Getty Villa

1911 Director Thomas Ince created his Western film factory ", Inceville" which at its peak employed nearly 600 people. A decade later, bought the Rev. Charles H. Scott and the Southern California Methodist Episcopal Church, the country, founded in 1922 Scott Pacific Palisades, imagination an elaborate religious and spiritual community. Believers snapped choice lots and lived in tents during construction. Until 1925, the Palisades had 100 homes. In one subdivision, streets were named for Methodist missionaries. The tents were eventually replaced by cabins, then by bungalows, and ultimately by multimillion-dollar homes.
For many decades there was a virtual ban on alcohol consumption in the area, and a Chinese restaurant, House of Lee's, only instead of striking liquor license. The Presbyterian Church originally owned a conference center in Temescal Canyon before it was sold, became, at Temescal Gateway Park. 

Areas

    * The Alphabet Streets as the "North Village known ', north of Sunset Blvd. and are characterized by narrow alleys. The street names are named sequentially, beginning with A, B, C, D, etc - hence the name Alphabet Streets. The streets are for the Bishops of the Methodist name of the late 19th and early 20 Century. It is a popular destination for trick-or-treaters on Halloween.
    * The Bluffs are more out-of-town west along Sunset Boulevard and Palisades Charter High School run past and the Via de La Paz, they extend over a longer distance between Sunset Blvd. and the Palisades Bluffs.
    * Castellammare is on small bluffs next to the sea. The narrow, winding streets have Italian names. It is home to the Getty Villa. It is located where Sunset Blvd meets Pacific Coast Highway.
    * Huntington Palisades, near the "village" is proper and is more of a typical suburb. It is located south of Sunset Blvd.
    * Marquez Knolls is a large area of homes, renowned for its spectacular sea views and will continue west on Sunset Blvd upslope situated on a mountain. The lower upslope was the first time in the early 1950s and the mid-1960s by the Earl Lachman family developed. Marquez Elementary services the neighborhood along with a small shopping center on Marquez Street and Sunset Blvd.
    * Palisades Highlands is a township near the end of Sunset Blvd. Topanga borders. About five minutes from the center of Pacific Palisades, the Palisades may Village, the Highlands to be almost as their own separate community.
    * The Coast and the Riviera Country Club, a high-end country club, and roads named after different locations in the French and Italian Riviera. The neighborhood is divided into north and south sections by Sunset Boulevard. It borders Santa Monica and Brentwood.
    * Rustic Canyon features post-war homes on the former territory of the Polo Uplifter located, the original site of The Uplift clubhouse (now City Park) and the cabins as second homes and weekend retreats designed. This area is also known as Uplifter's Ranch. Located off Sunset Blvd. Between the Riviera and Huntington Palisades. Above the canyon lies Will Rogers State Historic Park [1].
    * The Village is a small Central Business District "on Sunset Boulevard, consisting of restaurants, shops, banks and offices. Known stores in The Village include Norris Hardware (originally the Theatre Bay), Cathay Palisades (formerly Fein's Deli) , black ink, PaliSkate, Sylvia's Skin Studio, Benton's Sporting Goods and Village Books.
Demographics
In 2009, the Los Angeles Times "Mapping LA" Pacific Palisades project provides these statistics: Population: 23 940; average household income: $ 168,008 [2]. 
Government and Infrastructure
The most important group within the bourgeois is the Palisades Pacific Palisades Community Council. The Pacific Palisades Council generally meets twice monthly to a wide range of issues, discuss the impact its residents. The Council rejected the city has become an official part of the city and draws its independent, non-aligned status. One of the main reasons that the Council members cite is the fear that they lose the power to sue the city.
 
Local Government
The community is in District 11 of the City Council. From 2008 Bill Rosendahl represents the district. [3]
Los Angeles Fire Department operates two fire stations serving Pacific Palisades. Station 69 at 15 045 West Sunset Boulevard Pacific Palisades, and serves the Pacific coast. [4] station is 23 in 17 281 West Sunset Boulevard to the Palisades Highlands, Castellammare and the Pacific Coast [5].
Los Angeles Police Department operates the West Los Angeles Community Police Station at 1663 Butler Avenue serve, 90 025, the neighborhood [6]. 
County, state and federal level, represented
Pacific Palisades is in third District Los Angeles County. From 2008 provides Zev Yaroslavsky] District [7th
The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services SPA 5 West Area Health Office is Pacific Palisades. The department operates the Simms / Mann Health and Wellness Center in Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades served Pacific Palisades within District 41 of the California State Assembly. From 2008 is Julia Brownley District . Pacific Palisades within District 23 of the California Senate, from 2008, Sheila Kuehl represents the district. The community is part of the State Board of Equalization District 4, represented by Judy Chu of 2008 The community is within 30 Congressional District of California. From 2008 is Henry Waxman of the district.  The United States Postal Service operates the Pacific Palisades Post Office on 15 243 La Cruz Drive and Sunset Boulevard West 15 209.
 
Education 
Palisades Charter High School
Residents are zoned to Los Angeles Unified School District schools. The area is in District 4 Board. [16] From 2008 Marlene Canter is the county [17]. Canter announced that it will not seek re-election after the expiry of its term in June 2009 [18].
Some residents are in Pacific Palisades Elementary School assigned, some residents are assigned to Canyon Elementary School, and some are assigned to Marquez Elementary School. All residents are to worship Charter Middle School, Palisades Charter High School zoned. [19] [20]

    * Canyon Elementary School opened in 1910
    * Pacific Palisades Elementary opened in 1922
    * Marquez Elementary School opened in 1955
    * Paul Revere Middle School was the first time as Palisades-Brentwood Junior High School on 12 September 1955, he chose his current name during the first year of operation. It was an internal charter in 1994      
* Palisades High School opened in 1961 . Palisades received a charter in 1994 [26].
Private schools in the area include:

    * Calvary Christian (K-8) [2]
    * Village School [3] (in K-6)
    * Corpus Christi (K-8)
    * St. Matthew's Parish School (K-8)
    * 7 Arrows (K-6)
    * Westside Waldorf (K-8)
[Edit] Public libraries
Los Angeles Public Library operates the Palisades Branch at 861 Alma Real Drive [27]. 
Media
The only newspaper that is directly in the service of the Palisades Palisadian-Post. The community was served by two papers, until they merged in the 1970s. The papers, was The Palisades Post and the Palisadian, the Palisadian-Post. Unlike most weekly newspapers on the Westside of Los Angeles, is the post on a subscription basis. The paper will be heard by the Small Newspaper Group, a Midwest chain of the media. The little family bought the post from longtime owner / operator of the Browns in the early 1980s. Roberta Donahue is the editor of the paper and Bill Bruns is editor in chief.

