Thursday, March 1, 2012

Science Museum, London !


The Science Museum as an institution was founded about a century and a half have been. It has its origins in the Universal Exhibition of 1851, in Hyde Park in the huge glass building known as the Crystal Palace instead. The popularity of the exhibition will be guaranteed a large financial surplus, which hit the patronage over Prince Albert used a number of educational institutions in the country should be found nearby. The first of these was the South Kensington Museum, opened in 1857 on a plot of land is now part of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Museums of Eskisehir !

Eskisehir first museum was established in 1945 as a depot in Alaeddin Mosque. Later it was moved to the madrasa and the boys school in the premises of the mosque Kursunlu. Since the building is not suitable for the exhibition of the works, a new building was built in Akarbasi in Eskisehir. It was opened to the public in 1974.

Gaziantep Zeugma Mosaics Museum

Zeugma is an ancient city Commagne, currently located in the city Nizip, 45 km from Gaziantep.

The significance of Zeugma is the Roman villa and its mosaic floor. Zeugma was the public's attention when the Birecik dam project brought the possibility that Zeugma of the waters below the dam could have been flooded. Majority of Roman villas were daylight was taken during a rescue excavation in 2000 intensified. Nevertheless, the sum of the excavations, which were originally started in 1987, discovered only a small number of these unique mosaics.




Today in Zeugma Mosaics Museum 500-square meter large mosaics, 35 mosaic panels as well as the famous one, 50 cm long bronze Mars and Aphrodite statutes are in the ad. The museum is proud to present the second largest mosaic museum in the world.
 
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