Sentences with phrase «with excellent museums»

To the east, Chania is home to a wonderful old town with excellent museums dedicated to archaeology and the Cretan navy, making this resort a great choice for a taste of Greece's fascinating history.

Summer 2016 in Los Angeles is filled with excellent museum shows, gallery exhibits, and the must see 3rd edition of the Made in LA Biennial at the Hammer Museum.

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An excellent gift for families or anyone interested in the holiday from its historical perspective, Giving Thanks shares the story of the holiday from the famous living history museum, complete with myriad illustrations, and favorite dishes from all over the United States.

We also visited the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum with their excellent exhibit on art deco jewelry.

The Museum Campus is an excellent spot, with tiered, grassy hillsides that make perfect bleachers.

While maybe not massively groundbreaking, or as visually compelling as those paintings that are famous for being an homage to victims of everyday horrors reported in the media (Goya's The Third of May 1808 springs to mind), the exhibition is in keeping with the museum's focus on the impact of war on the lives of ordinary people, and a welcome accompaniment to the excellent experience on offer at the museum.

Yanhong Pan, associate research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and corresponding author of a paper describing the research and co-author Mary Schweitzer, NC State professor of biology with a joint appointment at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, examined feathers from an Eoconfuciusornis specimen taken from the Jehol Biota site in northern China, which is renowned for excellent fossil preservation.

But while his followers adore him, many in the medical profession are unnerved that one of their own, with excellent credentials — including a Harvard University medical degree, 15 years as an ethnopharmacology researcher at the Harvard Botanical Museum, and a stint at the National Institute of Mental Health — is going this unconventional route.

Because Britain and Ireland had an important role in the historical development of geology as a subject of academic and popular interest, we have more than a hundred public museums, with excellent geological collections.

Guanajuato has several excellent museums (including the famous Mummy Museum with over 100 mummies).

Most bookstores and the gift shops including the Kokee Museum and Kilauea Point Refuge carry excellent bird guides and CD's with the sounds of the birds of Kauai.

The town is on the edge of The Chilterns Area of Natural Beauty (fantastic walking and biking through ancient woodland landscapes dotted with National Trust properties), and just up the road from the excellent Roald Dahl Museum at Great Missenden and the cottage in Chalfont St. Giles where John Milton completed Paradise Lost.

Beneath it are the remains of the Royal Palace landscaped with waterways and lakes and there's also an excellent museum.

It's the only hotel located directly on the Delaware River Waterfront, providing guests with easy access to the Historic District's excellent sightseeing, tours, museums, shopping, dining and nightlife.

Noumea, the capital city, has a rough - hewn charm, with a town square, excellent eateries, and an enlightening museum.

The bucolic island of Skeppsholmen is home to the Moderna Museet museum, the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, and the tree - shrouded Hotel Skeppsholmen — offering a slowed - down insular getaway with excellent dining opmuseum, the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, and the tree - shrouded Hotel Skeppsholmen — offering a slowed - down insular getaway with excellent dining opMuseum of Far Eastern Antiquities, and the tree - shrouded Hotel Skeppsholmen — offering a slowed - down insular getaway with excellent dining options.

During peak season, the Hartenbos beachfront is lined with colourful kiosks selling anything from seafood to clothing and there is also a heated indoor pool, a supertube, amusement centre and the local museum has an excellent exhibition of the Great Trek.

The area is dotted with Mayan archeological sites and cenotes, which are definitely worth a visit and the Museum of the Maya World in Chetumal is an excellent place to increase your anthropological, archeological and historical knowledge.

With floors of the museum assigned to Vienna's classical composers and to the Vienna Philharmonic, the Haus der Musik is an excellent destination for music - lovers to explore.

Why not take a tour of the excellent Prado Museum, regarded as Spain's leading art gallery with one of the best collections in the world?

This multicultural melting pot has many museums and shops also - you might wish to explore the excellent Art Gallery of Ontario, with its wonderful collection by Canadian Artists.

Start with the Heinz History Center, an excellent museum that documents 250 years of Pittsburgh's history.

You are in the Negen Straatjes (Nine Streets) quarter, a shoppers» delight with specialist boutiques and some excellent restaurants; Anne Frank's House is less than half a mile away, the Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh Museum about a mile.

To us the highlights were the DB Museum of Nuremburg, the train journey through the Alps, and the serenity of Lake Bled with its excellent accommodation at the Grand Hotel Toplice.

With jaw - dropping architecture like the Unesco - listed Grand Place and dozens of Art Nouveau Masterpieces, countless museums, excellent shopping, and fantastic food options, Brussels should be on the top of everyone's list.

From the quirky architecture, like the iconic Sagrada Familia cathedral, to the excellent museums and the warm climate, Barcelona is a city with a unique atmosphere and so much to experience.

