Other museums want to do the same, but they need to know what they hold first.
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Other museums, she notes, are dedicated to traditional artifacts, but everyday items are often overlooked.
There are no other museums that rely exclusively on donor-contributed and donor-loaned guns for their museum collections.
Very few other museums come close to that with Alice Walton's Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art being a notable exception.
By 1990 the Metropolitan Museum of Art, followed by numerous other museums, had begun to label its frames as well as its paintings.
Other museums and galleries on the list include the National Army Museum and the British Library in London, and the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool.
Inside, the space is syncopated into easy bays with carefully positioned skylights for natural light, instead of the baroquely high-tech contraptions favored at other museums.
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Education remains a major focus of the Exploratorium, which hosts webcasts, builds apps, trains science teachers and sells exhibits to other museums around the world.
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Other museums collect contemporary Latin American art, of course dating back at least to the 1930s, when the Museum of Modern Art, under its first director, Alfred H.
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Erotica here followed the taste of the Greek traditions, even if there is surprisingly little Attic pottery in Naples though plenty in other museums of Magna Graecia.
Dr. Kozue Kay Nagata, Director UNESCO Islamabad in her remarks emphasized on the sustainability of the equipment donated, while promoting similar technology gadgets as pilot-case for other museums to follow.
Perhaps if the British Museum were to acknowledge Greece's rightful ownership of the marbles then the time may come when Athens could lend the sculptures to other museums including the British Museum.
"Rising Up" will be at the High through Sept. 2, 2012, after which it will travel to the 80WSE Gallery at New York University, the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American Culture and History in Washington, and four other museums.
The signatories of the letter have expressed their concern over the damage and loss inflicted on the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad and other museums, libraries and archives, the looting of archaeological sites, and the damage to historic monuments that took place during the war and subsequent occupation.
Two other big museums, one dedicated to science and the other to sounds and images, are scheduled to open in the coming years.
Casa Daros' status as a privately financed project distinguishes it from the other new museums, most of which have received funds from municipal or other public coffers.
But curators of other science museums around the world will be watching closely.
The reopening coincides with improvements to the two other stellar museums in the immense public space known as the Museumplein, in the affluent Old South quarter.
The MFA and other US museums are carrying out a promise they made in June 1998 to check the histories of paintings acquired during the Holocaust and World War II.
Other top museums include the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, prominently featuring a Louise Bourgeois spider sculpture out front, the American Jazz Museum, and the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.
The works are on loan from the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg and other Russian museums, as well as the National Gallery in Washington and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The gift will aid the museum in its efforts to catch up to the depth and scope of the African art collections in other encyclopedic museums around the world, including New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Are also invited directors and high level experts from other European museums, professional institutions or international organizations to allow for an exchange of ideas and best practices (Peace Memorial in Caen, Museum of Europe in Brussels, German Historical Museum in Berlin, National Museum of the Risorgimento in Turin, Council of Europe, International Association of Museums of History, ICOM South-East European Regional Alliance).
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In one camp are museums focused on generating revenue, while the other camp believes museums should be free community resources.
In the 19th century, these gardens also started to become pleasure centers and educational institutions in other words, museums.
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We're trying to raise awareness with museums and other institutions, as there's often no communication between them.
Mr. Steinberg was also a social eminence in New York City, where he contributed heavily to museums and other charities.
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The United States also plans to send FBI agents to Iraq to assist with criminal investigations against people who looted museums and other sites.
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