Sentence examples for classical museum from inspiring English sources

The classical museum diorama shows habitats: nature's theaters, whose forces shaped animal life.

The grid of the classical museum enfilade is warped into long, serpentine shapes that suggest an organic context.

Architects Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Jean Nouvel and Tadao Ando have put together designs for the offshore project's flagship buildings, including a performing arts centre and classical museum.

That is to say, one gains a more comfortable sense of spatial orientation from Mr. Maltzan's shifting vantage points than from the classical museum enfilade.

"All the gestures of the classical museum treat art as an essentially fragile thing that needs to be withdrawn from the world to be protected," Mr. Wigley said in an interview.

Instead, the lightness and softness of his buildings, and their asymmetry, bestow on the classical museum a kind of perpetual gravitas, as well as ceding it pride of place.

Alternatively take an air-conditioned wander around one of the heavy-hitting classical museums - the Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art (Neophytou Douka 4, tel: 210 722 8321, cycladic.gr), the Benaki (Koumbari 1, 210 367 1000, benaki.gr) or, from June, the newly renovated National Archaeological Museum (Patision 44, 210 821 7717, culture.gr).gr

By breaking the displays away from the strict artistic categories -- sculpture, painting and objets d'art as presented in classical museums like the Louvre -- and replacing them with multiple stories, or sometimes by geography, the attempt has been to break down traditional hierarchies of power, art and learning.

The current effort spreads the work of some 200 artists and artists' collectives from some 50 countries all over Kassel, starting at the Fridericianum, the regal Neo-Classical museum that has been the show's heart since its inception in 1955.

Inside, there were galleries arranged in the traditional enfillade of the classical Western museum.

"After six years of living with Abraham Lincoln, I can give him to you any way you want, cold or hot, jazz or classical," a museum designer tells Mr. Ferguson.