    * Los Angeles Times is the city-wide newspaper.
    * Palisadian-Post is a local community newspaper.
[Edit] Parks and Recreation

    * The Los Angeles Department of Recreation Parks and operates several recreational facilities in Pacific Palisades 851 Alma Real drive. Palisades Park, at that address, has 117 acres (0.47 km2) of the country. [28] Palisades Recreation Center, also at this address has fireplaces, four baseball (two lighted and two unlighted), lighted basketball (indoor and outdoor service), a playground, an American football field, a gym (no weights be), picnic tables, illuminated tennis courts, volleyball and lighted. The facility also has a kitchen, a stage, a TV area and several planned sporting and non-sporting activities.  The Pacific Palisades Tennis Court, even at that address has eight courts
    * Rustic Canyon Park Rustic Canyon Road along. The Rustic Canyon Pool is 601 Latimer Road. The Rustic Canyon Recreation Center is located at the same address, has one with a capacity of 150 persons, which can be used as an auditorium, a gymnasium or a volleyball field. The center also has fireplaces, one unlighted baseball, basketball (indoor and unlighted outdoor lighted), a playground, a gym (no weights available), picnic tables and beach volleyball (lit and unlit).
    * Temescal Canyon Park is a non-occupied "Pocket Park" at 15 900 Pacific Coast Highway. The park has fire pits, a playground, picnic tables, hiking trails, a native garden, and toilets. [34] Santa Ynez Canyon Park is located in Palisades Drive and Avenida de Santa Ynez [35]. Rivas Canyon Park is located at the eastern terminus of the Oracle PL
    * Will Rogers State Historic Park and Polo Club. [37] During Will Rogers made his home in Beverly Hills late twenties, in 1922, he bought a large plot of nearly 200 acres (0.81 km2) of land to build a weekend home before sunset. He built a polo field on the property in 1926 and 1928, he and his family to her home. died in 1944, according to Will Rogers, the ranch was a State Park in the interest of conservation, the home is maintained as it was, including the fixtures and equipment. It is open to the public on most days except major holidays, even though the approval is necessary. The tip of the ownership of the track contains views of the sea and the city.
Places

    * The Eames House 1949 home and studio of husband and wife design pioneers Charles and Ray Eames.
    * The Getty Villa The most famous attraction in the Palisades, the J. Paul Getty Getty Villa. The museum incorrectly states that it is of the Getty Villa Malibu, but it is a part of the Palisades, which is in the city of Los Angeles.
    * Villa Aurora An artist residence and cultural monument in the former home of the exiled German-Jewish writer Lion Feuchtwanger and his wife Marta station.
    * Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine of Paramahansa Yogananda founded in 1950.
Location

    * The 2005 Anne Hathaway, Bijou Phillips Havoc film was set and filmed in the Palisades in Palisades Charter High School.
    * The 2003 Disney film Freaky Friday with Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan was filmed at Palisades Charter High School.
    * The 2001 film Crazy / Beautiful with Kirsten Dunst was filmed at Palisades Charter High School.
    * The 1977 NBC TV program at 16 James, Lance Kerwin was filmed at the same school, which was then called the Palisades High School, or better known as the "Pali" high.
    * The 1976 movie Carrie was also shot at Palisades High School.
    * Food Network's Everyday Italian is filmed on El Medio.
    * The television series Baywatch Lifeguard Headquarters Tower 15 was filmed by Will Rogers State Beach in Pacific Palisades.
    * The TV series Rockford Files was often filmed in and around the Palisades in the 1970s.
    * The Popular TV Series filmed at Palisades High School
    * The first season the residence of the TV series "The Golden Girls" was a house in Pacific Palisades. For subsequent seasons, a facade house on the Disney / MGM was rebuilt much. [38]
    * The HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm is filmed in real life residence of character, Larry David.

The Armand Hammer Museum in California

The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center, or the Hammer Museum, as it is commonly known, is a museum in Los Angeles, California. It is operated by the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.
 
Summary
 
The hammer includes a small collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionism. The museum houses more than 7,500 works by Honoré Daumier French satirist, the largest collection outside of Paris. In recent years, the hammer has become known for its collection of contemporary works of art on paper known. It also has fine paintings by Rembrandt, Titian and Chardin.[Edit] History
The museum was by Armand Hammer, the late CEO of Occidental Petroleum Corporation, founded as a place to display his extensive art collection. Mr. Hammer died 15 days after the museum opened to the public in November 1990. Mr. Hammer was a Los Angeles County Museum of Art board member for almost 20 years, starting in 1968, and during that time had promised his extensive collection of the museum. To LACMA surprise hammer instead he founded his own museum, built next to Occidental's headquarters and designed by the architect Edward Larrabee Barnes.
The Hammer presents key single-artist and thematic exhibitions of historical and contemporary art produced by their curators or prepared in cooperation with other institutions. The Hammer also has approximately ten Hammer Projects each year with international and local artists with a laboratory-like environment to create new work or present existing work in a fresh context. The hammer is a cultural center that offers a wide mix of free public programs throughout the year is over, presentations, lectures, symposia, film screenings, music events and other events. The Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum, opened in late 2006. The venue is the Hammer public programs and also the new home of the UCLA Film & Television Archive is well-known film library

The building was for $ 60,000,000 and the original endowment was $ 38,000,000 built. Hammer Occidental convinced the entire cost on the grounds that the museum would enhance the reputation of the company to finance. Occidental shareholders sued as a waste of corporate assets.
 
