Sentences with phrase «used as a museum»

Used as museum showpiece and in parades.

What's left are crumbly buildings used as museums and a military - guarded reserve on its southern side.

She wanted the house to be used as a museum and a center for local artists, and insisted that the house be destroyed if that was not possible.

Albany boasts approximately fifty buildings of historical charm, most being used as museums, art and craft galleries or restaurants.

The sale has been agreed almost three months after the death of Michael Winner, although he originally wanted leave it to the local council to be used as a museum, but they couldn't afford the upkeep of the property.

Not exact matches

Danish toymaker Lego recently opened a new amusement park / museum / archive in Billund, Denmark, called Lego House, which pays homage to the iconic plastic brick in both function and form: the entire structure uses the same proportions as the toy version, making it appear to be something you could really snap together.

Glass units up to 25 feet by 11 feet are used in high - end retail store fronts, multi-million dollar homes and specialty buildings such as museums and art galleries.

Users will be able to use SLATIX to find new content through a curated system of authentic review, with opportunities to earn discounts as well as gain access to different events such as movies, concerts, plays, museums, and sporting events.

The Hagia Sophia, for example, was a church that was converted to use as a mosque (it is now a museum) after Constantinople, now Istanbul, fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.

You have people who thought it was a sign, used it as a symbolic piece that would relate to many Americans who are Christian, and is therefore a piece of history that could very well belong in a museum.

If a swastika was formed out of the wreckage, and hundreds of people crowded around it for some weird reason and used it as a symbol of comfort and solace, then yes it should go into the museum too.

The museum allows photography as long as you don't use a flash; therefore, I'm able to share some of this lovely quilts with you.

The museum's main purpose is to help people learn and understand the use, quality and storage of spices, says Spicy's owner Viola Vierk And as a matter of fact, we learned a lot.

How to use this gift card — the card may be used as full or part payment for purchases at The Rugby Store, online via mail - order or for a World Rugby Museum & Stadium Tour.

One of our favorite resources is Coyote Point Environmental Museum just down the road here, as their camps get very creative w / same, using «bandannas» that the kids can also use for hikes and such, playing into the «no trails, no trash left behind» tred lightly earth ethics...

I should add that at our local Coyote Point Museum and Environmental Summer Camp all lunches MUST be trashless... and they used bandannas as a «wrap - n - roll» way to use for hiking when finished... Very cool concept to make food «disappear.»

Families can join the museum's education team on the plaza of the Butterfly House to view the eclipse as a group using 50 shared eclipse glasses and two solarscopes.

The Museum does not have a specific position on whether mothers should use formula or breastfeed their children, as we largely comment on subjects which are active elements of our scientist's research.

The towns offer other attractions, such as the Cantigny Museums and Gardens, in Wheaton, a vivid tribute to veterans (the museums are the official repository for the 1st Division of the Army) surrounded by lush gardens; and the picturesque, 10 - acre Lake Ellyn in Glen Ellyn, which residents use for fishing and ice sMuseums and Gardens, in Wheaton, a vivid tribute to veterans (the museums are the official repository for the 1st Division of the Army) surrounded by lush gardens; and the picturesque, 10 - acre Lake Ellyn in Glen Ellyn, which residents use for fishing and ice smuseums are the official repository for the 1st Division of the Army) surrounded by lush gardens; and the picturesque, 10 - acre Lake Ellyn in Glen Ellyn, which residents use for fishing and ice skating.

The decision came after the Hoffman Estates Park District board voted 5 - 2 to make the museum start paying its electric and water bills for its use of the barn as of July 1.

Rick Pyle, director of parks, recreation and museum, suggested the sites could have several picnic tables in the woods and 3/4 of an acre could remain a water detention area that could be used as an athletic field when dry.

Books may be used as props during performances or as display exhibits in local museums.

The money from the Illinois Public Museum Operating Grant Program will be used to build a blacksmith shop to house the tools, as well as for new programs in blacksmithing, woodworking, pottery and candlemaking, said Elaine Keating, coordinator of historic sites for the Lisle Park District and the only full - time employee at Lisle Station Park.

Campers will use the indoor and outdoor grounds of the Museum as their classroom to foster critical thinking, social - emotional skills, and science practices through hands - on experiences with museum collections, exhibits, and live animal critter connecMuseum as their classroom to foster critical thinking, social - emotional skills, and science practices through hands - on experiences with museum collections, exhibits, and live animal critter connecmuseum collections, exhibits, and live animal critter connections.

I agree it is very bulky as it takes up my whole trunk, and too large to take to stores / malls / museums, we have a more compact stroller for those trips but when we do use it we LOVE the ride and how easy it is to push.

