Sentences with phrase «from older museums»

Tebus has responded directly to the collection by hand - colouring black - and - white cut - outs from old museum catalogues.

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Housed in a former Bethlehem Steel facility that is more than 100 years old, the National Museum of Industrial History is a shrine to America's industrial history, displaying industrial artifacts from a variety of industries.

Last week when I picked up my 3.5 year old son Julian from preschool, his teacher Miss G mentioned that she'd like to take the four children in the program on a field trip to the zoo or children's museum the following week to celebrate the last day of school.

This week, you and your child can learn what it was like to travel to the Old Mill at Historic Yates Mill County Park in Raleigh, find out about flying machines of the past and make a kite at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh, make ecofriendly art from repurposed materials at the Irwin R. Holmes Sr..

The independent information from the NHS on milks for older babies is swamped by the promotion from the formula companies — and it is disappointing that the Museum is prepared to profit from this by hiring out its facilities, rather than changing its due diligence procedures.

The museum's current exhibit, A Child's World: Childhood in 19th - Century New England marks the first time that more than 150 rare child - related artifacts from the Old Sturbridge Village collection are on display together.

STURBRIDGE, Mass. (April 29, 2014): Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC recently committed to support Old Sturbridge Village's Educational Outreach Project in 2014, specifically to make the living history museum's programming accessible to at - risk youth from the Boston area.

Fallon Community Health Plan is event sponsor (STURBRIDGE, MA)-- July 23, 2013: - Award - winning composer John Williams will receive the annual «Ken Burns Lifetime Achievement Award» from documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and Old Sturbridge Village following a dinner in his honor at 6:00 p.m. Thursday, August 15 at the living history museum.

Old Sturbridge Village is one of the largest living history museums in the nation, celebrating life in early New England from 1790 — 1840.

Old Sturbridge Village is one of the largest living history museums in the nation, celebrating life in early New England from 1790 to 1840.

Old Sturbridge Village is one of the country's oldest and largest living history museums, celebrating life in early New England from 1790 - 1840.

(Sturbridge, Mass.) November 14, 2012 — NBC News Special Correspondent and award - winning author Tom Brokaw will receive the annual «Ken Burns Lifetime Achievement Award» from documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and Old Sturbridge Village following a dinner in his honor at the living history museum on Tuesday, November 27.

Fallon Community Health Plan sponsors sold - out event (Sturbridge, Mass.) November 14, 2012 — NBC News Special Correspondent and award - winning author Tom Brokaw will receive the annual «Ken Burns Lifetime Achievement Award» from documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and Old Sturbridge Village following a dinner in his honor at the living history museum on Tuesday, November 27.

Strycker, a 31 - year - old writer, photographer and self - described «bird man,» will share stories from his epic round - the - world journey on Jan. 24 at Chicago's Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.

Berkner might sing old favorites from the recording such as «Froggie Went a Courtin»» and «Oh Susanna» or maybe she'll have kids make the noise of the toys in the song called «The Toy Museum» or stomp, dance and jump around to «BOOTS» or settle down to listen to a tune about the perfect nightlight: the moon.

Old Sturbridge Village outdoor history museum is conveniently located on Route 20 in Sturbridge, Massachusetts and is easily accessible by car from I - 84 and the Massachusetts Turnpike, I - 90.

In the district «s tentative plans, what is now a wheat field with patches of 100 - year - old oaks would include a museum for the Grayslake Historical Society and playing fields easily accessible from the junior and senior high schools.

These city parks give your family a chance to explore and enjoy everything from zoos and museums to boating, skating and old - fa...

That «s why the Kohl Children «s Museum has created a Halloween party especially for young children, from preschoolers to 8 - year - olds.

Historical gardening is an important part of the Old Sturbridge Village mission, and the museum's horticulturists encourage home gardeners to «plant some history» and help save heirloom vegetable and flower varieties from extinction.

This has included things from walking the dog around the block, visiting a museum, walking around the shops or going for long treks in the country (yes, I realise we sound really old and boring based on those activities — the truth is, we probably are now!).

Contractors were at Fred D. Wish Museum School on April 10 to begin removing old lockers from the school.

A piece of stone from the old Yankee Stadium has a new home: the Bronx Museum.

The children's museum Explore & More wants to move from East Aurora to a Waterfront location on the site of the old Memorial Auditorium.

It can be difficult to find material that is reliably documented from pre-Dynastic Egypt, but textile expert Jana Jones of Australia's Macquarie University managed to identify the perfect specimen at the Bolton Museum, north of Manchester, England: fragmentary funerary wrappings more than 6,000 years old, collected in the early 20th century from a region of Upper Egypt.

Researchers from North Carolina State University have found that century - old museum specimens hold clues to how global climate change will affect a common insect pest that can weaken and kill trees — and the news is not good.

