Sentences with phrase «old museum find»

Mark Bradford, Sam Gilliam, Rashid Johnson, Glenn Ligon, Julie Mehretu and Lorna Simpson are among the artists who have donated their own artwork to help the 50 year - old museum find the $ 175 million it needs.

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The world's potentially oldest clay tablet containing a flood story was found in the British Museum archives and put on display last January.

This week, you and your child can learn what it was like to travel to the Old Mill at Historic Yates Mill County Park in Raleigh, find out about flying machines of the past and make a kite at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh, make ecofriendly art from repurposed materials at the Irwin R. Holmes Sr..

Visitors to Old Sturbridge Village will get a rare chance find out as they tour the historic Village lit only by candles, oil lamps, lanterns, and firelight during the museum's «Evening of...

Visitors to Old Sturbridge Village will get a rare chance find out as they tour the historic Village lit only by candles, oil lamps, lanterns, and firelight during the museum's «Evening of Illumination» set for Saturday, November 8.

It helps it's the only museum that all four of my children — boys, girls, young and old — can agree on and find something they want to do and enjoy.

Old Sturbridge Village, a museum and learning resource of New England life, invites each visitor to find meaning, pleasure, relevance, and inspiration through the exploration of history.

Cait Reilly, a 24 - year - old who brought the case, had been volunteering at a museum where she hoped to find paid work when her welfare provider demanded she work for free for Poundland or face losing her benefits.

Two human mummies housed at the British Museum in London for more than a century boast the world's oldest known — and longest hidden — tattoos of figures and designs, a new investigation finds.

It can be difficult to find material that is reliably documented from pre-Dynastic Egypt, but textile expert Jana Jones of Australia's Macquarie University managed to identify the perfect specimen at the Bolton Museum, north of Manchester, England: fragmentary funerary wrappings more than 6,000 years old, collected in the early 20th century from a region of Upper Egypt.

Researchers from North Carolina State University have found that century - old museum specimens hold clues to how global climate change will affect a common insect pest that can weaken and kill trees — and the news is not good.

In 2005, Mary Schweitzer, an NC State paleontologist with a joint appointment at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences and lead author of a paper describing the research, found what she believed to be medullary bone in the femur of a 68 million year old T. rex fossil (MOR 1125).

Suddenly, things are looking up: Pääbo recently declared he has found nuclear DNA (the global kind) in a 45,000 - year - old Croatian Neanderthal museum specimen and has sequenced a million base pairs of it.

Scientists at the Swedish Museum of Natural History have found fossils of 1.6 billion - year - old probable red algae.

Researchers from the CNRS and the Université de Poitiers, working in collaboration with teams from the Université de Lille 1, Université de Rennes 1, the French National History Museum and Ifremer, have discovered, in clay sediments from Gabon, fossils of the oldest multicellular organisms ever found (Nature, 2010).

The Poinars were «pipped at the post» by a team from the American Museum of Natural History (Science, 17 October 1992) led by Rob DeSalle, who extracted DNA from a 30 million - year - old termite found in amber.

In 1999 a team from the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and the University of California at Santa Barbara found a 170 - million - year - old jaw in Madagascar that looked as if it belonged to a predecessor of both placental and marsupial mammals.

And the American Museum of Natural History's Jin Meng discusses a major new fossil find, a flying mammal some 130 million years old.

«This is astonishingly young for a species that still displays primitive characteristics found in fossils about 2 million years old,» says paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London.

In August researchers examining fossils in the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid reported the first example of fossilized bone marrow, found in 10 - million - year - old remains of frogs and salamanders.

Its likely origins are in Asia — researchers found the fungus in Chinese museum specimens that are up to 150 years old — and it was probably spread to Europe by the pet trade.

Then last July, Josef Wegner, an archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, announced that he and colleagues from Yale University and New York University had found a 3,700 - year - old painted clay birth brick that shows a woman transformed into a goddess at the moment of giving birth.

The oldest one he could find in a museum collection was 300 million years old.

Paleoentomologist David Grimaldi of the American Museum of Natural History first found the fossil beetle (see below) while analyzing the insects in 52 - million - year - old amber in India.

Paleontologists led by dinosaur curator Peter Makovichy of Chicago's Field Museum found the nearly complete skeleton of a 90 million - year - old, surprisingly bird - like dinosaur in the sandstone of Argentina's northern Patagonia, about 700 miles southwest of Buenos Aires.

«It's a surprising finding and it implies that New World populations were not completely isolated from the Old World after their initial migration,» said Eske Willerslev from the Centre for GeoGenetics at the Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, who headed the study.

