Sentence examples for monumental museum from inspiring English sources

The standard tour includes a visit to Myohyangsan where every gift ever presented to the late Kim Il-sung and the current ruler Kim Jong-il, his son, is on display in a monumental museum.

A monumental museum complex on the east side of the square is the National Museum of China, created in 2003 by combining into one institution the former Museum of the Chinese Revolution (opened 1950; dedicated to Chinese history since about 1840) and National Museum of Chinese History (established 1912; dedicated to Chinese history from its earliest beginnings until the Chinese Revolution).

His birthplace, later incorporated into the town of Kahoku, is the site today of archives and a monumental museum, perhaps the world's largest architectural structure dedicated to a single philosopher.

Museums range from the monumental maritime museum, which houses a full-size replica of a galley from the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, to the waxworks museum.

The canvas had in its favor monumental size, museum approval — in the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1979-1980 retrospective — and its six-decade-long career on the national scene.

Known as the White City, it launched the City Beautiful movement, giving the country a seemingly insatiable appetite for monumental courthouses, museums, libraries, and train stations that made every city look as if its roots went back to ancient Rome.

Yet this building, designed by the Colorado architect David Tryba of Tryba Architects, is meant to be as monumental as the museum's ambition.

THIS is a city full of grand museums commanding monumental spaces, but Sir John Soane's Museum is so self-effacing you could walk right by it without knowing you had passed one of London's greatest treasure chests.

The museum's monumental scale and ceremonial air still impress thousands of visitors daily, half a century after its opening.

The museum's monumental collection was seeded by bequests from or in memory of such women, and many of the donors were their daughters, sisters, and nieces.

"The museum is monumental, and this was a complete transformation," he said in an interview in his commodious office, housed in a red brick villa with views of the museum.