What is another name for the Ten Boom Museum, which was an idea in Corrie ten Boom's book?
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Ten Boom Museum The Ten Boom Museum is a museum dedicated to "The Hiding Place", the subject of a book by Corrie ten Boom. The house where the museum is located was purchased and restored in 1983 by the Corrie ten Boom Fellowship, a non-profit 501(c) 3 corporation governed by a board of directors. Mike Evans (journalist) serves as the chairman of the Board.
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Corrie ten Boom Cornelia "Corrie" ten Boom (15 April 1892 – 15 April 1983) was a Dutch watchmaker and Christian who, along with her father and other family members, helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust during World War II. She was imprisoned for her actions. Her most famous book, "The Hiding Place", is a biography that recounts the story of her family's efforts, as well as her time spent in a concentration camp.
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SPARK Museum of Electrical Invention The SPARK Museum of Electrical Invention (formerly the American Museum of Radio and Electricity) is an interactive museum located in Bellingham, Washington, United States, which offers educational experiences for audiences of all ages through galleries and public programs that illustrate the development and use of electricity, radio and the related inventions that changed the course of human history. The museum features a collection of artifacts showcasing four centuries of human innovation from 1580 into the 1950s.
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Cobra Museum The Cobra Museum of Modern Art (Dutch: "Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst" ) is an art museum in Amstelveen in the Netherlands. The collection of the museum consists of key works by artists of the movements Vrij Beelden (1945), Cobra (1948–1951), and Creatie (1950–1955).
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Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum The Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum is a museum of ethnography in Cologne, Germany. It was reopened in 2010. The museum arose from a collection of over 3500 items belonging to ethnographer Wilhelm Joest. After his death in 1897, the collection was left to his sister Adele Rautenstrauch.
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Leominster Museum Leominster Museum, formerly known as Leominster Folk Museum, is an independent, volunteer-run, museum in Leominster, Herefordshire, England. The museum's season for opening each year is typically between Easter and the end of October; during the season opening houirs are 10-4 on weekdays and 10-1 on Saturdays.
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Christine Leo Roussel Christine Leo Roussel (born January 20, 1939) is an American author, art historian, curator, photographer, and consultant. She worked under Thomas Hoving at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and then created her own studio, "Roussel Art Conservation". She is known for her knowledge of the art work in her native New York City, specializing in sculpture conservation. She was an assistant to Nelson Rockefeller, and is the author of "The Art of Rockefeller Center" which provides a detailed history of all the works located within Rockefeller Center. Her niece is Academy Award-winning actress Melissa Leo.
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Toy Museum (Brussels) The Toy Museum (French:"Musée du jouet") is a museum of toys and games in Brussels, Belgium. The museum opened on 14 November 1990. The core collection was amassed by a family of amateur toy enthusiasts and has grown through donations by the public as well as purchases.
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Debbe Magnusen Debbe Magnusen (born January 6, 1956 in Pasadena, California), in July 1994, founded the Non-Profit Organization Project Cuddle based out of Costa Mesa, California. Magnusen was a foster mother to over 30 drug-exposed children, while raising two biological children. Five of those children were eventually adopted by Magnusen and her family. She is the author of the non-fiction books "Don’t Abandon Your Baby" and "It’s Never Dull!!". "Don't Abandon Your Baby" tells the stories of babies who were nearly abandoned, but saved through working with Magnusen and her non-profit organization Project Cuddle. "It's Never Dull" talks about true stories of drug exposed babies and how to care for them, as well as several insights into the foster care system.
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Letterenhuis The Letterenhuis ("House of Literature") is a Belgian non-profit organization located in Antwerp. The Letterenhuis collects and archives information of Flemish writers and artists, and portraits concerning Flemish culture as from 1750. The "Letterenhuis" fulfills two tasks: on the one hand it is an archiving and documentation centre and on the other hand it is a museum. The most interesting part of its collection are the manuscripts of famous Belgian authors like Hendrik Conscience, Willem Elsschot and the contemporary writer Tom Lanoye. In 2012 the Letterenhuis featured a theme exhibition about Louis Paul Boon to honor his one hundredth birth year.
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Adrian Newstead Adrian Newstead (born 1948) is a Sydney-based gallerist, art dealer, author and art commentator. He is notable for his long-term role in the development of the contemporary Aboriginal art market. His Coo-ee Gallery in Bondi is the oldest dedicated Aboriginal art gallery in Australia, having opened in Paddington in 1981. It was among the earliest galleries to promote Urban Indigenous art and organised the first exhibition of Tiwi art in 1983.
