Sentences with phrase «of the great museums in»

In 1980, the Kimbell Art Museum in Ft. Worth tagged Pillsbury to help build a world class collection and, in short order, he turned it into one of the great museums in the nation, expanding its small collection into one of true distinction.

Each artist is represented by work of such quality that they would grace the walls of the greatest museums in the world.

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Car collectors are in great company in Birmingham, with the largest collection in the world of both vintage and modern motorcycles and racecars at the Barber Vintage Motorsports 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.

«We're more about illuminating people about the creative process behind great music and the idea of the Grammy Award that signifies excellence is center stage in the story we tell in the museum.»

This security job meant primarily walking around making sure that youth younger than my own 18 years of age weren't horsing around in the museum aspects of the third floor of the great (or at least great to me) library.

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.

7 Richard Garnett «the Younger,» «Keeper of Printed Books» in the library of the British Museum where he toiled for forty - five years, engagingly announced at the beginning of his De Flagello Myrteo (1905) that «Love is God's essence; Power but his attribute; therefore is his love greater than his power.»

You should recall the predictions of the great Soviet Empire which upon entering the era of science and reason claimed that the only place in Russia where people would be able to find a Bible would be in the museum.

It was also the belief of the Babylonians and As - syrians, as their monuments testify, for a figure of a guardian angel now in the British Museum once decorated an As - syrian palace, and might well serve for a modern representation; while Nabopolassar, father of Nebuchadnezzar the Great, says: «He (Marduk) sent a tutelary deity (cherub) of grace to go at my side; in everything that I did, he made my work to succeed.»

While generally not included in travel brochures along with the Anne Frank House and the VanGogh Museum, the Red Light District still attracts a great number of tourists.

The other one to check out is Flat Hat; it's at the Museum of Discovery, which is mostly a cool museum for kids, but the coffee shop has wonderful people and great coffee in an unlikely locMuseum of Discovery, which is mostly a cool museum for kids, but the coffee shop has wonderful people and great coffee in an unlikely locmuseum for kids, but the coffee shop has wonderful people and great coffee in an unlikely location.

He was a chapter in the story of baseball that I'd want to pass on, and highlight in a museum dedicated to highlighting great players.

Of course, YOU are tired from sleeping in dribs and drabs all day, so you likely will not feel up to hiking the Inca Trail or the Great Wall of China, but maybe a morning at a museum or an afternoon stroll would feel doablOf course, YOU are tired from sleeping in dribs and drabs all day, so you likely will not feel up to hiking the Inca Trail or the Great Wall of China, but maybe a morning at a museum or an afternoon stroll would feel doablof China, but maybe a morning at a museum or an afternoon stroll would feel doable?

The 20 chest - high lockers stand in two rows on the south side of the Illinois Prairie Path, between the Villa Park Historical Society Museum and the path's intersection with the Great Western Trail.

Museum of Science — There are so many great museums in Boston, and the Museum of Science is a favorite place to visit.

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.

Lester Marszalek, president of Greater Oak Lawn Diggers and an independent archaeology researcher who works with the Illinois Archaeology Survey of Cook County, donated the items from his collection after Mayor Dan McLaughlin spotted a few Orland Park artifacts in Marszalek's museum in Oak Lawn.

Kidspace Children's Museum in Pasadena is great for children of all ages.

Plus, a museum is a safe place to go with a baby in tow, and it gives new parents a great reason to get out of the house.

WHAT GREAT PARENTS DO: The small Book of BIG Parenting Ideas began as a workshop in local schools and soon grew into a class attended by thousands of parents at schools and organizations, including Habitot Children's Museum, University of California Berkeley, UCSF Benioff / Children's Hospital, and San Francisco Zen Center.

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.

She served in exhibit staff capacities of increasing responsibility at the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh before moving to the greater Boston area and The Discovery Museums of Acton, where she was Visitor Services Manager before being promoted to Operations Manager.

It is fitting that we gather here at the Buffalo History Museum, a place where past and present are closely intertwined and where the rise, decline, and rebirth of our great county are all in evidence.

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I have great childhood memories in Pelham Bay Park, walking trails, bird watching, horseback riding, visiting the Bartow - Pell Mansion Museum and, of course, summer -LSB-...]

