Sentences with phrase «of museum visits»

This has had a huge influence on my work along with my love of botanical illustrations, the natural sciences and the nostalgia of museum visits where, as a child, I would be mesmerised by the variety of exhibits and the way they were displayed.

Doing so also created a natural experiment to study the effects of museum visits on students, the results of which we published in the journals Education Next and Educational Researcher.

Though I am not the biggest fan, I really enjoyed each of the museums I visited in Stockholm and with seventy of them on offer I can't think of a better place to enjoy some history.

Prompted by an audio guide, the ubiquitous tool of the museum visit, Fraser follows its instructions and «interacts» with architect Frank Gehry's fish - shaped tower at the center of the hall.

Not exact matches

«I wasn't a part of this museum when it first opened and I wondered, «who in the world would want to visit a prison?»»

Be sure to visit the Tower of London, Buckingham Palace and the British Museum during your stay.

Some of the most popular places to visit include the Heard Museum and Old Town Scottsdale.

Now when people visit the museum, they can use one of the museum's smartphones to see customized visuals when they hover the phone over the exhibit and peer at its screen.

They were presented with a model of the Titanic while visiting the Titanic Belfast maritime museum.

Living beside one of Canada's oldest centres of wisdom seems to have rubbed off on the residents of this classy neighbourhood: two - thirds visited an art gallery or museum in the last year.

Back at work, I couldn't stop thinking about my visit to the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology in Hanoi, where I saw intricate, ethnic traditional dress designs.

Researchers who used Whyte's methods in 1979 outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York found that about a third of those who visited the steps were alone; in 2010, Hampton discovered that figure in the same spot was down to about a quarter.

Filled with free museums, an abundance of green spaces, and a booming food scene, there is always something to explore — no matter how many times you've already visited.

Reality: My entertainment costs included things like visiting the Museum of Broken Relationships ($ 6.62), seeing Milky Chance perform ($ 26.86), attending a coffee fair ($ 4.15), tipping a free tour guide ($ 20) and buying some e-books ($ 10.98).

Take a visit to the Baldwin Gallery for a viewing of the current exhibition, and gain special access to a private tour of the Aspen Art Museum.

He is also expected to meet with Zhang Dejiang, the chairman of the standing committee of the National People's Congress, and to visit the Great Wall and perhaps the Palace Museum in central Beijing, Chinese officials said.

Even in winter, when snow turns our region into a winter wonderland, we're not stuck inside; we're skiing, we're visiting our host of microbreweries, we're enjoying concerts, live theater and museums.

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Add to that combination the fact it's a city with a lot of activities to do, whether that's going out, visiting museums, or hitting the beach.

Once you arrive in Cairo, board your coach and begin the day with a visit of the Egyptian museum of Antiquities.

Visit a museum of contemporary art.

Most Frustrating: Ben at Remythologized with «A Seminary Student Visits the Creation Museum: 27 Million Dollars of Bad Exegesis»

CNN: Recounting the nightmares of the Holocaust... Photographer Maciek Nabrdalik was visiting a Holocaust memorial and museum in Poland when he noticed an obituary posted for one of the survivors.

Those who go to Egypt to visit those museums of pharaoh and gets so obsessed but does anyone give it a reason that why pharaoh was drowned with his army and get the cause and look into him / herself and compare?

These words may be of little comfort for the young woman who still struggles to believe that her feminine qualities are valuable to God, or to the young man who has been made to feel shame because he'd rather visit an art museum than watch a cage fight.

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

The Guardian: Sistine Chapel tourists to be vacuumed and cooled to protect frescoes The 5 million tourists who visit the Sistine Chapel every year are to be vacuum cleaned and cooled down before entry in an effort to reduce the pollution damaging Michelangelo's frescoes, the director of the Vatican museums said.

Consider this exhibit, taken from the opening paragraph of the book's introduction as Arkes recounts a visit to the Holocaust museum:

But replacing our cultural heritage may only cause irritation, especially if you do this not only in museums visited by a minority of people, but affecting everybody.

However, having visited the huge exhibition «Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective,» which ran this summer at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, I would offer no argument...

In Florence, charging for admissions started with the baptistery and the museum of the duomo» a nuisance that did not prevent visits or prayer in the church proper.

It was during his visit to the Paris Biennial a few years back that he came to see how reliant contemporary artists have become on what museum marketing staffs like to call «the Shock of the New.»

Felicity O'Brien, an historian at King's College, London, recently visited the museum and got to thinking about the many attacks of the past thirty years on Pius XII for his alleged indifference to the plight of the Jews under Hitler.

On a quiet April morning, some years before, thirteen - year - old Theo was visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art with his single mother, Audrey — a former model and art student — when a terrorist bomb explodes, killing many, including Audrey.

ahhhh... still a bunch of nonsense... boy I'll bet you thought that was so great when you put it together... check out the findings of the Hubble telescope and what they mean and then go to NYC and visit the Museum of Natural History... pretty much proves the falseness of your whole god story..

Of all the museums I've visited, none have held stories so disturbing.

The statement is in response to a Haaretz report Monday that the museum would have separate visiting times for men and women in response to the requests of the haredi Orthodox public to view the exhibit, titled «A World Apart Next Door: Glimpses into the life of Hasidic Jews.»

Beginning the hunt in earnest in Tucson, we went to visit the Arizona - Sonora Desert Museum in order to familiarize ourselves with the environment and particular «habits» of the chiltepín (for example, its predilection towards association with hackberry and mesquite bushes) and to sample from the chiltepín population in the Wild Chile Botanical Area, located in Tumacacori Mountaints, right off of I - 17.

I visited the Chocolate Museum while I was in Cologne this past January and there was a piece up on the wall exclaiming all the virtues of chocolate and how healthy it is for your body.

I echo the suggestions to visit Sainte Chapelle and the Rodin Museum / sculpture garden, two of my favorite spots in Paris.

We walked along the beach, where he chased the waves a little too closely and ended up with soaking wet jeans; visited the Page Museum, where we watched volunteers meticulously dust off newly discovered fossils; stopped for dinner at one of my favorite restaurants, where I nearly single - handedly polished off an entire Hula Pie ice cream dessert by myself; meandered out along a pier, where a practically blind seagull almost flew straight into my guy's head; and drove through the rain to the Pacific Marine Mammal Center, where we chuckled at the seals in the synchronized swimming routine.

They just aren't our thing and often remind me of my childhood when I lived right outside of Washington D.C. and went to museums anytime people came to visit.

Before I get to the New Mexico Style Chocolate Pudding recipe, I want to share our visit to the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

We are trying to improve our quality of life, bringing back into it the things we've always enjoyed doing together — traveling (not necessarily to far away places), cycling, visiting museums — but over the last couple of years we've seen a deviation from habit.

The concept of this pudding was inspired by my visit to the Folk Museum as well as the Hot Chocolate, New Mexico Style by Cheryl Alters Jamison and Bill Jamison.

For more information on the Chicago Culinary Museum and Chefs Hall of Fame, please visit www.thechicagoculinarymuseum.org.

We visited the Scheepvaartmuseum, or the Netherlands Maritime Museum and went on board the Amsterdam, a replica of a Dutch spice trading ship that was built from 1985 to 1990.

: - Visit to MONA museum - Visit to Bruny Island - Exploration of the Tamar Valley

As an aside, if you are visiting or live near Detroit, the Arab American Museum hosts a food walking tour of Dearborn.

Any more than 60 students, per visit, must be approved by the Museum Manager prior to confirmation of the tour.