Sentences with phrase «old museum on»

Chicago's Oldest Museum On Display With Explorer Exhibit - DNAinfo.com Chicago - January 15, 2016 Learn about the early days of the city's oldest museum, the Chicago Academy of Sciences, at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, the academy's offspring.

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A father and son view the electric chair nicknamed «Old Sparky» on display at the Texas Prison Museum in Huntsville, Texas 07 December 2002.

When the free museum inside the Gateway Arch reopens on July 3, visitors will see some old favorites, such as the statue of Thomas Jefferson.

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.

The old Textile Museum which was recently purchased by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is photographed in the Kalorama neighborhood of Northwest on January 13, 2017 in Washington, D.C.

On Thursday at the American Museum of Natural History, Regeneron made the largest single commitment the Science Talent Search (STS), the nation's oldest and most prestigious high school science competition, has ever received.

Tricoci started digging around, looking for properties they could model their idea on, when he came across The Iron Horse Hotel in Milwaukee, a one - of - a-kind boutique hotel built in a converted century - old mattress factory on the Menomonee River near the Harley - Davidson Museum.

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

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.

Afternoon, weekend visits with the jolly elf follow at his Old Town Temecula Winterfest cabin near Pennypickle's Workshop, Temecula Children's Museum on Main Street.

-- Please do not attempt to schedule a tour of the Museum and Old Town Temecula on the same day as the Children's Imagination Workshop.

Apparently the B194 is usually on display at the Michael Schumacher Museum but was let loose for the Spa test, to get Mick ready for his Belgian GP demo — in a car that's five years older than he is!

The cosmopolitan capital with its castle on a hill boasts terrific museums, jumpy pubs and golf history: The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers predates the 251 - year - old R&A by a decade.

In the background on the left is the blocky form of the old castle of Grimaldi which, since the time of the painting, has become a Picasso museum.

Favorability Rating: Like going on a museum field trip with a horde of nine - year - olds who haven't taken their ADHD medicine.

Last week when I picked up my 3.5 year old son Julian from preschool, his teacher Miss G mentioned that she'd like to take the four children in the program on a field trip to the zoo or children's museum the following week to celebrate the last day of school.

The independent information from the NHS on milks for older babies is swamped by the promotion from the formula companies — and it is disappointing that the Museum is prepared to profit from this by hiring out its facilities, rather than changing its due diligence procedures.

The museum's current exhibit, A Child's World: Childhood in 19th - Century New England marks the first time that more than 150 rare child - related artifacts from the Old Sturbridge Village collection are on display together.

One - third of the approximately 260,000 annual visitors to Old Sturbridge Village are students on school - sponsored field trips who take advantage of the enriching and educational hands - on activities in the Museum Education Center, and throughout the Village's many interactive exhibit spaces.

In addition to Old Sturbridge Village, other institutions offering free admission on the Aug. 24 Free Fun Friday include the Basketball Hall of Fame, the American Textile History Museum, the USS Constitution Museum, and the Boston Harbor Island Alliance, which will offer free ferry ride tickets to Georges Island and Spectacle Island.

Co-author of best - seller - Francona: The Red Sox Years - featured in museum's Distinguished Speakers Series STURBRIDGE, Mass. (April 1, 2013): Award - winning Boston Globe sportswriter Dan Shaughnessy, co-author of the new book, Francona: The Red Sox Years, will speak at Old Sturbridge Village on Thursday, April 25, as part of the Village's continuing OSV Overseers» Distinguished Speaker Series...

STURBRIDGE, Mass. (Jan. 9, 2014)-- Old Sturbridge Village will feature storyteller and museum educator Tammy Denease, portraying «Mum Bett», during the Village's celebration of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Monday, January 20.

(Sturbridge, Mass.) November 14, 2012 — NBC News Special Correspondent and award - winning author Tom Brokaw will receive the annual «Ken Burns Lifetime Achievement Award» from documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and Old Sturbridge Village following a dinner in his honor at the living history museum on Tuesday, November 27.

