Sentences with phrase «small museums with»

Women run about half of America's art museums, but they are helming small museums with relatively modest budgets.

Once you've made it back down, there is a small museum with some artifacts from former lighthouse keepers and mariners who saved those in trouble.

The Hotel KOYLLUR (giant star of Venus) Quechua word meaning «Star» in Spanish.Our hostel is a house with colinial characteristics and inka bases, which we have prepared to satisfy the demands of our tourists.Our facility houses a small museum with...

The park includes a 15,000 - acre marine reserve, and 12,000 acres of land, and has a small museum with exhibits on the region's history and biology.

There are also toilet and shower facilities, luggage storage, and flight information displays, as well as a small museum with local travel - related exhibits.

The Parroquia San Blas was founded in 1644 and now houses a small museum with ancient religious artefacts.

KOYLLUR (giant star of Venus) Quechua word meaning «Star» in Spanish.Our hostel is a house with colinial characteristics and inka bases, which we have prepared to satisfy the demands of our tourists.Our facility houses a small museum with paintings from the Cuzco School, the entrance has arcades and piers, we can also appreciate a high - relief mural of the Lord of Koyllurity and his Ukukus loading snow from Shinakara snow mountain and decorated with exotic plants of the Andes region.Come to the land of the Incas and enjoy your stay, staying at our hostel situated in the historical center in the neighborhood of San Blas 3 blocks from Plaza de Armas in Cusco.

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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?»

In some museum displays, he said, the birds - descended - from - dinosaurs evolutionary theory has been portrayed as a largely accepted fact, with an asterisk pointing out in small type that «some scientists disagree.»

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.

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..

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.

Other notes: — XOX Truffles in the North Beach / Washington Square area — free small truffle with any drink, our favourites were red wine and earl grey truffles — The view from Hamon Tower at the de Young museum is great, especially at sunset.

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.

Scheepvaartmuseum (the Maritime Museum), the NEMO Science Museum, and Tropenmuseum are three good ones to visit with smaller children.

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

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.

While studying the insect collection of the Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France, two American scientists uncovered a small, leaf - dwelling praying mantis with unique features collected from Madagascar in 2001.

«He never really locked into the academic traditions of the institution,» says Brian Huber, a paleobiologist with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, who worried about Small's business focus.

Though the fossils» small stature and brains might fit best with H. habilis, their relatively long legs and modern body proportions place them in H. erectus, says David Lordkipanidze, general director of the Georgian National Museum and head of the Dmanisi team.

That's in line with previous evidence of small populations, says Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London.

Examining museum skins revealed that this new species was also smaller overall with a longer and denser coat; field records showed that it occurred in a unique area of the northern Andes Mountains at 5,000 to 9,000 feet above sea level — elevations much higher than the known species of olingo.

Early this past year, they showed Fowler's team a small shark with beady black eyes and a blunt snout — it looked exactly like the museum specimen.

The rapid genetic drift between isolated breeds (pairwise FST of 25 % — 30 % among any given set of breeds with very few pairs of breeds having significantly smaller FST) enables efficient mapping of the genomic regions underlying variation, even in some cases with un-genotyped collections such as museum specimens.

Vesta Fiesta recorded over 100 festivals at museums, observatories, and backyards; from the flagship event at the Pasadena Convention Center that highighted Dawn and small bodies missions associated with JPL with mission team members presenting nation - wide, to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's outdoor concert hall, Ravinia with Yo - Yo Ma

The Mars Yard is a simulation of the terrain of a small section of Mars with the same soil types and rocks as well as a couple of very interesting rocks that form part of the Museum exhibit.

«The young age of the small scarps means that Mercury joins Earth as a tectonically active planet, with new faults likely forming today as Mercury's interior continues to cool and the planet contracts,» said lead author Tom Watters, Smithsonian senior scientist at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

A magical place with strong positive energy and an interesting small Museum.

By the time Stiller's character engages in a slapping fight with a pair of monkeys, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian has incontrovertibly established itself as an endeavor designed to appeal solely to small children - which is undoubtedly a shame, given the strength of the cast and the promise of the movie's early scenes.

