Museums and galleries Kiev is home to some 40 different museums.

all museums with any form of art on display some museums such as the Natural History Museum are excluded).

Many museums are closed on Mondays.

On the condition of museums, the damage assessment of museums page notes

Pope Julius II founded the museums in the early 16th century.

The compilationA list of these activities, together with their scheduled timing will be made available on line in order to ease the exchange of information amongst between countries and allow for replication.

I'm often asked, Is digital media replacing the museum?

Currently it is used by two museums, the Museum of Moroccan Arts and the Museum of Antiquities.

There are many museums in England, but perhaps the most notable is London's British Museum.

It is one of the national museums in Taiwan, and has a permanent collection of more than 696,000 pieces of ancient Chinese imperial artifacts and artworks, making it one of the largest in the world.

It counts 1,200 museums welcoming more than 50 million people annually.

Aaron Ortiz of Pensieve introduces us to some of the fine museums in Tegucigalpa.

There are also numerous museums, such as the Turku Art Museum and the Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art.

Like other national British museums, entrance to the museum has been free since 2001.

Pieces from MOBA's collection have been on display in museums in Virginia, Ottawa, and New York.

Of course they have to look through a bloody camera in a museum. Right? That's how museums are working today.

It is located in Florence, and among the oldest and most famous art museums of Europe and the world.

The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in London is part of University College London Museums Collections.

To this day, valuable Korean artifacts can often be found in Japanese museums or among private collections.

Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection.

The Jewish Museum Berlin ( Jüdisches Museum Berlin ) is one of the largest Jewish Museums in Europe.

One of the major shifts in museum and exhibit design in the last decade has been a focus on visitor experience.

But cutting into the bones of a dinosaur is hard to do, as you can imagine, because in museums bones are precious.

He learned classification of plants, and assisted with work on the collections of the University Museum, one of the largest museums in Europe at the time.

The total number of lost items is unknown so far, because cataloguing work for other damaged Russian museums is ongoing.

According to one estimate, by war's end 43 of the infrastructure of Poland's educational and research institutions and 14 of its museums had been destroyed.

The , or TNM, established in 1872, is the oldest Japanese national museum, and the largest art museum in Japan.

During the first years of the republic, the government invested a large amount of resources into fine arts such as museums, theatres, opera houses and architecture.

Inca sculptures are regarded as treasures in British museums, while Shakespeare is translated into every major language of the Earth.

According to another, only 105 of pre war Poland's 175 museums survived the war, and just 33 of these institutions were able to reopen.

With over 200 museums, Israel has the highest number of museums per capita in the world, with millions of visitors annually.

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the largest museums in the United States.

In the Russian SFSR, 173 museums were found to have been plundered by the Nazis, with looted items numbering in the hundreds of thousands.

The Van Gogh Museum () is an art museum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands dedicated to the works of Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries.

The Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery) at the Kulturforum is a museum for modern art in Berlin, with its main focus on the early 20th century.

The museum was established in 1915 by French scholars, and is regarded as one of the most beautiful in Southeast Asia.

In 1994, Sheikh Hassan opened a private museum, and started helping and sponsoring artists from the region, especially Iraqis fleeing the Gulf War.

Museum Island () is the name of the northern half of an island in the Spree river in the central Mitte district of Berlin, Germany, the site of the old city of Cölln.

In their search for 'research materials' ERR teams and the Wehrmacht visited 375 archival institutions, 402 museums, 531 institutes, and 957 libraries in Eastern Europe alone .

Museums represented in the archive includethe British Museum the British Library the National Galleries of Scotland, Sweden and South Africa the Hamburg Kunsthalle and the Barnes Foundation.

Most of the damage to museums in Syria has occurred in the north western region of the country, where there have been incidents of looting of valuable cultural property, and many works of art are currently unaccounted for.

If America had really cared for the Iraqi people, more troops would have been sent to provide protection not only for the Ministry of Oil, but for museums and hospitals, too.

Here is what we can do to contribute to the effort of protecting this heritage We have all sent the archaeological material from our excavations to the local museums, or have left it in our missions houses.

Young Piacentini recruits were sent to fight in Russia, Spain and Germany, while the city was plundered of a great number of artworks which are currently exhibited in many French museums.

In a seminal report called Excellence and Equity published by the American Association of Museums (1992), the educational role of museums was identified as the core to museums' service to the public.