Such things seemed rather raw and new, while museums did not interest us any more.
One finds it hard to believe that such museums can be owned and supported by this little city--ancient, half forgotten, stranded here on the banks of the Rhone.
Many happy days might be passed in Helsingfors, which contains museums and various places of interest.
Ewart obtained both committees and also, in 1845, procured an act for "encouraging the establishment of museums in large towns.
Libraries Acts have also adopted the Museums Act in order to increase their revenues.
The libraries belonging to bodies concerned with higher education, to the royal scientific and literary academies, fine art galleries, museums and scholastic institutions are ruled by special regulations.
Since 1897 there has been in Hungary a Chief Inspector of Museums and Libraries whose duty is to watch all public museums and libraries which are administered by committees, municipalities, religious bodies and societies.
Dear People,--I promised to tell you about the museums in Copenhagen.
In my next I will tell you about the museums if I come out of them alive; it sounds as if nobody could.
It was pronounced by those who had visited the most celebrated museums of Europe to be superior to any of them.
He was a collector of specimens in natural history, and possessed one of the finest museums in the world.
The public museums and picture-galleries are very fine institutions, but how much do they affect or brighten the lives of the mass?
The public museums and picture-galleries are made, not for the common people of the seething slums, but for the modified Minervas of the genteel suburbs.
This last regulation is in accordance with a law recently passed by the legislature establishing an entrance-fee at the doors of all public galleries andmuseums throughout Italy.
England, and are preserved in the British Museum and in the Guildhall of London, in the museums of Oxford and of York, in the cloisters at Lincoln, &c.
The university and museums are massive piles in Renaissance style; and it is the Renaissance rather than the classic or Gothic revival which prevails throughout the new city.
Museums and libraries have also been erected or begun in various cities, and the +New York Public Library+, now building, will rank in cost and beauty with those already erected in Boston and Washington.
From Olympia, Ægina, and Phigaleia, other master-works of the same kind have been transferred to the museums of Europe.
The artistic emulation of repeated international exhibitions, the multiplication of museums and schools of art, the general advance in intelligence and enlightenment, have all contributed to this artistic progress.
What fascinated him more than the churches and the museums was the free, beautiful humanity in which the lively southern race expressed its personality.
Historical Account Unlike many parts of southern Mexico and northern Central America, Michoacan received no attention from the collecting expeditions of the European museums in the last century.
That is why there are so many more of the brilliant young red hawks in our museums than old grizzled gray veterans whose craft circumvents the specimen hunter's cunning.
For a long time the learned men who study animal life from museums held that the ermine's coat turned white from the same cause as human hair, from senility and debility and the depleting effect of an intensely trying climate.
At present the museums of various kinds at Geneva are widely dispersed, but a huge new building in course of construction (1906) will ultimately house most of them.
As a consequence, there are now more species described in this than in any other order, and in the large museums they are much better represented than other insects.
Various forms of bottles are used in museums for the preservation of minute alcoholic material.
The prehistoric history should be largely concerned with doing and experimenting, with making weapons, or firing clay, or weaving rushes, or with visits to such museums as Horniman's at Forest Hill.
Carpendike would not vote for a man that proposed to open museums on the Sabbath day.
But "doing" museumsis the last word in tourist folly.
If you have lots and lots of time (I mean weeks, not hours), or if you have special interest in a definite field of study, museums may be profitable.
On the sites of the ancient fortifications the present ruler, Prince Albert, has made gardens and builtmuseums for his collections of prehistoric man and of ocean life.
At least we can give them museumsand publish magnificent pictures of their ruins.
We returned from Peru with the mummy of an Inca which we exhibited in almost all the museums of Europe without finding a purchaser.
They had filled museums and private collections with Egyptian and Phoenician statuettes recently reproduced.
He explained that he had dug out these facts in the museums in the slack season when tourists were scarce, and that I could rely on them implicitly.
Vast quantities of them have been taken from graves, but these have been absorbed by museums and amateur collectors, and now we have to fall back on imitations.
Being an old Parisian, I have still in my mind's eye the numerous museums that are open free to the people on Sundays.
The attendance at the free libraries increases rapidly every day, and the till at the dime museums diminishes with proportionate rapidity.
Marines in the World War II era, is published for the education and training of Marines by the History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.
Many museums possess specimens of supposed Ramesside Pharaohs which, upon more careful inspection, we are compelled to ascribe to the Thirteenth or Fourteenth Dynasty.
One half at least of the scarabaei, cylinders, and amulets contained in our museums are of limestone or schist, covered with a coloured glaze.
Most museums are poor in statues of the Memphite school; France and Egypt possess, however, some twenty specimens which suffice to ensure it an honourable place in the history of art.
Few museums are without a pair of leather sandals, or a specimen of mummy braces with ends of stamped leather bearing the effigy of a god, a Pharaoh, a hieroglyphic legend, a rosette, or perhaps all combined.
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