Sentences with phrase «air museum of»

The compact city is a veritable open - air museum of fascinating buildings that reflect its changing styles and power structure over the centuries.

After our tour, we take an excursion to the nearby Hida Folk Village, an open air museum of rustic farm dwellings depicting the traditional architectural styles found in the mountains.

I first visited the Goreme Open Air Museum of Cappadocia in 2010 and my write - up was neither kind nor full of praise.

From Tashkent, the next must - see location is the breathtaking UNESCO open - air museum of Itchan Kala; the walled Old Town of the city of Khiva.

Swedish children take part in a Lucia concert in a church at the open air museum of Skansen on December 13, 2012 in Stockholm.

Not exact matches

The Skirball Fire, named because of its proximity to the Skirball Cultural Center, is pushing its way through the high - priced Bel - Air area and threatening the Getty Museum.

Of course, a trip wouldn't be complete without running up the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum, raising your hands in the air, and pretending to be «Rocky.&raquOf course, a trip wouldn't be complete without running up the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum, raising your hands in the air, and pretending to be «Rocky.&raquof the Philadelphia Art Museum, raising your hands in the air, and pretending to be «Rocky.»

Today, its rich history can be gleaned from its ancient streets, which feel like open - air museums with their striking medley of medieval, baroque and postmodern architecture, and in its (distinctively British) customs (think: afternoon tea and driving on the left side of the road).

There are countless museums throughout Washington, D.C., including the Smithsonian, the National Air and Space Museum, the National Museum of Natural History, and many more.

For more information and to view photo / video highlights of past Expeditions, please visit: http://spaceangels.com/expedition Companies and organizations who've participated in previous Expeditions include: SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, Planet [Labs], Facebook, Made in Space, Terra Bella, Planetary Resources, Spaceflight Industries, BlackSky Global, Ventions, Spire, Kymeta, Tethers Unlimited, Oculus, XCOR, Masten, Final Frontier Design, B612 Foundation, SETI Institute, Museum of Flight, Mojave Air & Spaceport, Boeing, NASA Ames, and more.

In addition to these top SoCal locales, the «Center of SoCal» promotion also includes discounts with LegoLand, Anaheim Angels, Discovery Cube, the Grammy Museum, the Titanic Exhibit and Bodies: the Exhibition, Vans Skate Park, M+M Surf School, Davey's Locker whale watching, Mission San Juan, Lux Bus America, the Nixon Presidential Library, Big Air Trampoline, Santa Anita Racetrack, Pageants of the Masters and Enterprise Rent - a-Car.

He's president of the Planes of Fame Air Museum.

The Air Zoo in Kalamazoo is one of the most surprisingly wonderful museums we've ever visited.

The Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum is a one - of - a-kind interactive journey through the history of travel.

But the proposal for shifting management of the museum, without heating and air conditioning and electrical renovations, did not appeal to the board.

If you've ever explored any of the Smithsonian Museums in Washington, D.C., you know some of our capital's finest museums — the National History Museum, the Air and Space Museum, even the National Zoo — always offer free admMuseums in Washington, D.C., you know some of our capital's finest museums — the National History Museum, the Air and Space Museum, even the National Zoo — always offer free admmuseums — the National History Museum, the Air and Space Museum, even the National Zoo — always offer free admission.

«Senior Officers posted within HQ NAF include AVMs Nurudeen Balogun who is now Chief of Training and Operations; Muhammadu Muhammed, Chief of Policy and Plans; Charles Otegbade, Director of Plans; Olusoji Awomodu, Director of Museum and Archives; Sani Ahmed, Director of Policy; Muhammad Abdul - Wahab, Air Secretary; Kingsley Lar, Chief of Standards and Evaluation; Napoleon Bali, Director of Training; Christian Dii, Managing Director Aircraft Engineering and Technical Services Limited; Abdulganiyu Olabisi, Chief of Aircraft Engineering; Charles Oghomwen, Chief of Communications, Cletus Udeagulu, Director Research and Development and Paul Dimfwina, Director of Evaluation.

Other grants included $ 15,000 for an obesity awareness program at the Staten island Partnership for Community Wellness; $ 100,000 for the Central Queens YMCA; and $ 800,000 to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum to replace a portion of Pier 86.

314 - A, establishing the Department of Veterans» Services, at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, West 46th Street & 12th Avenue, Manhattan.

Aretha Franklin asked for two things before she performed at the grand wedding of former Intrepid Museum president Bill White and Bryan Eure Sunday night at the Four Seasons Restaurant — a $ 250,000 fee and the air conditioning to be turned off so the room would reach a steamy 86 degrees to keep her voice perfect.

The «Only in Queens» Summer Festival will also offer a wide range of activities for people of all ages, including: • Guided tours of the New York State Pavilion's Tent of Tomorrow, the Queens Library Mobile Unit, the Queens Theatre and the Queens Museum; • Family - friendly fun including cultural performances, face painting, inflatable bounce houses, a Delta Air Lines Scavenger Hunt, activities run by the United States Tennis Association, and an appearance by Mr. Met; • Food and craft vendors offering a variety of international cuisine and merchandise for sale; • Exhibits of memorabilia from the original 1939 - 40 and 1964 - 65 World's Fairs, classic cars and a boat from the annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival; • Virtual reality demonstrations by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the group People for the Pavilion and Queens - based RPGA Studio as part of the international ideas competition currently underway to solicit imaginative and creative public input for how the New York State Pavilion can best be adapted for public reuse.

(Airs 2/19/15) WAMC's Alan Chartock In Conversation with Joseph Thompson, Director of MASS MoCA, The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.

After 10 years together, White, the former president of Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, and Eure, a commercial insurance broker, will tie the knot in front of a power crowd including Speaker Christine Quinn, Chelsea Clinton, ex-Gov.