Unlike the small museum from the first film, the Smithsonian would surely be overrun with people, even in the middle of the night, so there's really no explanation as to why Larry seems to be the only one trying to keep the peace for such a major institution full of priceless art and historical artifacts.

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As with all insects in the Animal Crossing series, the Firefly can be donated to the museum followed by a small talk by Blathers, the curator.

For a small donation ($ 10 is encouraged) to the Charles Allis Art Museum, guests can enjoy the aforementioned meet and greet, the screening of the film and a post-screening Q&A session with Amin and Duncan.

Along with Clooney and Damon the cast is packed with Hollywood A-listers, including Bill Murray, John Goodman, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville («Downton Abbey»), Cate Blanchett and Jean Dujardin («The Artist»), to tell the true story of how a small group of art historians and museum directors from across the globe became soldiers and

Roles in small productions like Sunshine Cleaning mix with turns in Disney productions like Enchanted, while serious offerings like Doubt are balanced by appearances in films like Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian — Adams is clearly a versatile and accomplished performer.

As with all insects in the Animal Crossing series, the Darner Dragonfly can be donated to the museum followed by a small talk by Blathers.

As with all insects in the Animal Crossing series, the Wharf Roach can be donated to the Museum by talking to Blathers, who will give a small speech on it.

As with all insects in the Animal Crossing series, Cicada Shells can be donated to the Museum followed by a small talk by Blathers, the curator.

As with all insects in the Animal Crossing series, the Pill Bug can be donated to the Museum by talking to Blathers, who will give a small speech about it.

«The first time we brought our small - town, somewhat sheltered kids together with the urban students — most of whom live in the shadows of Chicago's skyscrapers but have never once been to the heart of the Loop or a major museum — one of them pondered, «What are the real differences between life in Effingham and life in Chicago?»»

We began thinking about the task with a museum metaphor: a relatively large number of works would be collected and stored in the basement, with a small subset of them selected for public exhibit in various galleries, by various curators, organized by grade level, core content, media type, etc..

Cass Street School, located on the lower east side within walking distance of museums and downtown cultural attractions, offers the SAGE small class size (18:1) program from 5 - year - old kindergarten through third grade and strong college and career readiness curriculum in all grades along with art, physical education and music classes.

Ludvigsen's London library — Tom Threlfall discovers Carl Ludvigsen's motoring reference library in deepest Pentonville / The Henry Royce Foundation — Jonathan Wood visited the Foundation's archives and museum at the Hunt House at Paulerspury / 1935 Armstrong Siddeley Special — Malcolm Robertson gives us his impressions of a pristine example of this sporting limousine / 1924 Standard — Ray Cattle writes with affection about his well - preserved V3 Kenilworth model / 1929 Rolls - Royce 20 — This month the Editor describes his encounter with a «small» Rolls - Royce / Sir Herbert Austin's letter — Some fascinating correspondence between Sir Herbert Austin and Henry Ford has been discovered by David G. Jones / Restoration techniques — Zoe Harrison reports on the course on vehicle restoration techniques run by the North Warwickshire College.

Once you disembark, there'll be plenty of opportunities to visit museums, take part in winter activities like snowshoeing and dogsledding, and get acquainted with small - town life.

As a tribute to the Templars, a small interactive museum on site enables guests to connect with the neighborhood's heritage.

Amersham is a small market town with Historic Tudor and Victorian buildings, bustling independent shops, pretty scenery, and a veritable list of worthy attractions on the doorstop including the Chilterns Area of Natural Beauty and Roald Dahl Museum.

The bold, splendidly large building complete with a dominating clock tower houses a small museum, which in truth is far less exciting than the actual building itself.

Built in a vintage Tuscan style with a terracotta roof and colonnaded galleries, the architectural gem features ample alfresco living and dining areas along with luminous interiors endowed with a small museum's worth of fine artwork.

Begin with a museum visit in downtown Georgetown, then head east to discover small coastal villages, a historic estate and a forest that holds secrets below.

Visitors can get a break from small - town life in order to pursue big - city pleasures, Memphis is less than an hour away with fine dining, opera, symphony, live theater, Blues on Beale Street, museums, art galleries, and a zoo.