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  Category:Museum stubs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This category is for stub articles relating to museums.
Aquatic Hall of Fame and Museum of Canada
Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum of Philadelphia
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Museum_stubs   (132 words)

  
 UW Museum Studies - Courses
Museum history, philosophy, and basic operations, including organization, income, collection management, conservation exhibition, security, education, research, and ethics.
Focus on museums as educational institutions with conservation of the place of education in the mission of museums, the educational role of museums compared to that of other institutions, the museum's diverse audiences and their needs, and the educational methods and techniques museums may employ in pursuing their goals.
Survey of the legal and ethnical issues regarding international and national museum operations, including the control and movement of cultural property, artistic and intellectual rights and copyright, concepts of patrimony and issues of repatriation, as well as other relevant policies and regulations.
museum.washington.edu /museum/courses   (511 words)

  
 museum
The museum is dedicated to the exhibit of teaching materials used by the armed forces during World War II to train gunners and aircrew in the identification of aircraft, ships and ground vehicles.
museum is typical for museums of all types: To provide safe custody for the artifacts, and to provide preservation, recording and display of items of interest from the past for the benefit of scholars and others interested enough to visit.
Museum of Aircraft Recognition was established to fill this void and properly honor the thousands of servicemen and women who devised and built training aids and taught recognition subjects in countless schools and units during WWII.
www.commercemarketplace.com /home/CollectAir/Museum.html   (15063 words)

  
 Museum of Peacekeeping Operations / History / Conference of Peacekeepers
The idea to establish a Museum on UN Peacekeeping was born at the 1-st Russian National Conference «Peace-keeping Operations.
The first exhibition of the Museum under the title «In the Service of Peace and Humanism» was open for the public by the Union of Peacemakers May 18-20, 1995 in the Federation of Peace and Accord (Moscow, Prospect Mira, 36).
December 1996, at the request of the «Vystrel» Military Academy Command the Union of Peacemakers moved the exhibition named «Museum of Peacekeeping Operations» to the territory of Russian Center for Training of UNMOs (Solnechnogorsk) where it is used for training of Russian and international peacekeepers as well as for presentations for Russian and foreign delegations.
www.un-museum.ru /history/index-e.htm   (341 words)

  
 Early Operations (Tragino Aqueduct and Bruneval)
Operation Collossus - The Raid on the Tragino Aqueduct.
Codenamed Operation Colossus, the raid took place on the night of February 10, 1941, and it was intended that after blowing up the aqueduct, the unit would make their way to the coast to be picked up by the submarine HMS Triumph.
The aim of Operation Biting was to dismantle a Wurzburg precision radar dish, which was one of a series of early warning installations on the north coast of France, and bring it back to England for scientific research.
www.army.mod.uk /para/regimental_history/early_operations.htm   (740 words)

  
 Lorraine Campaign: an Overview, Sept - Dec 1944
Operating on a front equal to the width of the lead tank and with its supply trains accompanying the combat elements, Combat Command A covered 45 miles in 37 hours, overran the German headquarters responsible for the defense of Nancy, and established a position blocking the escape routes from the city.
However, such operations as the tank battle leading to Arracourt and the 90th Division crossing of the Moselle at Koenigsmacker demonstrated that the American corps commanders were not incapable of applying force in a flexible and decisive manner.
The heavy casualties that occure in such operations were more than the triangular division could sustain, with the result that the entire division was often rendered virtually combat ineffective and had to be withdrawn from the line to rebuild.
www-cgsc.army.mil /carl/resources/csi/gabel3/gabel3.asp   (9735 words)

