Sentence examples for breadth of collections from inspiring English sources
That kind of success might inspire other museums to invent variations on the "100 Objects" theme, but none can match the breadth of collections at the British Museum.
Although the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, may never have the breadth of collections of larger institutions like the Met, Mr. Tinterow said that what distinguished it from so many other institutions was that Houston had become a cultural hub, home to the Menil Collection (art by way of oil money), as well as a symphony orchestra, a grand opera and the Alley Theater.
Given the depth of baseball's grip on the American psyche, and the breadth of fans' collections, the absence of a system for saving each team's important documents and artifacts is surprising.
This is only the first phase of what museum officials say could be a decades-long effort to expand not just the museum's physical space but also the depth and breadth of its collections.
The show is meant as a statement about the untapped breadth of the collection.
Instrumental to the extraordinary breadth of the collection of the Department of Architecture and Design, his giving also touched almost every other curatorial department.
"Ernie certainly had the means, but that doesn't explain the quality and the breadth of his collection," he said.
Christopher Apostle, who runs Sotheby's old master paintings department in New York, said the breadth of the collection amazed him.
The trunk show allows customers to view the breadth of a collection, and to see it weeks or months before garments arrive on the sales floor.
Each volume said something about the breadth of his collection and the history lessons the books have taught him while enriching his cooking skills.
Instrumental to the extraordinary breadth of the collection of the Department of Architecture and Design, his giving also touched every other curatorial department, from drawings by Marcel Duchamp to prints by Donald Judd to photographs by Lionel Feininger.
