The gift reflects the outsized ambitions the retail-chain family has for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, a complex of eight gallery pavilions it has helped build around a pair of ponds in the company's northwestern Arkansas hometown of Bentonville (population 35, 301).
"The Brontes grew up used to seeing their father's books on the shelves of the parsonage, " says Andrew McCarthy, director of the Bronte Parsonage Museum in the family's former home in Haworth, West Yorkshire.
From the Ground Floor Corridor rooms, transformed from their early use as service areas, to the State Floor rooms, where countless leaders and dignitaries have been entertained, the White House is both the home of the President of the United States his family and a museum of American history.
The coach will be displayed in the former Military Vehicle Museum which the Shepherd family bought from the council and is currently being renovated.
The Lee family's name may be on the museum, but in South Korea much of the philanthropy comes from companies, not individuals, and the Leeum is no exception.
The site's developers wanted to keep the remains in a museum or memorial, but Kelly's family wanted the bones returned.
It is understood the Darling family had made a replica of the medal and will present it to the museum at some point.
The toys, notes and other materials were boxed and labeled under the supervision of the Aurora History Museum for storage, the city said, and they'll remain available to family members to view at a secure location.
The ceremony coincided with a display of family photographs and portraits of the London-born actor at the Museum of London.
Other offerings from the museum include family audio guides that are best for ages 6 to 12, Norris said, and a "Make your Mark!"
And for a more focused trip, the museum's Web site provides downloadable "Family Adventure" self-guided tours that cover anything from scavenger hunts through the museum to biodiversity and conservation.
For three centuries, generations of Wings slept in that sturdy wood-frame house before the family eventually turned it into a museum.
The museum also offers a number of family programs, associate museum educator Mike Norris said.
"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.
If that isn't the largest Picasso collection outside a museum, it's beaten only by what's in the Picasso family.
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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The Museum of Chinese in America kicks off its Lunar New Year Family Festival on 2 February with performances by local dancers, kid-centric Mandarin workshops, hands-on arts and crafts projects and a chance to learn more about Chinese holiday customs and rituals.
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.
"Every family here is reaping profits from the Qin army, " says Feng Dong, manager of the museum's Friendship Store.
He and his wife are behind the William and Sue Gross Family Foundation, an annual contributor to Columbia University, Doctors Without Borders and the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum, which is building the 12, 000-square foot William H.
Edelman had set up Museum Partners in the 1990s to acquire a stake in a French company then controlled by the Taittinger family that held assets like Baccarat Crystal and Taittinger Champagne.
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