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The Sue & Frank Mayborn Natural Science and Cultural History Museum Complex (abbreviated as MMC) is a 142,000-square-foot (13,200 m 2) facility that opened in May 2004 at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
This is a list of science centers in the United States. American Alliance of Museums (AAM) and Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC) member centers are granted institutional benefits and may offer benefits to individuals through purchased or granted individual memberships as well.
The Smithsonian Affiliations program was established in 1996 by Smithsonian Secretary I. Michael Heyman [3] [4] with the approval of the Smithsonian Board of Regents, in response to several challenges the Institution faced at the time: a decrease in federal funding, limited storage space for expanding collections, and the need to make the Institution more reflective of the nation without ...
They then took it to the Strecker Museum at Baylor University for analysis. [citation needed] Once the bone was identified as Columbian mammoth, the museum staff organized a formal dig at the site lasting from 1978 to 1990. In 1979, Sr. George F. Naryshkin (then an undergraduate at Baylor) began work on his 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-year excavation and study ...
1961: Museum directory published (4,600 institutions) 1964: Museums included in the National Arts and Cultural Development Act; 1966: National Museum Act passed; 1968: Belmont Report recommends developing an accreditation program to help support museums; 1969: Accreditation program created on the recommendation of a committee chaired by Holman ...
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is an independent agency of the United States federal government established in 1996. It is the main source of federal support for libraries and museums within the United States, having the mission to advance, support, and empower America’s museums, libraries, and related organizations through grantmaking, research, and policy development ...
They remained an informal group, but their growth paralleled the growth of children's museums worldwide. [2] In addition to organizing museums and administration of grants to museums, [ 3 ] the Association partners with other organizations, including the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development on health ...
The Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), originally the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums (AAZPA), is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1924 and dedicated to the advancement of zoos and public aquariums in the areas of conservation, education, science, and recreation.