The museum building has been designed by Finnish architects Rainer Mahlamaki and Ilmari Lahdelma and will feature glass and limestone.
Arlingtons, the restaurant and cafe in the former Ipswich Museum building on Museum Street, lived up to its aim of providing a successful alternative to the coffee chains.
At the end of the meeting the Director-General paid a visit to the Director of the State Hermitage Museum, Mr. Mikhail Piotrovsky on further strengthening the ongoing cooperation between the Museum and UNESCO for the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Museum in 2013, as well as for regional capacity-building of museum professionals in Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
The president will speak to donors at a candlelight celebration at the National Building Museum on Sunday night.
Noguchi created the museum in the building where he lived and worked, on a residential street surrounded by parking lots and warehouses.
Decker, a former Chief Curator of Washington's National Building Museum, believes the concept of a street in the sky is "antagonistic" to how cities should work.
First, there was his ambition of building a museum to show his ballooning collection.
Whitson disagrees with building a museum, which, according to her, will be tainted by the exploitation of incredibly vulnerable workers.
Stockholm had long considered building a museum for Sweden's most successful pop group, but previous plans fell through in 2008.
On this recent Saturday, however, we were each there as individuals enjoying the ambiance of the museum and its historic building.
Keith Wellin, a 1950 Hamilton grad, gave the college 10 million to start building a museum in honor of his parents.
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He and his wife are behind the William and Sue Gross Family Foundation, an annual contributor to Columbia University, Doctors Without Borders and the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum, which is building the 12, 000-square foot William H.
The new buildings face the Kimbell Art Museum, the finest post-war building in Texas, and the building against which any new architecture in the state will be measured in the current museum-athon.
Backed by his cousin, the emir, the sheikh is building a photography museum in Qatar.
The group is helping to create a town museum based in the hospital building.
But like the pharaohs before him, Pinault has his eye on eternity--building a monumental museum for the ages.
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But they warn that there is more to creating a museum than just picking a building to house it in.
His architect said it was to turn the building into a museum for records and drawings of local historic buildings.
Right now, he is focused on building incredibly realistic museum pieces that would seem a lot like residents at a zoo.
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Although subject of numerous exhibitions across Europe and worldwide debate, it was not until 1998 that his first actual building, a museum dedicated to Jewish artist Felix Nussbaum, opened in Osnabruck, Germany.
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.
During the decade-long closure of the Cuypers building, the museum continued to show a portion of its holdings in the modern Philips wing, giving the curators a chance to experiment with mixed methods of presentation and to learn what works and what doesn't.
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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.
Today, the school building has become a museum, exhibits of pocket watches and identity cards found on the victims stand in glass cases.
Abu Dhabi is trying to present itself as a more cultured, less congested alternative to neighbouring Dubai, and is building a huge Guggenheim museum.
It's been a decade since Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum--"the greatest building of our time, " according to the late Philip Johnson--embedded Bilbao on the cultural globe.
Mr Ando's approach is shared by Rafael Moneo, a Spanish architect, who designed the Audrey Jones Beck Building for the Houston Museum of Fine Arts.
We also stop by Seattle's Experience Music Project, where we speak to curator Jacob McMurray about the role technology has created in building a better music museum.
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.
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