Controversy
 
In 1994, the Hammer Museum made headlines through the sale of Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester to Microsoft founder Bill Gates for $ 30,800,000. The Codex Leicester was one of the proudest acquisitions, Mr. Hammer in 1980 for $ 5,120,000, one, he tried unsuccessfully to buy the Codex Hammer rename. Most museums have a collection of guides to be used deaccessing art, the profits from the sale are needed for future acquisitions. The Hammer Museum sold the 72 alternative scientific notebook page, the museum's exhibitions and programs to fund. 

Management
 
In 1994 took over management of the UCLA Hammer Museum, the Armand Hammer Foundation maintain some control, recover, including a "reversionary clause" granting the rights to the Foundation's art collection and some of the Endowment Fund. The museum had long desired to remove these clauses.
On 19 January 2007, the Hammer Museum and the Armand Hammer Foundation agreed to dissolve their relationships, division of the estimated remaining 195 objects, which founded the museum, the foundation of maintaining 92 paintings on $ 55,000,000, while maintaining the museum objects 103 to 250 million $ estimated.

Museum of Toys and Automata in Verdú

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The Museum of Toys and Automata (in Catalan Museu de Joguet machines i) is a toy vending machine & Museum in Verdú, Lleida, 100 km west of Barcelona. It creates a collection of more than a thousand objects in a building with unique architecture. It is one of the most important museums of its kind

The exhibition
The museum was opened in 2004. Most objects are part of the collection of Manel Mayoral created. It is in an old house at number 23 in the village square housed. It is distributed in three floors with an area of more than 2000 square meters. The collection is characterized by fair attractions, bicycles, table football, tin toys, cars formed with pedals, posters, scooters, games, Automata ...
The exhibition offers a fascinating journey through memories, illusions and experience of the collector. The memory is the subtle thread of this set of objects, but also of the museum. 

The building
The building that houses the museum is located at number 23 of the Plaça Major by Verdú in the center of the city's social life, and it used to be a headquarters popularly known as "Cal Jan".
Cal Jan was in the 15th Century built than any other building in the same street, and even then an important house was Verdú. The falls from balconies on the first floor are an example of early architecture of the 17th Century. In fact, there is an inscription on the facade from the year 1695, the year the house will be rebuilt.
It was like a house in the middle of the 20th Century, used, and in 1999 it was decided to start its transformation into a museum.
In order to adapt the building to its new use, it has a complete rethinking of its distribution, as well as the addition of a neighboring site were. A ramp connects the four floors were built. The conversion was no architectural barriers, which resulted in an impressive construction done.
Related information: - Total area: 2.075 m2 - 1895 m2 Building area - were used: 1,000 tons of rock 224 tonnes of concrete 55 tons of iron 20 km 1.000 m electric cable wire wooden pipes 500 m2 400 m2 glass 

Information
From its opening, the Museum of temporary exhibitions has performed at the same time, from the museum, they offer the rental of twenty temporary exhibitions, for any type of cultural institutions and centers of leisure.
Guided visits are organized by the Museum and Verdú has educational workshops for groups, he rents his equipment to carry out photographic reports and viewing of television. She also has a shop of toys and products of the area.
From its opening, the museum is a social, cultural and tourist phenomenon in Catalonia and in the route of the Cistercians, for the large number of visitors that it receives each year and for the transcendence of the measures.

Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago

The Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) in Chicago, Illinois in Jackson Park, Hyde Park in the neighborhood adjacent to Lake Michigan. It is housed in the former Palace of Fine Arts from 1893 World's Fair. Originally from Sears, Roebuck and Company president and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, it is only opened in 1933 during the Century of Progress Exposition doped. It is also the largest science museum in the western hemisphere.
Among his diverse and extensive exhibits, the museum offers a working coal mine, a German U-boat (U-505) during the Second World War, a 3,500-square-foot (330 m2) model, the first diesel powered streamlined powered conquered stainless-steel passenger train ( Pioneer Zephyr) and a space probe of NASA used on the Apollo 8 mission.
Based on 2006 attendance, the Museum of Science and Industry was the fourth largest cultural attraction in Chicago. He climbed to second place, 2007 is based participation.
David R. Mosena president and CEO of the museum since 1998


History
 
The Palace of Fine Arts (also known as the Fine Arts Building) at 1893 World's Columbian Exposition was designed by Charles B. Atwood. Unlike the other "White City" building was constructed with a brick substructure under its plaster facade. After the world exhibition, which it first Columbian Museum, housed in the the Field Museum of Natural History developed. If a new building opened near Field Museum of Chicago in 1920, moved the museum organization and the former site remained vacant.
Art Institute of Chicago professor Lorado Taft led a public campaign to restore the building and in another kind of museum, one devoted to sculpture. The South Park Commissioners (now part of the Chicago Park District) won approval in a referendum to sell $ 5,000,000 in bonds to apply for restoration costs in the hope of the building into a sculpture museum, a technical trade, schools, and other things. But after a few years the building has been selected as the site for a new Science Museum.
At this time, the Commercial Club of Chicago was interested in creating a science museum in Chicago. Sears, Roebuck and Company president and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald's Club members by pledging to $ 3,000,000 to the cost of conversion of the Palace of Fine Arts (Rosenwald was finally paying more than $ 5,000,000 for the project attracted). During his transformation into the MSI, the exterior of the building has been poured into new limestone, retaining its 1893 Beaux Arts look, while the interior was replaced with a new designed Art Moderne style by Alfred P. Shaw.
Rosenwald established organization of the museum in 1926 and insisted that his name not appear on the building, but for the early years of the museum, it was known as the Rosenwald Industrial Museum. In 1928, the name of the museum at the Museum of Science and Industry changed. Rosenwald's vision was an interactive museum in the style of the Deutsches Museum in Munich / Germany, a museum in 1911, he visited when he was on vacation with his family in Germany to create.The Museum's Christmas Around the World Exhibition
The museum conducted a nationwide search for his first director to be found. In the end, MSI Board of Directors elected because he Waldemar Kaempffert Julius Rosenwald shared vision. Kaempffert was the science editor for The New York Times. He assembled the museum's first curatorial staff and began to organize and build the exhibits. For the planning and preparation of the museum, Kaempffert and his staff visited the German Museum in Munich, the Science Museum in Kensington, and the Technical Museum in Vienna, all of which served as models for the MSI. Kaempffert was also instrumental in the development closely with the science departments of the University of Chicago, a lot comes from the scholarship for the exhibits. Kaempffert occurred in early 1931 amid growing disputes with the second President of the Board of its objectivity and neutrality of the exhibits and his management staff.
The new Museum of Science and Industry to the public in three stages between 1933 and 1940. The first opening took place during the Century of Progress Exposition. Two of the museum's president, a number of curators and other staff members, and exhibits came from the MSI Century of Progress event.
For years, visitors to the museum through its original main entrance. However, it proved too small to handle a large number of people. The new main entrance is a structure from the main museum building, through which visitors descend into an underground room then up again into the main building, dissolved in a similar way as the Louvre pyramid. 