  
 Naval Museum of Manitoba - Canadian Naval History
OPERATION "REDRAMP" is over, and with its conclusion the Winnipeg naval division, HMCS CHIPPAWA, "pipes down" from one of the higgest combined operations in Canada's peacetime history.
It was a combined operation in the fullest sense of the word, for in the long, drawn battle with the Red, everyone, civilian and serviceman, was on the front line, fighting on the one, big team.
Two operations in particular were handed over to this branch - one the "iron lung" evacuation, the other the rescue by small boat of the skipper of the Winnipeg Canoe Club, isolated by flood water and ill with bronchial pneumonia.
www.naval-museum.mb.ca /history/exhib11.htm   (2478 words)

  
 JS Online:Museum gets loan bailout
In exchange, the museum agreed to further cut its budget and cede control of its finances to a five-person board to be appointed by the county.
The museum also agreed to have its $845,000 quarterly subsidy payments from the county paid directly to banks so that debt service of both the new and existing loans can be deducted.
The museum board in some cases responded inadequately to bad financial news but in other instances was kept in the dark by museum management, the audit found.
www.jsonline.com /news/metro/jun05/333501.asp   (1308 words)

  
 National Building Museum - News Releases - 2002
Museum Chair Carolyn Schwenker Brody, who headed the search committee for the new President, states, “The Museum is delighted that Chase Rynd has accepted the position of President of the National Building Museum.
Rynd says, “The National Building Museum has one of the most engaging and culturally relevant mandates of any museum in the United States, and I am thrilled to be joining it at this historic time.
The Museum is dedicated to both scholarship and accessibility, and presents diverse exhibitions that place aspects of the built environment in the context of the larger cultures in which they play such an important role.
www.nbm.org /Events/news/2003/ChaseRynd_Release.html   (1039 words)

  
 Navy UDT-SEAL Museum :|: History
British Combined Operations veteran LCDR Wooley, of the Royal Navy, was placed in charge of the OSS Maritime Unit in June 1943.
Operating out of Nha Be, in the Rung Sat Special Zone, this detachment signaled the beginning of a SEAL presence that would eventually include 8 SEAL platoons in country on a continuing basis.
These brave men operated in every theater of the war, and their contribution greatly outweighed their numbers, a trend that will follow them throughout their long and colorful history.
www.navysealmuseum.com /heritage/history.php   (2347 words)

  
 COMBINED ARMS IN THE GREAT WAR
It's very common these days to talk of combined arms (multiple branches within a service), joint operations (multiple services) and combined operations (multiple countries).
True combined arms operations require robust and reliable equipment that will at least approach the kind of performance that your operation needs.
Strictly speaking, combined arms operations have been going on for centuries, with mixes of infantry, cavalry, archers, artillery, etc. The modern age brought in the new machinery of war, with its tanks, airplanes, accurate indirect artillery fire, improved rail transport, and chemical and fire operations.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/general_military/46921/1   (443 words)

  
 Logan Museum Educational Programs
This tradition of involvement in the museums is an opportunity students have enjoyed for nearly a century.
Classwork is combined with experience in the Museums of Beloit College (Logan Museum of Anthropology and Wright Museum of Art).
This program option affords the student the opportunity to utilize the unusual resource represented by the campus museums to build the theoretical and experiential basis for a variety of possible collections-related or public educational careers leading to entry-level museum employment or graduate training programs.
www.beloit.edu /~museum/logan/education/programs/logan1eduprog.htm   (311 words)

  
 A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE PUEBLO GRANDE MUSEUM
In 1989 the Pueblo Grande Museum Archival Project was finally begun, establishing a set goal and procedures for the study, organization, and preservation of the Museum’s archives.
In 1990, the Museum’s staff structure was reorganized and Todd Bostwick was appointed City Archaeologist and Roger Lidman assumed the role of Museum Director.
Keeping with the original vision that a museum should be thought of as a “living” entity, many changes to the facilities and programs have been instituted since 1990.
phoenix.gov /PUEBLO/museum.html   (1223 words)

