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Harry McNevin said that in 1988 the ORU Board of Regents "rubber-stamped" the "use of millions in endowment money to buy a Beverly Hills property so that Oral Roberts could have a West Coast office and house." [54] In addition, he said a country club membership was purchased for the Roberts' home. The lavish expenses led to McNevin's ...
The New York State Legislature granted the Metropolitan Museum of Art an Act of Incorporation on April 13, 1870, "for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said City a Museum and Library of Art, of encouraging and developing the Study of the Fine Arts, and the application of Art to manufacture and natural life, of advancing the general ...
The museum's change of name was announced in 2019. [4] The museum explores home and home life from 1600 to the present day with galleries which ask questions about 'home', present diverse lived experiences, and examine the psychological and emotional relationships people have with the idea of "home" alongside a series of period room displays. [5]
The original gallery is now called Tate Britain and is the national gallery for British art from 1500 to the present day, as well as some modern British art. Tate Modern , in Bankside Power Station on the south side of the Thames , opened in 2000 and now exhibits the national collection of modern art from 1900 to the present day, including some ...
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. [ 3 ]
The Met Fifth Avenue is the primary museum building for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The building is located at 1000 Fifth Avenue , along the Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan 's Upper East Side .
The Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret at 9a St Thomas Street is a museum of surgical history and one of the oldest surviving operating theatres. It is located in the garret of St Thomas's Church , Southwark , in London , on the original site of St Thomas' Hospital .
Great Russell Street viewed from its junction with Bloomsbury Street Great Russell Street is a street in Bloomsbury , London , best known for being the location of the British Museum . [ 1 ] It runs between Tottenham Court Road (part of the A400 route ) in the west, and Southampton Row (part of the A4200 route) in the east.