The 10-room museum contains gold-handled pistols with jewel inlays and cars with false compartments.
The wax museum with a room dedicated to the three women who embody the ideal feminine: Mother Teresa, Princess Di and Julia Roberts.
The museum contains a room dedicated to the Emirati woman poet Ousha Bint Khalifa -- known as the Girl of Arabia, a gallery devoted to temporary art exhibitions, a collection of Arabian fragrances and oils, traditional jewelery and a women's study center.
U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz said she has visited the Dutch Room at the museum several times and has seen the empty frames where the paintings once hung.
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Dave Anderson, of Towneley Hall, says Taylor was an amateur archaeologist who sent so many artefacts back from his travels "by the tea-chestful" that he used to have his own room in the museum.
Johnson, who in the 1970s gave the museum nine pieces from his own collection, said that his favorite picture was Edward Hopper's stunning "Room in New York, " which the museum purchased in 1936, four years after Hopper painted it.
Upstairs, in a dining room available for hire, is museum-quality 20th-century British art, including works by David Bomberg, Jacob Kramer and Keith Vaughan.
The new 68-seat screening room will be used for the Museum's groundbreaking education program Screening America, as well as for other educational programs and public screenings.
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"In the United States, we tend to have a romantic view of owning a great British estate, " says Tom Savage, the director of museum affairs at Winterthur, the 175-room Delaware estate of the late chemical heir Henry Francis du Pont, which houses the foremost collection of American furniture and decorative objects.
The room with the smelling table includes a museum staffer whose hawking of the fragrances is little different from a department-store floor-walker's.
Home to the "Block Beuys, " a seven-room installation first created in 1970, the museum serves as custodian of the largest surviving work by the artist.
By its literal definition, the Hall would simply be a room filled with famous people, like a wing of the Museum of American History dedicated to the Kardashians.
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He has provided some conventional galleries that would fit into any modern museum, but these are secondary to the capacious spaces he has created to make room for the large and many-shaped artworks of the last four decades.
His dream was to create a kind of hotel cum museum, not only showcasing antiques in the public spaces but also different collections in each room.
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The museum's director, Helmut Trotnow, says that a later extension may in time make room for a bigger and fuller picture.
Two years ago, while participating in the museum's "Conversations With Artists" series, Mr. Laib stepped into the Rothko Room for the first time and was transported by "a very emotional, deep feeling, " he says.
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The live-editing display will feature a New York Mets baseball game specially recorded for the Museum by the Mets, including feeds from the 12 on-field cameras, the control room, the announcers' booth, the game graphics and the game broadcast itself.
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Across the street from the Vereins Kirche, The Pioneer Museum showcases 10 other preserved buildings from the immigrant era, including a blacksmith shop, a one-room schoolhouse and a bathhouse.
Indeed, I learned something I didn't know when I attended the standing-room-only Bierstadt lecture, delivered by Annette Blaugrund, a former director of the National Academy Museum.
The Golden Dragon Museum opened in Bendigo in 1991 and has crafted classical Chinese gardens, the Guan Yin Temple and a Chinese tea room.
The redevelopment will include a new club megastore, museum, cafe, a family information centre, pitch-facing hospitality facilities, including a 500-plus capacity room, and a larger accessible lounge for disabled supporters.
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