Their challenge is to present existing collections in ways that suggest an event.
There are indications, cutting across the present divisions, that the book was a compilation of existing collections.
Most international survey museums were built upon the existing collections of aristocrats or the donations of wealthy patrons.
In fact, most virtual museums are sponsored by institutional museums and are directly dependent upon their existing collections.
Since she began buying contemporary botanical art 11 years ago, Shirley Sherwood, a British botanist, has amassed what many consider to be one of the greatest existing collections.
My guess is that to the extent tribal people get together with curators and scientists, pressure on existing collections is going to lessen.
A group of Athens-based designers were invited to show styles from their existing collections or to come up with something new.
The new facilities were designed to fill the gaps in existing collections, reinforce the areas of excellence of the Bibliothèque Nationale, and introduce the most modern library technologies.
According to the Italian Banking Association, Italian banks invest some €500 million a year in various cultural activities, from preserving existing collections to supporting cultural initiatives.
In his madrigals Bennet was known to have occasionally borrowed texts from existing collections and reset them to original tunes; he did not, however, borrow tunes.
But experts said that the existing collections, known as cell lines, had different properties and different therapeutic potential, and some are controlled by institutions that have commercial or proprietary interests in them.
