(n.) A repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art.
Example Sentences:
(1) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
(2) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
(3) She has more than made up for it since, building opera houses in China, art museums in America and car factories in Germany, all bearing her unmistakable influence in every detail.
(4) In the present work by the method of molecular DNA hybridization there was shown a low degree of affinity of the standard museum strains of cholera vibrios to the respresentatives of the sea species V. parahaemolyticus and V. alginolyticus, and also halophilic vibrios identified earlier on the basis of phenotypical characteristics of the nucleotide DNA composition as Marinovibrio.
(5) This museum is a symbol of the artistic vitality of Paris.
(6) Russia has no national museum of Stalin's repression but Moscow has two Gulag museums.
(7) The director of the Museum at Checkpoint Charlie, Alexandra Hildebrandt, keeps a tally started by her late husband Rainer, the museum’s founder, which currently lists 1,720 victims.
(8) Was this a museum with a mission to educate, or not?
(9) Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, opens 21 November
(10) The Imperial War Museum’s Holocaust education officer, Rachel Donnelly, thinks the certification is appropriate.
(11) "It would probably take a half day to prepare a skull cup," said Silvia Bello, the palaeontologist who led the study at the Natural History Museum in London.
(12) The museum defines its radicals as: “Men and women who believed in ideas worth fighting for.
(13) In a ruling rejecting any claims to the "spoils of war," New York's highest court concluded Thursday that an ancient gold tablet must be returned to the German museum that lost it in the Second world war .
(14) The arts Facebook Twitter Pinterest Portland Art Museum For rainy days – and Portland has its fair share – as well as creative inspiration, Portland Art Museum is a must.
(15) The union has accused museum management of refusing to provide information on costing or how service standards would be monitored, and says the companies believed to be in the running have little experience of providing the full range of visitor services currently provided by in-house staff.
(16) DNA sequences from the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene were obtained from a museum specimen of the presumed extinct thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) and were compared with homologous sequences from 13 representatives of the Australian marsupial family Dasyuridae.
(17) As he has for the past 35 years, that is where Dr Seski intends to focus his energy and attention.” Also on Tuesday, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh said it was reviewing Seski’s donation of two Nile crocodiles and an American alligator to see if he followed international standards published since the donations were made.
(18) They will be able to use the collection as if it were their own collection and explore the world in their own way.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Google employee photographs exhibits at the British Museum.
(19) I hope these works are not buried in the museum's basement aimlessly.
(20) In the Museum of the Warsaw Rising, the sound effects are powerful, the visuals compelling, the tragedy forcefully conveyed.
Planetarium
Definition:
(n.) An orrery. See Orrery.
Example Sentences:
(1) It has regular open evenings featuring planetarium presentations.
(2) So while in Japan you can easily stumble across a remote-control tissue box or a battery-operated planetarium for your bathroom (by which I mean a waterproof Saturn-shaped orb that floats in the bath and projects the entire visible universe onto the ceiling), the sense of surrounding novelty has diminished.
(3) A depiction of the Mayan calendar at the planetarium of the 'Mini World' theme park in Lichtenstein, Germany, on 19 December 2012.
(4) In Scotland, Glasgow Science Centre has a fibreoptic star projector in its planetarium for eye-opening realism.
(5) In 1962, Kaufman and Rock reported that the moon illusion did not occur in the darkness of a planetarium or in a completely dark room.
(6) Complex and simple spike responses of Purkinje cells were recorded in the flocculus of anesthetized, paralyzed rabbits during rotating full-field visual stimuli produced by a three-axis planetarium projector.
(7) Beneath this hypothetical roofline, the building that now houses a planetarium, several slices of rainforest, a colony of seabirds, giant reptiles, classrooms, bats, 18 million pickled animal specimens, chameleons, temporary exhibition spaces, geckos, auditorium, frogs, cafeteria, lungfish, and millions of visitors each year was initially left undrawn.
(8) Starry-eyed Winchester Science Centre has the largest-capacity planetarium in the UK, and runs adults-only After Dark events, with a chance to interact with the exhibits and enjoy a curry and wine or beer at the cafe.
(9) One of the most insistent Mayan apocalypse deniers has been astrophysicist and director of New York's Hayden Planetarium, Neil deGrasse Tyson.
(10) It said that from an original budget of €300m, the cost of the dazzling complex – which includes a concert hall, opera house, planetarium and science museum among its many features – swelled to more than €1bn by the time it was completed in 2005.
(11) Its clear glazed walls reveal some of the attractions inside, notably the two great spheres of its planetarium and artificial rainforest.
(12) Three illumination conditions were used: The inside of the planetarium was completely dark, was lighted, or was projected with the silhouette of a city under a starry sky.
(13) If you need more visual spectacle, there is an IMAX cinema next door to the planetarium.
(14) The visually modulated neurons in the dorsal cap responded optimally to slow rotation of random dot stimuli, which were produced using handheld patterns or a planetarium projector.
(15) Two pairs of light points, separated by 3.5 degrees, were presented on the dome screen of a planetarium.
(16) Kittens were reared in a planetarium-like visual environment that lacked straight line contours.
(17) The planetarium offers the thrill of journeys to the stars, while the rainforest sphere delights with four different habitats on four different levels.