The couple, who spent a lifetime building up the collection, made it a condition of their will that nothing be revealed about them or their reasons for building up the collection.
As for the town's shuttered branch, Southern Michigan found a buyer in one of Athens' residents: Dave Enders, a coin dealer who stores his vast collection in the building's vault.
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Although there is little damage to the museum collection in the Immigration Building, there is significant damage to the infrastructure as a result of the storm, according to the National Park Service.
This often creates tension between building sustainable data collection systems in countries and providing timely data internationally.
Conservative foundations finance conservative newspapers and provide scholarships for right young things (one conservative impresario compares funding young conservatives to building a wine collection).
And I just want to mention here again that it's unusual among major city museums in that the city owns the building and the collection.
Britny Alvarado, a 15-year-old eleventh grader in Connecticut, is building up her ringtone collection.
The early treasures would be better seen in the old building near the superb collection of early Chinese sculpture of much the same period.
Although building up an atlas collection is much more expensive, he adds that it the cost of buying beautiful, historically important maps is not necessarily eye watering.
With buzz and anticipation building for his debut collection for Balenciaga, Wang used his own show to make the statement that his signature line is still very much on his mind.
You turn again to face the serene void of the court, and only then do you see the entrance doors of the Barnes Collection, in the second long building, directly parallel, across the way.
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Set around a rotunda that mirrors the gentle curves of the porcelain, the Korean collection is housed in an ochre building by architect Mario Botta with a turret and battlements--"Like a castle guarding traditional art, " says Park Min-sun, a Leeum spokeswoman.
Casa Lola has 10 stylish guestrooms, two swimming pools and an impressive private art collection in a renovated 17th-century building.
The UNESCO Art Collection was initiated with the construction of UNESCO building, and it brings together works of art from across the world as a symbol of intellectual and moral solidarity and as a means to deepen it.
Putting a great collection in this perspective, and in this building, as an act of total aesthetic collaboration makes the Bilbao Guggenheim one of the most significant, as well as one of the most beautiful museums in the world today.
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For the last three years the French wine and spirits giant, whose portfolio includes Absolut vodka, Chivas Regal scotch and Malibu rum, has invited an up-and-coming fine art photographer to shoot a series of portraits for its annual report, building a one of a kind collection in the process.
First, there was his ambition of building a museum to show his ballooning collection.
With its extensive collection of African and Asian art, the Majestic building is an oasis in a cultural desert.
They are building incredible museums and an incredible art collection.
And the coastal city of Gangneung helped pay for a phonograph-shaped building to hold a local businessman's collection of Thomas Edison memorabilia, including hundreds of gramophones and light bulbs.
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The building now houses the Museum of Macau, a comprehensive collection of artefacts from before and after the arrival of the Portuguese.
Lopez has also been luring the art world's elite to Mexico, inviting 25 curators a year to visit his collection, housed in a 40, 000-square-foot building.
While building a whole gallery may have been simple, dividing the collection was not.
Earlier this month trustees of the collection announced plans to upgrade and repair the 30-year-old building to make it fit for the 21st Century.
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Johnson bought most of his art in 1998, when he learned that a significant body of work, the Barnett-Aden collection, was for sale by the Florida Education Fund, along with the building where the art was housed, the National Museum of African American Art, in Tampa.
After the move, the building will become a new home for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection of modern and contemporary art.
When completed the extended and refurbished building will double the space available for exhibitions, including displays of its renowned collection of Pre-Raphaelite works.
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