Sentence examples for museum of architecture from inspiring English sources

MARANELLO, Italy — To walk through the back gate of the Ferrari automotive works here and stroll down Viale Enzo Ferrari is to enter a museum of architecture.

But this year the imperial city will welcome Maxxi (www.darc.beniculturali.it/MAXXI), a futuristic site that will bring two firsts to Italy: its first national museum of contemporary art and its first national museum of architecture.

His recent design for a museum of architecture in Imabari, Japan consists of two pavilions, one a heavy Brancusi-like stack of steel rhomboids, the other a swoopy but delicate array of paper-thin barrel vaults that looks like something from California's Palm Springs, circa Frank Sinatra.

Sure, New Haven has its charm -- a little place you might have heard of named Yale has been called "an outdoor museum of architecture" by the New York Times (legit!) -- but as far as "city life" goes, it leaves a lot to be desired.

This small but historic city has museums of architecture, fashion, interior design, science and literature, as well as the lovely Holburne art museum – and they all appear to be flourishing.

Nizhny is home to a unique museum of wooden architecture that very few people know about.

Today it is a national park featuring historic forests, rare plants and an outdoor museum of American architecture.

The town has a 60-acre (24-hectare) park with a zoo (1955), an open-air museum of traditional architecture, and an arboretum.

The Pergamon, with the great Greek altar that gives it its name, will retain much of its collection and be defined as a museum of ancient architecture.

A smaller church, easier to heat in winter, and bell tower joined the ensemble, and other salvaged wooden buildings have been scattered around nearby to create an open-air museum of vernacular architecture.

It has more than 300 buildings on national and state historic registers and has the feel of a living museum of American architecture, with examples of many of the predominant styles of the 18th and 19th centuries, including Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Stick, Second Empire, Folk Victorian and Queen Anne.