"to commemorate Zayed's love of falconry. In 2009, the Zayed Museum signed a ten-year contract with the British Museum. The British Museum would assist with curation and loan about 500 of its treasures to the Zayed Museum. The museum was projected for completion in 2016, however, as of November 2017, construction has not yet begun. According to ""The New York Times"", the British Museum thinks that it is unlikely that any items will be loaned under the current contract, which ends in 2019. Zayed National Museum Zayed National Museum (Arabic: متحف زايد الوطني) is a planned museum, to be located"
"National Railway Museum Shildon Locomotion, also known as Locomotion: the National Railway Museum at Shildon or Shildon Locomotion Museum is a railway museum in Shildon, County Durham, England. The museum is part of the Science Museum Group. The museum was opened on 22 October 2004 by Prime Minister Tony Blair. Built at a cost of £11.3 million, it is based on the former ""Timothy Hackworth Victorian Railway Museum"". The museum is operated in partnership with Durham County Council and was expected to bring 60,000 visitors a year to the small town. However, during its first six months, the museum attracted"
"National Tramway Museum The National Tramway Museum is located at Crich, (), Derbyshire, England. The museum contains over 60 (mainly British) trams built between 1873 and 1982 and is set within Crich Tramway Village, a period village containing a pub, cafe, old-style sweetshop and tram depots. The museum's collection of trams runs through the village-setting with visitors transported one-mile out into the local countryside and back. The trams at Crich mostly ran along the streets of cities in United Kingdom before the 1960s, with trams rescued and restored (even from other countries) as the systems closed. The village is also"
"features heavily in the John Shuttleworth song ""Dandelion and Burdock"". The museum possesses the only remaining Mk2 police box, which formed the basis for the design of the TARDIS from Doctor Who. National Tramway Museum The National Tramway Museum is located at Crich, (), Derbyshire, England. The museum contains over 60 (mainly British) trams built between 1873 and 1982 and is set within Crich Tramway Village, a period village containing a pub, cafe, old-style sweetshop and tram depots. The museum's collection of trams runs through the village-setting with visitors transported one-mile out into the local countryside and back. The trams"
"exhibition building houses most of the collection and includes the sole examples of the prototype APT-E and Deltic units. The museum has a wind turbine which provides power to the National Grid and an on-site biodiesel bus for transporting visitors around the site without harming the environment. National Railway Museum Shildon Locomotion, also known as Locomotion: the National Railway Museum at Shildon or Shildon Locomotion Museum is a railway museum in Shildon, County Durham, England. The museum is part of the Science Museum Group. The museum was opened on 22 October 2004 by Prime Minister Tony Blair. Built at a"
"former Cornwall Maritime Museum in Falmouth. National Maritime Museum The National Maritime Museum (NMM) in Greenwich, London, is the leading maritime museum of the United Kingdom and may be the largest museum of its kind in the world. The historic buildings form part of the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site, and it also incorporates the Royal Observatory and 17th-century Queen's House. In 2012, Her Majesty the Queen formally approved Royal Museums Greenwich as the new overall title for the National Maritime Museum, Queen’s House, the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and the ""Cutty Sark"". The museum is a non-departmental public body sponsored"
"National Army Museum The National Army Museum is the British Army's central museum. It is located in the Chelsea district of central London, adjacent to the Royal Hospital Chelsea, the home of the ""Chelsea Pensioners"". The museum is a non-departmental public body. It is usually open to the public from 10:00am to 5:30pm, except on 25–26 December and 1 January. Admission is free. Having reopened in March 2017 following a major £23.75 million re-development project including £11.5m from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the museum houses five galleries that cover British military history from the English Civil War up to modern"
"National Maritime Museum The National Maritime Museum (NMM) in Greenwich, London, is the leading maritime museum of the United Kingdom and may be the largest museum of its kind in the world. The historic buildings form part of the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site, and it also incorporates the Royal Observatory and 17th-century Queen's House. In 2012, Her Majesty the Queen formally approved Royal Museums Greenwich as the new overall title for the National Maritime Museum, Queen’s House, the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and the ""Cutty Sark"". The museum is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media"