HIs contributions to our neighborhood have included «securing financing through the State's Secured Hospital Revenue Bond Program so that Flushing Hospital Medical Center and Jamaica Hospital and Medical Center could modernize and expand; providing the Lifeline Center for Child Development with a permanent home; securing the financial support that has enabled the Bayside Historical Society to undertake its restoration of the Fort Totten Officers Club; creating the Colonial Farmhouse Restoration Society to operate the former Adriance Farm Site as the Queens Farm Museum and transferring 52 acres of surrounding land to New York City for permanent use as horticultural - agricultural parklands; and providing land for the Cross Island YMCA to expand, for the Hollis - Bellaire - Queens Village - Bellerose Little League to own their ball fields and for Catholic Charities of the Brooklyn - Queens Diocese to develop senior citizen housing in Bellerose.

Large steel piece from the Twin Towers to be used as screen in Sept. 11 museum [Post] 13.

Now Julian Finn, at the Museum Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, has filmed four veined octopuses, Amphioctopus marginatus, picking up coconut shells for later use as hiding places.

Astronomer Michael Shara of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and colleagues used digitized photographic plates dating from as early as 1923 to trace a modern star back to the nova.

According to the Florida Museum of Natural History, scientists use this common species as a marine version of a lab rat to research hormones, blood and organs.

So Dante and his colleagues were able to borrow historic furs in the museum's collections that had been kept in dark storage to use as the baseline for colors and shading.

«The PWYW model is used primarily in situations in which the seller's principal goal is not to maximize profits, but to interest as many consumers as possible in a good or service, e.g. to entice people to visit a museum,» Spann explains.

The method was previously used on human organs as an anatomy study aid for medical students, and has since been adopted to digitally archive artifacts such as ancient pottery and prehistoric skulls so that students and researchers can interact with otherwise rarely handled specimens from museum collections.

When respected journals — Nature for example — use terms such as «Prehistoric pin - up» and «35,000 - year - old sex object», and a German museum proclaims that a figurine is either an «earth mother or pin - up girl» (as if no other roles for women could have existed in prehistory), they carry weight and authority.

«A task - oriented robot would be used for simple services, such as greeting visitors at museums or restaurants, while an interaction - oriented robot is more than likely used for entertainment processes, such as playing music or videos,» said Sundar.

A team of researchers from several academic institutions — including the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Yale University, University of Chicago, the American Center for Mongolian Studies, and the National Museum of Mongolia — used a scientific dating technique known as radiocarbon dating to estimate the spread of domestic horse ritual at deer stones and khirigsuurs.

Dr. Charlier argues that human remains in museums and scientific institutions can be divided into four categories, «ethnographical elements» such as hair samples with no certain identification; anatomical remains such as whole skeletons or skulls; archaeological remains; and more modern collections of skulls, used in now discredited studies in the early 20th century.

For example, they note, Saitta used stegosaur skeletons from the Aathal Dinosaur Museum in Switzerland as a model to help sort out the jumble of bones dug out of the quarry.

To add to its mystery P. otwayensis weaves highly stereotyped ladder - shaped webs, where they stand facing down after sunset, waiting for preys which will be caught by using the ladder as a trap — a behavior which was already described in detail by now retired arachnologist Mike Gray (Australian Museum) for the only known other species of this genus, P. carraensis.

And follow - up scans using the American Museum of Natural History's more powerful CT machine have shown that some wrappings enclose as many as 20 tightly - packed shrews — hardly a way for priests to economize.

Research at the University of Witwatersrand and the Transvaal Museum suggests that the animals and the hominids found at Makansgat were the prey of hyenas and large cats that used the cave as a den.

The museum must adopt «more interactive» displays, he says, using electronics and videos, to attract visitors «bombarded by movies such as Jurassic Park».

As venom glands don't fossilise, Benoit and his colleagues from at Wits University, in association with the Natural History Museum of London used cutting edge CT scanning and 3D imagery techniques to analyse the only two fossilised skulls of the Euchambersia ever found, and discovered stunning anatomical adaptions that are compatible with venom production.

Researchers identified H. yaku as a new species using field observations, recordings of its distinct call and DNA analyses of museum and university specimens.

Using 3D engineering software, the researchers looked at the iconic brow ridge of a fossilised skull, known as Kabwe 1, held in the collections of the National History Museum.

«We are able to go back in time and analyze archived museum earplug samples that were harvested in the 1950s and examine critical issues such as the effects of pollution, use of sonar in the oceans and the introduction of specific chemicals and pesticides in the environment over long periods of time,» Usenko said.

Hung and his colleagues collected tiny tissue samples from four well - preserved passenger pigeons held at museums around the world and used cutting - edge genetic technology to sequence the animals» DNA, as well as the DNA of a modern relative, the domestic pigeon.

A new study by Florida Museum of Natural History researcher Natasha Vitek shows how scientists can use animals» physical features — also known as morphology — to make connections between a modern species and its fossilized relatives, even if they look strikingly different.

«It's worrying that land use has already pushed biodiversity below the level proposed as a safe limit,» said Professor Andy Purvis of the Natural History Museum, London, who also worked on the study.

The problem has been compounded by the Institute for Creation Research's use of the name «Lucy» to refer to both the species Australopithecus afarensis and the individual «Lucy,» as ICR Museum director John Rajca did on the June 18, 1994 segment of the ICR's «Science, Scripture and Salvation» radio program.