Russia denied it had the treasure until 1993 - then in 1996 it put necklaces, bracelets and other objects from the collection on display at Moscow's Pushkin Museum.
Founded in 1707, prior to the establishment of national museums, libraries and galleries in Britain, the society is exhibiting over 140 objects from its collection in North America for the first time.
Syria was one of the first centres of Christian art, as a collection of silver objects shows.
Other pieces were seized from grave robbers and smugglers, meaning that the 10, 000 gold objects in the Hermitage's collection are necessarily an accidental sampling of history.
But the forces exerted by objects in the Kuiper belt (a collection of small bodies orbiting the sun beyond the orbit of Pluto), or by the galaxy as a whole, were also far too weak to be responsible.
Mr. Rush said that the campus's now-closed Kresge museum will move its collection, including 7, 000 objects of Greek and Roman antiquities, Old Master paintings and 20th-century sculpture, into the new space.
The exhibit, according to the museum, brings together an extensive collection -- more than 60 objects associated with Lincoln's life, including an iron wedge used to split wood in the 1830s and his famous top hat, which he wore the night he was shot at Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
"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.
Richard gets a guided tour of Copperfield's private collection, which contains 80, 000 objects of magic memorabilia, dating back to the 16th century.
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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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.
Akin to MUJAM in its celebration of Mexican products, the Museo del Objeto del Objeto (the Museum of the Purpose of the Object) is a collection of more than 30, 000 quotidian objects, some more than two centuries old.
With some 160 objects and works of art, from a still growing collection already six times that size, the show sets out to illustrate 1, 000 years of Islamic artistic and scientific accomplishments in countries from China to Spain.
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The collection at Althorp House features more than 150 personal objects including her Emanuel wedding dress.
The Sheikh may have thought that he had seen the last of his fabulous collection, but Iraqi Museum officials looked after the objects entrusted to them.
Cuming Museum, which was founded in 1906 with the Cuming family's private collection, has artefacts from all over the world, including objects from Roman London, Chinese ornaments and African tribal costumes.
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Blending seamlessly with the historical objects in Berger's studio are the early iterations of her debut furniture collection, made up of nine finely rendered handmade glass and metal pieces, launching this month at the Holly Hunt showroom in New York.
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