Sentence examples for museum was given from inspiring English sources
In December, the museum was given $3.5 million by Eugene and Daymel Shklar of San Mateo, Calif.
The museum was given Nathaniel Hawthorne's desk and a stuffed albino pheasant, a piece of the first trans-Atlantic cable and collections of local minerals.
In accordance with her will, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was given to Boston as a public institution, with the proviso that the collection be maintained precisely as she had arranged it; nothing was to be added, removed, or rearranged.
More recently, data about which legislator doled out which goodie to the home district — from a ball field to a cheese museum — was given out strictly on a need-to-know basis.
In 2002, the museum was given a 99-year lease by the owners of the property, Sterling Glen of Glen Cove, a retirement residence next door (now Atria Glen Cove), and in 2006 it bought the building for a nominal $10.
The museum was given a £840,000 cash boost by Airbus last week but has almost £8m still to raise.
Yet Mr. de Montebello and the museum's curatorial staff became increasingly concerned about the direction of the exhibition and whether the museum was giving too much curatorial control to an outsider.
"The museum was giving us a great opportunity but also a puzzle, because how do you approach this open invitation?" The artists, backed by the museum, decided to challenge the standard approach of displaying such an encyclopedic collection in neat chronological order or according to provenance.
Doug Burch, a staff member at the museum, was giving a talk on the gruesome business of whaling, and I took a seat in the back of Sanderson Hall, the walls of which are lined with a fierce array of harpoons, lances and flensing knives.
On his blog earlier this month, Coyne wrote that the inscription was misleading the public because it implied that the museum was giving its scientific imprimatur to the idea that animals are God's creation, and because the museum failed to make clear whether the anonymous donor had requested the inscription to appear in the museum space.
The rest of "Found" — in fact, a good portion of the museum — is given over to work that the Chinese artist Xu Bing created for an exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond last year.