Exhibits 

Foucault pendulumA United 727
The museum displays more than 2,000 exhibits in 75 large halls. The museum has several major permanent exhibition. The mine re-created a working deep shaft coal mine in Central Pavilion inside the museum with the original equipment from Old Ben # 17 circa 1933rd Since 1954, the museum has the U-505 submarine, one of only two German U-boats in World War II had captured, and the only one caught now on display in the Western Hemisphere. In 2004, the museum has a hole opened in the front garden in front of the East Pavilion, which would later underground McCormick Tribune Foundation will exhibit hall, the U-505 behind the East Pavilion and sank the U-505 inside, opening of the new U -505 Experience on 5 June 2005. Take Flight donated creates a San Francisco to Chicago flight with a real Boeing 727 jet aircraft from United Airlines. Silent film star Colleen Moore and stock market investor's Fairy Castle is on display as The Great Train Story, a 3,500-square-foot (330 m2) model that the history of transportation from Seattle to Chicago explains. The zone includes Transportation to provide air and land transport, including the Empire State Express 999 steam locomotive, the first car ever exceed 100 miles an hour. The Transportation Zone also features two fighters of the Second World War by the British Government donated a Ju 87 R-2/Trop. Stuka Divebomb - one of only two intact Stukas left in the world - and a Supermarine Spitfire. The first diesel-streamlined stainless steel train, the Pioneer Zephyr is renamed on permanent display at the Great Hall, the entrance hall in 2008, and a free tour goes through it every 10-20 minutes. Several U.S. Navy war ship models on display. There is a flight simulator for the new F-35 Lightning II
In keeping with Rosenwald vision, many of the exhibits are interactive, from Genetics: Decoding Life, which sees the genetics on human and animal development, a toy maker 3000, a working assembly line that visitors can watch a toy top and, how it is done. There is also an interactive Fab Lab MSI, which intends an interactive laboratory where members build "can do everything" is.
In March 2010 the Science Museum opened in the Storms Allstate court. This multi-level exhibit features a 40-foot water tornado, tsunami-tank, Tesla coil, heliostat system and of an authentic Wimshurst machine Wimshurst James in the late 1800s. All artifacts can explore the guests the physics and chemistry of the natural world around them.
 
MSI's Henry Crown Space Center includes the Apollo 8 spacecraft, the Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders was on the first lunar orbital mission. Other exhibits include an Omnimax theater, Scott Carpenter's Mercury Atlas 7 spaceship, a Lunar Module trainer and a life-size dummy of a space shuttle.
The museum is unique and quirky permanent exhibits, as is known, a walk-through model of the human heart, which was removed in 2008 for the construction of YOU! Experience the [4], the eighth Opened in October 2009 and replaced with a 13-meter-high interactive 3D heart [5]. Also known body slices [two corpses are on display in 1/2-inch-thick (13 mm) discs currently on display] - in part - in you! The experience. You! Experience the functions and Gunther von Hagen's plastinated.
Due to its age and design, the museum building itself is a museum piece.
Other exhibits include Yesterday's Main Street, a mock-up of a road from Chicago to the early 1900s complete with a paved road, old-fashioned lights, fire hydrants, and several shops, including the precursors to several Chicago-based company. Included are:

    * Dr. John B. Murphy 's office
    * Berghoff's Restaurant
    * Jewel Tea Company grocery
    * Registry
    * Lytton's Clothing Store
    * Commonwealth Edison
    * Gossard Corset Shop
    * Chas. A. Stevens & Co. (now the bankruptcy)
    * Chicago Post Office
    * Walgreen's Drug Company
    * The Nickelodeon Cinema
    * Finnigan's Ice Cream Parlor and Photo Studio
Unlike the other stores, both can Finnigan's Ice Cream Parlor and The Nickelodeon Cinema can be entered and are functional businesses. Finnigan's serves a variety of flavors and varieties of ice cream and The Nickelodeon Cinema plays short silent films throughout the day. Another important aspect to Yesterday's Main Street is the air that is blown through the exhibition to create the feeling of a cool autumn evening.
In 1993, the F-104 Starfighter on loan to MSI by the U.S. Air Force since 1978, at the Mid-America Air Museum in Liberal, Kansas has been sent.
In March 1995, the Santa Fe steam locomotive 2903, the museum was moved from outside to the Illinois Railway Museum.
The museum houses the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame.


