Sentences with phrase «small museums of»

She saw the find as an opportunity to interest students in paleontology and to provide a small museum of sorts to the community.

They also have a small museum of things they have found in the area and there is swimming at the laguna.

◊ Over at the smaller Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, director Jeffrey Deitch, who has had to battle an uprising among his board, earned $ 916,000.

The museum's origins date back to the late 19th century, when the UC Berkeley opened the Bacon Art and Library Building, a small museum of painting.

Heinrich also said DAM is committed to being an encyclopedic museum, and mentioned the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA Denver), as if to suggest the cutting - edge programming belongs at the smaller museum of Denver whose simpler building, by architect David Adjaye, has proven a galvanizing space for public gatherings.

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«I believe the CEO of a small - to - medium business has three major duties: to make sure there is money in the bank; to get the right people in the right roles; and to guide the long - term vision for the company,» said Nick Gray, the founder and CEO of Museum Hack, a team - building company in New York City that counts major brands, including Facebook, among its customers.

A new exhibit at New York's Tenement Museum explores a century of the city's immigrant small - business owners, while the city government champions its growing tech startup community.

Frank Hartley paused with his small tour group in the Mayan wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to admire the images on an ornately carved eighth - century cup and read the translation aloud: «Burn your head, smell your?»

The small city of fewer than 2,000 residents has a lot going on though, including rodeos, parades, its own historical museum.

Instead of behaving in a professional manner, our military invaded Iraq with far too small a force; failed to respond adequately when parts of the Iraqi Army (and Baathist Party) went underground; tolerated an orgy of looting and lawlessness throughout the country; disobeyed orders and ignored international obligations (including the obligation of an occupying power to protect the facilities and treasures of the occupied country — especially, in this case, Baghdad's National Museum and other archaeological sites of untold historic value); and incompetently fanned the flames of an insurgency against our occupation, committing numerous atrocities against unarmed Iraqi civilians.

Accordingly, at no small cost in money and effort, it was towed across the Atlantic Ocean on a specially constructed barge, unloaded, and transported through the streets of New York City on a specially built, very wide - tired truck, to its present site in Central Park near the Metropolitan Art Museum.

He travels frequently, exploring small towns and markets to acquire sauces, cheeses and wines like a museum curator gathering rare artifacts — except he shares his collection with every customer that passes through the doors of Holiday Market, a grocery store in Canton, Mich..

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I was at the Minnesota Science Museum early August when they had the Mayan exhibition and of course there was a small section on how the Mayan enjoyed their cocoa with chili pepper.

Its ornate artwork of a beautiful night sky and a «tot area» with smaller toilets for little ones earned the Field Museum in Chicago the top spot in 2011.

Kalocsa's small Paprika Museum documents the history and techniques of paprika production in Hungary, from its beginnings to the present.

The Indian museum was small but detailed and so fascinating that I lost track of time.

The Parlor is located inside the winery's small museum, which showcases the property's storied past, including its role as the birthplace of modern viticulture.

Enclosed in three small historical buildings, It was a cool small museum, especially if you are interested in the french poster art of the late 19th century and included the audio tour in the price.

Part of the Kenosha Public Museums group, this small museum is perfect for dinosaur loving toddlers.

All main centres, most of the provincial cities and many quite small towns have museums.

A bonus of this museum is that it's small enough to see everything in a single visit, without completely wearing out your family.

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.

The board did vote to raise the cost of weekday parking in some of its smaller lots: to $ 2.50 a day from $ 1.25 in the lot east of the Field Museum;

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.

It is true that a lot of the day - to - day work is done by other bodies — you've got the Arts Council, English Heritage, BFI, Sport England, UK Sport, museums... DCMS itself is quite small now and a lot of it is writing cheques, but what is important is that nonetheless it has a representative sitting around the cabinet table who is going to speak up for those industries.

She and other advocates added they believe this small museum would draw tourists from outside of Camillus and Onondaga County, thus a boon to state taxpayers.

Host Grant Reeher engages her in a discussion of the challenges facing the museum, her strategies for renewed financial and artistic vibrancy, and the cultural function of an art museum in a small city.