Fallon Community Health Plan sponsors sold - out event (Sturbridge, Mass.) November 14, 2012 — NBC News Special Correspondent and award - winning author Tom Brokaw will receive the annual «Ken Burns Lifetime Achievement Award» from documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and Old Sturbridge Village following a dinner in his honor at the living history museum on Tuesday, November 27.

Noodle, an 18 - year - old Hyacinth macaw, sits on the shoulder of Celeste Troon, director of living collections at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.

Missy, a 26 - year - old blue and gold macaw, sits on a branch held by Lalainya Goldsberry, animal caretaker at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.

On Thursday, the museum — which bills itself as the oldest in Chicago — will turn out some of its rarer animal specimens, including a small rodent called a southern rock vole and two specimens of prairie chicken, a species whose population has rapidly declined due to habitat destruction.

Strycker, a 31 - year - old writer, photographer and self - described «bird man,» will share stories from his epic round - the - world journey on Jan. 24 at Chicago's Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.

Meet Patsy McNasty, Notebaert Nature Museum's Alligator Snapping Turtle - WTTW - January 20, 2017 On Thursday, Patsy moved into a new, 300 - gallon tank, a mansion compared to her old quarters.

Old Sturbridge Village outdoor history museum is conveniently located on Route 20 in Sturbridge, Massachusetts and is easily accessible by car from I - 84 and the Massachusetts Turnpike, I - 90.

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.

As a birthday present, I took my 5 - year - old son for a one - on - one date to the museum today.

I took our daughter on little special dates (if your child is older, you could try the zoo or the local children's museum or even a cookie shop), and I made sure to just sit with her and play even when I knew there was cleaning or tidying I would typically be doing.

He can play and chew on the pendant while I go about my day, whether enjoying the park or children's museum with my 4 - year - old or vacuuming the floors.

After completing the intern program and graduating school, many interns have gone on to join the staff at Old Sturbridge Village and other respected museums.

The Village also offers lodging at the Old Sturbridge Inn and Reeder Family Lodges, shopping at the Museum Gift Shop and New England Bookstore, and several dining options on - site.

Last Saturday, my husband brought our four - year - old son to a nature museum which contained exhibits on basically every... [Read more...] about Dinosaurs for Kids: Play - Based Learning Activities with Printable Pack

This has included things from walking the dog around the block, visiting a museum, walking around the shops or going for long treks in the country (yes, I realise we sound really old and boring based on those activities — the truth is, we probably are now!).

In order to spare planners the trouble of figuring out where to put it, the proposed legislation offers to house the Latino Museum in the venerable Arts and Industries Building, one of the oldest buildings on the Mall.

Contractors were at Fred D. Wish Museum School on April 10 to begin removing old lockers from the school.

Nine - year - old Patrick Gilbert of Niskayuna plays with an LED display at CMOST children's museum on Saturday Nov. 7, 2015 in North Greenbush, N.Y. (Michael P. Farrell / Times Union)

Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano gives his State of the County speech at the Museum of American Armor in Old Bethpage on March 15, 2016.

The children's museum Explore & More wants to move from East Aurora to a Waterfront location on the site of the old Memorial Auditorium.

David Hone at the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology in Beijing, China, and Mahito Watabe of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences in Okayama, Japan, report that tooth marks on the 70 - million - year - old bone match the pattern and shape of the teeth of Tarbosaurus, an Asian tyrannosaur nearly as big as T. rex (Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, DOI: 10.4202 / app.2009.0133).

«He's the only person who ever collected it, and it was on this remarkable expedition when he was 17 years old,» said Warren, senior collections manager of the Florida Museum of Natural History's McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity at UF.

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On a December morning in 1898, a 25 - year - old paleontologist named Barnum Brown trudged through the snow - choked streets of New York City for what he thought would be a routine day at the American Museum of Natural History.

The 3.5 - million - year - old hominids appeared as models in an exhibit that had just opened at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City; the replicas were based, in part, on fossilized footprints preserved in volcanic ash at Laetoli, Tanzania, which showed unequivocally that these creatures had walked upright.

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.

On a bright spring day there can be few museums that could rival the Old Royal Observatory at Greenwich for a grand day out.