Sentence examples for acquiring objects from inspiring English sources

How is the museum going about acquiring objects for the collection?

"We're now acquiring objects with a new energy to keep up to the moment in our collection," Mr. McFadden said.

"Phoebe Hearst believed in public education, research and learning, not just in acquiring objects," Ms. Salvador said.

Under the proposal, the Met would accept no liability for acquiring objects determined to have been looted, maintaining that it bought them in good faith.

"When we first received the hair, we regarded it as just another artifact for the museum," Jacek Nowakowski, who was in charge of acquiring objects for the exhibition, says, "but then, when the Content Committee met to discuss the best way to display it, it became clear that the members viewed human hair differently from the other objects".

Even better for auction houses, it also glamorizes the thousands of modest pieces left out of the Arthur M. Sackler donations to various institutions after these had taken their pick — the late collector was a compulsive buyer with a penchant for acquiring objects in bulk.

They found that the reason why the children that participated were so successful in acquiring object permanence, was due to their social strength in imitation.

"They acquire objects of simple functional elegance" -- including the floors, which make a "beautiful aesthetic statement".

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the British Museum and France's Reunion of National Museums have all acquired objects at auction in recent weeks -- but bought only antiquities that had a proper history.

When he was asked about his trips to India, he insisted that his purpose was not to acquire objects but merely to conduct "research and... valuations".

The British Museum, which acquired objects from all these men, was itself a public-private partnership par excellence, originating in a private collection bequeathed to the nation, and established by act of parliament.