Sentence examples for collection on show from inspiring English sources

Claris Hotel, concealed in the 19th-century Palacio Verdura, is one of the city's best-known designer digs, with an art collection on show.

In the past, Dallas Seitz has put his Canadian grandmother's creepy doll collection on show as an artwork, alongside his grandfather's coyote hunting guns and knives.

Of course there is also the Van Gogh Museum (vangoghmuseum.nl) and the Rijksmuseum, (rijksmuseum.nl), undergoing restoration but still with an impressive collection on show.

This concentration on the plein-air landscape tradition reflects another fairly recent development in taste (there is part of a similar private collection, the Gere collection, on show at the National Gallery in London at the moment) - the taste that brought the oil sketches of the Welsh painter Thomas Jones to international attention.

Launching the museum's west London incarnation, housed in the concrete tent of the former Commonwealth Institute on the edge of Holland Park, the exhibition will join a new permanent collection, on show for the first time in the institution's 27-year history – some of this year's highlights might one day join the anglepoise lamp and the Eames plywood chair in the design canon.

"We also wanted to get more of our behind the scenes research collection on show, so this is an ideal opportunity because as well as showing some dinosaur things we can also show a lot of the other parts of our collection that very rarely get showcased". Most alluring to the multitude of children the museum expects to visit the Age of the Dinosaur may well be the animatronic displays.

Speaking of deep-rooted emotional problems, one of the collections on show was themed around Batman & Robin.

From today in London, although only a small part of the collection is on show, Saint Laurent and Bergé's wide-ranging taste is apparent from just one corner of the two display rooms at Christie's.

Sixteen months after Michael's death, I was at the Inventing Impressionism exhibition at the National Gallery where another Folies-Bergère by Manet from a private collection was on show – different barmaid, possibly the same mirror.

However the conventional classification by school, so frequent in art museums, takes over in the basement where the 50 or so paintings from the Esterházy collection are on show: simply because the family's last descendant wanted it that way.

Francis in the Desert," in the Frick Collection, on Fifth Avenue, shows a smooth-cheeked saint, broad of shoulder and trim of waist, greeting the day with an athlete's ardor.