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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 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.
Cementland, St. Louis, outdoor sculpture park, future uncertain since death of creator in 2011; Civilian Conservation Corps Museum, St. Louis, closed in 2008 [3] International Bowling Museum, St. Louis, moved to Arlington, Texas in 2010; National Video Game and Coin-Op Museum, St. Louis, closed in 1999 [4] St. Louis Museum
Beginning in 1907 and 1915 respectively, the St. Louis Art Museum and the St. Louis Zoo were both publicly funded by property taxes paid by residents of St. Louis City. Zoo chairman Howard Baer and his successor, Circuit Judge Thomas F. McGuire, worked with their supporters to secure the statute to establish the district. H.B. 23 authorized a ...
St. Michael le Belfrey, where Guy Fawkes was baptised; St Olave's Church, Marygate; Merchant Adventurers' Hall; Merchant Taylors' Hall; Museum Gardens (YMT) [a] St Mary's Abbey, ruins in the Museum Gardens (YMT) Yorkshire Museum (YMT) National Centre for Early Music, in the medieval Church of St Margaret and home of the York Early Music Festival
The national park consists of the Gateway Arch, a steel catenary arch that has become the definitive icon of St. Louis; a park along the Mississippi River on the site of the earliest buildings of the city; the Old Courthouse, a former state and federal courthouse where the Dred Scott case originated; and the 140,000 sq ft (13,000 m 2) museum at ...
[31] [32] The Yorkshire Museum remained closed. York was moved into Tier 3 Restrictions on 31 December 2020, forcing the Art Gallery and Castle Museum to close. [33] On 28 March 2021 the Yorkshire Museum announced that it has received an additional £18,000 'Lifeline grant' from the Culture Recovery Fund for repairs to the building façade and ...
The Yorkshire Museum of Farming is located in Murton Park near York in England. It is housed on a grass field site of approximately 14 acres (5.7 ha), and is the only museum in the district specifically dedicated to the subject of farming.