Sentences with phrase «much as a museum»

But no, it's not a joke — it's a real museum, as much as a museum can be a museum when its location is protected from the public.

In fact, those forces dwarf the entire art world, much as the Museum of Modern Art towers over the pretzel vendor across the street.

Clifford Ross: Yes, basically Joe [Joseph Thompson] offered me a laboratory as much as a museum.

Not exact matches

It was Consalvi who had these two great artifacts and much of the rest of the Roman Forum excavated, as it was Consalvi who built a new wing onto the Vatican museums in order to display the art recovered from French looters.

Rows of multicolored beets, various berries, plump eggplants, and zebra tomatoes inspired us as much as the room full of Calder's mobiles at the Museum of Contemporary Art.

If you're the kind of traveler who spends as much time plotting doughnut - shop and taco - truck breaks as you do museum visits, you are the kind of traveler we want in our corner.

Ok, so kids may not be dying to go to the museum as much as they're dying to go to the playground.

Its enormous headquarters building between Soldier Field and the Field Museum of Natural History houses 583 administrative employees, compared to 323 in New York, which has three times as much park land.

He refused to say how much the museum hopes to get for the office building, citing ongoing negotiations over the sale, but sources familiar with the museum's plans say it hopes to make as much as $ 2 million in the sale.

When I began talking to my fellow volunteers and really dove into what the Nature Museum is about — preserving and protecting native Illinois wildlife while giving the public an opportunity for an authentic connection to nature — that is when I found that concentrating on a local level is much more approachable to someone like me, and probably you as well.

One recent example is Hazel — which undoubtedly would not have increased as much as it has if first Julia Roberts hadn't named her daughter that, and then John Green hadn't named the main character in «The Fault in Our Stars» Hazel — a highly unusual name for a teenage girl when the book was published, but one that educated avant - garde writers like Green (prep school grad, Kenyon College English major, married to an art museum director) were giving to their own baby daughters.

Two years after the National September 11 Memorial Museum opened, it is set to move into a new space at 88 Greenwich St. in Lower Manhattan, where it will occupy 35,000 square feet, almost three times as much as it has now.

The City Council has withdrawn a grant for as much as $ 500,000 to a Midtown museum linked to Jona Rechnitz, the high - profile donor to Mayor de Blasio at the center of a sweeping corruption probe of the NYPD.

The Council has withdrawn a grant for as much as $ 500,000 to a Midtown museum, the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance, that was linked to Recmuseum, the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance, that was linked to RecMuseum of Tolerance, that was linked to Rechnitz.

Although the Parthenon Sculptures existed in Greece for over 2000 years, the British Museum has had them for less than 200 years, yet seems to feel that they are now as much a part of the museum as they are a part of Greece's hiMuseum has had them for less than 200 years, yet seems to feel that they are now as much a part of the museum as they are a part of Greece's himuseum as they are a part of Greece's history.

Much reformist discussion of the House of Commons views it as an institution in permanent decline, operating in a museum - building with stuffy and out - of - date processes that MPs stubbornly refuse to change.

The U.S. National Science Foundation — funded effort will tap extensive museum collections as much as possible, instead of freshly caught bird samples, and will sequence about 5000 short pieces of the DNA, focusing on regions that are very highly conserved among all birds.

Opened in 1950, the museum has been faithfully restored to look much as it did when Louis J. Dufilho Jr., the nation's first licensed pharmacist, set up his apothecary shop here in 1823 and began peddling patent remedies.

Coal, as any mining museum in Cape Breton will tell you (and there are several now), is the dark fruit of ancient garden beds, the carbonized remains of swampy jungles that covered much of the Earth 300 million years ago during the Carboniferous Period.

As Brown neared his 90th birthday in 1963, his successor at the museum, Edwin Colbert, marveled at how much of the museum was Brown's single - handed work: «There are, in our Tyrannosaur Hall, 36 North American dinosaurs on display....

He occasionally confided in museum colleagues, as in a 1921 letter to paleontologist W. D. Matthew stating that he had «an exciting time in Turkey, and secured much desired data for the State Department.»

Ruedas studied the anatomy of the museum specimens and determined they were larger and shaped differently than other rabbits throughout South America — so much so that they deserved to be classified as a distinct species.

«I want to suspend the disbelief as much as I can,» says Michael Skrepnick, a Canadian paleo - artist who has done dinosaur illustrations for National Geographic and various museums.

