On loan from major museums and private collections are paintings by such major British landscapists as John Constable and J.
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The gallery was to have been filled with artworks looted across Europe by the Nazis from museums and private collections, many of them Jewish.
The demand is as large as the Chinese population and economy, and supply of exquisite objects limited, thanks to most being in Western museums or private collections.
The National Archives in Washington held a discussion Thursday about the case that set the museum world on edge and raised alarms about the vulnerability of archives, museums and research collections nationwide.
Collections and museums just do not have the space to show all of those paintings.
There will be a future UNESCO recommendation on the theme of collections and museums.
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Italian banks published 433 books on galleries, collections, museums, artists and buildings between 1990 and 1993, and the flow of new titles continues.
They said blocking the sale would have implications for the trade of indigenous art and could potentially force French museums to hand back collections they have bought.
By the early 1920s, African art was not only coveted by individuals but had begun entering the collections of museums devoted to modern art, particularly the Barnes Foundation.
"I wanted to produce a book that would be so rare, so cherished and so well received that 500 years from now it will be in museums and in private collections, " Cheers explained.
He treats Italy like his own private attic, coaxing a few famous but mostly obscure old masters out of private collections, regional museums, palaces and churches.
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In developing countries, the collections of many museums are in dire straights, with often no access to the network of resources and expertise, which exists in other countries.
Sadly, though, while the following list of the world's greatest post-war art thefts reveals that most of the work stolen from museums, galleries and private collections has been returned, many are still missing.
"The People's Collection will use advanced, cutting edge technology to enable everyone to create their own history collections, drawing on content from existing digital collections in our museums, archives and libraries, " he said.
Few of the tourists strolling around the museum grounds realise that beneath them are 60 scientists, a particle accelerator and a battery of research equipment dedicated to soliciting secrets from the vast collections of French museums.
Over the last 25 years, the number of museums worldwide and the size of collections have been dramatically growing while resources are spread more and more thinly.
While larger museums may contain bigger and better collections of 17th-century Dutch art, the Mauritshuis offers an excellent survey of all the genres that artists of the Dutch Golden Age so miraculously mastered.
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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The website will be in the framework of the Water and Cultural Diversity project and will offer a platform of cooperation and information dissemination, acting as a reference tool for promoting loans of collections and objects between museums on the one hand, and an exchange forum of museum professionals and education staff on the other.
Foreign museums and collectors need not worry about their collections.
The trend is driven both by museums flush with funds to fill out their collections and by newly enamored consumers who have come to appreciate the subtleties of menswear.
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"I selected the Met as the way to share this collection because I feel that it's essential that Cubism - and the art that follows it, for that matter - be seen and studied within the collections of one of the greatest encyclopaedic museums in the world, " he said.
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Some owners have moved collections out of storage to be displayed at home or in museums.
In 2007, UNESCO launched a three-year partnership with ICCROM(International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property) to assist museums in developing countries with improving their skills for the preventive conservation of collections.
There are no other museums that rely exclusively on donor-contributed and donor-loaned guns for their museum collections.
While it might sound reasonable to require that a gift be completed within ten years, the museums say that this provision will discourage gifts from younger collectors, adding that they spend decades building up collections anyway.
The participants are to re-scope the mission of the World Heritage-related site museums in the contemporary world, by means of collective reflection and practical exercise for the enhanced and holistic interpretation of collections, collection management, development of participative approach for local communities, and museum visitor studies.
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