  
 Glossary of the Holocaust - Simon Wiesenthal Center Multimedia Learning Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Operation involving the mass assembly, deportation, and murder of Jews by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
Originally established in 1940 as a camp for Jewish forced labor, the Germans began construction of an extermination camp at Belzec on November 1, 1941, as part of Aktion Reinhard.
The camp operated until the fall of 1943 when the Nazis destroyed the entire camp in an attempt to conceal all traces of their crimes.
motlc.wiesenthal.com /site/pp.asp?c=gvKVLcMVIuG&b=394665   (3802 words)

  
 Combined Arms Research Library Archives and Special Collections
This collection has non-record copies of documents (reports, correspondence, etc.) that detail the operations and activities of the Combined Arms Command (CAC) and its subordinate organizations and other agencies and organizations located at or reporting to Fort Leavenworth.
The material is organized in three boxes by country of the operation (Cambodia, Somalia, Haiti) If the folders were labeled by Mr.
The material was donated to the Combined Arms Research Library by the Liberty Memorial Musuem in Kansas City, Missouri.
cgsc.leavenworth.army.mil /carl/resources/archival/archival.asp   (2884 words)

  
 Hill Aerospace Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
In the late 1930s the Army Air Corps undertook an experiment to determine if their flight operations might be satisfactorily combined with private and commercial airport activities.
They would operate their huge Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses and Douglas B-18 Bolos out of the new Salt Lake Army Air Base on the east side of the municipal airport.
As construction continued at the airfield, negotiations between the Army Air Corps and the Department of the Interior were undertaken for the acquisition of a large tract of government land near Wendover, Utah, along the Utah-Nevada border.
www.hill.af.mil /museum/history/wendover.htm   (1351 words)

  
 ww2 LINKS
Regimental Museum of 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's)
Museums of the Worcestershire Regiment and Yeomanry Cavalry
The Welch Regiment Museum of the Royal Regiment of Wales
home.freeuk.net /rmarg/army_links.htm   (139 words)

  
 Museum of Peacekeeping Operations / Activities / UNMO Training and Museum
Russian UNMO Course (RUSUNMOC) in Solnechnogorsk town (67 km from Moscow) was opened in 1974 as a part of the "Vystrel" Military Academy (now - the Training Center of the Combined Arms Military Academy of the Armed Forces of Russia).
And since 1997 the lectures read by peacekeeping veterans in the Museum of Peacekeeping Operations both for Russian and international peacekeepers are a part of training in addition to official programme of RUSUNMOC.
Since 1998 the Museum is widely used as a methodical training center for young peacemakers (schoolboys aged 14-18 years) of Moscow and Moscow region.
www.un-museum.ru /deyatel/system-e.htm   (161 words)

  
 Jewish Canadian Military Museum - Links
Israel Museum - emphasis on the material culture (past, present and future) of the Land of Israel and the Jewish people.
Museum of Jewish Heritage - educating people about the 20th Century Jewish experience before, during, and after the Holocaust.
Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience - documents and presents the tradition of Jewish life in the South through exhibits, programs and more.
www.jcmm.ca /links.html   (1319 words)

  
 UAF Facilities Services :: History of the UA Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
The University of Alaska Museum has experienced unprecedented growth from the time of its inception to the present.
From an exhibit in Charles Bunnell's office to a modern facility, the museum and its collections have played an important role in the history of the university.
UA Museum Earth Science staff and UC Berkeley paleontologists begin excavation of dinosaur remains on the North Slope.
www.uaf.edu /fs/museumhistory.html   (738 words)

  
 Navy SEALs.com - US Navy SEALs
The Teams have operated in every hellhole known to modern warfare and come away with many victories, some bruises and a vast history of achievements.
SEALs are trained to operate in small units of one or two men up to platoon strength of sixteen.
Further, the SEALs are operating on all continents and in/on or under all conditions right now?s you read these words.
www.navyseals.com /community/navyseals/navyseals.cfm   (427 words)