Just a 5 minute walk from the Ho Chi Minh museum, the Mondial Hotel is a contemporary hotel with excellent amenities.

Modern and vibrant, this culturally - rich metropolis is filled with interactive museums and sophisticated art galleries, excellent restaurants and beautifully landscaped parks.

It is a busy modern city with a reputable zoo and an excellent archaeological museum.

Explore the shops, cafes and atmospheric Old Town (Kaleici) of this historic city, learn about the area's history and culture with a visit to the excellent exhibits at the Antalya Museum, and visit some ancient remains, such as the amphitheatre of Termessos.

City lovers from the states enjoy vacationing in San Juan, complete with beaches, historic UNESCO sites, museums, excellent dining, plenty of fun activities on the water, and a vibrant nightlife.

The museums do an excellent job of catering to children under the age of 12 with appropriate tours and art programs, which are educational, fun, as well as in English.

With excellent proximity to the airport as well as the train station and the shopping and dinning of the city not to mention the tourist attractions such as museums and the nightlife of Jakarta, this hotel in Jakarta offers everything required of a conservative city hotel.

WonderWorks, an excellent science museum, is also on Front Beach Road, along with miniature golf courses and go - kart tracks.

With excellent proximity to the airport as well as the train station and the shopping and dinning of the city not to mention the tourist attractions such as museums and the nightlife of Jakarta, this hotel offers everything required of a conservative city hotel.

The main streets are lined with a vast collection of art galleries, craft shops, museums, excellent restaurants and an overall laidback atmosphere.

It's also a city with its fair share of colonial architecture, interesting museums, vibrant markets and excellent restaurants.

The town's historic downtown area brims with beautiful turn - of - the - century architecture, boutiques, art galleries, museums, and shops while excellent restaurants, buzzing bars and chic cafés create a vibrant atmosphere.

You can see many higher resolution images of his work at David Marshall's excellent Lennart Anderson Web Museum, also essays and interviews section is a great resource (note there are also a couple of great new video there with him talking about his work) Many thanks to David Marshall for making this great resource available to the public.

With the push for recognizing heretofore undervalued black artists animating museums these days, this exhibition — organized by Ruth Fine, a former curator at the National Gallery of Art, in Washington — offers an excellent occasion not only to assess the significance of Mr. Lewis and his art.

Curiously some of the commercial galleries that represent the apotheosis of the contemporary art industry and market, such as, here in NY, Gagosian and Zwirner, have been able to mount museum quality shows the past few years, including for example excellent Picasso and Frankenthaler exhibitions at Gagosian and the recent exhibition of Ad Reinhardt's work at Zwirner, in spaces that either are as beautiful as any museum or that are just functional in a good way, with few frills, just good walls and space.

Among the highlights of the entire collection, the museum houses a fine selection of colonial and federal portraits, with excellent examples by John Smibert, John Trumbull, Mather Brown, John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, Sarah Peale, Gilbert Stuart and Ralph Earl.

Eligible candidates will have a Bachelors degree with experience working in communications / marketing in contemporary arts environments (museum / gallery / artist spaces), and must have excellent writing and organizational skills.

Excellent examples of this «experience architecture» are shown in the central hall of the museum, including the complex work Corridor Installation (Nick Wilder Installation) from 1970, where visitors are recorded by a video camera and then confronted with their own image.

We begin this year with an excellent show, the first prompted by the Collection Committee, and a new Museum director who shows a lively and sincere interest in our possible contributions in the future.

With the recently opened branch of the MMCA (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art), the renowned Leeum Samsung Foundation, and excellent galleries including Kukje and PKM, Seoul is a promising spot to visit in 2016.

«We have had an excellent start to 2018 with the spectacular success of our Terracotta Army exhibition, and we are thrilled to now launch Evans 360º as yet another way people of all ages can enjoy VMFA,» said Alex Nyerges, Director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Position Summary Working closely with the Retail Operations Manager, the Museum Shop Sales Associate's role is to provide assistance and excellent customer service to the visitors of Kemper Museum's retail shop, online shop, and other retail initiatives.This individual will display confidence in generating sales, merchandising, and safeguarding the shop's assets.

Meet - the - Artist days provide an excellent opportunity for teachers and students to meet and talk with working artists here at the Museum.

Whatever the case, the model for Gioni's show is Auriti's imaginary, impossible vision of a museum, and it is duly filled with libraries and archives: 19th - century Shaker drawings, Roger Caillois» collection of rocks, Ed Atkins» excellent film about the archive of André Breton, drawings by Rudolf Steiner, Carl Jung's Red Book (1914 — 30), Linda Fregni Nagler's 1,000 archival photos of babies... It goes on.