The Louvre, etc.

Usage examples of museums.

A huge amount of money, rather: back in the 1920s when Stonehouse was buying, he was competing against only a few odd museums and a handful of eccentrics like himself prepared to lay out good money on fifteenth-century Madonnas and the like.

Someday, perhaps, some of these collections will find their way anonymously into the great museums of the worldbut not for a very long time.

We know he paid two visits to Prudence Ashe at the Natural History Museum before approaching me, so I want you to check all museums and private collectors that have large collections of Earth animals.

The Republic has plenty of museums that would be happy to have two curators with our experience.

I thought we were talking about selling our collections off to museums, so the people could always have access to it.

Free to consider the workrooms his own private little museums where the storage shelves were often a hell of a lot more interesting than the stuff laid out for the paying customers.

Owen, museums were designed primarily for the use and edification of the elite, and even then it was difficult to gain access.

Huxley, who believed that museums should be primarily research institutes.

By making the Natural History Museum an institution for everyone, Owen transformed our expectations of what museums are for.

Most from Italian institutions, naturally, but a good proportion from foreign museums and owners.

The result was the breakup of the collection, the dispersal of all those works of art to museums around the world, and the sale of the villa to the American university, which established some form of summer camp in the building that had once echoed to the voices of the leading literary and artistic figures of Europe.

We visited churches, and we visited museums and courtyards and byways and alleyways.