He has also built the Experience Music Project and the Sci-Fi Museum, two of the great monuments to an American adolescence.
These included the independent Caister Lifeboat and the Nelson Museum in Great Yarmouth.
Best of all is the British Museum (Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury), a sparkling trove of treasures plundered from all over the world.
Next month, amid great fanfare, the National Museum of American Jewish History opens its doors on Independence Mall, a whisper away from the Liberty Bell.
As the caretakers of this area, they are happy to let people pitch their tent behind the Sims Museum, the general store replica and are great company, full of stories about the history of the canal and their own role in its continued evolution.
These are the exhibitions that will get the attention, but don't forget the publically-funded modern art galleries up and down the country that show great art all year round, from the Bristol Art Museum to the National Galleries of Scotland.
John Roland Reader, For services to the Captain Cook Schoolroom Museum, Great Ayton, North Yorkshire.
The trip included visits to the forbidden city and great wall of China in Beijing, the terra cotta warrior museum in Xi An and the Bund and French Concession in Shanghai.
"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.
The couple spent their later years greeting fans at the museum and enjoying life with their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
But even if you'll never be able to afford a treasure like the Duke-Semans mansion, take comfort that the museum across the street allows access to the trappings of great wealth and beauty--for as little as a penny.
The pterosaur fossil was donated to the Natural History Museum, which recently named the Isle of Wight as the "dinosaur capital of Great Britain".
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Back in 1719, when Russian Czar Peter the Great opened what is considered to be the first public museum, he displayed all sorts of natural and human rarities: exotic butterflies, skeletons and living specimens such as Foma the Lobster Boy.
Mr Rees, from Swansea, saw a sketch of a soldier at Rorke's Drift used in promotion by the National Army Museum in January this year and recognised his great-grandfather.
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The great "Vanitas I" by Georges Braque, at the Kreeger Museum in Washington, is a classic example.
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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 National Museum of Scotland is already one of the world's great museums.
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Over the past two years, Perry has been let loose inside what the museum's boss Neil MacGregor calls "one of the great imaginative storehouses of the world, " free to pick and choose items for his show from its immense collection.
The truth is that while I love museums and galleries (and I buy all of my art from great galleries in NYC and around the world and spot talents on the rise in museum shows), the whole concept of just seeing a piece of art hanging on a white wall seemed too out of touch from my reality.
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The museum had 320, 000 visitors in the month after the opening of the Great Court on 7 December.
But Frommer says you will be doing your children a great disservice if you visit New York and don't bring them to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
"We are pleased the Great Court Project has been completed successfully and opened to wide acclaim and that the British Museum is now receiving 40% more visitors, " said chairman Graham Greene.
Visit the Yale University Art Gallery, which houses more than 185, 000 pieces of international and American art, or the Peabody Museum of Natural History, which displays mounted apatosaurus and stegosaurus dinosaur bones in its great hall.
As I wrote in my interview with The Oatmeal, he told me that a fundraiser was in order to protect the property from where Nikola Tesla himself once worked, and a Tesla Museum would be a great way to honor his namesake.
And Endless Forms at the Fitzwilliam Museum, in Cambridge, considers how Darwin's ideas penetrated the consciousness of the great artists of the era, inspiring visual representations of the struggle for existence, of natural attraction and sexual selection, and the origin and descent of man.
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