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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.

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.

Research shows that football was a popular form of recreation for troops on both sides during World War 1, as explained by the Imperial War Museum.

The fire occurred during Naper Settlement's Civil War Days weekend, but DeFalco said the event was able to go on as planned and the rest of the museum is still open.

The Naper Settlement, a «19th - century living history museum,» becomes a Civil War battleground during Civil War Days.

Museum Hours: Wednesday through Friday: 10 a.m. — 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday 11 a.m. — 4 p.m.. About: Incorporated during the Civil War in 1863, the Onondaga Historical Association's main goals are «collecting and preserving historical, genealogical, scientific and literary material» related to Onondaga County, per its charter.

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

The 260 - year - old Fort Ontario has been involved in several major American wars and the Safe Haven museum commemorates the 986 Jewish refugees who were granted shelter at the fort during world war two.

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.

The Inter-national Council of Museums (ICOM) first teamed up with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research's Operational Satellite Applications Program (UNOSAT) to report on the South Ossetia region during the 2008 Georgia - Russia War.

At the American Museum of Natural History on March 15, retired Air Force Gen. Lester Lyles talked about how the military came to understand during the first Iraq war the importance of spacefaring capability for everything involved in conducting its operations.

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.

Students use library or provided online resources to create a museum exhibit or a fictional journal or newspaper account about life during the Civil War era.

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LOS ANGELES, April 24, 2017 — The Japanese American National Museum has developed a series of lesson plans for teachers to complement its Instructions to All Persons: Reflections on Executive Order 9066 exhibition and enhance student learning of the 75th anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt's signing of the order that led to the tragic and unlawful incarceration of 120,000 individuals of Japanese ancestry during World War II.

«We hope that the lessons we've developed will help educators guide their students into meaningful thought and conversation about what happened during World War II, what similarities and differences they observe in the world today, and why it's important for everyone to be vigilant about protecting the democracy of the United States,» said Allyson Nakamoto, the museum's Director of Education.

Though most were built during the war, the museum's Kommanderswagon is one of two assembled in 1946.

Near both museums, which are near each other, is a memorial for people who died during the Soviet era and in the war.

Following on the open - air theme, I was very impressed with the Topography of Terror exhibition, an open - air (and free) museum that tells the story of the city in the years before and during World War II.

During her time at the Museum, Beth has been exploring our local history, curating several of our temporary exhibits, including our current exhibit North Vancouver Island at War!

Now a museum, the mighty castle was an important bastion during World War II and the museum offers a variety of exhibitions detailing what happened at this famous location.

The National Atomic Testing Museum details America's nuclear history, from the Manhattan Project, the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan during World War II and the use of nuclear power as an energy alternative.

In Ho Chi Minh City, your sightseeing includes the War Remnants Museum and the Cu Chi region, where you'll have a chance to enter and explore the deep, narrow tunnels constructed by the Viet Cong during the wWar Remnants Museum and the Cu Chi region, where you'll have a chance to enter and explore the deep, narrow tunnels constructed by the Viet Cong during the warwar.

Former capital of the Vietnamese Empire, the French Colony and North Vietnam during the Vietnam War respectively, the city resembles a huge architectural museum.

Visit the biographical museum, which preserved the hiding place Anne Frank used when writing her infamous diary during World War II.

This fascinating museum allows you to discover the original War Rooms and the bunker where Churchill and his government took shelter during the Blitz.

Upon entering the museum, you will immediately be awed by the breathtaking collection of fully restored aircraft that helped serve our brave troops during the war.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 7, 2017 — A restored mid-19th-century copy of a painting depicting George Washington and French general Rochambeau during the last major battle of America's Revolutionary War has been installed at the Museum of the American Revolution.

At CAC Málaga, Wylie's paintings draw on an array of sources, from the «ack ack» anti-aircraft guns she remembers hearing as a child in London during World War II, to museum visits, tennis matches, and the actor Nicole Kidman.

American Art in the Shadow of World War I surveys the museum's holdings from the years leading up to, during, and immediately following the so - called Great War.

Some years back, Henry Korn (who had served as Administrator of the Jewish Museum, Director of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and on Franklin Furnace's Board of Directors) asked me if I thought Franklin Furnace got in trouble during the Culture Wars because in my work as an artist I impersonated First Ladies (Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, Tipper Gore, now Barbara Bush again).

