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Contributions support a variety of public programs and provide resources to sustain the house museum as a unique component of Houston's cultural life.
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Danish toymaker Lego recently opened a new amusement park / museum / archive in Billund, Denmark, called Lego House, which pays homage to the iconic plastic brick in both function and form: the entire structure uses the same proportions as the toy version, making it appear to be something you could really snap together.
Musée des beaux arts Located in the historic Place de Miremont square, the fine - arts and archeology museum houses a collection of artifacts from Vienne's Roman past, as well as paintings from the 16th to early 20th centuries.
The good news is that they are going the way of the dinosaur themselves, and their museum to «Creation» in Kentucky, or whatever benighted state houses it, would make a wonderful zoo for the survivors, where they could be put on exhibit as anthropological curiosities.
The Chinati Foundation (chinati.org), his contemporary art museum, housed in a former Army base, is still recognized as a leader in the field.
Prior to training as a journalist, Arabella spent six years working in the art world, in the rarefied atmosphere of London's leading auction houses, Christie's and Sotheby's, and undertook a short research internship at the Victoria & Albert Museum, where she worked on the redevelopment of the Medieval and Renaissance Galleries collection.
Nestled in Chinatown — one of Washington, DC's most vibrant neighborhoods — the Fairfield Inn and Suites is also conveniently close to museums, national landmarks and attractions such as: The White House, Smithsonian Institution, the National Mall, Washington Monument, U.S. Capitol and Lincoln Memorial.
At the Whitaker - Jaynes House, visitors can tour an extensive museum displays including items from the Lynx Women's Softball Team from the 1940's, a wedding dress display, a pictorial history of Buena Park's entertainment venues as well at the Dreger Clock and various photos of the famous clock throughout history.
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.
If cleaning the house, preparing the food, and then cleaning up after the party doesn't appeal to you, consider having the party at another location such as an ice rink, a bowling alley, a local park, a movie theatre, the local mall, or even at an area museum.
Families can join the museum's education team on the plaza of the Butterfly House to view the eclipse as a group using 50 shared eclipse glasses and two solarscopes.
The Notebaert Goes to the Birds with New Birds of Paradise Exhibit - Third Coast Review - February 2, 2018 Just as Museum Week was kicking off in Chicago, the Notebaert was celebrating its 161st birthday and the opening of their newest special exhibit, Birds of Paradise — Amazing Avian Evolution, which includes an amazing live animal exhibit called The Bird House that features a rotating cast of local and exotic birds for visitors to meet, learn about and interact with.
Giant 8 - Eyed Wolf Spiders Are Ready To Invade Your Home As Weather Cools - DNAinfo.com Chicago - September 15, 2016 «It's a simple pest control principle: Seal all cracks and entryways into your house,» said Allen Lawrance, the invertebrate specialist at Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.
Its enormous headquarters building between Soldier Field and the Field Museum of Natural History houses 583 administrative employees, compared to 323 in New York, which has three times as much park land.
The Arlington Heights Historical Museum offered different types of programs to Park District residents including period and holiday craft classes, programs for school and scout groups, and special events such as Civil War Days, German Fest, Holiday and Mother's Day Teas, the annual House Walk, and Irish Fest.
The money from the Illinois Public Museum Operating Grant Program will be used to build a blacksmith shop to house the tools, as well as for new programs in blacksmithing, woodworking, pottery and candlemaking, said Elaine Keating, coordinator of historic sites for the Lisle Park District and the only full - time employee at Lisle Station Park.
Located on a 121 - acre wildlife sanctuary just south of Boston, the Museum of American Bird Art houses Mass Audubon's extensive art collection, which is shared with the public through exhibitions as well as through a wide variety of education programs.
The specific improvements would include monument restoration and upgrades at citywide libraries, the Allendale Theater of Youth, and the Buffalo Museum of Science, as well as all - new seats at Coca - Cola field, roof replacement at the Buffalo Zoo's reptile house, and a new stage for Shakespeare in Delaware Park.
Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples - Stokes said: Bellamy Commons is an adaptive reuse win - win for its tenants and the surrounding community as it includes 30 units of affordable rental housing, a museum, and the local offices of the NAACP.
Much reformist discussion of the House of Commons views it as an institution in permanent decline, operating in a museum - building with stuffy and out - of - date processes that MPs stubbornly refuse to change.
Hunt left the House of Commons to become the director of London's Victoria and Albert Museum after serving as an MP for seven years.
HIs contributions to our neighborhood have included «securing financing through the State's Secured Hospital Revenue Bond Program so that Flushing Hospital Medical Center and Jamaica Hospital and Medical Center could modernize and expand; providing the Lifeline Center for Child Development with a permanent home; securing the financial support that has enabled the Bayside Historical Society to undertake its restoration of the Fort Totten Officers Club; creating the Colonial Farmhouse Restoration Society to operate the former Adriance Farm Site as the Queens Farm Museum and transferring 52 acres of surrounding land to New York City for permanent use as horticultural - agricultural parklands; and providing land for the Cross Island YMCA to expand, for the Hollis - Bellaire - Queens Village - Bellerose Little League to own their ball fields and for Catholic Charities of the Brooklyn - Queens Diocese to develop senior citizen housing in Bellerose.
