Sentences with phrase «city history museum»

Unmistakably the most historic part of Barcelona and an area bursting with a huge array of delights, the Barric Gotic neighbourhood exudes a charming, authentic ambiance and is the home to attractions such as the vibrant Plaza Real, the fascinating City History Museum and the stunning Barcelona Cathedral.

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(A new city hall will be located three blocks south, as part of a roughly $ 500 million redevelopment effort that includes a museum dedicated to the history of the Las Vegas Mafia and a proposed arena for a professional basketball team.)
Chicago History Museum — Getty ImagesPortrait of the Morris family, who moved to Chicago during the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to northern cities around the time of World War I, ca. 1915.
For example, the American Museum of Natural History issued some $ 78 million in bonds through the Trust for Cultural Resources in New York City.
Although most South Africans have lived through apartheid, which ended in 1994, there are museums and monuments throughout the city to honor its history.
The city offers places to explore that history, such as the Spartanburg Regional History Museum and the Walnut Grove Planhistory, such as the Spartanburg Regional History Museum and the Walnut Grove PlanHistory Museum and the Walnut Grove Plantation.
You might prefer the buzz of living in an Old World city packed with museums, galleries and history, a place where you don't need a car, and every cobbled lane hides a new adventure.
Recently, the Washington City Paper reported on what might sound like a dream job to qualified applicants — the Smithsonian National Museum of American History sought a «Beer Historian» for a three - year appointment.
Proud of its history, the town has its own cultural center and many city museums.
Many cities across the United States and the world have museums focused on the history and contributions of black people.
Travel back in time by touring the city's Historic District featuring several preserved buildings: The Whitaker - Jaynes House serves as the city's local history museum; the Bacon House is one the oldest surviving structures in the area; the Tice House, a charming cage and the Stage Stop Hotel, is currently home to the only California Welcome Center in Orange County.
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At public forums where city officials unveiled the details of the proposed $ 90 million project, the public got its first chance to comment on the plan, which will dramatically change the face of the lakefront from the Field Museum of Natural History to McCormick Place.
Sportsman's Park was part of the Caroline Martin Mitchell donation to the city in 1936 that included the property that is the city's popular Naper Settlement living history museum and the two - story Victorian mansion that is the settlement's centerpiece.
The insurance carrier will list the Dusable Museum of African American History, City of Chicago, and the Chicago Park District as additional holders on their insurance.
It is an ambitious 8,000 - square foot exhibition designed to explore 400 years of New York City history, and now it has brought the Museum of the City of New York the largest donation in its 94 - year existence: $ 10 million from the Thompson Family Foundation.
At 6 p.m., state Sen. José M. Serrano, Assemblywoman Latoya Joyner and New York City Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson host their African American History and Culture Celebration, Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx.
At noon, ppponents of the American Museum of Natural History's plan to annex a portion of Teddy Roosevelt Park picket City Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal at her district office, Columbus Avenue and 87th Street, Manhattan.
Dubbed «the Central Park of central New York,» Onondaga Lake Park is 7 1/2 miles long and features attractions including the Onondaga Lake Skatepark for skateboarders and BMX bikers, the Wegmans Good Dog Park and the Salt Museum, which honors Syracuse's history as the «Salt City
«In the time of federal paralysis, and I can certainly say we've seen this at the state level in many, many states, too — state governments that are resistant to their cities and state governments resistant to progressive change; we're not powerless as a result,» de Blasio said at a panel discussion at the National Museum of American Jewish History on Philadelphia.
Rebekah Mercer, a supporter of Trump and an influential donor to conservative causes — including groups that deny climate science — is under renewed pressure to step down from the board of New York City's most prominent science museum, the American Museum of Natural Himuseum, the American Museum of Natural HiMuseum of Natural History.
At 7 p.m., Mayor de Blasio will host a black history month celebration, American Museum of Natural History, 81st Street between Central Park West & Columbus Avenue, New Yorhistory month celebration, American Museum of Natural History, 81st Street between Central Park West & Columbus Avenue, New YorHistory, 81st Street between Central Park West & Columbus Avenue, New York City.
A new dinosaur is on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and it dwarfs any other dinosaur the museum has ever exhiMuseum of Natural History in New York City, and it dwarfs any other dinosaur the museum has ever exhimuseum has ever exhibited.
Saturday was Downtown History Day and the city of Buffalo, the Buffalo History Museum and Buffalo Place announced the completion of its 10 - sign outdoor exhibit.
