So far, we've gotten offers from some natural history museums and science museums around the planet.
Asma is the author of a book about the culture and evolution of natural history museums, called Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads.
Natural-history museums that are popping up in China, Japan, and the Middle East have been accused of being willing to buy from anyone.
In a thoughtful study, Stephen Asma examines how natural-history museums fulfil the sometimes conflicting functions of education and entertainment, and how far their scientific purpose has been distorted by crowd-pleasing gimmicks.
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This international conference will gather various experts, history museums directors, curators and historians across the region and beyond, so as to hold a comparative exchange of views on the role and function of prominent History Museums today.
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This is the very first time that national history museums from South-East Europe and beyond - Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia - come together to put in perspective and compare their collections and their national histories.
Cross the moat into upstate's Finger Lakes kingdom where you can lord over more winery tours and tastings, quaint shops, golfing, museums, history and water sports.
Mountain View just added 20 US museums to its battery of 10, 000 indoor schematics, including the de Young Museum in San Francisco, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Cincinnati Museum Center, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, 17 Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo in DC.
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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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Yet on this trip, I can't get enough of museums and learning about the history of all these fascinating places we're visiting.
For inclement weather, Akureyri has quality museums covering the expected ( history, art, the preserved homes of local writers) and the unexpected ( antique toys, motorbikes, aviation).
"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.
As a major destination for theatre lovers, and with over 240 museums in London, art, history and culture lovers are spoiled for choice.
"In Paris we happen to have the most important museums covering almost all of art history--from its earliest origins through the Modernist movement, " Pinault says grandly.
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What "Hugo Cabret" did for early French cinema, here Selznick reveals a further love of history, specifically for several famous New York City museums.
While the latter have most of the oil and grand building projects and bling, Omanis remain wedded to 5, 000 years of history and culture, preserving traditional buildings, opening museums and occasionally bemoaning the flash modernism of their neighbours in the UAE.
How can one city -- even one with such a rich history and such a large population -- sustain so many museums?
They have been around museums, including the recently opened Museum of the History of Polish Jews on the site of the former Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw.
"The People's Collection will use advanced, cutting edge technology to enable everyone to create their own history collections, drawing on content from existing digital collections in our museums, archives and libraries, " he said.
The headquarters of many banks and businesses are also here, as well as 100 museums including the comprehensive Modern Art Museum and the living history museum Skansen, home to traditional Swedish buildings and craftspeople.
One of the most popular museums in the world, the Louvre has a long history of collecting art from the Islamic world, from putting on the first exhibition in Paris dedicated to Islamic art in 1893 to creating a dedicated Islamic art department in 2003.
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.
"I think of the Indians and their situation when their ancestors' bones were taken for display at museums, " says Al Walton of the African-American History Project Committee.
It had been a few tough days of not really appreciating the art, architecture and history enough -- no matter how many hours I had devoted to museums.
It encompasses museums, shows and fairs and work to promote public understanding of the history of science.
But there is much more to Philly than history, from cheesesteaks and fine dining to a truly stunning world class assortment of museums and the largest collection of impressionist French art outside of Paris.
The Natural History Museum at the University of Kansas, for example, is one of six university museums throughout the Midwest now mounting a new exhibit: Explore Evolution.
How the DIA, whose illustrious and encyclopedic collection places it among the very top museums in the U.S., got to this point is a matter of history.
Museums in all 50 states, covering a wide range of topics, from art to science to history, will be participating in Museum Day Live!
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