Distinguished from museums by their emphasis on hands-on exhibits and lack of specimen collections, science centers first got going in the late 1960s, when the San Francisco Exploratorium and the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto were created.
Among the themes addressed throughout the exhibition was the question of what makes something "art" and how to distinguish a museum quality piece in a world full of mass-produced products.
Nine months after the Biennale, he was named artistic director of Documenta XI, beating out several candidates with distinguished careers in major museums.
That is why many museums distinguish, when it comes to allowing photography, between pieces they own and pieces on loan.
Overall, rate of decomposition of museum board substrates distinguished between relative levels of disturbance in agricultural and wetland but not forest ecosystems.
What distinguishes an art museum from a university or a hospital or any other kind of institution is that we collect works of art.
Although other Connecticut museums have music series, the Aldrich's is distinguished by its focus on contemporary performers.
The museum helped fuel his interest in conservation that distinguished his career, Mr. Weigand said, as he continued to inspect the statue in the Polich Tallix foundry.
While there is nothing wrong with projects aiming to interpret or represent collective identities, 'identity-driven' is a label used to distinguish them from those museums viewed as more objective or less biased.
