He opened a private museum in Jakarta a year ago and intends to build a similar network across Asia.
While entirely appropriate for a private museum devoted to the contemporary, such intensely orchestrated environments give pause when they spread to more public settings.
After he died, in 1951, his will was slowly picked apart until legal permission was granted to move the pieces from his private museum outside Philadelphia to a soon-to-be-finished public one in the city proper.
He arrived in America by a circuitous route that took in New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Tring, a small town in southern England where Lord Rothschild, a rich naturalist, had established a private museum.
Palumbo has another private-house museum that is already profitable.
The 300, 000-square-foot institution in Jersey City serves 600, 000 school-age potential geniuses every year, according to Vice President Dan Menelly, who gave us a private tour of the museum during the evening's cocktail hour.
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 opportunity for a museum or a private collector to buy one of the great icons of art history is unlikely to be repeated any time soon, " said Shaw.
No fan of wandering through trendy neighborhoods or doing mindless shopping, I hit on the idea of visiting a bunch of the smaller museums, set in once private homes like the Frick Museum in New York.
In St Paul, public agencies and private companies have built a science museum, a hockey arena and a convention centre.
Formerly a residence, Baburizza now functions as a museum, proudly displaying a private collection of early 20th-century European art.
Current legislation calls for the museum to be constructed with private money.
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The Victoria and Albert Purchase Grant Fund paid half the costs, and donations also came from a private donor and the Friends of the Museum of Somerset.
Wowing our guests may include setting up a private tour of a must-see museum exhibit, acquiring tickets to a sold-out concert or assisting a future groom with engagement arrangements at one of our hotels.
The museum will immediately become the largest private contemporary art space in Latin America.
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An army museum has identified the remains of Private Harry Wilkinson, from Bury in Lancashire, more than 80 years after he was killed on a Flanders battlefield.
Years ago I set out to purchase museum-quality ancient art from private hands, to care for it, study the works, keep them in trust and display and lend them.
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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 museum bought the letters from an anonymous private collector via Sotheby's in New York.
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This rapid cultural development has made Shanghai an important destination on the international art circuit: The Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art and countless new private galleries, though young, are turning it into a contemporary arts hub to rival China's capital, Beijing.
Kiran recently opened an art museum near Delhi that features paintings and sculptures from her private collection.
Or head to the Museo del Vidrio y Cristal (Museum of Glass and Crystal) to see an extraordinary private collection of antique furniture, priceless carpets, pre-Raphaelite stained-glass windows and vast 16th-century ancestral portraits.
As visitors move through the museum, it is the remnants of Kahlo and Rivera's private life that begin to tell their story.
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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As a result of the variety of actors represented (political decision makers, site managers, museum directors, local community representatives, the World Tourism Organization, the private sector, etc.), the seminar resulted in the creation of a detailed inventory of field experiences, shared best practices and identified constraints and challenges to tourism memory.
She learned from New York State Military Museum in Saratoga Springs that Smith, at 37 years old, enrolled as an Army private at Lansingburg in 1862.
Miss Ashton asked the Treasury to consider funding the museum via a grant or a subsidy "that could make the site more attractive to private developers".
He was a public defender in Washington before helping to establish the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and then going to work for nine years in private practice.
These particular dinosaurs are in the university's museum, but they are bucking a trend: More and more fossils are ending up in private collections--including Myhrvold's.
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