Sentence examples for museum superintendent from inspiring English sources

The specter of a British soldier in War of 1812 dress was seen by caretaker James Cypress in the 1950s, and museum superintendent Alric H. Clay claimed that in the 1960s spirits would often turn on the lights and open The Octagon's doors late at night.

After his father's death, Minik was put in the care of William Wallace, the museum's superintendent of buildings, who lived in the Highbridge section of the Bronx and also had a home in Cobleskill, N.Y.

It was the museum's first superintendent, the eminent anatomist Richard Owen, who after the publication of The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Section the previous November, had provided Samuel Wilberforce with the arguments to try and oppose "Darwin's bulldog," Thomas H. Huxley, at the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Oxford in 1860.

In the meantime, funds have actually been diverted to support museums in nearby Naples". Teresa Elena Cinquantaquattro, superintendent of the site, said she was awaiting the arrival of 25 archaeologists.

"In the choice of myths, there is a sort of 'equal opportunity' (highly appropriate in these politically correct days) for homosexual love and heterosexual love," Antonio Paolucci, the superintendent of Florentine museums, writes in an introduction to the Accademia's catalog, "idealized, idealized to the extreme, it must be said, both the one and the other".

"We want David's 500th birthday to spark debate, to be controversial, to challenge people about what art is today, not just what it was 500 years ago," Antonio Paolucci, superintendent of Florence museums, said yesterday at the Galleria dell'Accademia, where "David" has been displayed since 1873.

The former culture minister of Italy, Antonio Paolucci, an art historian and former superintendent of Florence's museum system, has been named by Pope Benedict XVI to lead the Vatican museums, Agence France-Presse reported.

Cristina Acidini, superintendent of Florence's museums, was as appalled as the culture minister.

Minik, however, became a member of the family of William Wallace, superintendent of buildings at the museum.

I know that it has been used in this context for some time, but it still seems to have moved a long way from the dictionary definition of a curator as a superintendent, especially one of a museum.

The rest were given to groups like the Nassau County School Superintendents, who were treated to museum visits, dinner and theater performances in the hope they would resume canceled school trips.