"to 1972, and then at Syon Park in Brentford from 1973 to 1977, before being moved to Covent Garden in 1980. Most of the other exhibits moved to York on formation of the National Railway Museum in 1975. The Covent Garden building has on display many examples of buses, trams, trolleybuses and rail vehicles from 19th and 20th centuries as well as artefacts and exhibits related to the operation and marketing of passenger services and the impact that the developing transport network has had on the city and its population. The first underground electric train, from 1890, can be seen"
"National Motorcycle Museum (UK) The National Motorcycle Museum occupies an site in Bickenhill, Solihull, England and holds the world's largest collection of British motorcycles. In addition to over 850 motorcycles, which cover a century of motorcycle manufacture, the museum has conference facilities. It is located close to the junction of the A45 and the M42, very close to Birmingham Airport. The founder of the museum, construction entrepreneur and self-made millionaire Roy Richards, started collecting good examples of British motorcycles in the 1970s. The museum opened in 1984 with an initial collection of 350 machines. The museum was developed to include"
"Royal Armouries Museum The Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, is a national museum which displays the National Collection of Arms and Armour. It is part of the Royal Armouries family of museums, the other sites being the Tower of London, its traditional home, Fort Nelson, Hampshire, for the display of its National Collection of Artillery, and permanent galleries within the Frazier History Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. The Royal Armouries is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The Royal Armouries Museum is a £42.5 million purpose-built museum located in Leeds"
"Museum of the Great Western Railway STEAM – Museum of the Great Western Railway, also known as Swindon Steam Railway Museum, is located at the site of the old railway works in Swindon, England – Wiltshire's 'railway town'. The museum opened in 2000 and replaced the former GWR Museum, which was located on Faringdon Road in Swindon, which had opened on 22 June 1962. Apart from the museum itself, the site has become home to the McArthurGlen Designer Outlet and, since 2005, the Head Office of the National Trust. The museum is housed in a restored Grade II listed railway"
"Buckinghamshire Railway Centre Buckinghamshire Railway Centre is a railway museum operated by the Quainton Railway Society Ltd. at Quainton Road railway station, about west of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England. The site is divided into two halves which are joined by two foot-bridges, one of which provides wheelchair access. Each side has a demonstration line with various workshop buildings as well as museum buildings. In 1962, the London Railway Preservation Society was formed. It bought a series of former London Underground vehicles and collectables, and holds the largest collection of London and North Western Railway memorabilia. These were held at various"
"Nantwich Museum Nantwich Museum is a local museum in the town of Nantwich, Cheshire, northwest England. The museum is located in Pillory Street, central Nantwich. The museum's galleries present the history of Nantwich, including Roman salt making, the Great Fire in Nantwich in Tudor times (1583), the Battle of Nantwich (1644) during the English Civil War, and the local shoe and clothing industries. There are two extensions to the museum. In one there is a cheese-making exhibition together with the Joseph Heler meeting room, presenting the history of Cheshire cheese, especially with respect to Nantwich. There is also a community"
"gallery for art exhibitions, etc., and also the award-winning Millennium Gallery used for temporary exhibitions. Nantwich Museum Nantwich Museum is a local museum in the town of Nantwich, Cheshire, northwest England. The museum is located in Pillory Street, central Nantwich. The museum's galleries present the history of Nantwich, including Roman salt making, the Great Fire in Nantwich in Tudor times (1583), the Battle of Nantwich (1644) during the English Civil War, and the local shoe and clothing industries. There are two extensions to the museum. In one there is a cheese-making exhibition together with the Joseph Heler meeting room, presenting"
"National Rail Museum, New Delhi The National Rail Museum, in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi, displays exhibits on the history of the Indian railways. The museum was inaugurated on February 1, 1977, and spans over . It is open every day except Mondays and Indian national holidays. In addition to its vast galleries, the museum features simulations of coaches, diesel and steam engines. The National Rail Museum was first proposed in 1962, but it didn't take concrete shape until 1970, under the advisement of rail enthusiast Michael Graham Satow. On October 7, 1971, the foundation stone was laid at the museum's present"
