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website, facility in Maui features museum exhibits; also an education center in Makiki Valley in Honolulu Hawaii Plantation Village: Waipahu: Oahu: Living: website, story of life on Hawaii's sugar plantations (c. 1900) Hawaii Science and Technology Museum: Hilo: Big Island: Science: website, mobile science museum Hawaii State Art Museum ...
"Weapons of the Ottoman Army - The Ottoman Empire | NZHistory, New Zealand history online". nzhistory.govt.nz. Retrieved 22 November 2019. 5 Weapons Used by the Ottomans, retrieved 22 November 2019 "Ottoman military band", Wikipedia, 30 September 2019, retrieved 22 November 2019 "Mehter-The Oldest Band in the World". web.archive.org. 1 January ...
ʻImiloa Astronomy Center is an astronomy and culture education center located in Hilo, Hawaii.Conceived by founding Director George Jacob in 2001, it features exhibits and shows dealing with Hawaiian culture and history, astronomy (particularly at the Mauna Kea Observatories), and the overlap between the two.
Empire of the Sultans: Ottoman Art of the Khalili Collection was a 1995–2004 touring exhibition displaying objects from the Khalili Collection of Islamic Art. Around two hundred exhibits, including calligraphy, textiles, pottery, weapons, and metalwork, illustrated the art and daily life of six centuries of the Ottoman Empire .
This list of museums in Ohio is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The Ottoman Sultan Abdülaziz (r. 1861–1876) was impressed by the archaeological museums in Paris (30 June – 10 July 1867), [3] London (12–23 July 1867) [3] and Vienna (28–30 July 1867) [3] which he visited in the summer of 1867, [3] and ordered a similar archaeological museum to be established in Istanbul.
The Hittite Museum, which was established in the Mahmut Pasha Bedesten in Ankara in 1940, was restored and renovated and converted into "Museum of Anatolian Civilizations" in 1968. Today, there are 99 museum directorates attached to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism , 151 private museums in 36 provinces and 1,204 private collections.
The first astronomical texts that were translated into Arabic were of Indian [2] and Persian origin. [3] The most notable was Zij al-Sindhind, a zij produced by Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī and Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq, who translated an 8th-century Indian astronomical work after 770, with the assistance of Indian astronomers who were at the court of caliph Al-Mansur.