lottery Fund's Veterans Reunited programme to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.

This project has been awarded almost £ 3m of funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund, which means two floors of Barnsley's distinctive Town Hall will be transformed into state-of-the-art museum galleries, the first devoted to the borough's stories, past and present.

There are plans for a fourth museum in the town hall, a project known as Experience Barnsley.

This museum was opened in September 2001, after a renovation project beginning in 1997 restored interior and exterior features such as stone sculptures as well as the original floor plan.

The museum is a joint project of the city, INAH and the Universidad de las Americas Puebla.