But the real problem is one of attitude, not space: a history museum which is too keen to make a point risks achieving the opposite.
In its city centre, a number of historic attractions survived WWII and are worth a look: a 14th-century cathedral, a solid old town hall, a good history museum and a surprisingly interesting military museum.
He was also a founding contributor to the Computer History Museum History Center in Boston and then was a member of the Computer History Museum (CHM) when most of the artifacts from Boston were moved to Mountain View and combined with local historical equipment, including one of the original RAMACs.
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They decided to try to rescue St Mary's and turn it into a garden history museum dedicated to the Tradescants.
The most sensible purpose would be to make it a pure history museum, not about fame or morality but about historical significance.
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"If we do not receive sufficient funding from the government we would consider reintroducing an admissions fee, " a Natural History Museum spokesperson said.
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The institution said it remained committed to delivering key projects, including the redevelopment of St Fagans: Natural History Museum and providing a National Museum of Natural Sciences.
Tickets to the afternoon celebration cost 120 Danish krone, but the fee also covers a morning open air church service, a festival for families and admission to the Lincoln Log Cabin, a cedar log cabin within the park that serves as a museum for the history of the Danish emigrant experience.
Today you can visit five side-by-side museums, including a replica general store, print shop and history museum, to get a glimpse into the past.
Comedian Bill Bailey recently unveiled a restored portrait of Wallace at the Natural History Museum and has also filmed a two-part documentary for the BBC about Wallace.
After a few wrong turns and days exploring, I pulled up to the Computer History Museum to begin a remarkable day at the Social Innovation Summit.
With every passing day the 1992 Cable Act becomes more of a rabbit-ear relic of a bygone one-way communication era, something that more appropriately should be part of a museum exhibit or a history book not permanently driving the current and future trajectory of American video competition, technology and innovation.
The fossils of the dinosaur, Nyasasaurus parringtoni, were part of a collection at the Natural History Museum in London.
The Mexican tech companies showcased their products and services at a gathering at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif.
It has since closed again but there are plans for it to reopen as a museum of Chinese history and culture.
London's Natural History Museum is a place of wonderment and beauty... unless you're an eight-year-old who can't differentiate between reality and make-believe.
First came EPIC 2014, an eight minute flash movie released in 2004 for presentation at a fictional Museum of Media History.
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Congdu has an incredible location -- nestled inside the Seoul National History Museum with a terrace that overlooks a sunlit courtyard.
Dr John Bridges of London's Natural History Museum, a member of the Beagle 2 landing site team, believes both targets are exciting.
Monmouthshire-born Wallace, considered one of the greatest scientists of the 19th Century, did receive recognition for his work, and when he died aged 90 in 1913, fundraising began for a statue at the Natural History Museum.
From the Ground Floor Corridor rooms, transformed from their early use as service areas, to the State Floor rooms, where countless leaders and dignitaries have been entertained, the White House is both the home of the President of the United States his family and a museum of American history.
"The inauguration of this building, almost thirty years to the day after this institution was founded, brings to a close our early history while opening a major new chapter in the Museum's life, " Rochelle Slovin stated.
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"In truth, it's a museum that celebrates the history of recorded music and does so in a cutting-edge, highly interactive manner, " Frommer said.
Burke mentioned his service on various environmental boards and his role as a trustee of the natural-history museum at Yale, his alma mater, but he kept returning to the topics of geology and rivers.
Mr Cameron finished with a dig at Mr Skinner, telling the chamber he often told his children there was "no need to go to the Natural History Museum to see a dinosaur" when they could watch the Bolsover MP in action.
President Barack Obama speaks at a town hall meeting at the Computer History Museum on September 26, 2011 in Mountain View, California.
By its literal definition, the Hall would simply be a room filled with famous people, like a wing of the Museum of American History dedicated to the Kardashians.
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"A lot of outer space hoaxes are really just exercises in wish fulfillment, " says self-proclaimed "hoaxpert" Alex Boese, author of the wide-ranging Museum of Hoaxes: A History of Outrageous Pranks and Deceptions.
Grab a bagel with cream cheese and lox and head east to the intriguing, esoteric American Museum of Natural History, which is housed in a massive 19th-century Beaux Arts building off Central Park West.
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