Sentences with phrase «house museum for»

Prestigious loans in the exhibition are culled from major museum collections: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Musée du Louvre, the National Galleries of Scotland, the British Museum, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. Antiquity Revived is also enriched by the MFAH «s own collections, including including objects from the house museums for decorative arts, Bayou Bend and Rienzi.

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It has since been restored and converted into a museum, and today visitors can receive guided tours of the Shoe House for $ 4.50 per adult and $ 3 for children ages 4 and up.

The 27,000 square foot property, formerly a museum, includes a residence for Bezos» family and the adjoining Wood house for entertaining.

A museum has been constructed to Wilson's honor, and the house where he came into this world and lived for a few....

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.

Lincoln's celebrity has always been good for museums; Ferguson fondly recalls visiting the Chicago Historical Society, when that «solid and stately» building displayed various items associated with Lincoln's personal life ¯ his house slippers, eyeglasses, and shawl.

Herzog Wine Cellars, a California - based operation, has developed a partnership with the Petersen Automotive Museum to house the Los Angeles event for the next three years.

This vibrant realm was created by Imagine Exhibitions and is so larger - than - life that it's housed in an exhibition tent on the front lawn of the museum, making it the first of its kind for Field.

The museum is sold out of eclipse glasses, however guests participating in the day's events will have two options for safely viewing the maximum partial eclipse: A community viewing party with solarscopes and a live stream of eclipse sites from across the country in The Lab and Magic Wings Butterfly House.

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.

Benefit for the Carriage House Museum.

So far, though, the big parties have been varied — «pirate theme party at grandma's house» (bigger yard, great for the treasure hunt), and «pony rides party at the equestrian center» (large outdoor venue), and «museum party at the powder mill museum along with period crafts, cooking in a wood stove, and watching them explode some black powder» (10 - year - olds plus BOOM is good!).

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.

General admission to the Arlington Heights Historical Museum is always free, but there is a suggested donation for weekend house tours.

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.

Now reassembled from the ground up, the Oaxaca Village exhibit - which opens Saturday during Hispanic Heritage Month and will remain at the museum for four months - has a marketplace overflowing with brightly colored wares, a general store laden with merchandise, a furnished adobe house and a central...

Founded by Ruth Abram and Anita Jacobson, the Tenement Museum showcases one of the first houses in the United States for immigrant families.

He had hoped to open a new museum for his collection, but his condition that the city provide a building to house the museum in Garfield Park was never met.

The grants are going to: Ravinia Festival, $ 300,000 over three years for arts education and programming at Lawndale community organizations; Chicago Children's Museum, $ 80,000 for general operations; Steppenwolf Theatre Company, $ 80,000 for general operations; Association House, $ 75,000 for its integrated arts program; Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, $ 75,000 for general operations; Northwestern University Settlement Association, $ 75,000 for arts programming in the West Town and Humboldt Park neighborhoods; and WTTW - Ch. 11, $ 75,000 for the Artbeat Chicago program series.

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Also at 6 p.m., Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. holds a workshop designed to help Bronx residents successfully apply for affordable housing featuring a panel discussion moderated by HUD Regional Administrator Holly Leicht, who oversees federal housing programs throughout New York and New Jersey, Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1040 Grand Concourse, the Bronx.

In the afternoon, the president hosts a law enforcement roundtable on sanctuary cities, and then departs the White House en route for the National Building Museum, where he will attend the NRCC's March fundraising dinner.

Susan Henshaw Jones, the Ronay Menschel Director of the Museum of the City of New York, and Alicia Glen, Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Development, will give opening remarks.

The Empire State Plaza in New York's capital city may not be a museum, but critics say that it still houses one of the most significant modern art collections available for public viewing in the area.

New York Botanical Garden President Gregory Long and long - time community garden activist Karen Washington were guests at the White House on Friday, where Michelle Obama «presented the 2010 National Medal for Museum and Library Services to The New York Botanical Garden and nine other cultural institutions.

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.

30 Apartments of Affordable Housing for Low - Income Families, Mixed - Use Development Features Buffalo Black Achievers Museum

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.

PHOTO: Republican candidates for governor Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton, Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, Avon attorney Martha Dean, Shelton Mayor Mark Lauretti and former West Hartford Town Council member Joe Visconti met at the Mark Twain House and Museum for a debate Friday sponsored by The Hartford Courant and FOX CT..

