Sentence examples for museum compound from inspiring English sources

Next to it on one side is a video of men in colonial garb printing a broadsheet (taken next door at the Franklin printing shop, an unchanged part of the museum compound).

The first thing that strikes you about the museum compound is its eerie, Miss Havisham's-house quiet.

Jessie recounted that she had attended school in the old schoolhouse, and that St. Paul's Church, part of the museum's compound of exhibits, was her church.

The Malay Heritage Centre is a museum and compound where visitors can see artifacts from Singapore's national collection and pieces from the community.

Under Mr. Sarkisyan the museum, in a prerevolutionary compound around the corner from the Kremlin, became a center of efforts to halt the destruction of everything from centuries-old mansions to modernist masterpieces and even the Central House of Artists, constructed under Leonid Brezhnev in the late Soviet era, a period that has few architectural defenders.

Her notion, though short-lived, was telling: she didn't understand or care what sort of message it would send to a public enthralled by the new first family, and she had trepidations about life in the spotlight, let alone the prospect of residing in a monument-museum-office-military compound-terrorist target-home.

America became known as "the Great Satan", while the former embassy compound became a museum called "the den of spies" – in reference to the documents taken as evidence of US sabotage during the revolution.

But others urged Mr. Deitch, a veteran New York art dealer, to run from the job, which they saw as next to impossible, a tangle of long-festering internal problems compounded by the museum's unenviable basics: two locations blocks apart, one of them with no onsite parking in a downtown neighborhood that remains a tough sell for tourists and residents alike.

The Army maintained the compound as a private museum for select visitors.

Two militants opened fire on two tourist buses during a visit to the museum inside the heavily guarded parliament compound.

Not far from the Dalai Lama's compound here is a museum of the Tibetan struggle, with photographs of Tibetan fighters in the 1950s and testimony from those tortured by Chinese forces in the 1980s.