I walked around the giant replica of the Titanic disaster before I realized the arcade has been turned into The Titanic Artifact Museum. .
Models may include scanned artifacts from museum collections.
Among its exhibits of furniture and artifacts, the museum houses a display of Hungarian Art Nouveau tapestries, including ones by Rippl-Ronai and Vaszary. Rippl-Ronai and Vaszary
The state's main repository for cultural, ecological and historical artifacts, the museum is open every day except Friday from 9 A.M. to 5 P.M.
As the Italian investigation into artifacts in museum collections in the United States and Europe continues, Mr. Rutelli was asked whether Italy was also focusing on additional private collectors.
Established in 1923 to preserve the city's artifacts, the museum was originally housed at Gracie Mansion, but moved five years later to a larger building at Fifth Avenue and 103rd Street.
Founded by Hobby Lobby chief executive Steve Green, who has amassed a collection of biblical texts and artifacts, the museum boasts eight floors that will feature exhibition space, a library, theater, restaurant, rooftop garden and banquet room.
Though it also contains an impressive collection of African masks, headdresses and other artifacts, the museum mostly chronicles the lives of the Johnsons, both of whom were raised in Kansas.
Lawrence Rothfield, founder of the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago and a member of Saving Antiquities for Everyone, said the study wrongly suggests the entire lot of privately owned, unprovenanced artifacts are museum worthy.