Agencies receiving Operation Primetime funding in 2012 include: Access of WNY, African American Cultural Center, Back to Basics, Be A Friend, Bob Lanier Center, Boys & Girls Club of East Aurora, Boys & Girls Club of Eden, Boys & Girls Club of Holland, Boys & Girls Club of the Northtowns, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo Prep, Buffalo Urban League, Butler Mitchell Association, Child & Adolescent Treatment Services, Community Action Organization, Computers for Children, Concerned Ecumenical Ministries, Cradle Beach Camp, Elim Community Corporation, Erie Regional Housing Development Corp. — Belle Center, Firsthand Learning, FLARE, Girls Sports Foundation, Greater Niagara Frontier Council — Boy Scouts, Jericho Road Ministries, Justice Lifeline, King Urban Life Center, Lackawanna Sports & Education, Making Fishers of Men & Women, National Inner City Youth Opportunities, North Buffalo CDC, Northwest Buffalo Community Center, Old First Ward Community Association, PBBC Matt Urban Center, Peace of the City, Police Athletic League, Schiller Park Community Center, Seneca Babcock Community Association, Seneca Street Community Development, Town of Tonawanda Recreation Department, UB Liberty Partnership, University District CDC, Urban Christian Ministries, Valley Community Association, Westminster Community Charter School, Westside Community Center, Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education, WNY United Against Drug & Alcohol Abuse, Young Audiences, Community Action Organization (Detention), Firsthand Learning (Detention), Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education (Detention).

Question topics included financial incentives given by the City to Altronix (which hosted the Mayor for a visit just before the press conference), whether the mayor has concerns about offering such incentives, whether his jobs task force will work with local communities, whether his affordable housing plan conflicts with his plan to enable more manufacturing in the city, what a base livable minimum wage is, whether the mayor is concerned about the possibility that Republicans may control the U.S. Senate next year, whether NY State has done enough to assist NYC in obtaining hazard mitigation money from the federal government, the Mayor's views on items sold at the September 11th Museum gift shop and what the first «tangible» product of the task force will be.

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.

Neal has lived in Hurley since 2014 and has been active with the Urban Arts Partnership, the Waterkeeper Alliance, the Young Leaders of the RFK Center for Human Rights, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Thirst Project, the Joyful Heart Foundation and the Middle Way House, according to a written statement announcing her candidacy.

Two human mummies housed at the British Museum in London for more than a century boast the world's oldest known — and longest hidden — tattoos of figures and designs, a new investigation finds.

For their study, the researchers looked at three sets of fossils (now housed in museums in Denmark, England, and Texas) of widely disparate creatures from different eras: a leatherback turtle that lived about 55 million years ago, a large predator called a mosasaur that lived about 86 million years ago, and an ichthyosaur that swam the seas between 190 million and 196 million years ago.

Lots being offered include: a tour of the House of Lords by Baroness Thatcher; a dress designed by Vivienne Westwood; two tickets at the summer concert at the Palais de Monaco given by His Serene Highness Prince Rainier; a tour of the Black Museum at Scotland Yard; a trip for two on the Eastern Orient Express from Singapore to Bangkok via Kuala Lumpur; a chance to handle the gold reserves at the Bank of England with Eddie George, the governor; a consultation for two with a well - known spiritualist medium and many more delights.

Future fun: Goetgeluk and his team at Virtuix already are planning other less - sweaty applications for the Omni, including virtual museum tours and house walk - throughs for potential homebuyers.

At the Museum of the Rockies we house one of the largest dinosaur collections in the country, and maintain two laboratories, one for the study of cellular and molecular paleontology, and the other for 3 - D imaging utilizing data from CT and 3 - D scanners.

The beaks of bird specimens housed at the Museum at Tring, such as this robin, were scanned in 3D for the project.

In 1894, The Wistar Institute building, designed to house the museum and provide space for research activities, opened its doors.

Docked behind the Custom House Maritime Museum to celebrate Maritime Days, these beauties were opened to the public for the weekend, and shoutout to the crew who definitely let me overstay my welcome.

There is even the old historical Oak Glen School House Museum and opportunities for a horse drawn wagon ride through the orchards.

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.

Whether you like art house movies, museums or opera performances, you should never be struggling to come up with ideas for your next date.

WIRED — May 27 — When dorkbot decided to host a presentation for its members about the current state of teledildonics, they asked Violet Blue to step into the spotlight for a hands - on demo of the Thrillhammer, the first commercial teledildonic sex machine, housed at the Museum of Sex in New York.

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.

Directory of field trips for science centers, museums, aquariums, planetariums, zoos, historic houses, arboreta in state of Florida.

Business networking is an effective low - cost marketing method for developing sales opportunities and contacts, based on referrals and introductions SUN SEA & HISTORY The Aldeburgh Museum is housed in one of the most important timber - framed public buildings in England.