About Jennifer Walden Weprin Walden Weprin hails from the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona as Director of Marketing & External Affairs since 2011, where she designed and implemented a marketing and programming strategy that yielded a 21 percent increase in museum visMuseum in Corona as Director of Marketing & External Affairs since 2011, where she designed and implemented a marketing and programming strategy that yielded a 21 percent increase in museum vismuseum visitors.
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.
The unprecedented wave of destruction has prompted a small protest today in front of the White House, as well as statements of outrage from archaeologists and museum curators around the world.
George Washington Carver The George Washington Carver Museum in Tuskegee, Alabama, houses the agricultural scientist's plant specimens and lab apparatus, as well as paintings, crochet, and other handicrafts he created in his spare time.
One case in Rothschild's museum houses a ponderous mix of hoofed grazing mammals, among them small, swamp - dwelling African bushbuck (left, seated on shelf and floor), a large dark - brown fruit - eating Indian nilgai (center, seated), a four - horned antelope (center, standing), as well as bison and buffalo heads.
They found the collapsed walls of the pyramid thanks to a 12th - century B.C. papyrus, known as the Abbott Papyrus, housed at the British Museum in London.
In this context, the Einstein museums, houses, and reconstructed offices may be regarded as shrines to his memory.
The beaks of bird specimens housed at the Museum at Tring, such as this robin, were scanned in 3D for the project.
The designer drew inspiration from sin city's Neon Museum — also known as the Neon Graveyard — a spot that houses unrestored, neon signs that used to dot Coney Island and Las Vegas.
The Iris homage includes pieces available for sale as well as items from her own closet and from the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, which houses more than 900 pieces from her wardrobe as part of its permanent collection.
It's now open to visitors as a historic house and museum and is a charming and romantic little place, decorated with Parisian wallpaper and antique furniture.
You will find on our list Indian curry houses and floating cider barges, immaculate living museums in the form of former passenger ships, a world class zoo that boasts 12 acres of park land, as well as views of some of the best and most beautiful English countryside for miles around.
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The series, starring Jurnee Smollett - Bell, Aldis Hodge and Christopher Meloni, had a screening at the White House last year and was selected as the inaugural public program at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture with a screening at the new Oprah Winfrey Theater.
The Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles houses such treasures as a crucifix carved into the desiccated pit of a fruit, a fungus - petrified «stink ant» from the Cameroon, and the skeleton of a European mole.
The things he amassed would later be housed in the Getty Museum, whose structure was copied, as shown in the movie, from the palace of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, J.P.'s world - conquering role model.
The new group takes a liking to Woody and he to them, but when he learns that their hope for a luxurious life in a Japanese museum depends on his joining them as part of a complete collection, Woody has to choose between his friends in Andy's house — and Andy himself — and the new life he's just uncovered.
Chick Young (Bud Abbott) and Wilbur Grey (Lou Costello) work as baggage clerks in LaMirada, Florida, and when Wilbur mishandles two crates belonging to McDougal's House of Horrors museum, Mr. McDougal demands that they deliver them in person so that they can be inspected by an insurance agent.
The district and other community groups also partner with Boston Children's Museum, which houses an innovative kindergarten model classroom as a permanent exhibit.
The Sugar Hill Project, as it is called, is also unique in that it combines an early childhood education center and children's museum in the 124 - unit residential building that will house formerly homeless and low - income families.
Joint educational programs were created between the Chicago Public Schools and other institutions, such as museums, the Parks District, the Chicago Housing Authority, and city colleges.
We hold exhibitions of student artwork both in school and with partners such as the Ancient House Museum of Thetford Life.
Fields Auto Group is the title sponsor of the March of Dimes Chef's Auction, the March of Dimes Ray Meyer 3 - on - 3 basketball tournament, the Luol Deng - Chicago Housing Authority Holiday Toy Drive, as well as an official partner of the Kohl Children's Museum and the host of «The Art of the Vine» which benefits the New Hope For Kids Program of Central Florida.
Viewed as a whole, Chrysler's lineup of concept cars this decade - now housed in the Walter P. Chrysler Museum in Michigan - has no peer.
Levine, who was a fan of Wyeth's, tried to operate the Olson House as a museum in 1971 - 1973 but was met by local opposition and never could get the enterprise off the ground.
The Art of Murder A Dead - End Job Mystery, Book # 15 By Elaine Viets ISBN13: 9780451476135 Author website: http://www.elaineviets.com/pages/bio.asp Brought to you by OBS reviewer Kayt Synopsis: From the national bestselling author of Checked Out, Helen Hawthorne must pose as a painter at Fort Lauderdale's famous Bonnet House Museum to catch... Continue reading →
Second, to create the app and curate the eBook collection, the White House partnered with the Digital Public Library of America, First Book, and The New York Public Library, as well as digital books distributor Baker & Taylor and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Called the Museum of Compassion, the venue will house an installation of over 5,500 handpainted dog portraits created by Kentucky artist Mark Barone in what will be viewed as one sprawling, striking piece.