The Met said it had previously "lacked" early 20th Century art, but with Lauder's donation it would be at the forefront of world collections.
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The National Museum of Cambodia, founded in 1920, possesses one of the world's greatest collections of Khmer artefacts.
It's fair to say that we certainly have one of the world's greatest collections of restaurants, if not the greatest.
The Wallace has one of the world's finest collections of armour.
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The stately building is home to one of the world's top collections of Chinese art, including most of the imperial treasures once housed in Beijing's Forbidden City.
The Register is a list of library and archives collections of world significance, which was established in 1992 to preserve and promote documentary heritage of universal value.
Our cover story profiles a wealthy Dutch woman whose vision of fine art led her to buck the prevailing taste of her time and amass one of the world's finest collections of Van Gogh.
Jamie Oliver became the second-highest earner in the book world with his recipe collections, while memoirs from Peter Kay, Paul O'Grady and Jeremy Clarkson all feature in The Bookseller's top 100 books of the decade.
In his later years O'Quinn, childless, unmarried, workaholic and recovering alcoholic, found solace in building one of the world's finest collections of automobiles--Dusenbergs, Bugattis, even the original Popemobile, a 1975 Ford Escort once owned by Karol Wojtyla before he became Pope John Paul II.
The Memory of the World Register, now numbers a total of 245 documents and documentary collections from all parts of the world.
Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers had collections in the World Financial Centre, but these escaped unscathed.
Still, there are enough tablets in collections across the world for mathematical historians to get stuck into.
If he succeeds, he would have dominion over one of the most important contemporary-art collections in the world.
Other undiscovered letters understood to be held in libraries and private collections around the world are being searched for.
So is amassing one of the world's largest private collections of contemporary art.
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Judaica said to be among the most valuable private collections in the world.
More than 50 paintings spanning Manet's career have been collected from around the world, from both public collections and private owners.
It included no fewer than 70 paintings and 30 drawings, many of them on loan from public and private collections around the world.
That means tourists can seek out guilt-free one of the world's most impressive collections of temples, Bagan--but without the crowds of other notable Southeast Asian temples.
They come from collections around the world.
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Mr Matsuura also highlighted the synergies between this initiative and UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme, noting that the WDL should help provide public access to digital versions of collections on the Memory of the World register.
The race featured one of the most impressive collections of sprinting talent the world has ever seen.
It is being run by the National Archives, an organisation charged by the government with looking after one of the largest collections of documents in the world, spanning 1, 000 years of British history.
Opening up access to one of the greatest collections of books in the world, this demonstrates the Library's commitment, as stated in its 2020 Vision, to increase access to anyone who wants to do research.
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Edinburgh-based RCAHMS holds one of the largest and collections of aerial imagery in the world.
Swatch lovers can view pieces from The Blum Collection, one of the most complete collections of Swatch watches in the world.
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Locals let loose on Frenchman Street, a three-block music strip that is home to one of the best collections of jazz clubs in the world.
But YouTube has also been secretly looking down the road to a world of millions of clips in high quality collections of deep, rich content.
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 Lewis Energy founder and chief executive has one of the top vintage warbird collections in the country, if not the world.
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