Sentences with phrase «museum houses the world»

Edvard Munch, Gustav Vigeland and Henrik Ibsen all once called Oslo «home» and the city pays tribute to each of them: the Munch Museum houses the world's largest collection of Munch's paintings (including The Scream); Ibsen's home has been restored to its original furnishings and is now open to the public; and Vigeland's work is on display at the Vigeland Park, the world's largest sculpture park made by a single artist.

The Norton Simon Museum houses a world - renowned collection of art from South and Southeast Asia that includes examples of the rich sculptural and painting traditions that developed in this region over the course of more than 2,000 years.

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The museum houses more than 60 failed products and services from around the world.

When the collection of major works housed at the city's world - class Detroit Institute of Arts Museum was in danger of being liquidated to pay off municipal debt, the federal mediator, Judge Gerald Rosen, city emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, and other civic leaders leaned heavily on community and national foundations, lawmakers and the museum itself to put their money where their masterpiecesMuseum was in danger of being liquidated to pay off municipal debt, the federal mediator, Judge Gerald Rosen, city emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, and other civic leaders leaned heavily on community and national foundations, lawmakers and the museum itself to put their money where their masterpiecesmuseum itself to put their money where their masterpieces were.

The George Eastman House film and photography museum will screen the silent film on Oct. 16 in Rochester, NY., following the restoration's world premiere on Oct. 9 at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, an Italian film festival devoted entirely to silent cinema.

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

Makoto's work is exhibited at galleries around the world, including Dillon Gallery in New York, Sato Museum in Tokyo, The Contemporary Museum of Tokyo, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts Museum, Bentley Gallery in Arizona, Gallery Exit and Oxford House at Taikoo Place in Hong Kong, and Vienna's Belvedere Museum.

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.

The famous dinosaur museum is Canada's only museum dedicated exclusively to the science of palaeontology and houses one of the world's largest displays of dinosaurs.

Thanks to regular TLT Facebook page commenter Melissa House, I recently learned of the online Food Museum which, according to its «About» page, is the world's only independent food mMuseum which, according to its «About» page, is the world's only independent food museummuseum.

Billionaire «Star Wars» creator George Lucas wants to establish a world - class museum to house his art and movie memorabilia.

The Safe Haven museum tells the story of the 982 refugees who were temporarily housed at Fort Ontario during World War II.

The city's points of interest include the Edward M. Cotter fireboat, considered the world's oldest active fireboat [165] and is a United States National Historic Landmark, Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens, the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, [166] Buffalo Museum of Science, [167] the Buffalo Zoo — the third oldest in the United States --[168] Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park, the Anchor Bar and Darwin D. Martin House.

The property includes the Safe Haven Holocaust Refugee Shelter Museum, which tells the story of the 982 European refugees, mostly Jewish, who were temporarily housed at Fort Ontario during World War II.

«Housed in the only structure still standing from both the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs, the Queens Museum is inextricably linked to the these two momentous expositions,» said Queens Museum's president and executive director, Tom Finkelpearl.

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.

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.

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.

Museums in North America alone house around 250 million insect specimens from around the world.

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.

The primary way that researchers know anything about the distribution of species in the natural world is via the specimen collections housed in museums all around the world.

WHERE: Silicon Valley's Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, houses one of the world's largest collections of dingy beige boxes and other computing artifacts.

The National Museums of Scotland house collections covering decorative arts, industrial machinery, and the natural world.

«It's remarkable, using a lowly house mouse to monitor a major milestone in human history,» says Melinda Zeder, curator of Old World archaeology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., who wasn't involved with the study.

The late archeologist Junius B. Bird was the first to excavate Huaca Prieta in the late 1940s after World War II and his original collection is housed in the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

The Manchester Museum houses over 18,000 objects from ancient Egypt and Sudan, making one of the largest collections in Britain and one with world - class holdings in a number of areas.

Spain's «Golden Triangle,» the three world class museums located on The Paseo del Prado, houses classics from El Greco, Goya, and Van Dyck.

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.

The Manchester Museum houses over 18,000 objects from ancient Egypt and Sudan, making one of the largest collections in Britain and one with world - class holdings in a number of areas.

I would like to see like a mushroom kingdom village that had maybe a minigame arcade, toad houses, a museum, etc (on a smaller scale, Pac - Man World 2 had these elements, but rather, an arcade that had some of the old Pac - Man games).

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.

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«New York City is world - renowned for its art and museum culture and we feel that it is the perfect place to house a museum and educational interactive learning center as a destination,» said Ronald H. Menaker, chairman of the board for the American Kennel Club.

Housed in an 18th - century colonial - style building, the museum displays the largest and most impressive ceramic collection in the world, including the exquisite ceramics of the Moche civilization.

Rightfully awarded a place on UNESCO's World Heritage List, this strip of wooden houses survived numerous fires before being recently converted into museums, art galleries and shops.

Greeted by the world's largest Buddha statue as you approach (and a large family of very extroverted monkeys), the 520 - foot walk up leads to a series of five large caves housing roughly 150 museum - worthy Buddha statues and paintings.

Housing the world's most famous polar ship, The Fram Museum details the history of polar exploration, and the Viking Ship Museum allows you to get up close to two wonderfully preserved wooden Viking ships that date back to the 9th century.

Taipei is home to various world - famous architectural or cultural landmarks such as Taipei 101, Chiang Kai - shek Memorial Hall, Dalongdong Baoan Temple, Hsing Tian Kong, Lungshan Temple of Manka, National Palace Museum, Presidential Office Building, Taipei Guest House, Ximending, and several night markets dispersing over the city.

You'll begin with a welcome dinner in a fine Milanese restaurant, followed by two nights in the fashionable city to visit its Sforzesco Castle Grounds and Museum, Duomo Square, and see the world - famous La Scala Opera House.

There's plenty of time here to visit world - famous museums, the opera house or indulge in typical Austrian desserts like strudel or Sacher Torte.

San Jose is also home to the Jade Museum (Museo de Jade), which houses the world's largest American jade collection plus gold, ceramic and stonework exhibits.

From Sant Mori, our crew made independent forages into the countryside, up to the Dali Museum, over to the Dali House, down to Barcelona, over to Girona for the Flower Festival, to Empures for Greek and Roman ruins, to the Costa Brava, to the top of the mountains and off to some of the finest dining in the world.

In that period, the Anne Frank House developed into the professional organisation it is today: fully committed with its museum and via educational activities to conveying Anne Frank's story and its significance in today's world.

It is the only museum in the world dedicated to his works and enjoys a scenic perch overlooking the Antibes coastline whilst housing some of Picasso's most vivid pieces.

The Van Gogh museum, an art museum dedicated to the works of Vincent van Gogh, houses more of the famed artist's work than anywhere else in the world.

The crooked buildings with traditional gabled facades house a multitude of enticing bakeries, vintage gift shops and stylish bistros, and with a number of world - famous museums and art galleries dotted around the cosmopolitan area, it's not difficult to see why Amsterdam is a favoured choice by many for a European city break.

The largest art museum in the United States and one of the tenth largest in the world, the Met is houses over 400,000 works of art!

The museum occupies a charming 18th century manor house and features a fascinating collection of musical instruments from all over the world.

Set within beautiful landscaped gardens, this remarkable museum dedicated to local entrepreneur and philanthropist Revi Karuna Karan houses one of the largest collections of Swarovski crystals in the world as well as hundreds of items of fine porcelain from the great manufactures including Delft, Armani and Capo di Monte.

Visit the ancient world of Greece and Rome at the Getty Villa, a recreation of an ancient Roman country house and home to the J. Paul Getty Museum's antiquities collection.