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When the city built its library building in 1908, it did so through community support rather than receiving a grant from the Carnegie Foundation as most other communities did at the time. [2] A clock tower was added to the property in the 1970s. The Atlanta Museum formerly operated in the library's basement. [3]
The Vatican Museums trace their origin to a single marble sculpture, purchased in the 16th century: Laocoön and His Sons was discovered on 14 January 1506, in a vineyard near the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. Pope Julius II sent Giuliano da Sangallo and Michelangelo, who were working at the Vatican, to examine the discovery. [11]
The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta, Georgia, features a surprising celebrity cameo. I visited Jimmy Carter's presidential library. Here are 6 things that surprised me ...
Children's Museum of Atlanta: Luckie Marietta: Children's: Formerly known as ""Imagine It! The Children's Museum of Atlanta" Clark Atlanta University Art Museum: West End: Art: African American art [2] College Football Hall of Fame: Luckie Marietta: Sports: Honors collegiate athletes from around the country David J. Sencer CDC Museum: Druid ...
The Vatican Historical Museum (Italian: Museo storico vaticano) is one of the sections of the Vatican Museums. It was founded in 1973 at the behest of Pope Paul VI, [1] and was initially hosted in environments under the Square Garden. In 1987 it was moved to the main floor of the Apostolic Palace of the Lateran and opened in March 1991.
A museum telling the story of 'Muffler Men,' roadside attractions from the 1960s and 70s, has opened in Atlanta, Ill., on an original part of Route 66
The library is located inside the Vatican Palace, and the entrance is through the Belvedere Courtyard. [18] When Pope Sixtus V (1585-1590) commissioned the expansion and the new building of the Vatican Library, he had a three-story wing built right across Bramante's Cortile del Belvedere, thus bisecting it and changing Bramante's work ...
The Museo Pio Cristiano is one of the Vatican Museums. It houses various works of Christian antiquity such as The Good Shepherd. [1] The museum was founded by Pope Pius IX in 1854, [2] two years after the establishment of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology by Giuseppe Marchi and Giovanni Battista de Rossi.