Exhibitions
 
In addition to the three floors of permanent exhibitions, the Museum of Science & Industry also hosts temporary and traveling exhibitions. Exhibitions are different from the exhibits, because for five months or less and usually require a separate admission fee last paid. [Edit] Exhibitions in the MSI have included Titanic: The Exhibition, [8], the largest collection of relics from the wreck of the RMS Titanic in 2000, Gunther von Hagens' BODY, a look inside the human body by using samples plastinated human, in 2005, and Leonardo Da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius [9] in the summer of 2006. Past exhibitions include CSI: The Experience, robots as we are, [10] City of the Future, [11] Canstruction and Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination, Experience and the glass. Harry Potter: The Exhibition opened on 30 April 2009, and left the Museum on 29 September 2009. opened the third installment of the Smart Home: Green Wired March 2010 and will run until January 2011.

National Museum in Washington D.C

History
The museum, like the United States National Museum known, opened its doors to the public on 17 March 1910 to provide the growing Smithsonian Institution with more space for collections and research. [2] The building, which was not fully completed until 1911, was designed by Hornblower & Marshall. [3] The building, designed in neoclassical style, was the first on the north side of the National Mall built along Constitution Avenue, as part of the 1901 McMillan Commission plan. In 2000, Kenneth E. Behring donated $ 80,000,000, the museum and in 1997 donated $ 20,000,000 to modernize it. 
In addition to exhibits, the museum has large collections of reference and research institutions. In the online collections collections.nmnh.si.edu
In 2005, the "Butterfly of Peace" was first jewel in the USA [5] In 2008, displayed an exhibition of 5,000 square feet (460 m2) dedicated to soil and its life-sustaining properties. Opened 
  

Hall of Geology, Gems and Minerals 
 
The National Gem and Mineral Collection is one of the most important collections of its kind in the world. The collection includes some of the most famous pieces of gems and minerals, including the Hope Diamond and the Star Sapphire of Asia, one of the largest sapphires in the world. Currently there are over 15,000 individual pieces of jewelry in the collection, as well as minerals and 350 000 300 000 samples of rock and ore specimens. [7] In addition, houses the Smithsonian's National Gem and Mineral] Collection about 35,000 meteorites known as one of the largest collections of its kind in the world [7th To see the museum as the National Mall, the old post office building in the distance, visible
The collection is in the Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems and Minerals, one of the many galleries in the Museum of Natural History displayed. Some of the major donors Washington Roebling, the man, the Brooklyn Bridge, which gave 16,000 copies of the collection built, Frederick A. Canfield, the 9000 showed copies of the collection, and Dr. Isaac Lea, who donated the basis of the collection of the Museum in 1312 Gems and minerals.  


Hall of Human Origins 
 
The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins opens on 17 March 2010, on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the museum. The hall is for David H. Koch, $ 15,000,000, which contributed $ 20,700,000 exhibition.
The hall is dedicated to the discovery and understanding of human origins, "and takes 15,000 square feet (1,400 m2) of exhibition space. The samples include 75 replica skulls, an interactive human family tree that six million years of evolution follows, and a change of the World gallery, which focuses on issues surrounding climate change and humans' impact on the world. The exhibition is downplaying the importance has been criticized by human-induced global warming, in exchange for the money by Koch [8]. Koch Industries, a private company in the industry of petroleum and other fossil fuels and chemicals is an important contributor to the climate change disinformation
The exhibition also features a complementary website humanorigins.si.edu, the diaries and offers podcasts directly from related research areas. The exhibition was designed by Reich + Petch Design International. 

Dinosaur / Hall of Paleobiology 
 
The museum has over 570,000 cataloged reptiles from around the world. The National Collection of Amphibians and Reptiles has 300% over the last 40 years (190,000 records sample in 1970 to over 570,000 records sample in 2008). [11] The Hall of Dinosaurs has fossilized skeletons, casting models, including Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops before off with the "Triceratops exhibit the first accurate dinosaur skeleton displays in virtual movement, achieved through the use of scanning and digital technology."  The collection consists of 46 "full and important specimens" of the dinosaurs.  The website has a virtual tour of the collection. 
 
Hall of Mammals 
 
The Hall of Reich + Petch Behring mammals by design is an award-winning gallery. The design is innovative and inviting. The mammal specimens are as works of modern art in strikingly presented low environmental. Visitors discover mammal evolutionary adaptations to very different contexts, and finally discover that they are also mammals.
The museum houses the largest collection of vertebrate specimens in the world, almost twice as large as the next largest mammal collections, including historically important collections from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. [16] The collection was of C. Hart Merriam, and directed the U.S. Department of Agriculture (later the Department of the Interior), which expanded in the 1890s-1930s.

 Insect Zoo
 
The Insect O. Orkin Insect Zoo features live and exhibits about insects and entomologists. Different habitats have been created, the kinds of insects that live in different environments and how they adapted to a freshwater pond, house, mangrove swamp, showing desert and rain forest. The zoo is sponsored by Orkin, a pest control company.  


Ocean Hall
 
The Sant Ocean Hall was opened on 27 September 2008, and is the largest renovation of the museum since it opened in 1910. The hall includes 674 marine specimens and models from the more than 80 million copies in the Museum's collection as a whole, creates the largest in the world. The hall is named for Roger Sant family, which donated $ 15,000,000 to endow the new hall and other related programs.
The Hall consists of 23,000 square feet (2,100 m2) of exhibition space and offers a replica of a 45-foot (14 m) long North Atlantic Right Whale, a 1,500-gallon aquarium, a 24-foot (7.3 meter) female giant squid, an adult coelacanth, and a Basilosaurus
The museum also offers the Smithsonian Ocean Portal, a complementary website oceanportal.si.edu updated regularly, the original contents of the museum research and collections provides and Sant Ocean Hall as well as content from more than 20 collaborating organizations, including the expected ARKive, Census of Marine Life, Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Encyclopedia of Life, IUCN, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, National Geographic, NOAA, New England Aquarium, Ocean Conservancy, Oceana, Pew Charitable Trusts, SeaWeb, Save Our Seas, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, World Heritage Marine Programme.  


