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The museum has probably the finest collection of its kind in the country.

The museum has been here for 38 years.

The museum has always wanted a building that would elicit excitement, and you don't do that with a humdrum design.

The museum found out about the knife not too long ago and sent a couple of their people to Monmouth to talk to me. After looking at the knife and the documentation, they asked me if I would be willing to donate it to the museum. I said that perhaps I would in the future but for now I preferred to keep it. They then pointed out that it couldn't be proved that the knife really was Lincoln's and I asked them if they felt if that was the case, why did they drive all the way from Springfield to acquire it? They didn't seem to have an answer for that.

The museum existed in some incarnation or another for many years. It moved around as different things, but five years ago we were able to make it to a permanent location. This year we decided to celebrate and host an annual event.

The museum covers a wide range of eras and is fast becoming a good example of the progression of uniforms and equipment over the last 145 years.

A few years ago, I had an exhibition at a museum in Holland where, for the very first time, I saw how much Miffy had changed over the years.

A friend told me that he saw one of our products displayed at a museum in the States. That's really encouraging.

After all, Shakespeare wrote his plays for modern dress, and people have been doing it ever since. The idea of trying to recreate some historical version of the play seems to me to be very dangerous and to head for some kind of dead, museum idea of what theater is.

So we're going to try to keep it in as near flight ready condition as we can without putting it through an OMDP so we can use those parts. Quite frankly, people are already calling us and asking us can they display one of our orbiters in their museum after we're done with it. I'm not giving anybody anything until we're all agreed the station is complete and the shuttle's job is done. In the sense that we're talking about mothballing, I'm not sure that's the term I'd use.

Sparks shot that one from the museum some place. Even if we were man-to-man, I doubt we would have guarded him that far out.

The moral issues get stronger or weaker depending on what the circumstances were when the museum got the painting.

Any plans to move into that building were premature. But by and large, the Planning Commission supports the idea of bringing the Children's Museum to Elmwood Township. But they have to go through the process.

An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.

A new hall for mummies will open at the Egyptian Museum in a fortnight's time.

As director, I am devastated. Michael Shaw is a friend of this museum and has been a guest at the Judy Garland Festival for years. It is our hope that the slippers can be recovered immediately.

The building that has been the museum's home since 1938 was never designed for that purpose. It was originally a cavernous convention center and hockey rink that despite the outstanding efforts of museum staff and volunteers over the years, has been a difficult space in which to produce exhibits.

The buildings of the museum are Spanish-Colonial revival style.

A walk through the storage facility of the community museum where I worked might easily have convinced you that people in the past wore only wedding dresses, carried silver candlesticks, and played with porcelain dolls.

The modern museum is much more flexible, open and transparent. There's a lightness here that is different than in ancient museums.

Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid - with curving lines and organic shapes - and the permanent collection already boasts works by Francesco Clemente, William Kentridge, and Gerhard Richter.

This is a way to get the museum back on its feet.

This is how to understand America. So having the Museum of African American History and Culture on the mall, surrounded by the other museums, will make African-American culture central to all Americans.

This is the first co-operation between our museum and the British Museum, and I hope we will have more exchanges in the future.

The Vail properties are an ideal venue for many of the works in the Logan collection and we are pleased at the opportunity to help manage their exhibition. With the opening of the new Denver Art Museum complex, we have become a more significant regional institution and look forward to extending our outreach to the Vail area.

The whole experience co-curating the Biennial was a learning experience. The Suburban and The Poor Farm are not institutions. They are not by design, organized around power structures. Because I am someone who thrives on delineating context, seeing up close the inner workings of the museum was not wasted on me.

The Whitney is a museum that has a great rapport with younger artists and the community.

This gives the foundation direction, programming and a curator for this department, and makes the Denver Art Museum a major museum in the field of modern and contemporary art.

This is a big day for West Point and we hope that everyone will come out for the dedication of the Howlin' Wolf Museum, ... The legacy of Howlin' Wolf is a major part of the history of Clay County. The opening of the museum will ensure that this legacy lives on for future generations to discover.

They're trying to hurt us, and they absolutely are. To force us to make a financial commitment for a long-term permanent operating use of the Southwest Museum here, which we don't have the money to do.

Almost the first thing you see after entering the Houdini exhibition at the Jewish Museum is a large-screen film of Harry Houdini hanging by his ankles upside-down from a tall building, high over a sea of men in fedoras, and thrashing his way out of a straitjacket.

