Sentences with phrase «smaller museums in»

The Kimbell Art Museum, considered one of the finest smaller museums in the world, is just a five - minute drive from TCU, as are the Amon Carter Museum, with its comprehensive collection of American art, and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

(Tate Modern and Tate Britain, both in London, are the leading outposts of the larger Tate umbrella organization, which includes smaller museums in the English cities of St. Ives and Liverpool.)

This year's event takes place on Saturday, September 23, and includes large and small museums in all 50 states.

A smaller museum in the town is dedicated to the Yamana Indians who once called the territory home.

Stepping onto the platform, I discovered a small museum in a former waiting room, the door propped invitingly open.

It must be one of the most attractive and thoroughly informative small museums in the country.»

Elaine began curating in the late 1980s at a small museum in New York, the Drawing Center, focusing on such emerging artists.

Covering everything from sculpture, antiquities from across the ancient world, fine and applied arts, manuscripts and coins, the Fitzwilliam, which celebrates its bicentenary in 2016, has been hailed as «the finest small museum in Europe».

What's perhaps more surprising is that the organizing venue is a small museum in Colorado.

A number of valuable Chinese objects have been reported stolen from a much loved small museum in Bath.

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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.

In 2012, I began volunteering for a small ethnology museum in Luang Prabang, Laos — but I was doing it from New YorIn 2012, I began volunteering for a small ethnology museum in Luang Prabang, Laos — but I was doing it from New Yorin Luang Prabang, Laos — but I was doing it from New York.

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.&raquIn 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.&raquin 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.

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..

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.

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

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.

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.

When babies are very small this date can be something you do just for yourself, something that sparks imagination and connection, like a trip to a museum, a market, a wood, some people - watching in a café as your baby sleeps.

The museum is two stories and has an elevator, so keep that in mind if you have small children in strollers.

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

Live large in the great outdoors or relive Alberta's beginnings by touring our small town museums and historic sites.

In true Chicago fashion, program trains young women to make no small plans - Chicago Tribune - September 11, 2017 The day I joined them, the Future Leaders toured 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.

They say that the barn is too small to house the museum, which has skyrocketed in size and popularity since it opened a year ago.

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.

Located in the Aquatics Center building this small free museum is perfect for little ones who like to see animals, but don't have the stamina for a long drive or a day at a large museum.

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.

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.

At a small hotel in Dolores, Colorado, where LeBlanc is preparing for a lecture at a nearby museum, he talks about that early work at El Morro: «What were these people doing at 7,200 feet in such a crummy place, trying to be corn farmers?

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

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.»

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.

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 millenniIn 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 millenniin 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 millenniin the bigger picture of our evolution — for example, the results of isolated interbreeding events could easily have been lost in the intervening millenniin the intervening millennia.

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.

The good aspect of that acquisitiveness was that much of the often priceless, unique and so irreplaceable specimens they collected ended up in small provincial museums.

To test their ideas, they conduct biomechanical studies in Lieberman's lab — Room 53 in Harvard's small redbrick Peabody Museum.