African Voices
 
This hall and associated site "examines the diversity, dynamism, and global influence of African peoples and cultures over time in the areas of family, work, community and natural environment." [19] [Edit] Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution
With a Live Butterfly Pavilion allows visitors to the many ways in which butterflies and other animals have diversified further developed, adapted and, together with its partners on the plant tens of millions of years. " The exhibition was seen by Reich + Petch designed.  

Western Cultures Hall 
 
"This hall explores a few examples from different cultures in the western world including northern Iraq, ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and the recent discovery of the Iceman, a Copper Age mummy found in an Italian glacier." 

 
Gallery Korea 
 
The Korea Gallery is a special display case for Korean traditions to celebrate and to examine its unique influence and complex role in the world today.
The exhibition brings the continuity of the past by highlighting permanent features of Korean culture, the influence and resonance today. The exhibition makes use of the Smithsonian collection, and a ceramic-rich contect of photographs, devotional objects and traditional Korean carpentry to communicate and connect to both the local community and Korea an international audience. speaking traditional art forms such as ceramics and calligraphy with mythological figures, language, large feature photos and illustrations, a fascinating range of common historical memories that connect Koreans at home and abroad.
Personal stories of modern Korean, as I said, in her own voice, provide a context for some of the many problems that face to discuss the divided country today. Korea's incredible transformation of 'The Hermit Kingdom "is traced back to a world power through its impact on the arts, business and popular culture. The exhibition was designed by Reich + Petch.
 
Osteology: Hall of Bones 

This exhibition shows a "large number of vertebrate skeletons grouped by their evolutionary relationships."   

Temporary Exhibitions Discovering Rastafari! 
 
2nd November 2007 - November 2010

    To be explored with artifacts, rare photos and memorabilia of the origins and religious practices of the movement in Jamaica, this exhibition takes viewers beyond the popular Jamaican music known as reggae to the deeper roots of the Rastafari culture. video footage to speak with first-person testimony from male and female Rastafari of different ages, nationalities, race and class backgrounds and Rastafari of unity and the spread of the movement in the Caribbean and beyond over the past three decades

Dig It! The Secrets of the Soil
19th July 2008, 3 January 2010 The world of fungi, bacteria, worms and other organisms, this exhibition draws connections between soils and everyday life[In Bone] Written edit: Forensic Files of the 17th Century Chesapeake
7th February 2009 - 6 February 2011

    This exhibition explores the history of the 17th Century by bone biographies, including those of the colonists staggers on the edge of survival in Jamestown, Virginia, and the rich and established individuals of the St. Mary's City, Maryland. 
 
Builders: the hidden life of the ants

30th May 2009 - 10th October 2009 This exhibition features large-format photographs of ants in their daily business, a cast of a subterranean ant city, and a live ant colony
The museum has an IMAX theater for movies and the Discovery Room, a family-and student-friendly hands-on activities room on the first floor.
In the lower level there is a bird show with all migratory birds and domestic birds in

Museum of Modern Art in NewYORK

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenue. It was very important for the development and collection of modern art, and is often identified as the most influential Museum of Modern Art in the world. [1] The museum's collection offers a unique overview of modern and contemporary art [2], including works of architecture and design, drawings, paintings, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated books and artists books, film and electronic media.
keep MoMA Library and the Archive over 300,000 books, artist books and magazines, as well as individual files on more than 70,000 artists. The archives contain primary sources on the history of modern and contemporary art. It also houses an award-winning fine dining restaurant, The Modern, from Alsace-born chef Gabriel Kreuther run.

History
The idea for the Museum of Modern Art in 1928 primarily by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (wife of John D. Rockefeller Jr.) and two of her friends,] Lillie P. Bliss and Mary Quinn Sullivan. [4 It has been variously known as developed "The ladies", "the daring ladies" and "the adamantine ladies". It opens up a modest rented quarters for the new museum, and it to the public on 7th November 1929, nine days after the Wall Street Crash. Abby A. Conger Goodyear had, the former President of the Trustees of the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, are invited to become President of the new museum. Abby became treasurer. At the time it was to show America's premier museum, which is exclusively devoted to modern art, and the first of its kind in Manhattan on European modernism. [5]
Goodyear enlisted Paul J. Sachs and Frank Crowninshield to join him as a founding member Board of Trustees. Sachs, deputy director and curator of prints and drawings in the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, was called in those days as a collector of curators. Goodyear asked him to propose a director and Sachs, to recommend to Alfred H. Barr Jr., a promising young protege. Under the guidance of Barr, the museum's holdings quickly expanded from an initial gift of eight prints and one drawing. His first successful exhibition loans in November 1929, with paintings by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne, Seurat and [6].
First in six rooms of galleries and offices on the twelfth floor of the Heckscher Building in Manhattan, [7] on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street housed the museum moved into three more temporary locations within the next ten years. Abby Mann was strongly opposed to the museum (as well as modern art to themselves) and refused money for the venture, which had obtained releases from other sources, and led to the frequent shifts of location. However, he did finally land for the current site of the museum, and other gifts over time, becoming in fact one of the biggest benefactors [8].The entrance to the Museum of Modern Art
During this time, she headed for many more exhibitions of renowned artists such as Vincent van Gogh exhibition Lone on 4 November 1935. Containing an unparalleled sixty-six oils and fifty drawings from the Netherlands, and poignant excerpts from the artist's letters, it was a great popular success and was a forerunner of the hold van Gogh has now stand at the contemporary imagination. " [9]
The museum gained international prominence with the highly successful and now famous Picasso retrospective of 1939-40 resulted in conjunction with the Art Institute of Chicago. presented in its series of activities, they represent a significant reinterpretation of Picasso for future art scholars and historians. That was all by Barr, a Picasso enthusiast, and the exhibition as Picasso revered masterminded follow the greatest artist of the time, setting the model for all of the museum retrospectives, which should [10].
selected as the Abby Rockefeller's son Nelson by the Board of Trustees, was his flamboyant president in 1939, has become the age of thirty, he was the instigator and prime sponsor of public relations, acquisitions and subsequent expansion into new headquarters on 53rd Street. His brother, David Rockefeller, entered the museum board of trustees, in 1948, and took over the presidency took when Nelson position as governor of New York in 1958.
David later entered the renowned architect Philip Johnson to redesign the Museum garden and name it in honor of his mother, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. He and the Rockefeller family have maintained a generally close relationship with the museum over its history, since the Rockefeller Brothers Fund financing institution 1947th Both David Rockefeller, Jr. and Sharon Percy Rockefeller (wife of Senator Jay Rockefeller) currently sit on the Board of Trustees.
In 1937, MoMA had shifted to offices and basement galleries in the Time & Life Building in Rockefeller Center. Its permanent and current home, now renovated and decorated in the "International Style" of the modernist architects Philip Goodwin and Edward Durell Stone, opened to the public on 10 May 1939, accompanied by an illustrious company of 6,000 people, and with an opening address on radio from the White House by President Franklin D. Roosevelt [11].