Although the pieces are being shown as they're museum objects, they're things we live with every day. We continue to reverence the pieces through daily use.

There was this seashell museum - it had every kind of seashell you could imagine.

There must be appropriate tension between stories of real pain, loss and tragedy with those of resiliency, optimism and hope, ... It must give those of the culture a real sense of legitimacy and possibility, but also be a museum that is a lens into what it means to be an American, with a message that all of us are shaped indelibly by this African-American experience.

This is the premiere exhibit. There's going to be about 123 works of paintings and sculpture. We're the only museum in the country getting the full show.

As we open the first newly constructed building of the 100-year-old state museum system, we will unveil a unique collection of art, artifacts, interactive exhibits and cultural and industrial scenes.

All our art programs have maintained a close working relationship with the museum during Michael's tenure. It's extremely useful for us to have a museum of this quality in the city because the VCU School of the Arts only has a small resident collection of its own.

It was a surprise, ... We knew we were going to Washington, D.C., to take part in the First Americans Festival at the opening of the National Museum for the American Indian, with the Smithsonian, but we did not know that we had been invited to sing at the White House until we were already in Washington. So that was pretty exciting.

It was important for us as a museum to be connected with a bar. It's not just history but a living culture. We want people to come in, see the museum, then have a drink. ... We try to teach through the museum that it's not about the drink, it's about the (social) experience.

It really adds another dimension to the museum by providing some life and perhaps drawing a different crowd.

It's hard to know what you can do with security the way it is. The museum will open some day, but for now it's right to keep a low profile. Nobody wants to be responsible for a disaster.

It's really moving to see this kind of support for the museum from the Oak Lawn community and the area.

That's super-important to us. We're a part of the Smithsonian, the national museum of the United States. We need to be taken seriously. At the core of it, we're an educational entity.

Eight members of our coalition are encouraging their members to contact their congressperson to express their desire to have such a museum located on the Mall.

Education is a significant part of our mission here at the Tyler Museum of Art. This exhibition was organized to recognize the contributions these artists make every day in their chosen profession of teaching art.

The board is pleased to have found such a well-qualified design firm in the immediate area, saving the museum both time and money in this project." ()

The basic idea was that the museum have open vistas to the river. Most people who come here want to see the Mississippi and literally put their foot in it.

The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will never accept artifacts from any company known to be involved with gambling.

The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will never accept an artifact from any company whose business is promoting gambling.

It's important for this museum to have a good idea of the vision of others.

It's a miracle to be able to bring together a great museum building, a great collection, great landscape, and then great educational, cultural facilities, and bring it all together, and open it up to the public free of charge.

It just seems like she learns a lot at school, and she gets to go home and we do other things in the afternoon, such as the (Garden State) Discovery Museum (in Cherry Hill) or play groups.

It was an invisible hook you hang pictures with, ... The Museum of Modern Art came in to the hardware store and asked him to design a hook that could hold heavy pictures and not be seen. He hand-tooled them in the back of his store.

It was like going through a museum of an artist's greatest works.

I've had to deal with cultural isolation. I can't just go to a museum or gallery opening.

It (Tropicana Field) could house the whole museum without a problem.

The two and a half month exhibition will enable Chinese audiences an opportunity to enjoy the collection of a world class museum without going abroad.

They did not ask us to close the museum or for an after-hours visit or any special treatment.

They were all legally exported in the days when you could do that. Petrie worked with the Cairo museum 'on division.' After a season of excavation, he would show everything to the Cairo, and they would take what they wanted and he would get the remainder.

There's usually some kind of theater event or museum event. There's a big social and entertainment component.

These paintings are, of course, part of the familiar museum scene for all visitors at the museum.

These survey results clearly demonstrate that many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy. The Freedom Museum is designed to inspire people to understand and value their freedoms. The Freedom Museum will present freedoms in not merely a historical context, but in modern day examples, allowing people young and old to relate to modern day freedom debates.

It's no longer a museum piece. She's actually a living ship.

So far I can say the Friends of the Atlanta Library and Museum are pleased beyond expectations.

At the rate we're going, we're out-pacing the Los Angeles County Art Museum in pre-sales.

At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.

A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

If I went to somewhere busy, I wouldn't last very long. I can't go to a museum - I'll last 10 or 15 minutes in a museum. The problem is that when one person asks for a photograph, then someone sees a flash goes off, then everyone else sort of... it's sort of like a domino effect.