Through a new «itinerary» --» The Monuments Men at the Met: Treasures Saved During World War II» — visitors to the Metropolitan Museum both online and in person can discover 11 selected paintings that were saved and restored to their rightful owners by the Monuments Men.

Eager to exhibit in Europe and abroad following the war, Calder presented some of the seminal exhibitions of his career during this period: Galerie Louis Carré, Paris, in 1946, for which Jean - Paul Sartre wrote an essay; Buchholz Gallery / Curt Valentin, New York, in 1947; the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1947; and his sojourn to Brazil in 1948.

While stationed at Quantico, Virginia, during World War II, Diebenkorn pursued a serious study of Matisse's paintings in East Coast museums, including The Phillips Collection in Washington D.C., The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the BMA.

During the war, the great art museums of London were closed, but my interest in painting was brought to life by the amazing Picasso and Matisse exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum at the end of 1945.

It includes an overview of the history of Rembrandt prints in American academic collections, a documented account of Oberlin College's secret guardianship of the Morgan Library & Museum's Rembrandt etchings collection during World War II, and an introduction to Cornell University's Watermark Identification in Rembrandt's Etchings (WIRE) project, dedicated to digitally facilitating access to Rembrandt watermark scholarship.

She is a recipient of the Paula Rhodes Memorial Award and has participated in several international group exhibitions including «239 Days» at Allegra LaViola Gallery in NY, «Octet» at the Pera Museum in Istanbul, and «Dürer war auch hier» at the PAN Kunstform in Emmerich, Germany during her residency there in 2008.

The Imperial War Museum's new exhibition charts the history of those who have campaigned for peace during times of conflict.

In the same month, Imperial War Museum London explores the challenges of Fashion on the Ration during the Second World War, while photographs, magazine covers and film stills celebrate style icon Audrey Hepburn at National Portrait Gallery from July.

A selection of ancient artifacts from the National Museum of Beirut, melted together by shell fire endured during the Lebanese Civil War, speaks to the preservation of objects whose profound transformations make them even more powerful representatives of the past.

Pippin, who took up painting after losing the use of his right arm (he was shot in the shoulder during active service in the First World War) trod a line between modernist and folk art traditions: «The painting will serve as a bridge within the broader American collection to reveal complex and often - overlooked relationships between styles and practices», M. Melissa Wolfe, the museum's curator of American art, explained.

Report of the Association of Art Museum Directors Task Force on the Looting of Art During the Nazi / World War II Era

Lost Renaissance sculptures found in Moscow Fifty - nine Renaissance Italian sculptures, thought lost from collections in Berlin during the Second World War, have been found in Moscow's Pushkin Museum.

For his new exhibition, on view during Art Basel Miami Beach, Anselm Kiefer is celebrated as a post-World War Two artist at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale.

Fusions of metal, ivory, stone and glass, those objects are amalgamations of archaeological artefacts that were melted together and totally transformed during the early stages of Lebanon's 1975 — 90 civil war, when militiamen occupied Beirut's National Museum, shelled the city and, in the process, set fire to a storage area where part of the collection had been moved.

Elsewhere, a perfectly circular «bomb pond», made by an American bomb in a Cambodian rice - field, forms part of the photographic series «Takeo» (2009) by the young Cambodian artist Vandy Rattana, while an antique exhibit from the National Museum in Beirut was transformed into a fusion of metal, ivory, glass and terracotta by the bombs that fell there during the Lebanese civil war (1975 — 90) and thus given a new abstract beauty.

Organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the exhibition will examine the evolving role of the camera during the nation's bloodiest war.

ArtInfo August 4, 2010 Top Ten Shows to See in New York «Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913 - 1917» at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, through January 24, moma.org During this tumultuous period, when the artist's friends — including André Derain and the poet Apollinaire — were fighting on the front lines of the first World War, Matisse was working in the south of France on what would become the hardened core of his later oeuvre.

The notion of a Northwest School, like most labels, was devised from outside Seattle during the late»30s and war years, when Tobey — eldest and most traveled of the Big Four — and Graves first drew notice in New York museums and galleries.

The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist a project that Rakowitz started in 2006 that attempts to recreate over 7,000 archaeological artefacts looted from the Iraq Museum during the war or destroyed in its aftermath.