"National Gallery The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The Gallery is an exempt charity, and a non-departmental public body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Its collection belongs to the government on behalf of the British public, and entry to the main collection is free of charge. It is among the most visited art museums in the world, after the Louvre, the British Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum"
"the Peterborough Development Corporation and the Huntingdon and Peterborough County Council, the PLS proposed that the National Railway Museum – which had previously been located at Clapham – should relocate to Peterborough instead of moving to another London site or to York. The East station and former locomotive shed could be developed into a static museum. The unique advantage of the site was the possibility of a link to a live museum, built on the former LNWR locoshed site, from which a preserved steam railway could run along the Nene Valley to Wansford. However, as is now well-known, the National"
"National Collection in a new building and a historic site around the former workshop of Timothy Hackworth and in the most recent full year for which figures have been published (2011–2012), it attracted more than 210,000 visitors. There are approximately 280 rail vehicles in the National Collection, with around 100 being at York at any one time and the remainder divided between Locomotion at Shildon and other museums and heritage railways. The earliest are wagonway vehicles of about 1815. The permanent display includes ""Palaces on Wheels"", a collection of Royal Train saloons from Queen Victoria's early trains through to those"
"inner workings. Between the two buildings is an outdoor court complete with a restaurant which railway elements throughout as well as a themed rooms to complete the experience. It currently receives 200,000 visitors annually on a site covering 15,000 m² (this compares with the more than 717,000 visitors received annually by Britain's National Railway Museum (""NRM"") on a site in York that covers more than 85,000 m²; the Cité du Train receives a similar number of visitors as annually attend Britain's much smaller Locomotion Museum in Shildon, Durham, an out-post of the NRM). Cité du Train The Cité du Train"
"them in turn to the Tate. In 2000 the statue was removed to the rear of the building. Tate Britain Tate Britain (known from 1897 to 1932 as the National Gallery of British Art and from 1932 to 2000 as the Tate Gallery) is an art museum on Millbank in the City of Westminster in London. It is part of the Tate network of galleries in England, with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It is the oldest gallery in the network, having opened in 1897. It houses a substantial collection of the art of the United Kingdom"
"Hells Kitchen Railway Museum Hells Kitchen Railway Museum & Bar is a private railway museum with a bar in the Main Street of Castlerea, Co. Roscommon in Ireland. This small privately run museum displays a unique collection of the passionate railway fan Sean Browne, who began in the 1950s to collate railway memorabilia: Nearly everything from signals, lamps, bells and tokens over warning plaques, posters and time tables to station boards. The center piece of the museum was the acquisition in 1994 of a Metropolitan-Vickers A Class locomotive, introduced in 1955 by Córas Iompair Éireann as part of the dieselisation"
"Railroad Museum of New England The Railroad Museum of New England operates the Naugatuck Railroad between Waterville and Thomaston, Connecticut. The Railroad Museum of New England name and trademark was adopted in 1987, as a result of reassessing the Connecticut Valley Railroad Museum's goals and visions (CVRM had been founded in the mid-1960s). Home to one of the largest collections of preserved historic railroad equipment in New England, RMNE and its predecessor organizations have been active since the 1960s. The CVRM (and predecessor organization - the Connecticut Valley Railroad Association [CVRA]) was responsible for organizing steam train excursions within Connecticut"
"Chennai Rail Museum The Chennai Rail Museum is a railway museum in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. The museum opened on 16 April 2002 on the premises of the Furnishing Division of the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) near Villivakkam. Located across 6.25 acres of land, the museum hosts both technical and heritage exhibits, with a sizable collection of steam engines belonging to various decades of the British Raj. The museum also exhibits various vintage coaches such as Ooty trains, which were endemic to the Indian railways. Most of the older models were manufactured by the North British Locomotive Company, with some"
"Narrow Gauge Railway Museum The Narrow Gauge Railway Museum (Welsh: ""Amgueddfa Rheilffyrdd Bach Cul"") is a purpose-built museum dedicated to narrow-gauge railways situated at the station of the Talyllyn Railway in Tywyn, Gwynedd, Wales. The Museum has a collection of more than 1,000 items from over eighty narrow-gauge railways in Wales, England, the Isle of Man, Ireland and Scotland. This includes six locomotives on display (and several others in store or at other sites); eleven wagons inside with a further eleven outside; a display showing the development of track work from early plateways to modern narrow-gauge tracks; several large signals"
