Once, at the Victoria and Albert, I rashly predicted the advent of a virtual, personalized Third Kind Museum, correcting the errors of both the First Kind (the royal, closed palace of treasures) and the Second (the open, "democratic" football stadium, where everyone is relentlessly welcomed).
In 1952, French botanist Henri Humbert declared it Madagascar's greatest treasure and closed it to the public.
Just as a gun that appears in Act I of a play must be fired before the curtain closes, a second treasure trove demands a second expedition.
And he is prepared, officials say, to take his budget knife to a host of programs that many residents have come to treasure, closing as many as 75 senior centers, as well as day care centers and programs for children.
As I write, this treasure house is closed while experts check and assess the frescoes and building after the earthquake.
(Its Treasure Island location closed in 2012).
The dusty antique stores brimming with treasures were mostly closed, their wooden shutters drawn and padlocked.
During the Second World War the station temporarily closed – used for storage of treasures from the British Museum and as an air raid shelter".
The Save America's Treasures office has closed.
The excavations that followed, which were closer to treasure hunts than to archeological digs, were mostly carried out under the auspices of the royal House of Bourbon, members of which ruled France and much of southern Europe, including Spain and parts of present-day Italy.
