The first properly public museum was opened in Oxford in 1683, based on the collection of Elias Ashmole.
But it is only the latest stage in eight centuries of reinvention, in which the opening of a public museum in 1793 was just one milestone.
Back in 1719, when Russian Czar Peter the Great opened what is considered to be the first public museum, he displayed all sorts of natural and human rarities: exotic butterflies, skeletons and living specimens such as Foma the Lobster Boy.
Cultural travellers appreciate the city's numerous walking tours, historic homes, and fine exhibitions at the Telfair Academy, the South's oldest public art museum.
The eerie tunnels -- a significant portion of which is open to the public as a museum -- took on other uses over the course of history.
As in Paris, the tunnels were used as bunkers and hideouts by soldiers during World War II, and a portion of the catacombs is open to the public via the Museum of Partisan Glory.
The rebuild of Edsac will be done in public at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park.
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The recently filed tax return for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum became public knowledge a few days ago and it provided readers with the sobering realities of debt and low attendance.
It was loaned to an unnamed museum for a public exhibit, the statement said.
One survivor, Johnson's glass house, opens to the public this spring as a museum.
Dable is now a docent at Ten Chimneys, which opened to the public in 2003 as a museum.
It was easy pickings, Herzog told journalists at a news conference Wednesday ahead of the museum's public opening Saturday.
She established the public library and the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, of which the principal wing was dedicated in 1930 to her memory.
A. has formed alliances with many companies and institutions, including the Boston Public Library, the American Museum of Natural History, and Johns Hopkins University.
Work began on the museum in 2010 and the trust had been planning to open the museum to the public in 2012, but that date has now been revised.
In a town of some dozen art museums, it has never been able to project a clear sense of its own identity, of what it can offer the museum-going public that no other institution can.
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After years of negotiations the two sides have quietly struck a deal that calls for Tempelsman to transfer the artifacts to a U.S. public institution, presumably a museum, which after some time will return the sculptures to Italy.
After years of negotiations the two sides have quietly struck a deal that calls for Tempelsman to hand the artifacts to a U.S. public institution, presumably a museum, which after some time will return the sculptures to Italy.
Construction of the printer will begin in full view of the public at the Science Museum later this month.
The museum opened to the public back in February this year and will be officially opened by the prince and the duchess.
Get to Oxnard for a rare treat: The most expensive car in the world the 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic is on public display at the Mullin Automotive Museum.
Ms. Hobson works with a variety of civic and professional institutions, including serving as a director of the Field Museum, the Chicago Public Education Fund and the Sundance Institute.
Unlike Mr. Lauder, who has put much of his collection on public display in his New York museum, the Neue Galerie, Mr. Black has kept his art close to home.
The new Jewish museum in Berlin cancelled its public opening set for Tuesday night.
And it will not be open to the public, so there will be no museum or corporate store.
It's the day before the VIP inauguration gala (the museum officially opens to the public on March 28).
The exhibit will be opened to the public at the Smith Art Gallery and Museum in Stirling on 16 January.
Lodha has pledged a chunk of the 18-acre plot of this showpiece for public spaces parks, a museum and a high street of restaurants and shops.
The museum, opening to the public on July 7, 2012, highlights the contributions of this battleship and its crew at critical moments in American history.
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