"Museum of Rail Travel The Museum of Rail Travel at Ingrow, England is operated by the Vintage Carriages Trust (VCT), a charity based just north of Ingrow (West) railway station on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway in West Yorkshire. Founded in 1965, it became a registered charity in 1981 and opened in 1990. The Trust has provided railway carriages for over 70 films and television programmes. Two of the steam locomotives owned by VCT - ""Sir Berkeley"" and ""Bellerophon"" have visited railways in the Netherlands. ""Bellerophon"" has also visited Belgium. ""Sir Berkeley"" is on loan to the Middleton Railway,"
"are the lighthouse at the entry of the canal into the Mersey, and a lock keeper's hut. In 2010, the museum was one of three featured on the BBC Four series ""Behind the Scenes at the Museum"". National Waterways Museum The National Waterways Museum (NWM) is in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, at the northern end of the Shropshire Union Canal where it meets the Manchester Ship Canal (). The museum's collections and archives focus on the Britain's navigable inland waterways, including its rivers and canals, and include canal boats, traditional clothing, painted canal decorative ware and tools. It is one"
"British Museum The British Museum, located in the Bloomsbury area of London, in the United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture. Its permanent collection numbers some 8 million works, and is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence having been widely sourced during the era of the British Empire, and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present. It is the first national public museum in the world. The British Museum was established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the Irish physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane."
"National Railroad Museum The National Railroad Museum is a railroad museum located in Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin, in suburban Green Bay. Founded in 1956, by community volunteers in Green Bay, the National Railroad Museum is one of the oldest institutions in the United States dedicated to preserving and interpreting the nation's railroad history. Throughout its history, patron contributions have continued to create one of the largest railroad preservation institutions in the United States. The National Railroad Museum has a large collection of rolling stock and spanning more than a century of railroading and a number of historic locomotives, including an ""Aerotrain"", Union"
"Danish Railway Museum The Danish Railway Museum () is the national railway museum of Denmark, located in the city of Odense. Established in 1975, it is situated in a former engine shed adjacent to the city's main railway station. It is the largest railway museum in Scandinavia. Covering 10,000 square metres, it contains some 50 locomotives and railway carriages on 20 railtracks from all periods of Danish rail history, plus some original buildings of Danish railways. Items from DSB's history include an E class steam locomotive used to haul the funeral train of King Frederick IX of Denmark, a NOHAB"
"related to Watford townsfolk, local government, nobility and businesses. Around a third of the museum's collection is on display. Watford Museum is located on the lower part of Watford High Street, around south of the Harlequin Shopping Centre. The nearest railway station is London Overground station; after 2017 this will also become a London Underground Metropolitan line station. The museum is within easy reach of the A41, the M1 motorway, and National Cycle Route 6. Watford Museum Watford Museum is a local museum in Watford, Hertfordshire, in the United Kingdom. It is owned by Watford Borough Council and is located"
"their first live performance. East Anglian Railway Museum The East Anglian Railway Museum is located at Chappel and Wakes Colne railway station in Essex, England, which is situated on the former Great Eastern Railway branch line from Marks Tey to Sudbury. Services on the Sudbury Branch Line are operated by Abellio Greater Anglia. The museum has a wide collection of locomotives and rolling stock, some of which are fully restored, two are converted into Thomas and Toby replicas while others are undergoing repair and restoration. The Restoration Shed was built in 1983–4, before which most work had to take place"
"important television interview, which lead to the resignation of Taoiseach Charles J. Haughey. Hells Kitchen Railway Museum Hells Kitchen Railway Museum & Bar is a private railway museum with a bar in the Main Street of Castlerea, Co. Roscommon in Ireland. This small privately run museum displays a unique collection of the passionate railway fan Sean Browne, who began in the 1950s to collate railway memorabilia: Nearly everything from signals, lamps, bells and tokens over warning plaques, posters and time tables to station boards. The center piece of the museum was the acquisition in 1994 of a Metropolitan-Vickers A Class"