Sentences with phrase «serves as a museum»

This neighborhood was the head of the gay rights movement, as well as the headquarters for California's first openly gay public official, Harvey Milk, whose headquarters still serves as a museum and memorial for the gay rights movement.

Ocean Star Offshore Rig Museum Take a leisurely, self - guided tour through the retired Ocean Star jack - up rig, which now serves as a museum and educational facility.

The Yuma Territorial Prison now serves as a museum with tours for $ 5 for people like me who love to take photos in mysterious places.

This place also serves as a museum and not far from the monastery, you will find St. Mary's Church which is distinguished by its silver collection and night watchman horn.

[7] Today this building has been changed once again, and now serves as a museum.

Visit Takayama Jinya, the only surviving government office building remaining from the Edo Period (1603 — 1868), which now serves as a museum.

Today, the house serves as a museum and an important symbol of the region's past.

A fine example of monastic architecture, the Byzantine Tower of Ouranoupolis is not only a beautiful reminder of that history in its aesthetic but also the site now serves as a museum where you can learn even more about the area's rich history.

A superbly theatrical house that also serves as museum contains the works of Antonio Blanco.

Dating back to the 16th century, the palace now serves as a museum of Lindau's history.

Served as a museum director for almost thirty years in Atlanta, Toronto, New York City, Indianapolis, and Dallas.

Serving as a museum trustee has its perks.

Serving as the museum's central gathering space, ICA Miami's new 15,000 - square - foot sculpture garden showcases an annual schedule of major sculptural works by post-war and contemporary artists, including large - scale commissions created for the museum.

Working with Juliana Force, who would serve as the Museum's first director, she began a concerted effort to bolster the collection of six hundred works she had amassed in the previous two decades.

Thus, in addition to being a place to view the objects of material culture, the Gallery serves as a museum - laboratory in which a broader view of an object's environment enriches our understanding of its contribution to civilization.

With its emphasis on experimentation and interpretation, and its focus on studying art in its historical, cultural, and social contexts, the Grey serves as a museum - laboratory for the exploration of art's environments.

Serving as the museum's central gathering space, ICA Miami's new Petra and Stephen Levin Sculpture Garden showcases an annual schedule of major sculptural works by post-war and contemporary artists, including large - scale commissions created for the museum.

The building serves as a museum to illustrate the setting in which Pollock and Krasner created many of their iconic works and as a place for the study of modern American Art and the Eastern Long Island Community.

Myers will begin work in Dallas on February 29, 2016, and will report to Meslay, who also serves as the Museum's Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture and The Barbara Thomas Lemmon Curator of European Art.

Camille Ann Brewer was hired to serve as the museum's first full - time curator of contemporary art.

Prior to taking the directorship at the Mori, he had served as the Museum's Deputy Director (2002 - 2006) after working with cultural organizations including the Japan Foundation (1978 - 1986).

With its emphasis on experimentation and interpretation, and its focus on exploring art in its historical, cultural, and social contexts, the Grey serves as a museum - laboratory for the exploration of art's environments.

In announcing Taylor's appointment, Folt praised the leadership of Katherine Hart, the Hood's associate director and the Barbara C. and Harvey P. Hood 1918 Curator of Academic Programming, who served as the museum's interim director.

The Menil Collection board has appointed Thomas Rhoads to serve as the museum's interim director while it continues to search for a permanent replacement for Josef Helfenstein, who is moving to Switzerland in mid-December.

[2] In January 2003, she became the curator for the Luce Foundation Center for American Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, [3] and served as the museum's Chief Curator from 2003 until 2012.

For The Record Los Angeles Times Sunday June 11, 2006 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 1 inches; 40 words Type of Material: Correction Nat Sutton: An article in today's Calendar about the growing number of women serving as museum directors says Nat Sutton is a managing partner of Korn / Ferry International, an executive search firm.

Before that she headed the department of modern and contemporary art at the Harvard Art Museum and served as the museum's Houghton Curator of Contemporary Art.

Flora Payne Whitney, served as a museum trustee, then as vice president.

His birthplace still stands in the Saunderstown district of North Kingstown — now serving as a museum.

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Mr. Block currently serves on the World Economic Forum's Information Technology Community as a Governor, the Board of Trustees for Carnegie - Mellon University, the President's Advisory Council at Carnegie - Mellon University Heinz Graduate School and the Board of Trustees at the Concord Museum.

Todd serves as Vice Chairman of the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, and sits on the board of Opportunity Education Foundation.

He formerly co-chaired the Business Committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and was on the Board of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association in Washington, D.C., serving as Chairman in 2006.

Upon arrival, a stop is made at El Zanjón de Granados, a series of excavated ancient tunnels that serve as both an archaeological museum and event space.

The exhibition also includes the imposing screen from the church which has been reassembled for the first time and serves as the centrepiece to the new English Heritage museum.

A national group called American Atheists is suing the museum to stop the display of the cross, arguing that a religious symbol has no place in a memorial that's backed by public funds and that is supposed to serve as a monument to victims of many different religions - and to those who had no religion at all.

He knows, loves, and serves not God but his own species through reading novels and journals, visiting art galleries and museums where altarpieces are admired as artifacts from a superstitious age.

Cuno laments violent, divided humanity, and he promises that museums «serve as a force for understanding, tolerance, and the dissolution of ignorance and superstition about the world.»

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.&raquAs - 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.&raquas 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.&raquAs - 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.»

The Noah's Ark is the work of a Dutch carpenter and serves as a sort of floating Old Testament museum.

This event serves as the annual fundraiser for the Chicago Culinary Museum.

These five industry innovators, who all have a strong connection with Chicago's culinary world, will be formally inducted at an event open to the public which will serve as a gala fundraiser for the Chicago Culinary Museum.

Travel back in time by touring the city's Historic District featuring several preserved buildings: The Whitaker - Jaynes House serves as the city's local history museum; the Bacon House is one the oldest surviving structures in the area; the Tice House, a charming cage and the Stage Stop Hotel, is currently home to the only California Welcome Center in Orange County.

The Park District Board unanimously voted down the proposal for new directors last week at the urging of Commissioner Charles Hegarty, who serves as the district representative on the museum board.

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Her background in non-profit administration also includes serving as an admissions officer at Columbia Law School, publications coordinator at the Detroit Grand Opera Association, and public relations assistant at NYC's Museum of Contemporary Crafts, as well as sitting on various independent school boards.

In addition to volunteering at the Nature Museum, I have been a member of the Skokie Concert Choir for seven years (I'm a soprano), and currently serve as their board president.

Chicago Children's Museum offers discounted field trips to 501 (c) 3 organizations serving low - income families and schools with 80 % or more of their students approved for free and reduced price meals (as cited by the Illinois State Board of Education for the 2016 - 2017 school year).

Free Field Trips Chicago Children's Museum offers free field trips to 501 (c) 3 organizations serving low - income families and schools with 95 % or more of their students approved for free and reduced priced meals (as cited by the Illinois Department of Education).

The museum also serves as leader in our community, spearheading partnerships with parents, caregivers, educators and like - minded organizations to improve the learning lives of children throughout Chicago.

Discounted Field Trips Chicago Children's Museum offers discounted field trips to 501 (c) 3 organizations serving low - income families and schools with 80 % or more of their students approved for free and reduced priced meals (as cited by the Illinois Department of Education).