Of which there are to be plenty, considering that there will be nearly 200 replicas on display at the museum, ranging from iconic New Yorkers like Woody Allen to world figures like Napoleon to the original wax sculptor herself, Madame Tussaud, in both young and old versions.
Front-end fees for museums range between $600 and $10,000, and annual fees go from $500 to $5,000.
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.
At museums ranging from the Prado in Madrid and the Capitoline Museums in the Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome, submitting to baggage searches and going through metal detectors are now an accepted part of the price of entry.
As Secretary he directs the Smithsonian's 13 museums (ranging from the National Air and Space Museum to the Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design, in N.Y., the National Zoological Park, and six research centers (from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Harvard to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama).
They left behind magnificent public buildings like Carnegie Hall, superb universities and hospitals, museums ranging from the grand Metropolitan to small jewels like the Cooper-Hewitt in Carnegie's old home and the Frick Collection in the mansion of his old partner Henry Clay Frick.
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It should be noted that both America and its capital city are already well stocked with women's museums, ranging from the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington to the Women of the West Museum, now part of the Autry National Center in Los Angeles.
The exhibition will be up through July 8. Pier 86, 46th Street and 12th Avenue, Clinton, (877) 957-7447, intrepidmuseum.org; museum admission ranges from $12 to $24 (free for active and retired military members and children under 3).
The exhibition, at the Basle Museum of Antiquity, features an eclectic choice of objects, from nearly a dozen Syrian museums, and ranging from neolithic idols to Mameluk armour.
