It is one of our city's prominent corporate citizens, contributing to museums and charitable groups.
The lagging economy, building debt, a revolving door of executive directors over the past eight years and the death of its founder have all contributed to the museum's state, said Bethany Criss, the museum's interim executive director.
Several archaeologists who have used or contributed to the museum's collection said they were concerned that no one would look after it or explain it to students and researchers.
Yet when one reads the explanatory notes of those who have contributed to the museum, a sad truth emerges: it is the break-up rather than what came before it which is being remembered, and more often than not in a spirit of bitterness.
However, examples exist of species whose extinction was directly contributed to by museum collecting (e.g. Guadalupe caracara, ivory-billed woodpecker ).
51 museums and cultural organizations contributed to the project, including the Museum of African American Art in Los Angeles, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in D.C., the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York, and the Black Archives of Mid-America in Kansas City.
But Sony and Annapurna Pictures, which produced the film, have already contributed to the memorial and museum being built at ground zero, and the end of the movie includes a statement paying tribute to "the victims and the families of the 9/11 attacks," among others.
These findings are used to examine the structure of visitors' reasoning patterns and those aspects of the exhibition that may have contributed to the gains in museum visitors' understanding of evolution.
These events sometimes featured American presidents, and the resulting attention inspired films, books and courses and contributed to the creation of museums in Washington and New York.
We've engaged scores of writers to contribute to the museum and created something truly unique.
"It is a form of buying police services by contributing to a museum they want," Mr. Leffler said.
