In 2008, the foundation transferred the house, property and contents to the Seward House Museum.
Now known as the Sod House Museum, it is open to the public six months a year and attracts nearly 60, 000 visitors.
"Meetings in Marrakech: The Paintings of Hassan El Glaoui and Winston Churchill" is on at Leighton House Museum, London, until March 31, 2012.
Be sure and stop by the stable yards to watch the craftspeople demonstrate life on a plantation, and take the tour of the House Museum.
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The Hendrix in Britain exhibition at the Handel House Museum in Mayfair will mark the 40th anniversary of the guitar legend's death on 18 September 1970.
Visitors to Jane Austen's House Museum, in Chawton, Hampshire, can view a rarely seen letter in which Austen says the novel is "my own darling child".
New York's Tenement House Museum now refers to its historic building, tellingly, not as slum housing but as an "urban log cabin"--a starting point for upward mobility.
Palumbo has another private-house museum that is already profitable.
Though El Glaoui was never able to meet and thank Churchill, the exhibition at Leighton House Museum -- which was first proposed by the artist's daughter -- is a belated meeting between the two painters.
Those with an eye for culture are spoilt for choice as the city boasts a number of excellent museums - Macronie House Museum, Voortrekker Museum and the Natal Museum are particularly recommended- as well as the ornate railway station.
The Emerson Foundation, former operator of the Seward House Museum in Auburn, announced last week in a letter to supporters that Thomas Cole's 1839 landscape titled "Portage Falls on the Genesee" had been removed and stored in a secured location.
Once you descend into Cadaques, a town that drew Pablo Picasso (The Port at Cadaques, 1910), and Surrealist artists like Jean Miro and Marcel Duchamp, it is only a few more kilometres to Portlligat and the wondrous, white Salvador Dali House Museum (reservations are required).
The house is one of the Dali triad that includes the Dali Theatre-Museum in Figueres and the Gala Dali Castle-House Museum in Pubol, but Portlligat is where the famous Surrealist lived from 1930 to 1982 and where he created works like The Madonna of Portlligat.
In 1947 it became the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film.
And the Curzon Street railway station buildings could house a museum of photography.
The fire has damaged 20th century outbuildings at the site which are used to house the museum's loans collection, which is said to have been badly damaged.
Today, the house is a museum and sits virtually hidden in the windy Laurel Highlands of western Pennsylvania.
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For the moment, part of that history is still living, in the house behind the museum.
Visit the Safe House Black History Museum (call for an appointment, 334-624-2030), created from two shotgun homes, one of which hid Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.
Then, in 1996, Palumbo turned Farnsworth House into a museum.
Some come by e-mail, in a note from an artist asking me to view his work, or a press release from an auction house or a museum, or a request by a PR agent to speak with a special client.
"This is a living house not a museum and so visitors are encouraged to touch, sit and explore the rooms which are decorated and furnished as they would have been when the Thomas family moved in, " said Geoff and Anne Haden, who restored the house.
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Drive another 6 miles through the countryside to another Wright house-turned-museum, Kentuck Knob (www.kentuckknob.com).
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The house is now a museum, and the county frequently rents out its rooms and gardens for parties and receptions.
In a museum-house with glass walls, the Kramlichs and their architects hope to have found apt expression for this remarkable vision.
The Greek Government is planning to build a museum to house the marbles, to be be completed in time for the 2004 Olympics.
The company's charter required the establishment of a museum "to house the natural and artificial curiosities" brought back by member ships.
This is powerful architecture built to house powerful things: the museum celebrates our affection for antique bicycles, cars and trains, but without coy nostalgia.
The Portsmouth Historic Dockyard museum will also house 19, 000 ship artefacts.
It had been hoped a new museum built to house the ship would be ready for the anniversary but in September trustees announced it would open in 2013.
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