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unusual facts about South Wales Miners' Museum


South Wales Miners' Museum

The museum, which re-opened in 2008 after rebuilding, features a recreation of a tunnel where models of children can be seen crawling though the space underground.


Apollonia, Cyrenaica

The ruins of Apollonia are sited by the modern town of Susa, and the Apollonia (Susa) Museum houses many artifacts found on the ancient site.

Bible of St Louis

The manuscript has been kept for the past eight centuries in the Cathedral of Toledo, except for a fragment of eight leaves which is now in the Morgan Library & Museum in New York as MS M240.

Ceres Transport Riders’ Museum

The structure of the building was changed somewhat to accommodate the design by well-known Cape Town heritage architect Gawie Fagan.

Farmers' Museum

It overlooks Otsego Lake and recreates rural life from the 19th century through exhibits and interactive workshops.

Horology

Other horological museums in the London area include the Clockmakers' Museum, and the horological collections at the British Museum, the Science Museum (London) and at the Wallace Collection.

Hours of Henry VIII

The Hours of Henry VIII is an illuminated codex from the 15th century, painted in Tours, France housed under shelfmark MS H.8 in the Morgan Library & Museum, in New York.

Hugh Goldwin Rivière

Examples of is work are held in a very wide variety of public collections, including the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath, Guildhall Art Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Cheltenham Art Gallery, Gloucestershire County Council, and the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter.

John James Crowe

His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Worcestershire Regiment Museum in the Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum, Worcester.

Joseph Judge

His papers concerning this topic were donated to the Mariners' Museum in Virginia.

Lauderdale County, Tennessee

The Veterans' Museum on the grounds of the former Dyersburg Army Air Base in Halls is dedicated to the preservation and documentation of materials related to military activities from World War I to the Iraq War, as well as documenting the history of the air base itself.

Leonard Baldy

After his death, he was elected to the American Police Hall of Fame and had his badge number retired.

Mariners' Museum

The museum was founded in 1930 by Archer Milton Huntington, son of Collis P. Huntington, a railroad builder who brought the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway to Warwick County, Virginia, and who founded the City of Newport News, its coal export facilities, and Newport News Shipbuilding in the late 19th century.

The famous Lions Bridge, a dam that provides a breathtaking view of the James River, remains a highlight for visitors—a perfect family gathering place to enjoy the Museum Park.

Mariquita Jenny Moberly

Her works are in a number of public collections, including The Secret Path in the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum.

Merthyr Tydfil by-election, 1915

Merthyr Tydfil was a miners’ seat, and power within the local Labour Party lay within the locally dominant trade union, the South Wales Miners' Federation.

Penrhys

The march was organised by the South Wales Miners' Federation and the Rhondda District, but lost support due to opposition from the TUC.

Sprint car racing

The National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum located in Knoxville, Iowa, USA features exhibits to highlight the history of both winged and non-wing sprint cars.

Storm P. Museum

Storm P.'s interest in painting began during a visit to Paris in 1906 where he was struck by the Modernist and in particular Expressionist art that he saw as well as by the art cabarets and the Bohemian life style.

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott

The manuscript was kept at Abbotsford after Scott's death, but was bought by the financier J. P. Morgan around 1900, and is now in the Morgan Library in New York.

Treatise of Love

The copy used for the edition published by the Early English Text Society is from the Pierpont Morgan Library—it was previously owned by the Earl of Aylesford and Lord Amherst of Hackney.

Virginia State Route 312

The west leg of the intersection is Avenue of the Arts, which leads to Christopher Newport University, the Ferguson Center for the Arts, the Peninsula Fine Arts Center, the Mariners' Museum, and Lake Maury.

Willem F. J. Mörzer Bruyns

In 1995 he was Huntington Fellow at The Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia, and from 2005-2007 Sackler Research Fellow in the History of Astronomy and Navigational Sciences at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich in London.

Worcestershire Regiment

The collections of the Worcestershire Regimental Museum are on display in the Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum in Worcester.

Writers' Museum

:Not to be confused with Dublin Writers Museum.


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