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Her installation «Tree» was selected from nine other short — listed artists for the Darwin's Canopy project at the Natural History Museum, and was commissioned to celebrate Darwin's bicentenary in 2009.

Covering everything from sculpture, antiquities from across the ancient world, fine and applied arts, manuscripts and coins, the Fitzwilliam, which celebrates its bicentenary in 2016, has been hailed as «the finest small museum in Europe».

Not exact matches

«I'm not going to stay on for 50 years,» said the billionaire, who promised to hand over his group's activities to his children on the bicentenary of his group in 2022.

The former deputy prime minister joined culture minister Margaret Hodge for the official opening of the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool, as part of the celebrations for the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade.

A number of events are planned to commemorate the bicentenary, Mr Blair explained, but the most important thing is to recognise the challenges that remain, regarding both the «modern slavery» of people trafficking and the need for education in Africa.

It seems certain that the complex systems of the natural world will keep theoretical and experimental physicists in business for years, maybe well past Einstein's annus mirabilis bicentenary 100 years hence.

Though it's been 150 years since he published On The Origin of Species (the film also marks the bicentenary of his birth) his ideas are still deemed too inflammatory in America where the film has struggled to find a distributor.

This year is the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens, and nobody's celebrating more than the Charles Dickens Museum in London.

Also in 2007, the artist presents newly commissioned work at the V&A for Uncomfortable Truths - the shadow of slave trading on contemporary art and design (20 February - 17 June 2007), an exhibition marking the bicentenary of the outlawing of the British slave trade.

Regarded as one of the artist's most important portraits, this celebrated painting has been acquired by the Watts Gallery just in time for the artist's bicentenary celebrations in 2017.

A bicentenary exhibition opens at the V&A in the autumn.

In 2015 the Waterloo Gallery was transformed to celebrate the bicentenary of the famous battle.

Christine Nelson, Curator at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, marks the bicentenary of the birth of American icon Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) by exploring his lifelong journal and his fantasy of a library reachable «only after adventures in the wilderness, amid wild beasts and wild men.»

To mark the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade, Lancashire Museums invited artist Lubaina Himid to create new work exploring Lancaster's significant role in this trade, its legacies and the issues that still have an impact on today's society

She spearheaded one timed to the bicentenary of Britain's abolition of slavery, «Trade and Empire: Remembering Slavery,» which combined 18th century watercolors that depicted slaves working in sugar colonies alongside contemporary pieces by black artists.

Notable public works include a mural commissioned by Glasgow Museums to mark the bicentenary of the Calton Weavers Massacre, which is displayed in the dome of the People's Palace, Glasgow; and a portrait of eminent medical scientists Professor R. J. Steele, Professor Sir Alfred Cuschieri, and Professor Sir David P. Lane, in Three Oncologists, which was initiated by the National Galleries of Scotland.

We urge all CCAMLR Member countries to work toward the bicentenary by realising their 2009 commitment to a network of MPAs, starting with the designating the EARSMPA at the annual meeting in October, followed by the Weddell Sea and Antarctic Peninsula by 2020.

Fears about artificial intelligence are far older than the technology itself: this year marks the bicentenary of the publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and 50 years since the computer in 2001 A Space Odyssey intoned «I am afraid I can't do that, Dave.»

We will forever remember her dressed in traditional attire and protesting the arrival of colonial - era style ships in Melbourne for the 1988 bicentenary celebrations, an act that marked a decisive moment in the recognition of rights for Aboriginal Victorians.