I never planned to live forever and knowing the Museum of the Old West will take good care of Old Trail Town, leaving it in place and intact, gives me peace of mind, ... This is how I can pay back the community for its generous support of Old Trail Town through the years.

In Dyersville, it's like our Arts & Crafts festival only it's a three-day sale. They have a museum and they close their schools and use the gymnasium for vendors.

In a new museum we could plan how all of the areas function together.

If there ever is a national coal mining museum I will push that this site should be preserved as either a memorial site or an extension or a part of such a site.

I once walked through an exhibit in a large American museum that displayed First Nations artifacts in old dioramas, with mannequins that hadn't been changed since the 19th century.

If you go to the museum in Sacramento today there are three people they recognize as founders of California and Henry Miller is one of them. We are very proud of that.

If you look at the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection now, it doesn't tell the story of what was happening during the '30s and '40s. While Myron prefers the representational, I think you can see he likes artists who pushed realism as close to abstraction as possible.

In the eyes of the public, ... the museum is a greedy hoarder of ill-gotten goods, in opposition to the legitimate claims of the powerless.

In some ways, this museum in Washington gets to do something very important, ... It can be a lens to help us all better understand what it means to be an American--to use African-American culture as that lens to understand the history of this country as well.

In 'Night At The Museum 3,' with Ben Stiller, I was only given a couple of lines. If you are in guys' comedies, it's not like you are ever going to just get handed some jokes and a brilliant role.

It has been my dream for many years to expand our little museum into something very special that can do justice in presenting our incredible story to the many thousands of people who visit the factory every year to take the tour. Finally that dream has come to fruition.

Clear out 800,000 people and preserve it as a museum piece.

His coming was a godsend. We needed that personality to guide the museum through the early days. When he came on board, it was a foregone conclusion that it would be a success.

Children and families will have the opportunity to leave their personal mark on the museum and truly make it their own place.

I come from a real working class background, and I didn't know anyone sophisticated - except I saw Edie Sedgewick once at the Art Museum in Philly. She had these black leotards and little black pumps and this big ermine cape and all these white dogs and black sunglasses and black eyes. She was classy!

How in the world anyone is going to build a major Korean museum is beyond me.

This has got a lot of history. I also got a photo of the original cast standing inside the scene. ...That fact that they visited the museum made it a steal.

This is a collection that has been sought after by everyone in the museum world because it is so great, ... Finally, for reasons I wholeheartedly agree with, it came here.

The horse was very special and I was part of the Dubai Millennium fairytale. So to have something like this in the Godolphin museum is very good.

The idea behind the museum was that this office is as old as the country, and the story of America is closely tied to invention. This office was founded on the idea that creativity and innovation should be encouraged, and you can actually see that here.

The idea of four prisons coming together to create a museum in one form or another is one that is not anywhere else in the country. We think that is truly an enormous benefit to you all.

The guy who started the museum in Berlin is a huge RAMONES fan, ... His name is Florian . In fact, every time I would come there, he would be at the shows, and he must have attended every show we played in Germany.

You want to see some of the basics of the city, which aren't expensive at all, like the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, which you can see for free from the Staten Island Ferry. Places like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has a suggested donation fee so it can be as inexpensive as you like.

You want to make sure there is enough volunteer and personnel support to utilize the Museum on Main Street program to the best of its potential.

And my first museum show was at Santa Barbara, then the de Young. And, I think it was after the de Young, I had a show at the Los Angeles Museum.

The church is part of a cultural precinct that includes the museum and historical society, theatre, school, library and community college,

The children of our community, inclusive of all of the children in our community, regardless of social status, deserve to be allowed to see and be close to, the renowned works of culture and art, both ancient and modern, from all around the world. I am proud to say that place will be here, at the Museum of Fine Arts at Cypress Creek.

The Getty is a contemporary museum of ancient art, in some ways.

The fund-raising environment is consistently more competitive. The situation of any new museum today is a challenge, regardless of what kind of museum it is.

The construction of the memorial and memorial museum will begin in early 2006 and conclude by Sept. 11, 2009, ... rest assured, we will not let one person, one entity or one constituency prevent us from fulfilling this solemn obligation.

A museum more than just an institution that houses objects. We took a look at how the museum uses its collection for educational purposes.

All of the paintings in the Museum Art Online collection are known to have a status of world-wide fame and it is those works of art which are available to you now from Museum Art Online. The original masterpieces fetch upwards of millions of dollars each.