Winter Palace

The Winter Palace
      (Russian: Зимний дворец) in Saint Petersburg, Russia, was from 1732 to 1917, the official residence of Russian tsars. Situated between the Palace Embankment built and the Palace Square, adjacent to the site of Peter the Great, the original Winter Palace, the present and the fourth Winter Palace has been changed and almost continuously between the late 1730s and 1837, when it has been difficult due to fire and Damaged rebuilt. [1] The storming of the castle in 1917 became an iconic symbol of the Russian Revolution.
The palace was built on a monumental scale, intended to reflect the power and strength of Imperial Russia. From the palace of the Tsar and autocrat of all Russias of 22.4 million square kilometers (8.6 million square kilometers) (almost a sixth of the landmass of the Earth) and 176.4 million subjects governed. It was by many architects, especially in Bartolomeo Rastrelli, who designed what came to be known as the Elizabethan Baroque, the green-white palace is shaped like an elongated rectangle. The palace has been calculated to 1786 doors, 1945 windows, 1,500 rooms and 117 staircases included. Its main facade is 250 m long and 100 feet (30 m) high. The reconstruction of 1837 left unchanged the outside, but large parts of its interior have been redesigned in a variety of taste and style, what the palace described as inspired "Palace of the 19th century by a model in the Rococo style." [2]
In 1905, the Palace of the scene of the massacre of Bloody Sunday, was elected but at this time the imperial family to live in safe and secluded Alexander in Tsarskoe Selo had, and returned to the Winter Palace for the formal and rare state occasions . After the February Revolution of 1917 was the palace for a short time the headquarters of the Russian Provisional Government, led by Alexander Kerensky. Later that year, the palace was stormed by a detachment of Red Army soldiers and sailors, is a decisive moment in the birth of the Soviet state. On a less glorious note, the month-long looting of the palace of the cellar in these troubled times led to what has been described as "the biggest hangover in history". Today, the restored palace is part of the complex of buildings, in the Hermitage.

Pera Museum in ISTANBUL

The Pera Museum (Turkish: Pera Müzesi), based in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2005 by the Suna and Inan Kirac Foundation (namesake Suna Kirac is established, the daughter of the Turkish tycoon Vehbi Koç). The collection is housed in the former Bristol Hotel, built in Tepebasi, 1893 by architect Achille Manoussos.Content

The permanent collection
The museum has three permanent collections - Anatolian weights and measures, Kütahya tiles and pottery, art and orientalist. The Orientalist collection consists of more than three hundred paintings, including works by European artists inspired by the Ottoman Empire from the 17th to the early 19th Century. Outstanding among the Orientalists collection is the work of Osman Hamdi Bey, who by some art historians as the genre only "native Orientalist" was [Quote marked required]; featured is his most famous work, the Turtle Trainer.Other Features
In addition to exhibits, the museum houses a wide range of cultural events, facilities include a multi-purpose exhibition space, an auditorium and an activity room for visitors. The first floor houses both an art shop and cafe, with the auditorium, foyer, and children's center in the basement. 
Future Facilities
The Suna and Inan Kirac Foundation commissioned the architect Frank Gehry for a new cultural complex on the site of today's TRT Tepebasi seat (in the public square outside the Pera Museum and the nearby Hotel Pera Palace is design). [1] The proposed complex would be called the Suna Kıraç Cultural Center (Turkish: Suna Kirac Kültür Merkezi). [1] Construction can begin once the building permit rights from the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and issue to the High Council for Conservation, and TRT personnel and equipment will be transferred to facilities in Istanbul and TRT Ortaköy Harbiye neighborhoods.opening times, costs and address

Museum opening times:

    * Tuesday - Saturday: 10.00 to 19.00
    * Sunday: from 12.00 18.00
    * Closed on Mondays.
Admission: Regular: 7 YTL Group: 5 YTL (10 or more), reduced: 3 YTL (students aged over 12, teachers and visitors from 60 years)

    * Free admission for under 12, handicapped and one accompanying person.
Audio Guide: 2 YTL (YTL 1 for groups)
Address:Mesrutiyet Caddesi No.14134 443 Tepebasi - Beyoglu - Istanbul, Turkey

Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City

ArchitectureThe place concrete roof as "el paraguas known.
 
Designed in 1963 by Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Jorge Rafael Mijares and Campuzano, it has an impressive architecture with the exhibition halls around a courtyard with a large pond and a vast square concrete umbrella of a single slender column (known as "El paraguas," Spanish support for "The Umbrella") to the splashes an artificial cascade. The halls are surrounded by gardens, many of which include outdoor exhibits. The museum has 23 rooms for exhibitions and covers an area of 79 700 square meters (nearly 8 ha) or 857 890 square feet (nearly 20 hectares). 

Exhibits
 
Opened in 1964 by President Adolfo López Mateos, the museum has a number of important exhibitions, such as the Stone of the Sun (pictured right) has, giant stone heads of Olmec civilization, which were found in the jungles of Tabasco and Veracruz, treasures again from the Mayan civilization, the sacred cenote at Chichen Itza, a replica of the cover by Pascal sarcophagal grave in Palenque and ethnological shows of contemporary Mexican rural life. It also has a model of the location and layout of the former Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, the place now occupied by the central portion of today's Mexico City itself.
The museum also visit exhibitions, most of which focus on other of the world's great cultures. Past exhibits have focused on ancient Iran, Greece, China, Egypt, Russia, and Spain. 

