Sentence examples for an era when museums from inspiring English sources

While the exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum have recently been aimed at capturing younger and hipper audiences, its latest renovation project looks like a step back in time, to an era when museums were grand palaces of culture.

All this behavior was more or less routine in an era when museums and archaeology alike were in their infancy and opportunistic deals were going on all around.

In an era when art museum buildings have become bombastic statements, such sensitivity to content is rare.

Instead, the museum simply decided that its closets were too full, overstuffed with items acquired during an era when it aimed to become the biggest museum in the world.

Rather, the design recasts the museum building type for an era when advanced science has altered the space and time of the viewing experience.

The museum provides silent testimony to an era when the power and wealth of Iran's rulers placed them on the level of Europe's royal families.

Finally, the hushed museum halls of yore evoke an era when the artists were mostly Western white men and the patrons were often the unscrupulously rich.

But through 15 November, the company's museum in Stuttgart will revisit an era when a series of space-age wedges shook the company's foundations.

There was an era when it was easier to get a loan from the British Museum than from your colleague down the hall.

In an era when most of us have more Facebook friends than actual friends its tempting to think of museums as places that can be visited virtually.

IN an era when cutbacks and closings in arts and education are so prevalent, the opening of an art museum at Fairfield University borders on astonishing.