Projects still in line to receive funding include: more than $ 110 million for construction of an East River waterfront esplanade, more than $ 50 million for a WTC performing - arts center, more than $ 50 million for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, $ 45 million in state - managed economic development grants, $ 45 million in community and cultural grants, $ 15 million for the reconstruction of Fiterman Hall, $ 7 million for the rebuilding of 130 Liberty St. and $ 6 million in small - business grants.

If he does make it, he may want to visit the small Sri Lankan museum that Julia Wijesinghe, an 18 - year - old Notre Dame Academy senior, recently opened in a downstairs area of the restaurant.

Once the doors of the Bronx Museum were closed because the venue had reached its fire code limit, the Health Department deployed doctors and other staff to talk to small groups of residents gathered outside on the Grand Concourse.

At 9 a.m. Thursday New York State Assembly Members Latoya Joyner and Marcos Crespo will kick off «Let's Put Our Cities on the Map,» sponsored and hosted by Google at the Bronx Museum of Arts, which will offer free counseling for small businesses on how to reach local customer bases, specifically by using «SmartLogic» online tools.

Miner laid out her vision for making city government smaller, smarter and more effective in her second State of the City address, delivered Thursday night at the Everson Museum in Syracuse.

Considering its small area, La Corona's population center contains a surprising amount of writing on carved stones, said epigrapher Simon Martin of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia.

For the new study, Bronson and co-author John Maisey, a curator in the Museum's Division of Paleontology, applied a small amount of dilute organic acid to the specimen — a method that has been widely used in paleontology since the time of the initial description of Platylithophycus.

The unprecedented wave of destruction has prompted a small protest today in front of the White House, as well as statements of outrage from archaeologists and museum curators around the world.

a small, nattily dressed man walks over to the giant Diplodocus skeleton in the entrance hall of the British Museum of Natural History.

They brought the find to Frederick W. FitzSimons, director of the Port Elizabeth Museum, in a small town at the tip of South Africa.

The site was updated weekly and contained URLs for jobs sites from universities, colleges, hospitals, museums, companies (large and small, including biotech firms), government agencies, and all kinds of publications that advertise scientific jobs.

In May the discovery team from the Utah Geological Survey and the Utah Museum of Natural History at the University of Utah dubbed the dinosaur «a missing link between small - bodied predatory dinosaurs and the highly specialized and bizarre plant - eating therizinosaurs.»

A small Nottingham museum offers a big frisson for fossils fans, with a world - exclusive showing of key finds that proved birds evolved from dinosaurs

Today, the drafty pile is home to both the state's department of historic preservation and a small local art museum.

These kinds of models are almost impossible to generate today because only a very small portion of the collections in museums across the globe has been digitized, and what has been done has been in fits and starts.

Matt Lewin was exposed to science as a small child by his father, an industrial chemist, and his aunt, who worked at New York's American Museum of Natural History, where she would often bring her dinosaur - obsessed nephew.

It had been a different story at RAS's zoological museum a few days earlier, where she wasn't allowed to sample the bones she had come for because they were already covered with drill marks from other researchers who, like her, hoped to mine the relatively small number of ancient polar bear samples to reveal their evolutionary history.

In a prepared statement Out of Africa theorist Christopher B. Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London said «although I have never ruled out the possibility of interbreeding, I have considered this to have been small and insignificant in the bigger picture of our evolution — for example, the results of isolated interbreeding events could easily have been lost in the intervening millennia.

The Design Museum is keen for visitors to try it out for themselves using a small army of 3D printers.

Regardless, the genetic sleuthing in the case of the missing passenger pigeon gives hope that waiting in museum drawers lies a rich repository of genetic information about species both extinct and living, and all of it accessible from small samples like a toe pad.

«We can predict that many new small dinosaur species like Acrotholus are waiting to be discovered by researchers willing to sort through the many small bones that they pick up in the field,» said co-author Ryan of The Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

At one - third of an inch, the newfound Indonesian fish Paedocypris progenetica (right) is the world's smallest vertebrate, says Ralf Britz of the Natural History Museum in London.