Details of the tumor confirmation, announced by an international research team led by Penn Museum Associate Curator and Paleoanthropologist Janet Monge, is available in a research paper, «Fibrous dysplasia in a 120,000 + year old Neandertal from Krapina, Croatia,» in the online scientific journal PLOS ONE.

Paleontologists at the University of Bonn, together with scientists from the Alexander Koenig Research Museum in Bonn as well as the Universities of Kassel, Gdańsk (Poland) and Lucknow (India) with the Museum for Materials Research at the Helmholtz - Zentrum Geesthacht, have now discovered and described a new species in 54 million - year - old amber.

Researchers from the CNRS and the Université de Poitiers, working in collaboration with teams from the Université de Lille 1, Université de Rennes 1, the French National History Museum and Ifremer, have discovered, in clay sediments from Gabon, fossils of the oldest multicellular organisms ever found (Nature, 2010).

Since all specimens, some very old, will come from museum collections, their external shape may be deformed.

For older children, the museum supplemented the curriculum with its own materials from the museum to go into more depth.

The insight came from a previously unstudied tablet that Ossendrijver spotted in a stack of old photos from the British Museum.

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The Poinars were «pipped at the post» by a team from the American Museum of Natural History (Science, 17 October 1992) led by Rob DeSalle, who extracted DNA from a 30 million - year - old termite found in amber.

Cleland, for example, was able to identify proteins from a 12,000 - year - old giant beaver skull sitting in a museum collection since 1845.

In 1999 a team from the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and the University of California at Santa Barbara found a 170 - million - year - old jaw in Madagascar that looked as if it belonged to a predecessor of both placental and marsupial mammals.

But this past year Guillermo Rougier, a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History, described turtle fossils from Argentina (including the one shown here) that were also 210 million years old — indicating that turtles had already spread over the planet by then.

In the British Museum Bronze Age Index project, you transcribe scanned catalog cards — some a century old and filled with handwritten notes and illustrations — from an archive of the museum's Bronze Age collection that features weapons and tools more than 4,000 yearMuseum Bronze Age Index project, you transcribe scanned catalog cards — some a century old and filled with handwritten notes and illustrations — from an archive of the museum's Bronze Age collection that features weapons and tools more than 4,000 yearmuseum's Bronze Age collection that features weapons and tools more than 4,000 years old.

In 1999 the Australian Museum announced a complex plan to clone the thylacine with DNA extracted from a 140 - year - old pup preserved in alcohol.

The 155 - year - old Smithsonian has 16 museums, the National Zoo, and a half dozen remote research units, all of which get about two - thirds of their funds from the federal government.

Then, a few months ago, Penn Museum archaeologist Brad Hafford was looking over Woolley's old notes and got a surprise: Woolley noted saving two skeletons from the hoard to give to the Penn Museum.

Researchers from the Canadian Museum of Nature and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County have identified remains of a 3.5 - million - year - old bear from a fossil - rich site in Canada's High Arctic.

Martín Ramírez, from the Argentinian Museum of Natural History and co-author of the study, commented on the habitat specificity of this species, «confined to the oldest and extensively hollow myrtle beech trees in the humid forests in the western part of the Great Otway National Park, or in mountain ash trees, upon which the myrtle trees depend,» thus making an important case for the conservation of such habitats.

James S. McDonnell Space Hangar, Chantilly, VA This offshoot of the justly famous National Air and Space Museum is not as convenient (located near Dulles International Airport), but it is larger, less crowded, and spectacular in its own right — filled with hundreds of unusual items, from the space shuttle Enterprise to space - grown crystals to old tubes of borscht made for Soviet cosmonauts.

A 15 million year - old fossil sperm whale specimen from California belongs to a new genus, according to a study published December 9, 2015 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Alexandra Boersma and Nicholas Pyenson from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

Martel and Pasmans detected the fungus in samples of salamanders that other researchers had collected in Thailand, Vietnam, and Japan — including a museum specimen more than 150 years old — but not in salamanders from other parts of the world.

In 2004, a team led by Elizabeth Nicholls of the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Canada, excavated a monstrous ichthyosaur from 210 - million - year - old rocks in British Columbia.

Then last July, Josef Wegner, an archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, announced that he and colleagues from Yale University and New York University had found a 3,700 - year - old painted clay birth brick that shows a woman transformed into a goddess at the moment of giving birth.

But new genetic analyses of a 14,000 - year - old fossil from an Argentine museum reveal that these ancient herbivores (artist's concept, above) weren't the distant kin of today's Texas roadkill.

«It's a surprising finding and it implies that New World populations were not completely isolated from the Old World after their initial migration,» said Eske Willerslev from the Centre for GeoGenetics at the Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, who headed the study.