  
 Resolutions Museum of Agriculture
The New Jersey Museum of Agriculture is a not-for-profit educational institution that showcases and communicates the unique role of the Garden State in the growth and development of agriculture and the impact of its contributions to society over time.
The New Jersey Museum of Agriculture has adopted a new vision to develop a facility, which not only preserves the rich history of agriculture but also recognizes the value and contributions of the state’s food sectors.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that we call upon Governor McGreevey and the State Legislature to continue to support the New Jersey Museum of Food and Agriculture by identifying a stable funding source for Museum operations, capable of maintaining the fiscal year 2000 funding level, or at least $180,000 per year.
www.state.nj.us /agriculture/04agmusres.htm   (344 words)

  
 American Museum of Natural History
This technology is put to use in the Museum's quest to link extinct lineages with the DNA, morphology, and behavior of species that survive today.
Their joint research established a genetic link between termites and praying mantises that disproved the generally accepted theory that termites were most closely related to cockroaches.
He also is approaching completion of a four-year project with Dr. Randall T. Schuh, the Museum's George Willett Curator of Entomology, that has analyzed millions of nucleotide bases of "true bugs" to construct an evolutionary tree for the group.
www.amnh.org /science/divisions/invertzoo/bio.php?scientist=wheeler   (350 words)

  
 Museum
Special Operations Executive was formed by Churchill in 1940 and attracted both women and men.
SOE women came from all walks of life to be trained to handle guns and explosives, work undercover, endure interrogation by the Gestapo, and use complex codes.
With an introduction giving a brief overview of the training and tactics in the BEF of 1914-17, the combined pamphlets provide insight into developing British military thought of the period.
www.militarymuseum.co.za /infocentre.html   (1459 words)

  
 ASOM - The Museum Lobby
The square parachute represents the cutting edge of modern special operations, and the unconventional warfare they continue to engage in.
A wall in the lobby is dedicated to the 73 individuals who have received the Congressional Medal of Honor for their actions while assigned to an airborne or special operations unit.
Another wall in the lobby reviews the history of the establishment of airborne units and special operations units, with histories of the major units and even more comprehensive listings of units.
www.asomf.org /museum_lobby.htm   (286 words)

  
 The Mariners' Museum : Birth of the U.S. Navy
The Mariners' Museum : Birth of the U.S. Navy
The combination was sufficient to hold Cornwallis in place at Yorktown while de Grasse ferried Washington's army from the northern end of the Bay.
On the morning of September 5, 1781, the British fleet, approaching from the north, sighted the French fleet at anchor inside the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay.
www.mariner.org /usnavy/03/03e.htm   (1104 words)

  
 VUSN Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
TWA operated the DC-2, which came about in 1934 (2 Wright Cyclone 875 hp engines, 14 seats) and its excellence was accepted allround.
The U.S. Navy's COD operations using the single-engine Grumman TBM-3R COD aircraft pointed up the need for increased load carrying capabilities to deliver high-priority cargo, not to mention the need for additional safety for passengers, to ships at sea.
It was capable of flexible employment, with folding wings allowing more planes to fit in cruisers' small hangars and a float that could be exchanged for wheeled landing gear, facilitating operation from aircraft carriers and shore bases in a utility role.
www.vusn.org /trawing/museum.htm   (3296 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Places to learn U.S. military history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Established in 1854, it serves as the repository for many important objects in the history of the Army." On exhibit: Gen. George Washington's pistols and a Sioux pictograph of Custer's last stand.
Fayetteville, N.C. "One of the newest Army museums" is dedicated as much to the pilots who led the way into Normandy on June 6, 1944, as to those who today fly above the mountains that ring Afghanistan.
Opened in 1960 "on the estate of the late Col. Robert R. McCormick, commander of the 1st Battalion, 5th Field Artillery, part of the famed First Division during World War II (later editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune)," the museum is now "a modern facility with interactive exhibits.
www.usatoday.com /travel/destinations/10great/2003-09-29-military-museums_x.htm   (654 words)

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