The alternative sense of zapovednik (a wildlife preserve, as well as a museum-estate) hints at the idea of a human zoo.
Artland.com sells licensed, high-quality digital prints of photographs and paintings from the collections of major museums, estates, archives and artists.
The [Mount Vernon Ladies Associationn], which runs the first president's Virginia museum-estate, is giving him an $85 million facelift because focus groups have judged him to be dull and educators have lost interest in him in the past 40 years.
This week, after two years of development and beta testing, Art.sy finally opened its doors to the public and announced its partnership with over 50 art museums, estates, non-profit institutions and more than 275 art galleries.
In pretty much any museum, real estate is at a premium — every inch of exhibition space counts.
Meanwhile, despite these quantities of emptiness, the RSHP extension struggles to squeeze into its corner of the museum's estate: much of it is underground, and the architects had to fiddle with slivers one metre wide after objections that they were blocking the light to existing spaces.
Works that come to a museum within estate acquisitions "might sit around in crates for years, waiting to be sorted," explains Köhler.
SOME men play golf when they retire or read the paper or schlep with their wives to museums and estate planners.
The company still puts out new clip art collections, Mr. Katzman said, and has a staff of three who travel to book fairs, museums and estate sales looking for material to supplement the archive first collected by Mr. Cirker and his wife, Blanche, as they traveled the world.
It is suspected that a gang known as the Rathkeale Rovers, which targets museums, country estates, auction houses, galleries and collectors for rhino horns, are responsible for the theft.
The Hirshhorn one was left to the museum by the estate of its founder, Joseph H. Hirshhorn, in 1981.
