At the same time, though, having always worked in a government-supported museum, he had not experienced what fatigues so many American curators: raising money.
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Although the Chinese government has built a museum devoted to artefacts from the site, it still needs a sustainable plan for visitor access, interpretation and enjoyment by locals.
The Greek Government is planning to build a museum to house the marbles, to be be completed in time for the 2004 Olympics.
Like all national museums and galleries, it eagerly awaits a government announcement on funding levels for museum and galleries over the next three years, expected in July.
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The funding allocation from the assembly government - 94% of the museum's income - will not be known until the autumn but Mr Gwyn said the Heritage Minister Alun Ffred Jones was very supportive of the work they did.
The Mongolian government recently decided to turn an old Lenin museum into a new dinosaur museum.
The Cabildo, a historic government building and one of the Louisiana State Museum's five French Quarter properties, has reopened with limited hours.
But while Oetzi was feted by the provincial government in Bolzano, who built a special museum for him, the Simons felt they were unfairly treated.
The structure is made from sea rocks and gypsum, and served as both residence to Dubai's rulers and the seat of government until 1971, when it became a museum.
The rejection puts pressure on the government to try to step in and save the museum.
Initially they planned to put the museum in Havana, but talks with the Cuban government failed.
The museum in Klushino has never been funded by the government, she says.
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Peers pressed the government to take action to protect valuable artefacts from the Wedgwood museum at question time on 30 November 2010.
Examples of his work are held at Government Art Collection, Arts Council of Great Britain, National Museum of Wales, National Portrait Gallery and Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
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"These objects were never meant to have left Egypt, and therefore should rightfully belong to the government of Egypt, " Thomas Campbell, director of the museum, said in a statement released on Wednesday.
Government support includes the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
"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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In 2001 British tobacco company Gallaher Group bought Austria Tabak, at one time Austria's government-run tobacco monopoly, and decided to shrink the company's museum.
The Shanghai government partnered with the Bureau International des Expositions to build a massive 35, 000sqm World Expo Museum.
"We have the largest art museum in the Gulf region, " says Manal Ataya, the director of the government's Museums Department.
The museum says the cross is an historical artefact, and that anyway it is not a government agency.
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The Parliament also said the government was powerless to stop those deportations, a statement that fell short of the full acceptance the museum and other organizations had hoped for.
While vandals scrawled graffiti on the walls of the Renault plant, government officials dragged their feet, says Pinault, who was prepared to build a square around his museum, but he wanted to make sure that the rest of Ile Seguin would be developed appropriately, with high-end shops or housing for artists.
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Monuments, such as Mexico city's lavish anthropology museum, were built in their honour, and artists like Diego Rivera glorified Indian history in their government-commissioned murals.
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