Sentences with phrase «deutsches museum»

«Impropriety in the Texas prison system goes unnoticed by museum visitors, making contemporary inmate battles for human rights seem unwarranted,» she reportedly wrote.

She recalls a museum in West Virginia where a mannequin was dropped from a gallows, «which thrilled everyone and horrified me.»

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, as well as the iconic Grand Ole Opry, can also be found in «Music City.»

And yet, even the most high - minded prison museums have tension between mission and show biz.

Texas Prison Museum: a replica of a cell.

A father and son view the electric chair nicknamed «Old Sparky» on display at the Texas Prison Museum in Huntsville, Texas 07 December 2002.

David also learned about art from his mother, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, who helped found the Museum of Modern Art and had a large Asian art collection.

There are also a number of cultural offerings, like the popular Portland Museum of Art.

«I wasn't a part of this museum when it first opened and I wondered, «who in the world would want to visit a prison?»»

If you can't take a vacation, consider neighborhood museums, cafes, parks, plays and other destinations.

About seven miles away from Kauffman Stadium, where the Royals play, is the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM), a seven - employee institution whose mission is «preserving the rich history of African - American baseball.»

The museum hopes to provoke visitors to think, «America decided to [undertake these policies] about 40 years ago.

Mike Massimino, former NASA astronaut and Intrepid Museum senior advisor, talks about a brand new way to experience space from an astronaut's perspective.

Twenty - nine states have an average of at least two prison museums each, according to Fortune's review of multiple compilation listings — they're run by either governments or non-profits.

The museum, ironically, is not far from the state prison system headquarters and its five facilities housing 9,000 prisoners, including the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville and the state's death chamber, the most active in the country with 537 executions since 2982.

It also included a personal tour of a major museum by Xi.

The item in the center, wooden handle with leather strap, was used to inflict corporal punishment by whipping across the back of a convict.Courtesy of the Texas Prison Museum

A single - day ticket for one adult costs $ 50, and gives you access to all of Colonial Williamsburg's historic sites and trade shops, including two art museums, and a free shuttle.

Club president Josep Sunyol, a militant pro-independence Catalan, was assassinated during the Spanish Civil War, and is now memorialized in the club's museum, which draws about 2 million tourists a year.

Some parks are massive green spaces, while others encompass mountain ranges, museums, and palaces.

Three consortia comprising local and international design firms will compete for the design and construction contract for the new $ 430 million WA Museum, set to be built at the Perth Cultural Centre.

Some museums have pushed a mission to educate the public about the evolution of the penal system, but there has been criticism that, depending on the institution, the «history» is sanitized, leaving out abuse of prisoners and other unsavory aspects of the criminal justice system.

The family largesse created the University of Chicago, Colonial Williamsburg, the Rockefeller University, the Museum of Modern Art and the Rockefeller Foundation, not to mention countless institutions and non-profits overseas.

Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary, a prison built in the 19th century that housed Al Capone and bank robber Willie Sutton, has been a museum since 1994.

The new place to stay — and be seen — is the Silo Hotel, on top of the V&A Waterfront's much - anticipated Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art.

Movado's Museum has a black and silver color combination, giving it a look that's minimalistic and elegant.

The resulting revenue provides the bulk of funding for the museum's activities.

«Turned out they had been at a local science museum with an exhibit on the circulatory system.

Finally, at 8 a.m. on June 26, 1974, the first item with a UPC was scanned — a pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit chewing gum, which is now preserved at the Smithsonian Museum.

In 2011, she opened the $ 50 million Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas, where a number of her famous paintings are on display.

Art crimes rake in $ 6 billion a year... from home invasions to museum heists to forgers passing off high - priced fakes.

(A great example of that is the recent creation of The Museum of Ice Cream).

She observed that the museum provides a skewed portrait of prison life.

As stipulated in David Rockefeller's will, the proceeds from the Christie's auction will go to 12 charities — including Harvard, the Museum of Modern Art, the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Farmland Trust.

A hybrid of «Oakland» and «Amsterdam,» the organization is much more than a school, it's a movement, replete with a museum, club, and other amenities that make it prime for learning.

As for fitness freaks — you can run the museum steps Rocky Balboa style or give Kelly Drive, a pedestrian lane running along the Schuykill River, a spin.

After $ 380 million worth of upgrades, the park land around St. Louis» Gateway Arch and the museum below it are nearly ready for the public.

«I believe the CEO of a small - to - medium business has three major duties: to make sure there is money in the bank; to get the right people in the right roles; and to guide the long - term vision for the company,» said Nick Gray, the founder and CEO of Museum Hack, a team - building company in New York City that counts major brands, including Facebook, among its customers.

In the last couple years, his foundation offered up $ 2 million to establish a chair at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, $ 2 million for a chief curator at the Audain Art Museum in Whistler, and yet another $ 2 million to help endow a chair in central banking at Western University.

There's plenty to do in Atlanta: It's tied for having the most museums per capita, and in the activities subcategory, the city ranks third out of 150.

Dylan Lauren founded Dylan's Candy Bar in 2001, a chain of boutique candy shops she describes as «a museum for candy.»

From the outside, Cinémathèque Française looks more like a museum than a movie theater.

That's because it is partially a museum — one that is dedicated to the long and storied history of French cinema.

A new exhibit at New York's Tenement Museum explores a century of the city's immigrant small - business owners, while the city government champions its growing tech startup community.

It's steps away from world - renowned museums like the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Barnes Foundation, and the Rodin Museum.

Christoper Spring, curator of the African galleries at the British Museum, explains why he hopes his exhibition will change people's perception of African art and show the diversity present in the continent.

Artists looking to make a name for themselves are forgoing the gallery / museum route and selling their own products.

However, there is one couple who may be more devoted to the royals than everyone else: Australians Jan and David Hugo have amassed more than 10,000 pieces of royal memorabilia over the past 37 years, effectively turning their New South Wales home into a museum.

President Donald Trump's former press secretary Sean Spicer has unveiled a Melania Trump waxwork at Madame Tussauds museum in New York.

You're going to see a lot more of that next around, whether it's museums or hospitals or universities or financial firms.