Sentences with phrase «kinds of great museums»

Astoria is a history buff's playground, with all kinds of great museums and historical landmarks, including shipwreck remains.

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In 293 communities throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Great Britain, more than 160,000 Junior League members have been the driving force behind the kinds of initiatives and institutions that make communities healthier, more vital places to live: childhood immunization, family literacy, women's shelters, children's museums, historic preservation, leadership development, and more.

I do feel that if you can actually visit places — like you've got a great museum that's in your town, or if your school district has the resources to take your students to Washington D.C. or a national park — definitely take that opportunity first, but you know school budgets are, you know, not always the (especially in a public school district like I teach) sometimes you're kind of limited.

The museum is great, every kind of Corvettes, some one of a kind, and we'll displayed.

The National Museum of Scotland makes a great full or half - day excursion into antiquity with popular exhibits to include the Lewis Chessman exhibit, a 30 piece walrus ivory chess set dating to the 12th Century, proving to be one of the most significant archaeological finds of its kind.

Besides being named an UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984, the city boasts all kinds of great attractions - including history, museums, biking, music and dancing, beaches, and great traditions.

Founded in 1939 as the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, the Chrysler Museum of Art combines one of America's great fine arts museums, two significant historic houses and a Glass Studio, the only one of its kind on the East Coast.

Its kind of that post which I hardly got to knew, I have been told in various occasion about this particular project and I'm pretty damn sure that we are going to get some positive method, Academic Paper Writing Service have a column in which I read about this museum which is a great sign to see that people are making things better than before, good efforts are being put up.

MS. BENGLIS: Well, when I first went to school at McNeese [State University, Lake Charles, LA]-- I wanted to go away to school but I stayed at home because I actually went to Houston and I saw the great art of Yves Klein, and at that time the de Menils had, on the University of Houston campus — they had — in the kind of classic tradition, they made a museum there for the school, of their collection, and they brought Yves Klein there and she must have bought a lot of the Yves Kleins, and there they were in these barracks, you know, just right there.

«Not only is his work remarkable — In Course of the Miraculous has already attained a kind of cult status — but he is a great catalyst and an enthusiast, someone who can spend three months in New York and not only make great work, but also really absorb and engage with the art scenes here,» says New Museum artistic director Massimiliano Gioni.

Naima Keith: One of the great things about working with Thelma [Golden] is that she's really committed herself to hiring young curators, and really making Studio Museum a kind of a training ground, I don't want to use the word boot camp.

But Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Washington and Philadelphia also have the kind of historically great museums with deep, often encyclopedic collections that, over time, create whole ecosystems of art around them.

«Inventing Abstraction» is so forcefully, lucidly, and persuasively wrongheaded that it achieves its own kind of intellectual glory, instantly recognizable as the latest in a great Museum of Modern Art tradition of shows that make arguments that practically beg to be contradicted.

A great museum is a pledge; here you will experience stirring encounters of a close kind.