The national cuisine has been refined over centuries and is treated more reverently than any museum collection in the country.
With make-believe Anglo names such as Wilton and Tarts, the counterfeit Brits were sold by the thousands, and examples can be found today in the formidable British Museum collection.
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.
The museum collection--featuring bronzes, pottery, porcelain, paintings and calligraphy--is so vast that only a small proportion can be displayed at one time, while the remainder is stored in vaults within the hills behind the museum.
Take museums for instance, already struggling with cost cuts across the board, the idea they could have remote viewings of their museum collection is appealing, but what is the business case for the investment and the cost to the end users.
Also on the third floor, the new on-site space for collection storage offers an international community of researchers and scholars unprecedented access to much of the Museum's collection of more than 130, 000 objects.
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Fossilised bones and a stuffed gull are among the items plucked from the museum's collection.
The museum's collection of more than 16, 000 works ranges across a variety of periods, styles and media.
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Chicago's Field Museum has a collection of shrunken heads made by an Ecuadorian tribe once known as the Jivaro.
The process is recorded in surreal detail in photographs from the museum's collection.
It is now part of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection museum in Venice, where it was originally intended to end up.
The exhibit includes a wartime ration book, a 1943 Treasury bond, and a 25-cent war-stamp album, all from the museum's collection.
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Today, the museum's collection includes nearly 300 artworks by about 70 Olympians.
Hedley hopes that the exhibition will end in a charity auction or donating the pictures to a local museum or other collection.
The copper-alloy mirror is similar to the Portesham Mirror - already part of the museum's collection - which was acquired in 1994.
Dealers and artists say it's unclear whether Mr. Yang is trying to build a museum-worthy collection or angling for the right moment to cash out.
The pieces came into the museum's collection from Mr Carter's niece and from his house in Luxor, Egypt, which he bequeathed to the museum, the museum said.
Examples of the furniture and glassware that have become revered modern classics are from the museum's collection, but many of the pieces are still in production 60 years later.
The museum's collection vividly charts Dubai's rapid progress from a tiny pre-oil fishing and pearling village - and one of the world's first free-trade ports - through to the Arabian metropolis it is today.
In the Pergamon, it is positioned at the beginning of the processional road leading to the Gates of Ishtar, the ornately tiled entrance to Babylon that is one of the most impressive reconstructions in the museum's collection.
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The museum's collection comprises more than 6, 300 objects including pre-historic tools, Bronze Age, Roman and Saxon artefacts, maps, textiles, books, paintings and prints, together with objects and ephemera from before Victorian times up to World War II, the 1950s and the present day.
In honour of the birthday celebrations, the Birthplace visitor centre will open a new exhibition, Famous Beyond Words, in March, retelling the story of Shakespeare's development from Stratford local to world famous playwright, using artefacts from the museum's collection (such as the 1623 First Folio, the first published collection of Shakespeare's plays and the only reliable source for more than 20 of his works).
Moreover, the show complements the museum's own collection of Hudson River School paintings in the gallery above and in the museum's preserved Trevor Mansion.
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His birthplace was converted into a museum featuring a small collection of works by and about the author and Florence itself.
The Concord Museum contains an enormous collection of Henry David Thoreau artefacts.
' recalls Harry Rubenstein, who's in charge of the museum's Lincoln collection.
And then, of course, The British Museum has a huge collection of artefacts - many of them recovered from the same sites.
One of her last pieces was a review for the Journal of the new museum housing the Barnes Collection of art in Philadelphia.
She campaigned against the sale and the chastened museum handed over the collection intact to the American Numismatic Society for a nominal sum.
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