Sentences with phrase «known as the museum»

Although it was known as the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford right up until its name changed in 2002, there was never any sign of a permanent collection.

The Museum District has recast its annual open house, known as Museum District Day, as a quarterly «Museum Experience,» presenting four focused celebrations throughout the year.

In 2010, Saatchi announced that the gallery would be given to the British public, and would become known as the Museum of Contemporary Art for London.

A longstanding, West Coast anchor for creative expression (and the only venue focused solely on contemporary art between Los Angeles and San Francisco), Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum (CAF) will transition from an alternative art space to a contemporary art museum, henceforth known as the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCA Santa Barbara).

The 134 - year - old institution has been undergoing a large - scale renovation for the past three years in a bid to make the museum's collection more accessible and engaging — a project known as Your Museum, Reimagined.

Not exact matches

With his schoolfriend - turned - business partner Harry Parr, he runs Bompas & Parr, a London studio best known for its wacky, food - centric installations, whether a cloud of gin and tonic known as Alcoholic Architecture, some megalith carving for Valentine's Day, or the Jump for Joy bouncy castle in New York's Museum of Sex.

Popularly known as the «Mile - High City,» Denver is home to numerous professional sports teams, breweries, and museums.

As a matter of fact, if you go, I don't know, to a museum, you might find some of the proof of those other histories (outside of the tiny point christianity occupies in thousands of years of human history).

(and no, whoever the idiot was who made up the creation museum does not count as being «great» LOL).

Besides visiting the Terracotta Army, we went as well to the Provincial Museum, known as the «Forest of Stelae».

No Stone Age family could possible manage the «life - support» needs, (for weeks - to - months) of «ALL - THE - ANIMALS -, TWO - BY - TWO», (as biblically - postulated), on a wooden ship less than 3/4's the size of the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Intrepid, (centerpiece, N.Y.C.'s Intrepid museum)!

Yes, of course, evolution is fact, you can see it in any museum or just looking at your pet dog, formerly known as wolf several millenia ago.

This is a religious war no matter how you look at it and adding the cross to the museum will fan the flames of war and alienate non-christians who see the cross as a symbol of bigotry and discrimination.

He knows, loves, and serves not God but his own species through reading novels and journals, visiting art galleries and museums where altarpieces are admired as artifacts from a superstitious age.

Akira i know this will come as a shock to you; however, all the «dinosaurs» you see in «natural history» museums are cast from plaster and that's a fact.

Location: Pennypickle's Workshop, Temecula Children's Museum Price: $ 5.00 per person Description: The Professor's home... 7,500 square feet of it, cluttered with hands - on inventions, gadgets, experiments... and kids won't even know they're learning as they play!

Entertainment Abounds While there are nearly two dozen activity options as part of the package, with everything from surf lessons to museums to professional baseball to trampoline and skate parks, I customized an action - packed itinerary that I knew would captivate my own family's imaginations and sense of adventure — one I felt exemplified the grandeur of the «Center of SoCal» package.

Grab some hot chocolate at Christkindlmarket Naperville and head to the Naperville Settlement for a free outdoor holiday lights spectacular on the museum grounds known as Naper Lights.

Miami Children's Museum — One of the largest children's museums in the United States, the Miami Children's Museum, affectionately known as MiChiMu, is over 50,000 square feet of interactive and bilingual exhibits aimed at kids up to 8 years of age (and their families, of course!)

The comet moth, also known as a Madagascan moon moth, arrived at the museum in mid-December and spent nearly three months in its cocoon before hatching last week.

A rare comet moth, also known as a Madagascan moon moth, emerged from its cocoon last week at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.

I love having her next to me as we walk through zoos and museums, knowing that she's seeing what I see and I can easily talk to her about everything.

The Chicago Park District will allow the museum, formerly known as the Chicago Historical Society, to suggest adult visitors pay $ 12 and seniors and students $ 10.

On Wednesday, a new version of the statue, known as Fountain Girl, was officially welcomed back by the Chicago Park District during an unveiling ceremony at the gateway to the park just east of the Chicago History Museum.

Since late February, researchers from the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum and Lincoln Park Zoo have been monitoring levels of cortisol (known as the stress hormone) in three species that have been reintroduced or restored by the forest preserve: wood frogs (designated as «in great need of conservation» in Illinois); spotted salamanders, a rare species for northeastern Illinois; and spring peepers, a frog species whose local populations are in decline.

