From America's first Van Gogh, to a singular kite museum, we've compiled the odds and ends of museum trivia into one fancy display.
Mr. Scalf first toured the museum at the end of 1999, museum officials say.
At the other end of the museum, de Montebello recently presided over the unveiling of fourteen lavishly reconstructed galleries of Chinese painting and decorative arts.
The pavilion puts some 100 immaculate objects from outside Europe on permanent view in a ground floor suite of cool, silent galleries at one end of the museum.
If the commission approves the proposal, construction could begin next year and be finished by the end of 2002, museum officials said.
There's a restaurant serving snacks, cakes and hot meals at one end of the museum, and a cafe at the other, next to the indoor play area.
(In "Visionary Sugar: Works by Kiki Smith," at the other end of the museum, some of the recent pieces by Ms. Smith depict a woman whose fingers bear a passing resemblance to those 30-year-old earrings).
At the end of the museum tour, he sometimes took out the bosun's whistle recovered from the Atocha and blew a long, high-pitched, eerie call on it.
It is Michelangelo they are queuing for: the David stands in the light-filled atrium at the end of the museum's sculpture hall, a pampered giant housed here to conserve him from the attrition of time.
Inside its dark cavern hang more than 100 of Mr. Colbert's large-scale photographs and an accompanying film, which plays continuously on two wall-size screens at either end of the museum.
