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The biology collection contains 200,000 specimens, including both fauna and flora, with the majority of the collection made up of insects. There are two specimens of the extinct great auk, [18] an almost complete skeleton of an extinct moa, passenger pigeons, [19] and a large collection of Quaternary (c.125,000 years ago) specimens from the Yorkshire region including the remains of elephants ...
The Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial is an aviation museum in Elvington, York, England, on the site of the former RAF Elvington airfield, a Second World War RAF Bomber Command station. The museum was founded, and first opened to the public, in the mid 1980s. The museum is one of the largest independent air museums in Britain. [1]
The York Museum Gardens are botanic gardens in the centre of York, England, beside the River Ouse.They cover an area of 10 acres (4.0 ha) of the former grounds of St Mary's Abbey, and were created in the 1830s by the Yorkshire Philosophical Society along with the Yorkshire Museum which they contain.
The airport is 23 miles (37 km) from Downtown Denver, which is 15 miles (24 km) farther away than Stapleton International Airport, the airport DEN replaced. [ 10 ] The 52.4 square miles (136 km 2 ; 33,500 acres) [ 6 ] of land occupied by DEN is the largest amount of commercial airport land area in North America, by a great extent.
The museum has built up a large collection of artefacts that illustrate the history of farm mechanisation. The collection also contains domestic items and other documentary material relating to the social structure of rural life in the area. Events are held throughout the year relating to rural and farming themes.
Curtis Worth Fentress FAIA RIBA (born 1947) is an American architect.He is currently the principal-in-charge of design at Fentress Architects, an international design studio he founded in Denver, Colorado in 1980.
Keeper of the museum, Honorary Curator of Numismatics 1870–1878 Rev Canon James Raine: Honorary Curator of Antiquities 1873–1896 Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston: Honorary Curator of Mineralogy 1877-1907 [5] John-Clay Purves: Keeper of the museum 1878–1880 [1] Walter Keeping: Keeper of the museum 1880–1883 Henry Maurice Platnauer: Keeper of ...
The museum has also erected a more modern ex Air Training Corps Cadet Hut alongside Building 21 to house its World War Two Collection. The museum is also home to the Yorkshire Helicopter Preservation Group (YHPG) [1] which relocated from the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington, near York in July 2002. The YHPG display their collection of ...