Sentence examples for sold museum from inspiring English sources

He was tortured by being repeatedly dropped on the museum's marble floor to make him confess to having sold museum property for personal gain.

By day, we sold museum tickets, worked the gift shop offering postcards and silk scarves, picked up cigarette butts dropped on the courtyard, asked people not to lean on the Giacometti and, occasionally, utilized our backgrounds in art history to talk to a visitor about an aspect of a painting.

Taken aback by the disclosure that some museums, like dealers, request a commission when art they are exhibiting is sold, museums around the country scrambled last week to plead innocence, profess ignorance or say that they had stopped doing it.

But [The Museum of Fine Art's] job isn't to sell museum tickets, its to attend the high altar of art, and in that regard they are letting themselves and the people of Boston down".

IN the 1990s, a technology company, Cybermotion, tried to sell museums on the concept of robot security guards.

"In terms of contemporary fine arts imagery, horses don't have a great track record," said James Danziger, the founder of Artland.com, which plans to sell museum-quality prints by artists on the Web beginning next month.

IN acquiring Fred Leighton, Mr. Esmerian planned to sell museum-quality jewels from the family's Special Collection in a retail setting, along with thousands of other pieces from his private stock.

Hadid might have sold the museum a bill of experimental goods.

I remember thinking that Hadid might have sold the museum a bill of experimental goods.

To raise money, he cast bronze wind bells that were sold at museum stores.

Today from noon to 5 p.m. Cost: $5. (Tickets sold at museum).