There are no other museums that rely exclusively on donor-contributed and donor-loaned guns for their museum collections.
Preventive conservation is no less important as the main factor of preservation of museum collections, particularly manuscript collections.
It calls up images of dusty museum collections policed by overseers who are either bewilderingly specialized or blatantly indifferent.
"The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers really didn't like patents, " says Sir George White, keeper of the Clockmakers ' Museum collections.
At the end of the training basic recommendations on improving preventive conservation of museum collections, in particular manuscript collections in CIS countries were developed.
The Memory of the World Programme serves as UNESCO's flagship activity to promote and protect archives, libraries and museum collections worldwide so that they can be consulted by later generations.
Federal investigators usually take possession of plane parts following a crash, but pieces of wreckage recovered from aircraft involved in the attacks have been treated as historical artifacts and become part of museum collections, he said.
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The statement added that several species of rhino have been "brought to the edge of extinction" due to poaching in the wild, so in recent years thieves have begun to target museum and private collections.
The museum is known for its collections of Native American and African art, while Asian art is showcased at the Seattle Museum of Asian Ar t (1400 East Prospect Street, Volunteer Park) in Capitol Hill.
His work is held in collections concluding the Guggenheim Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the New Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Her sculptures are included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Brooklyn Museum, among others.
The new project would provide space for the existing museum's art collection, collections from the British Sporting Art Trust and the Tate, and provide a home for the Retraining of Racehorses charity.
John Curtis, keeper of the Middle East collections at the British Museum says they make up "the finest collection of ancient carved ivories that have ever been found at an archaeological excavation" and are in good condition, possibly because of Christie's efforts.
This now forms the core of the Japanese art collections housed in the National Museum of Ethnology at Leiden.
"He lived here with his family in the last 25 years before it became a museum and he has donated his two collections, " said Sabanci.
Mr Stowe said the council had committed to not increasing charges for car parking, green waste collections, or leisure and museum prices, for at least another three years.
He objects to monolithic buildings like New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which separate their collections from the hubbub of the street with vast staircases and thick stone walls.
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By the 1980s, when the Getty Museum began to hoover up old private collections including one belonging to Sam Wagstaff, a legendary collector with an original eye and a personal fortune collectors and curators all had to know exactly who was who, and who had changed the medium.
The collections were recognized by the European Museum Award in 1996.
Famous artists like Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo do appear in museum shows, but the permanent modern art collections of most major institutions are comprised largely of work by male artists.
"Loans" from otherwise restricted collections permanently displayed elsewhere in the museum enable juxtapositions of gems one might have missed in the Linsky Collection (on the first floor), or in the Lehman Collection (housed in its own wing on the museum's west side).
But Wifarer and the Royal BC Museum added a new dimension, as the you move, you can have access to multimedia information about each exhibit, essentially giving you a glimpse into the stories behind the collections as you move through the museum.
The gift will aid the museum in its efforts to catch up to the depth and scope of the African art collections in other encyclopedic museums around the world, including New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Puppets from national collections will go on display in the museum.
But a striking number of collections cooperated -- partly due to the museum's persistence.
The former Mikhailovsky Palace, now the Russian Museum, houses one of the country's finest collections of Russian art.
Usually, the products sold by the museum's licensees are new designs loosely inspired by its collections, not straight replicas of exhibits.
We're looking to make the collections more accessible outside and inside the walls of the museum.
On the second floor is the Poly Museum, where museum assistant Hu Way(ph) shows off some of the collections gems.
Once the work is completed, the heritage trust hopes to create a new 971 square metre exhibition space, allowing the museum to display some of the large industrial objects in its reserve collections for the first time.
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