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Sydney Living Museums Sydney Living Museums, the trading name of the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales (HHT), is a statutory authority in the Government of New South Wales entrusted with the care and maintenance of historic sites throughout the state, including gardens, parklands and urban spaces in New South Wales, Australia. In 2011 its sites attracted over two million visitors each year.
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Eureka! (museum) Eureka! The National Children's Museum is an interactive educational museum for children in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, with a focus on learning through play. It is run as an educational charity and not-for-profit organisation. Eureka! is based on the North American model of children’s museums, aimed at families with children aged 0–11 and encourages hands-on inter-generational learning.
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Corribee The Corribee is a model of sailing yacht with good sea keeping ability. It was in a Corribee that Ellen MacArthur sailed around Britain.
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Bishop Museum The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, designated the Hawaiʻ i State Museum of Natural and Cultural History, is a museum of history and science located in the historic Kalihi district of Honolulu on the Hawaiian island of O'ahu. Founded in 1889, it is the largest museum in Hawai'i and has the world's largest collection of Polynesian cultural artifacts and natural history specimens. Besides the comprehensive exhibits of Hawaiiana, the museum's total holding of natural history specimens exceeds 24 million, of which the entomological collection alone represents more than 13.5 million specimens (making it the third-largest insect collection in the United States). The museum is accessible on public transit: TheBus Routes A, 1, 2, 7, 10.
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Holland Museum Holland Museum in Holland, Michigan is a local historical museum. Located in a landmark, neo-classical former Post Office building next to Centennial Park. The Holland Museum also operates two historic house museums: the Cappon House and the Settlers House museums.
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International Museum of Horology The International Museum of Horology, French: Musée international d'horlogerie (MIH), is a museum in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, dedicated to horology, which is the study of time, timekeeping and timekeeping devices (primarily clocks and watches). The museum is owned and operated by the city of La Chaux-de-Fonds.
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National Museum of Wildlife Art The National Museum of Wildlife Art (NMWA) is a museum located in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, United States that preserves and exhibits wildlife art. The 51,000 square foot building with its Idaho quartzite façade was inspired by the ruins of Slains Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland and echoes the hillside behind the facility. Located on a bluff called East Gros Ventre Butte in the midst of a real wildlife habitat, the institution overlooks the National Elk Refuge and is situated 2.5 miles north of the town of Jackson. The core of the collections reflects traditional and contemporary realism. The Museum's centerpiece is a collection of works by Carl Rungius (1869-1959) and Bob Kuhn (1920-2007). In addition to 14 galleries, the museum has a Sculpture Trail, Museum Shop, Restaurant, Children’s Discovery Gallery, and Library. More than 80,000 people visit every year, and over 10,000 children visit the Museum each year, often as part of their school curricula.
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Albury Library Museum Albury Library Museum is a combined library and museum in Albury, New South Wales, Australia. Designed by Ashton Raggatt McDougall it was opened in 2007. In the first year of its operation the building had 226,000 visitors, of which 80,000 entered the exhibition space. The library has 50,000 books, magazines and electronic media items, and received 80,000 visitors in the first year of its operation, a 50% increase compared to the previous year. The building received the Australian Institute of Architects's National Award for Public Architecture.
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John Kuo Wei Tchen John Kuo Wei Tchen, also known as Jack, is the co-founder of the Museum of Chinese in America and the founding director of the A/P/A Studies Program and Institute at New York University. He is the author of several books on Chinatown, including "New York before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882" and "Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown, 1895-1905." He is the co-author of "Yellow Peril! An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear." Jack was featured in the film 9-Man (documentary) and is a frequently called-upon expert on Chinatown and Asian American topics.
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Challenge of the North Challenge of the North: Wealth from Australia's Northern Shores is a 1969 book by Ion Idriess. It was Idriess' final book and contained his ideas for developing Australia's north. He had earlier written about this topic in "The Great Boomerang" (1941) and "Onward Australia" (1943).
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Local museum A local museum or local history museum is a museum that covers local history. Its collection normally includes objects with a local connection of some sort. Such museums are often small in nature and have a low budget for their running costs. Entry costs are normally low as well.