On a data sheet of orangutan skulls from the Berlin Museum I found measurements of a late juvenile male (about equivalent in dental eruption stage to Le Moustier), about 7 years old, and took two adults at random from the same sheet.

From skeletal remains found among centuries - old owl pellets, Museum scientists have recovered the first DNA sample of the extinct Caribbean mammal genus Nesophontes.

Usually you will find paintings and sculptures of old Dutch masters in this museum.

My interests are diverse - one day you might find me at a museum checking out artwork of the old masters or ancient fossils, another day I could be at the aquarium or the zoo, on anoth

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The singer laughs at finding his old Will & Testament where he deemed all his assets to be left to the «Nick Cave Memorial Museum» and admits he was an ostentatious bastard in his youth.

The 31 - year - old actor's wife Elizabeth Chambers, 35, and children, Harper, four, and one - year - old Ford were spotted at the fundraiser at LA's Hammer Museum, founded by his great - grandfather Armand.

The Victorian building in South London is now home to The Cinema Museum, founded by an 81 - year - old former cinema projectionist and his partner.

FILM COMMENT is grateful to the staff of the Museum of Broadcasting for helping our writers and editors find old TV shows and elusive credits.

Spurred by an old postcard he finds in a book, he also travels to New York in search of answers and gets lost in the museum.

Australian motor museum — Peter May finds one where the Avon runs through Yorkshire / Churchill's Daimler — The just restored Daimler that Winston Churchill used in the early 30's / Howard's Way — We visit the London premises of C.A.R. Howars vintage car dealer / VSCC Lakeland trial — Tom Threlfall has been mud - plugging in the Lake District / Circuit des Remparts — Toby Ross reports on a race around the old walled town of Angouleme / Down - under London to Brighton.

Hartebeespoort also offers interesting things to do for young and old, take a ride up the Hartebeespoort cable car and pull in just in time for lunch high up in the mountains or use the time to get some amazing photos of the area and of your loved ones, learn about the history of the North West and the local tribes at the Mafikeng Museum while the Klerksdorp Museum will interest those who are keen to find out about a time when the province attracted millions and millions of gold prospectors from far and near to its once busy gold mines.

You can visit museums, a tavern housed in a 300 year old building, or Rock Ford Plantation, but you can also find fine dining and fashionable shops, if you are more into urban lifestyle.

When it comes to things to do, Bristol is hard to beat with nearby attractions like the New England Carousel Museum, the Watch and Clock Museum and Lake Compounce, the oldest continuously operating amusement park in the U.S.. You'll also find some of the best fried chicken in the state, served up hot and crispy at Greer's on Matthews Street.

Scores of 2,000 - year - old Roman roof tiles were found in Gloucester, England in an archeological dig in 1969, but an archaeologist just recently noticed a cat's footprint on one of the tiles while sifting through them in the city museum, thus proving what cat parents have known for centuries — that cats will walk across whatever we're working on!

Featuring museums, art galleries and restaurants, the San Diego Historic Old Town offer modern day attractions only found in San Diego.

In this area you'll also find a prime spot for a museum - day recharge: a replica of The Ronald Reagan, a pub in the president's ancestral village of Ballyporeen, Ireland, where he made a stop during a diplomatic trip in 1984; the pub serves sandwiches, old - fashioned sodas, and pints of beer.

Once the site of a large industrial complex, MACRO (Museum of Contemporary Art Rome) sticks out in a city where it's hard to find a museum containing works less than a millenniuMuseum of Contemporary Art Rome) sticks out in a city where it's hard to find a museum containing works less than a millenniumuseum containing works less than a millennium old.

You can find out more about its history and culture in the Bo - Kaap Museum, which is housed in the oldest local building in the colorful Bo - Kaap style.

Lavish beaches, centuries - old historical sites, and fascinating museums are all easy to find in this culturally rich vacation destination.

Near the church of Santa Eulalia tourists will find an old country house which is home to the Ethnographic Museum of Ibiza; which depicts the island's former, more pastoral way of life and times.

Try to visit in the morning and you'll find many old shops selling local delicacies like the butter cake called Kouign Amann, or stop for a coffee in the old city center to appreciate the architecture of the historic houses before visiting the maritime museum which is in a boat docked on the city walls.

A number of museums are available for visitors wanting to learn more about the city's rich history, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Natural History Museum and the Hospice Comtesse, telling the story of the 17th Century hospice found in Lille's Old Town.

The staff of the Old Powder House Inn is always happy to assist guests in putting together an itinerary and helping them find the many local attractions, such as the Lightner Museum, Castillo de San Marcos, and Flagler College, all of which are just a short walk from this historic bed and breakfast.