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National Children's Museum

The exhibit features sample homes and shelters from regions; a kitchen area highlighting foods and preparation methods; an interactive clothing store with traditional garments from different cultures; arts and crafts activities; transportation, including a tuk-tuk that “transports” visitors to different locales; and a language area that showcases different types of writing and listening.


8905 Bankakuko

It is named after Kakuko Ban, a member of the staff at the planetarium section of the Hiroshima Children's Museum.

Altes Stadthaus, Bonn

The director of the Bonn Women's Museum, Marianne Pitzen, accused the initiators of the plan of selling off public property and underestimating the value of cultural heritage.

Bonn Women's Museum

The work of the Bonn Women's Museum has led to the founding of women's museums elsewhere, for example in Merano, Switzerland and Hittisau, Austria (see Hittisau Women's Museum).

Boston Children's Museum

Boston Children’s Museum has inspired both the Museo Pambata in Manila, Philippines, and Le Musée des Enfants in Brussels, Belgium.

Bramber railway station

The station was patronised by tourists visiting nearby Bramber Castle, Potter's Museum and the village.

Bronzeville Children's Museum

Founded in 1998, the museum moved to its current location at 9301 South Stony Island Avenue in the Pill Hill neighborhood in 2008.

Canadian Children's Museum

With a museum-issued passport and a good imagination, visitors can travel to Nigeria, Japan, India, Mexico, Indonesia and other international destinations.

Children's Bureau

The National Children's Bureau, a London-based charity exploring a range of issues involving children.

Christian Ulrich

In 1879 Christian Ulrich designed a new facade and lobby for the Teyler's Museum in Haarlem (The Netherlands).

Clive Russell

In Margaret's Museum, a highly acclaimed motion picture, he starred opposite Helena Bonham Carter as the Gaelic-speaking Neil Currie.

Condover Hall

The most compelling evidence can be found in drawings in the Sir John Soane's Museum that seems to prove that the Hall was designed by the influential Elizabethan architect John Thorpe in the early 1590s.

Graham Avenue Line and Tompkins Avenue Line

The route serves Prospect Park, the Boathouse on the Lullwater of the Lake in Prospect Park, the Prospect Park Carousel, the Lefferts Historic House, the Prospect Park Zoo, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the Jewish Children's Museum, Brower Park, the Brooklyn Children's Museum, Restoration Plaza, the Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center, and McCarren Park.

Great Explorations Children's Museum

Great Explorations - The Hands-On Museum was formerly housed in a warehouse type location in Downtown St. Petersburg with similar building architecture to the Salvador Dalí Museum and P. Buckley Moss Museum.

Henriette-Bathily Women's Museum

The prominent figures of Senegalese women's emancipation are celebrated, for example the novelist Aminata Sow Fall.

Jefferson Park, Denver

Views east from Jefferson Park take in Elitch Gardens Theme Park, The Children's Museum, Denver's Downtown Aquarium, Pepsi Center, the REI flagship store and other attractions in Downtown's Central Platte Valley.

John Thorpe

Little is known of his life, and his work is dubiously inferred, rather than accurately known, from a folio of drawings in the Sir John Soane's Museum, to which Horace Walpole called attention, in 1780, in his Anecdotes of Painting; but how far these were his own is uncertain.

Lutz Children's Museum

There are hometown staples such as Marlow's department store, the typical Main Street apartment, and nods to World War II such as an old-fashioned radio, newspapers, and other similar artifacts.

Margaret's Museum

It carried significance in the local area of Newtongrange, Scotland as the screen debut of local TV celebrity David MacBeath, who appeared as an extra in the film.

Milan Kymlicka

He received numerous awards for his work, including a Genie Award in 1996 for his work on Margaret's Museum.

Millennium Hotel Cincinnati

The hotel's central location, provides easy access to the nearby Cinergy Children’s Museum, Cincinnati Art Museum, Newport Aquarium, Contemporary Arts Center, Millennium Monument, World Peace Bell and OMNIMAX Theater in the Museum Center at Union Terminal.

National Children's Choir of Australia

The choir has sung with, met, and performed to many including John So, the Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Blair McDonough, Eddie McGuire and Andrew Gaze.

Nursery World

It organises an annual show, the Nursery World Show, which is co-sponsored by 4Children, the National Children's Bureau, the Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years and the Pre-school Learning Alliance.

Oman Children's Museum

The museum was established by the Ministry of National Heritage and Culture and opened on November 17, 1990 by Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said on the 20th National Day celebration in Oman.

Rodgers Townsend

Current clients include: AT&T, BASF, The Black Rep, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Echo360, Eckert’s Orchard, Enterprise Holdings, The Hartford, LouFest, Mayflower, Missouri Baptist Medical Center, Outreach International, Pleats, St. Louis Rams, St. Louis University, The Magic House and United Van Lines.

Sheldon Currie

A movie, Margaret's Museum, was based on The Glace Bay Miners' Museum.

St. Anne's Museum, Lübeck

Annexed to this part of the exhibition is a special collection of Faience from Northern Germany in the upper floor, emphasizing the manufactures in Kellinghusen, Stockelsdorf, and Stralsund.

Tor di Nona

There are many perhaps unexecuted drawings for it by Carlo Fontana, bound in an album which passed into the hands of Scottish architect Robert Adam, now at Sir John Soane's Museum, London (Concise Catalogue).


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