«The fact that they think they can test fly in the next 2 years is remarkable,» says Roger Launius at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC, who was concerned by the lack of technical details.

Maybe this phenomenon also explained why, in the gift shop of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, I saw more pictures of Einstein sticking out his tongue than of Einstein not sticking out his tongue.

Now, by capturing argonauts and releasing them at different depths, Julian Finn and Mark Norman of Museum Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, have established that they use the shells to capture and compress air for buoyancy control.

To commemorate this, the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum is hosting the show's restored 11 - foot USS Enterprise, and the Experience Music Project Museum in Seattle has built a re-creation of the ship's flight deck.

Launch your own rocket as Cleveland's International Women's Air and Space Museum honors the 30th anniversary of Sally Ride's space flight.

At the American Museum of Natural History on March 15, retired Air Force Gen. Lester Lyles talked about how the military came to understand during the first Iraq war the importance of spacefaring capability for everything involved in conducting its operations.

German scientist Ernst Stromer collected the first fossils of the animal in 1912 in Egypt, but the bones were destroyed during World War II when the Munich museum housing them was flattened in an air raid.

Participating science centers and non-profit education organizations • Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum, Washington, D.C. • Delaware Museum of Natural History, Wilmington, Delaware • Louisville Science Center, Louisville, Kentucky • Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, Maryland • Central Sanctuaries (Worcester Collaborative), Worcester, Massachusetts • Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, New Jersey • Cincinnati Nature Center, Cincinnati, Ohio • Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati, Ohio • California University of Pennsylvania, California, Pennsylvania • Tom Ridge Environmental Center, Erie, Pennsylvania • Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania • Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Bank officials, along with Elmo from Sesame Street, celebrated the launch of the program yesterday at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum — it's one of the 14 centers and has received a 2 - year, $ 384,000 grant to work with 20 preschool teachers, 20 aides, and 600 students from public schools in the District of Columbia.

This tour draws on the collections and exhibits held by the National Museum of American History and the National Air and Space Museum.

«We have long suspected that there was a connection between throat structures used for air breathing and middle - ear structures used for hearing,» says Jennifer Clack of the University Museum of Zoology in Cambridge, England, who has studied related fossils.

The next Mars landing During a series of worldwide workshops, members of the science community proposed 60 potential landing sites, said John Grant, a geologist at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. [Best (And Worst) Mars Landings in History]

James S. McDonnell Space Hangar, Chantilly, VA This offshoot of the justly famous National Air and Space Museum is not as convenient (located near Dulles International Airport), but it is larger, less crowded, and spectacular in its own right — filled with hundreds of unusual items, from the space shuttle Enterprise to space - grown crystals to old tubes of borscht made for Soviet cosmonauts.

«It was embarrassing how badly people came after me,» says geologist Robert Craddock of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., who presented the idea at a 1994 conference.

Poised on a bluff above the Mississippi River, the new home of the Science Museum of Minnesota showers visitors with gifts of light, air, and space — as well as a chance to explore the river's geology and ecology.

He served as the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History at the National Air and Space Museum from 2011 - 2012, as the NASA Chief Historian and Director of the NASA History Office from 2003 - 2009, and prior to that as an astronomer and historian of science at the U. S. Naval Observatory.

After leaving active duty, Mr. Bridenstine returned to Tulsa, Oklahoma to be the Executive Director of the Tulsa Air and Space Museum & Planetarium and flew counter-drug missions in Central and South America in the Navy Reserve.

A splendid array of barf bags from airlines around the world is one of the arresting images in Russo's photographic study of relics at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.

Opened on December 15, 2003, the center's adjacent space and aviation hangars are packed with artifacts too big and too numerous to fit into the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum on the mall in Washington, D.C. Stepping inside the 986 - foot - long aviation hangar, my first impression is of a gigantic version of a teenage boy's room.

Astronomer Martin Harwit, former director of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D. C., points out that if this were true, the vast energy, angular momentum, and magnetic fields generated by each collapse would be clearly visible — but they are not.

The traveling exhibit, which will also feature an interactive 3D tour created using high - resolution scans of Columbia, will serve as a preview of a permanent «Destination Moon» exhibit that is set to open at Washington's National Air and Space Museum in 2020, Space Center Houston said.

So we did a whirlwind few hour trip to the Air and Space Museum (which had a really cool Spirit and Opportunity exhibit), the Natural History Museum, outside the fence of the White House, past the Washington Monument, into the American History museum and then back to the Museum (which had a really cool Spirit and Opportunity exhibit), the Natural History Museum, outside the fence of the White House, past the Washington Monument, into the American History museum and then back to the Museum, outside the fence of the White House, past the Washington Monument, into the American History museum and then back to the museum and then back to the hotel.

Taught by award - winning professor of physics and astronomy David M. Meyer and vetted by curators at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, this course delivers both a thorough understanding of all the fascinating and exotic objects the universe contains, as well as a spectacular visual tour showcasing the finest astronomical images ever created.

«The young age of the small scarps means that Mercury joins Earth as a tectonically active planet, with new faults likely forming today as Mercury's interior continues to cool and the planet contracts,» said lead author Tom Watters, Smithsonian senior scientist at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

«There are examples of lithospheric buckling on Earth involving both oceanic and continental plates, but this may be the first evidence of lithospheric buckling on Mercury,» said Thomas R. Watters, senior scientist at the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., and lead author of the new study.

October 9, 2017 What soot covered, hundred - year - old birds can tell us about saving the environment A unique study by UChicago grad students shows that discoloration of birds in museum collections can be used to trace the history of air pollution.

We decided to head down to the Dallas Museum of Art for an air - conditioned afternoon spent wandering the exhibits.