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The Houston Museum District is an association of 21 museums, cultural centers and community organizations located in Houston, Texas, dedicated to promoting art, science, history, and culture. The Houston Museum District currently includes 21 museums that recorded a collective attendance of around 7 million visitors a year. [1]
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology (/ æ ʃ ˈ m oʊ l i ən, ˌ æ ʃ m ə ˈ l iː ən /) [2] on Beaumont Street in Oxford, England, is Britain's first public museum. [3] Its first building was erected in 1678–1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities that Elias Ashmole gave to the University of Oxford in 1677.
The gilded bier from the base of Tutankhamun's sarcophagus A pectoral belonging to Tutankhamun, representing his prenomen.. Exhibitions of artifacts from the tomb of Tutankhamun have been held at museums in several countries, notably the United Kingdom, Soviet Union, United States, Canada, Japan, and France.
A thumb-nail history of the city of Houston, Texas, from its founding in 1836 to the year 1912, published 1912, hosted by the Portal to Texas History; True stories of old Houston and Houstonians: historical and personal sketches / by S. O. Young., published 1913, hosted by the Portal to Texas History
In 1755, Huddesford took over from his father as keeper of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. [3] Huddesford improved the museum's reputation. [1] His scholarship and his ability to take advice are cited as reasons for his success. Huddesford cleared out many of the collections to ensure that all the exhibits were essential.
The Weld-Blundell Prism ("WB", dated 1800 BCE) is a clay, cuneiform inscribed vertical prism housed in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. [2] The prism was found in a 1922 expedition in Larsa in modern-day Iraq by British archaeologist Herbert Weld Blundell. [3]
Sir John Evans KCB FRS FSA FRAI (17 November 1823 – 31 May 1908) was an English antiquarian, geologist and founder of prehistoric archaeology.. Between 1884 and 1908 he was curator of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, becoming the founding member of the British Academy in 1902 and professor of prehistoric archaeology at Oxford in 1909.
He resigned his keepership at the Ashmolean Museum in 1855 and was then given an honorary DCL degree. [1] His time at the Ashmolean Museum saw significant changes in the natural history displays, based on " natural theology ", as propounded by William Paley (1743–1805), the Archdeacon of Carlisle .