Sentence examples for museum dates from inspiring English sources

The foundation of the museum dates from 1852, when the British government established the Museum of Manufacturers in Marlborough House, St. James.

The original idea for the museum dates back to 1992 when the city was under siege and the plan was to build a collection of contemporary art from across the globe.

Eric M. Lee, the director of Fort Worth's Kimbell Art Museum — regarded by some as the country's finest small museum — had his first day on the job three and a half years ago, but his admiration of the museum dates back to 1987, when he was an art history major at Yale.

Broad's campaign to build his museum dates back about seven years.

Enthusiasts can go back in time at the New Hampshire retro Funspot Family Entertainment Center, a classic gaming museum dating back to 1952, before getting bang up to date at Tokyo's high-tech Taito Station, which according to Game stores, who co-devised the trip, "is the world's best arcade gaming experience".

Many of the works in the museum date from between 1924 – when Picasso's friend André Breton published his Surrealist Manifesto – and the end of the second world war, years in which he also played with found objects in a way that has inspired artists from Robert Rauschenberg to Damien Hirst.

The half-timbered houses which now form the museum date back to that period, providing an insight into how the town functioned at the time.

Funen's Art Museum (Fyns Kunstmuseum), formerly The Museum of Funen's Abbey, is one of Denmark's oldest art museums, dating to 1885.

Reared in the mining town of Sudbury, Ontario, which then lacked an art museum, he dates his earliest museum experiences to childhood visits to his aunt in Ottawa, when he would visit the National Gallery.

The museum label dates the small plaque to the reigns of Akhenaten or Tutankhamun, adding that it is "reminiscent of the images of Nubians and West Asians found in Haremhab's tomb at Saqqara".

Previously dated between 1401 and 1410, from evidence in John Cherry's book of 2010 the reliquary is now thought to have been made before 1397; based on the heraldic forms used, the museum now dates it to 1390 97.