Yet the ideal city cannot just be a museum piece, a throw-back to the past, as enjoyable as it might be.
Endeavour, along with Discovery, Enterprise and Atlantis, became a museum piece after NASA ended its 30-year shuttle program in July 2011.
It was seen as having more commercial potential, and the British space programme was relegated to the status of a museum piece.
Any Beatles memorabilia from that time tends to become a museum piece.
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Ulvaeus had previously been sceptical about the idea of becoming a museum piece while still alive, and a previous plan to open a permanent exhibition failed in 2008.
Canon Carl Turner, who is managing the project, said the intention was to ensure the organ was in full working order because "it is far from being a museum piece".
Most recognize a typewriter only as a museum piece.
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For a few precious frost-nipped weeks, these museum-piece cities of Olde World Europe flicker back to the Middle Ages -- not the ossified medieval throwbacks of soot-blackened cathedrals and tourist-bedeviled museums, but the living, breathing yesteryear of a bustling outdoor marketplace.
The museum said the piece represented the end of a technology which had been "important to so many lives".
Every piece in the museum is displayed in the exact arrangement that Isabella Gardner put them in.
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Scythian "flying stag" discovered in a Cossack village in 1897 has become a logo piece for the museum.
Kahn's first piece for the museum was enormously popular a metal bar dipped into a trough of soapy water, then hoisted into the air by ropes on either side.
The newly refurbished riverside museum was badly flooded, but only one piece was lost -- Zidle, a sculpture mounted on the embankment outside the museum.
The football museum used the 1891 census to piece together the story of Mr Donohoe's links with Brazil.
The collection at the New York State Museum in Albany has a large piece of landing gear that went through the roof and landed in the basement of a building next to 51 Park Place.
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New York's Museum of Modern Art acquired a similar piece the first industrial product by a clothing designer in its permanent collection.
The operators of the Japanese American National Museum bookstore didn't like the piece at all and removed the magazine from its shelves -- an indication, perhaps, that Giant Robot's inventors shouldn't give up their day jobs just yet.
No big museum in New York has bought a significant piece by Mr Andre in the past 25 years.
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Many people who grew up in Waterbury before 1970 remember school trips to the Mattatuck Museum to see the 10, 000-piece button display, Charles Goodyear's rubber desk and colonial era tools and clothing.
The proposal is only in the very early talking stages (the Times reports that the Los Angeles County Museum of Art also has its eye on the piece, which is unbuilt).
Local resident Patrick Allen is setting up the Friends of Langham Dome in a bid to preserve the building and turn a piece of RAF Langham's history into a museum - but why?
The only other time a museum did something like that was in 2010 when, to celebrate its own 50th anniversary, the Guggenheim Museum took down its pictures and replaced them with an interactive piece, mostly conversation, by Tino Sehgal.
The truth is that while I love museums and galleries (and I buy all of my art from great galleries in NYC and around the world and spot talents on the rise in museum shows), the whole concept of just seeing a piece of art hanging on a white wall seemed too out of touch from my reality.
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More background on each piece can be called up on the pcs in the museum's cafe.
Mr. Hollein's father designed Frankfurt's Museum of Modern Art, which is known to locals as the "pie piece" for its tall, triangular shape.
The museum will display rotating highlights from the university's 10, 000-piece collection of African art, stretching from 16th-century Congolese pottery to contemporary works by William Kentridge, South Africa's most famous working artist and a Wits graduate.
He knows how to lift a prized vase so as not to leave behind trace oils and whom to call if a 17th-century piece of furniture needs to be moved (the historians at the local museum).
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Proceeds from the sale of this piece, and 19 lots from the Law estate, will go to the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.
New York City-based fashion label Public School, for example, designed the staff's uniforms, and Miami's Museum of Contemporary Art worked with the hotel and artist Jorge Pantoja to craft a five-piece collection of paintings displayed in the lobby.
Called "Sensation, " the show caused a stir when it moved to the Brooklyn Museum and then-New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani threatened to pull funding because of a piece by Chris Ofili, a British artist of Nigerian descent, that showed a black Virgin Mary on a canvas adorned with elephant dung.
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