Adirondack Scenic Railroad Executive Director Bethan Maher said: «The construction of the beer museum and casino will highlight the history of the neighborhood and be viewed as an opportunity to cohesively brand the area as a destination within Oneida County and the City of Utica.
Days after City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito offered a unusual, sharp rebuke of Mayor Bill de Blasio, the two appeared today at the Museum of Natural History today to tout the growth of their municipal ID program, trading whispers, a couple of laughs, and carefully phrased statements about their «honest, respectful relationship.»
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LMU paleontologist Oliver Rauhut and Christian Foth from the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart have re-examined the so - called Haarlem specimen of Archaeopteryx, which is kept in Teylers Museum in that Dutch city and has gone down in history as the first member of this genus to be discovered.
Session Organizer: Mandë Holford, Associate Professor, The City University of New York, Hunter College; Research Associate, American Museum of Natural History (AMNH); Co-Director of the Hurford Science Diplomacy Initiative at Rockefeller University
«This is how we will monitor tiger populations and how they move around the landscape in the future,» predicts George Amato, director of the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
It has now been documented in 23 species in the eastern and midwestern United States, says study coauthor Frank Burbrink, a herpetologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
«You don't expect to find them here in suburban New Jersey some 90 minutes away from New York City,» explains Neil Landman, curator of fossil invertebrates at the American Museum of Natural History.
Spiders have the most unfair rep of all, at least according to Norman Platnick, curator emeritus of spiders at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
An allegation against Richmond, the curator of human origins at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City, inspired a cascade of other allegations about him and motivated several senior paleoanthropologists to do battle against sexual harassment in their field.
After spending decades stuffed into a Depression - era library, the Natural History Museum of Utah has a new home: an expansive, copper - clad building in Salt Lake City designed to evoke the many layers of the state's famously complex rock formations:
American Museum of Natural History, New York City.
Astronomer Michael Shara of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and colleagues used digitized photographic plates dating from as early as 1923 to trace a modern star back to the nova.
Mark Loewen of the Utah Museum of Natural History in Salt Lake City, who made the discoveries, describes Utahceratops as «a giant rhino with a ridiculously supersized head».
The vase now sits, cracked but still imposing, in a corner of the American Museum of Natural History's elegant exhibition Petra: Lost City of Stone.
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
A public relations firm issued a breathless press release yesterday about «A REVOLUTIONARY SCIENTIFIC FIND THAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING,» to be announced Tuesday at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City.
Paleoanthropologist William Kimbel, anthropologist Katie Hinde, and paleoecologist Kaye Reed, all at ASU, began preparing the statement weeks ago, after learning of an impending Science story on alleged sexual misconduct by Brian Richmond, a paleoanthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
In this episode, Cambridge conservation scientist Andrew Balmford discusses the state of the world's birds; the US Fish and Wildlife Service's Rex Johnson talks about a new, strategic approach to conservation (both men were presenters at the recent conference «Conserving Birds in Human - Dominated Landscapes» at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City); and the Wildlife Conservation Society's Alan Rabinowitz describes his efforts to save the world's big cats.
Scientific American writer Kate Wong spoke with mammalogist Nancy Simmons of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City about this question.
«There undoubtedly are many more genes involved in these pathways and these will need to be sorted out,» says Joel Cracraft, an evolutionary biologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
Then in 2006, paleontologists Sterling Nesbitt and Mark Norell of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City described a bipedal rauisuchian they called Effigia okeeffeae.
They could just contact New York City Audubon or they can contact the American Museum of Natural History and the Linnaean society, all three of them you could find information about it.
Organizations and Web sites mentioned on this podcast include the American Museum of Natural History, www.amnh.org; the Central Park Conservancy, www.centralparknyc.org; the New York City Audubon Society, www.nycaudubon.org; the Linnaean Society, http://linnaeannewyork.org/ [CHANGED FROM LONDON TO NYC LINNAEAN SOCIETY]; Marie Winn, www.mariewinn.com; the Scientific American blog, blog.sciam.com; the Scientific American Digital Archive, www.sciamdigital
«This new specimen is important because it is so complete,» says Randall Irmis, curator of paleontology at the Utah Museum of Natural History at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, who found the skeleton in 2003 but was not involved in the new study.
On a December morning in 1898, a 25 - year - old paleontologist named Barnum Brown trudged through the snow - choked streets of New York City for what he thought would be a routine day at the American Museum of Natural History.
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