Dr. Cecília Gontijo Leal, lead author of the study and researcher at the Emílio Goeldi Museum in Brazil, said: «Our study demonstrates that private properties, such as farms, are of great importance in ensuring conservation in the Amazon.

For him, the real cachet of the Rothschild name traces to his great - uncle Walter: Lionel Walter, the second Baron Rothschild, a 19th - century naturalist whose vast private collection of specimens became the zoological wing of the Natural History Museum in London.

«This is technically a great achievement,» says Adrian Lister of the Natural History Museum in London.

The terrestrial nature of these creatures is a great indicator of how biodiversity has changed in the Bahamas and what the ideal circumstances would be for these or similar species to return, said Florida Museum ornithology curator and study co-author David Steadman.

The United Kingdom hasn't had an investment in science communication on that scale since proceeds from the Great Exhibition in 1851 were used to set up several major British institutions, including the precursors to London's Science and Natural History Museums, says John Beetlestone, founder of Techniquest, one of the few U.K. science centers started before the lottery bonanza.

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.

«The important thing about this study is that it demonstrates you can't grow great quantities of corn in the Chaco valley floor,» said Benson, an adjunct curator of anthropology at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History.

Stout infantfish were captured in a plankton net on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia by a field researcher in 1979, then overlooked for more than two decades until H. J. Walker, a senior museum scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and William Watson of the National Marine Fisheries Service, realized they were an unknown species.

During a night dive in deep water off the northern Great Barrier Reef, zoologist Mark Norman of Museum Victoria in Melbourne and his colleagues had what they say is scientists» first - ever encounter with a live male blanket octopus.

Ornithologists and museum administrators, for example, helped push the great auk (Pinguinus impennis) penguin out of existence in 1844 by fueling demand that pushed prices ever higher for its skin and eggs.

The American Museum of Natural History in New York and other great museums supported dinosaur hunters in the first decades of the 20th century.

As a testimony to the extent of ancient Rome's manufacturing and trading capacities, the ingots are of great value to archaeologists, who have been preserving and studying them at the National Archaeological Museum in Cagliari, southern Sardinia.

«The capabilities of our ancestors and the environmental forces leading to early stone technology are a great scientific mystery,» said Richard Potts, director of the Human Origins Program at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, who was not involved in the research.

Steve: One of the great things is the world famous collection at Harvard of the glass flowers; I [a] s you know there are about 600 species I think maybe of the glass flowers represented at the Harvard museum those all count as one genus in your artificial plant collection.

The number of specimens of great auks, dodos, passenger pigeons and many iconic extinct species in museum collections is vanishingly small compared to the numbers that were cooked, killed for their feathers, shot for sport, or eaten by introduced species, such as cats.

The great auk — a flightless, North Atlantic seabird that became extinct in the mid-19th century — is held up as a prime example of the damage done by overzealous museum collectors.

Landing Dinosaurs of China is possibly the greatest feat in the history of English natural history museums.

«It's one of the great research institutions in comparative zoology, biodiversity and natural history, and it has been one of the leading centers of research for more than 100 years,» says James Hanken, director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

We visited the Mars Yard at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Sydney a few weeks ago and had a great time at this fantastic facility that is doing very important work.

Researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz - IZW), the University of Ulm, the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin (Leibniz - MfN) and the Fritz Lipmann Institute on Aging (Leibniz - FLI) discovered that «ladies choice» reigns in the greater sac - winged bat.

In its formative years, the hospital was supported by the same families that helped develop the city's great civic and cultural institutions, including the Cleveland Museum of Art and The Cleveland Orchestra.

Whether it's the Louvre or the Rubin Museum of Art, students are often encouraged to spend time sketching the paintings and sculptures that intrigue them — not to practice their art skills, but to get them to look closer at the details: the complex color of a sky, the figure off in the distance... After taking the time to draw a sketch yourself, you're bound to remember the details of a work and have a greater appreciation for its creation.

The University is located in the Greater New York City metropolitan area, on the shores of Long Island Sound, with easy access to some of the greatest museums, libraries and cultural venues in the country.

The fact that she leads sessions in a world - class museum, surrounded by great works of ancient Indian and Asian art, makes them all the more enriching and valuable.