Suddenly, my toddler was throwing a tantrum (as exhausted three - year - olds do after their third museum), and I just knew that mother - in - law didn't approve of the way that I was handling things.

Any Illinois EBT card (known as the Link card) or WIC ID holder is eligible for the Museums for All admission rate to Chicago Children's Museum anytime during regular hours of operation, including the museum's Member Mornings, every Friday and Saturday at 9 am, and other special member eMuseum anytime during regular hours of operation, including the museum's Member Mornings, every Friday and Saturday at 9 am, and other special member emuseum's Member Mornings, every Friday and Saturday at 9 am, and other special member events.

Yet we know that people with serious sight problems struggle to fully participate in cultural experiences, such as museums and art galleries, with exhibitions and displays designed, primarily, for only the sighted.

The landmark institution announced Thursday it will now simply be known as The Buffalo History Museum.

KWANZAA 2017 Saturday, December 30, 2017, Noon — 5 pm at the American Museum of Natural History — a celebration of African - American heritage rooted in seven principles known as Nguzo Saba, which promote unity, culture, and community development.

The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, also known as Miraikan, opened in 2001.

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Stringer, of the British Natural History Museum, is best known as a founding theorist of the so - called «out of Africa» theory, which contends that modern humans evolved in Africa before radiating around the globe.

Work at Chicago's Field Museum eventually revealed the creature, known as the Tully Monster, was a bizarre 300 million - year - old animal that fed through a toothy proboscis.

Serageldin directed the library, also known as the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and its 14 affiliated research institutes and museums, from 2001 until he retired this year.

In 1945, while working at what is now the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Nabokov proposed a radical overhaul of the taxonomy of a butterfly family which includes species known commonly as the «blues».

The discovery «highlights that even in groups as well - known as birds we've just scratched the surface of what we really need to know about biodiversity,» says avian systematist Shannon Hackett of Chicago's Field Museum, who calls the research «good detective work.»

As a result of their thorough surveys, literature review, and re-examination of museum specimens, there are now 50 species known from the locality, which doubles previous numbers.

A team of researchers from several academic institutions — including the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Yale University, University of Chicago, the American Center for Mongolian Studies, and the National Museum of Mongolia — used a scientific dating technique known as radiocarbon dating to estimate the spread of domestic horse ritual at deer stones and khirigsuurs.

He and museum colleague Santiago Claramunt, also an ornithologist, didn't include well - known ancient birds such as Archaeopteryx and Confuciusornis, which belonged to lineages that eventually died out.

The bones were discovered over a 20 - year period by Canadian Museum of Nature scientists, including Dr. Rybczynski, at a fossil locality on Ellesmere Island known as the Beaver Pond site.

To add to its mystery P. otwayensis weaves highly stereotyped ladder - shaped webs, where they stand facing down after sunset, waiting for preys which will be caught by using the ladder as a trap — a behavior which was already described in detail by now retired arachnologist Mike Gray (Australian Museum) for the only known other species of this genus, P. carraensis.

As Mark Norell, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the museum, puts it, dinosaur artwork «is a fantastic leap from what we know.»

The rare and unusual spiny fish, recognised as a new species in 2015, was previously only known from four museum specimens

Smithsonian researchers stumbled upon Bassaricyon neblina, also known as the «olinguito,» while riffling through museum specimens and old field notes in search of information about other members of the Bassaricyon genus — commonly known as olingos.

Peter Galton, a curatorial affiliate at Yale University's Peabody Museum, says the first stegosaur to be named, known as the «type» specimen, is too incomplete to compare with other fossils (Swiss Journal of Geosciences, DOI: 10.1007 / s00015 -010-0022-4).

We will talk to him about neutrinos, and we will hear about the reopening of the Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence, Italy — now known as the Museo Galileo.

They found the collapsed walls of the pyramid thanks to a 12th - century B.C. papyrus, known as the Abbott Papyrus, housed at the British Museum in London.

Using 3D engineering software, the researchers looked at the iconic brow ridge of a fossilised skull, known as Kabwe 1, held in the collections of the National History Museum.

As collections manager at Chicago's Field Museum, Robert Lücking is a man who knows his lichens.