Name 

Original Aztec Stone of the Sun on the display in the museum.
It is a common misconception, even among Mexicans that the museum is the full name of the National Museum of Anthropology and History. Its official name is simply the National Museum of Anthropology. There is another body, the National Museum of History, located in the nearby Castle of Chapultepec, but it is a very different museum. The former focuses on the pre-Columbian Mexico and Mexico's modern ethnography. The latter focuses on the Viceroyalty of New Spain and its progress in terms of modern Mexico, until 20 Century.
However, the official administrative body, that both museums (and many other national and regional museums) directs the National Institute of Anthropology and History (Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia).

State Historical Museum in Moscow

The State Historical Museum of Russia 
(Russian: Государственный Исторический музей) is a museum of Russian history between Red Square and Manege Square in Moscow wedged. 
 
 The exhibitions range from relics of the prehistoric tribes inhabiting present-day Russia, through priceless artworks acquired by members of the Romanov dynasty. The total number of objects in the Museum's collection numbers in the millions.
The place where today stands the museum, was formerly occupied by the Principal Medicine Store, was at the behest of Peter the Great in the Moscow baroque style. Several rooms in this building housed the royal collections of antiquities. Other rooms were occupied by the Moscow University, founded by Mikhail Lomonosov in 1755.
The museum was founded in 1872 by Ivan Zabelin, Aleksey Uvarov, and several other Slavophiles in the promotion of Russian history and national self-interest. The Board of Trustees, by Sergei Solovyov, Vasily Klyuchevsky, Uvarov and other leading historians assembled, presided over the construction of the museum building. After a lengthy competition awarded the project Vladimir Osipovich Shervud (or Sherwood, 1833-1897) was.
The current structure was built on neo-Russian Sherwood Design's 1875-1881, and officially opened in 1894 by Tsar Alexander III. The interior was lavishly decorated in the Russian Revival style of artists such as Viktor Vasnetsov, Ivan Aivazovsky and Henrik Semiradsky. During the Soviet era, the murals were announced bright and plastered. The museum went through a painstaking restoration of its original appearance between 1986 and 1997.
Important elements include a sloop from the banks of the Volga artifacts excavated gold of the Scythians, birch bark scrolls of Novgorod, manuscripts date back to 6th Century, Russian folk ceramics and objects made of wood. The library holds the manuscripts of the Psalter Chludov (860), Svyatoslav's Miscellanies (1073), Mstislav Gospel (1117), Yuriev Gospel (1119), and Halych Gospel (1144). The museum's coin collection alone contains 1.7 million coins, making it the largest in Russia. In 1996, total number of items in the collection of the museum reached 4,373,757.
A branch of the museum is housed in the adjacent building of the Moscow City Hall, two more are housed in the Novodevichy Convent and St. Basil's Cathedral.

The Uffizi Gallery in Florence

                                                                           
 History
Construction of the palace was by Giorgio Vasari in 1560 for Cosimo I de 'Medici as the offices for the Florentine judge began - hence the name "Uffizi (" offices "). The construction was continued to Vasari's design by Alfonso Parigi and Bernardo Buontalenti and ended in 1581. The cortile (courtyard) is so long and narrow, and open to the Arno river in its rear end through a Doric screen that the space is articulated without blocking it, that architectural historians treat [2], when the first regularized streetscape of Europe . Vasari, a painter as well as architect, emphasized the perspective length by the matching facades' continuous roof cornices, and unbroken stand cornices between storeys and the three continuous steps on which the palace-fronts. The niches in the pillars, with columns deputy were filled with sculptures by famous artists of the 19th century.
The Palazzo degli Uffizi brought together under one roof the administrative offices, the tribunal and the state archive (Archivio di Stato). The project, by Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany was planned to arrange that prime works of art in the Medici collections on the first floor of Francis I of Tuscany, made from the famous Tribuna degli Uffizi Buontalenti in order that a United selection was made by the outstanding masterpieces of the collection in an ensemble, a star attraction was the Grand Tour.
collected over the years other parts of the palace in a display place for many of the paintings and sculptures of the Medici family developed or commissioned by them. According to Vasari, who not only the architect of the Uffizi, but also the author of the life of the artist, was published in 1550 and 1568, artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo gathered in the Uffizi "for beauty, for work and for the recreation. "[3]
After the house of Medici was extinguished, the art treasures of Florence was in reference to the famous Patto di famiglia by Anna Maria Luisa, negotiated the last Medici heiress, it was one of the first modern museums. The gallery was opened to visitors on request since the sixteenth century, and in 1765 it was officially opened to the public.
Owing to its huge collection, some of his works have transferred in the past to other museums in Florence - for example, some famous statues, the Bargello. A project is currently underway to expand the museum exhibition space of 2006 of around 6,000 meters ² (64,000 ft ²) to almost 13 000 m ² (139,000 km ²), so that public viewing of many artworks that are normally in storage were.
In 1993 a car bomb exploded in Via dei Georgofili and damaged parts of the palace, killing five people. The most serious damage was caused to the Niobe room, classical sculptures and neoclassical interior, restored, although its frescoes were damaged beyond repair. The identity of the bomber or bombers are unknown, although it almost certainly due to the Sicilian Mafia, which was engaged in a period of terrorism at that time.
Today, the Uffizi, one of the most popular tourist attractions of Florence. In high season (especially in July), waiting times can be up to five hours. Visitors who book a ticket in advance to wait a much shorter one.
In early August 2007 in Florence was caught with a big storm, and the gallery was partially flooded, with water leaking through the ceiling, and visitors were evacuated. It was a much larger flood in 1966, most of the art in Florence severely damaged, including the Uffizi Gallery.