To that end, NASA is working closely with each museum to deliver orbiters that are as intact as possible, and that will inspire and educate the public as much as possible, he added.

Does that mean you ring up the Museum and say, «I was all wrong — the natural variability was twice what we thought, so it is unlikely that adding a new brick to the platform will cause as much effect as I told you last year!»

The half marathon route takes you through much of the city as you start at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, and run through the Gulch, Music Row, 12 South neighborhoods and more.

We were warmly greeting by the owner (Michel Boom) and his daughter (Christelle) and I think they loved our outfits as much as we loved their little museum of the past.

It was left in ruin for many years, but fortunately the current owners have spent much time and money restoring it and creating a lovely museum dedicated to Josephine and her career as an entertainer.

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Find someone to spend an afternoon wandering through the exhibits at the Portland Art Museum with, or connect with a date who loves kayaking the Columbia as much as you do, or maybe you'll find a fellow foodie to enjoy a meal at Andina or Little Bird with on your next date.

With so much choice in terms of shopping, eating, and other fun pursuits such as relaxing walks in stunning greenery and enlightening museum and factory tours, Birmingham is the place to be if you want to craft textured dates that last through the day and long into the night with that special person in your life.

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As it turns out, Real Steel, directed by Night at the Museum's Shawn Levy, borrows so much from other films that it might better be titled Reel Steal: not only from The Champ, but from Rocky, the Transformers movies and even some Star Wars.

«If you had told me there'd be crystal meth in the same museum as The Star - Spangled Banner, Thomas Edison's light bulb, Abraham Lincoln's pocket watch and Dorothy's ruby slippers, I'd have told you you were using too much of Walter White's product,» Gilligan said, according to USA Today.

However, when the player donates to the museum, he does not talk («blather») as much as in previous games, stopping himself mid-sentence just before going into a monologue.

So the next time someone asks me why it matters whether students go to art museums or see live theater, I can tell them that there is at least as much rigorous evidence showing the long term benefits of cultural activity as there is for interventions designed to boost standardized test scores.

Last year, there were over 5,000 events on all manners of different topics, including a fireworks display at the Science Museum in London, a debate on overpopulation in Cambridge, an engineer rescue team workshop in Glasgow, as well as much, much more.

Just two days ago, as the new Broad Museum opened downtown, UTLA teachers staged a protest rally against the charter expansion plans at the museum, aiming much of their invective at Museum opened downtown, UTLA teachers staged a protest rally against the charter expansion plans at the museum, aiming much of their invective at museum, aiming much of their invective at Broad.

We also decided to «go somewhere,» and, though my brother and father are into cars about as much as they are Justin Bieber, no one objected to my suggestion of an afternoon at the Henry Ford Museum in nearby Dearborn.

«These were essentially fashion accessories of their day,» explained Leslie Kendall, curator of the Peterson Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, adding that a Delahaye would cost as much as «a couple homes in the nice part of town.»

A much sought after public speaker, Ackmann addresses colleges and universities as well as history museums, government agencies, corporate and business groups and professional organizations.

However, I do believe that food lobbies exert enormous, at times insidious, power over what we eat, that our water supplies are not being protected as much as they probably should be and that, in general, people are more interested in smart phones than museums.

As The Book of the Dead begins, an Egyptian tomb, long closed and buried in the Byzantine bowels of New York's Museum of Natural History, is about to be opened to much fanfare.

Enjoyed Last Supper, and La Scala, as there was a show on we didn't see the auditorium, but they gave us tickets for the next day and we went back at 9 am and pretty much had the museum and auditorium to ourselves.

This charming city marks the spot where the first European settlers set foot in Western Australia, and much of their legacy remains today with colonial buildings standing proudly as museums, galleries and restaurants.

Best Western Plus Batumi is also close to the Batumi International Airport and is an optimal base to explore the city's sights such as the Dancing Fountain, Batumi Archaeological Museum, Art Museum of Batumi and much more.

The Museum is much admired throughout the world for it's commitment to bring the sciences to life by means of interactive workshops as well as discovery centres in search of education and excellence.

Situated in the heart of Zululand near Hluhluwe, Gooderson DumaZulu Lodge & Traditional Village is as much a living cultural museum as it is a natural and therapeutic outdoors environment for guests to reconnect wit...

Situated in the heart of Zululand near Hluhluwe, Gooderson DumaZulu Lodge & Traditional Village is as much a living cultural museum as it is a natural and therapeutic outdoors environment for guests to reconnect with nature.