New London's story is filled with famous names like Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry and Daniel Boone. It includes the great events of American history, particularly the Revolutionary War, when New London a Continental Army arsenal hosted and was the site of a Tory conspiracy. It is also the story of decay and rebirth, because the city's economic hardships suffered in the 19th century, but found new life as a glamorous summer resort. Perhaps most importantly, the story of New London is about the many families that the city and the surroundings of their home made over the last 250 year above.

Lyman Allyn Art Museum

Lyman Allyn Art Museum is a community-based museum in New London, Connecticut. Founded in 1932 by Harriet Upson Allyn in memory of her father, Lyman Allyn Museum, the population of Southeast Connecticut and is free to the residents of New London. The museum is accredited by the American Association of Museums and is a non-profit organization with 501 (c) 3 status. Lyman Allyn Art Museum is a founding member of the Connecticut Art Trail.

Housed in a beautiful neo-classical building designed by Charles A. Platt, the permanent collection includes over 10,000 paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, furniture and decorative arts, with emphasis on American art from the 18th to 20th centuries.

Lyman Allyn Art Museum offers a wide range of family friendly programs and classes as well as lectures and other events. We look forward to your visit.

Ostalgia Museum

Simon Starling's work process "Flaga" began in Turin, Italy in 2002, where a 1974 Fiat 126, which he acquired was built and developed. He drove the car to a Fiat factory in contemporary Bielsku-Biala, Poland, home of the Polski Fiat. Upon arrival, Starling replace the hood, trunk, and doors with white parts were produced in the Polish plant. He returned to Turin, stripped of the car and the chassis on the wall, in a representative view of the Polish flag. The resulting piece "Flaga (1972-2002)" represents a social commentary on the changing discourse between East and West in the past forty years.

The Fiat 126 was first introduced in 1972 at the Turin Motor Show as a replacement for the Fiat 500. Opened the Fiat factory in Poland in the early '70s, which presumably work and activities were more cost effective under Communist leadership. The Fiat 126 was not produced for customers in Western Europe after 1982, but continued to be manufactured in Poland until 2000. What was originally intended as an Italian city car became the symbol of the Polish daily life in the Communist Bloc.

The work is being shown as part of the larger concept of the group exhibition at the New Museum called "Ostalgia" - a German expression that describes a longing for life during the era of communist rule. More than fifty artists from twenty countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics are represented in the exhibition can be seen through Oct. 2 at the New Museum in Lower Manhattan.

ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL MUSEUM

Gene was born in Turbigo in Lombardy, and studied at the University of Pavia. He published many works on natural history, especially entomology. In 1828 he became lecturer in natural history at the University the following year he went to Hungary and returned with a collection of insects. Between 1833 and 1838 he made ​​four trips to Sardinia collecting insects.

In 1830 succeeded Franco Andrea Bonelli Gene as a professor of zoology and director of the Royal Zoological Museum at Turin contains a picture of the gene. Most of his insect collection in the Turin Museum of Natural History. Duplicates are in the Museo di Storia Naturale de Milan Civic and Museo di Storia naturale, Pisa.

Slender-billed Gull Larus gene was named after him.

Science Museum

A science museum and a science center is a museum devoted primarily to science. Older science museums tended to concentrate on static displays objects related to natural history, paleontology, geology, industry and industrial machinery, etc. Modern trends in museology have broadened the range of issues and introduced many interactive exhibits. Many, if not most modern science museums - which is increasingly referred to themselves as "scientific centers" or "discovery centers" - that is also a lot of weight to technology. One of the main aspects of science are ignored in most museums is the history of the discipline. The pursuit of knowledge is full of trials and errors, but the science museums hardly ever recognize that human frailty and mistakes that go along with a story that lasts for centuries.

"... The public museum as understood today is a collection of specimens and other items of interest to the scholar, the man of science, and the most casual visitor, arranged and presented in accordance with the scientific method. In its original sense, "museum", the term meant a spot dedicated to the Muses - "a place where the mind of man could achieve a mood of aloofness above everyday affairs. '"- Technology Museum Jurassic, Introduction & History,

Since the Renaissance, many aristocrats collected curiosities for display to their friends. Universities and especially medical schools also maintained study collections of specimens for their students. Scientists and collectors appear finds in private offices of curiosities. Such collections were the predecessors of modern natural history museums. The Utrecht University Museum, among others, continues to display an extensive collection of 18th-century animals and humans "rare" in its original setting.

The first science museum was the Museo de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain. Opened in 1752, virtually disappeared during the regime of Franco, but then recovered and now works closely with the CSIC.

Another line in the genealogy of science museums came during the Industrial Revolution, with great national exhibits designed to highlight the triumphs of science and industry. For example, heavy exposure to Crystal Palace (1851) eventually led to the Science Museum in London.

In America, several of Natural History Societies was founded collections in the early 19th century, which became a museum. Notable was the first New England Museum of Natural History (now the Science Museum), opened in Boston in 1864. The Academy of Science of Saint Louis was founded in 1856 as the first scientific organization west of the Mississippi (although the organization for the management of scientific collections for decades an official museum is not created until the mid-20th century).

The modern interactive science museum seems to be pioneered by Deutsches Museum in Munich in the early 20th century. This museum had moving exhibits where visitors were encouraged to push buttons and levers work. The concept was taken to the U.S. from July Rosenwald, chairman of Sears, Roebuck and Company, who visited the Museum Deutsches Museum with young son in 1911. It was so-charmed by the experience that he decided to build a similar museum in the city of Chicago. Chicago Museum of Science and Industry opened in phases between 1933 and 1940.

In 1959 the Science Museum and Natural History (now the Saint Louis Science Center) was established officially by the Academy of Science of Saint Louis has many interactive exhibits of science and history.

In the mid-20th century, Frank Oppenheimer includes interactive exhibits on science Exploratorium in San Francisco. The Exploratorium disclosed details of their exhibits, published in "Cookbooks» that served as inspiration to other museums.

Opened in 1967, the Ontario Science Centre has continued the trend of featuring interactive exhibits, rather than just static displays. Most science centers have emulated it since then.

Four years after the Exploratorium opened its first OMNIMAX Theatre opened the Reuben H. Fleet theater and Science Center in San Diego's Balboa Park. The slope-Dome Theater Space doubled as a planetarium. The Science Center was an Exploratorium-style museum included as a small part of the complex. This combination of interactive science museum, planetarium and OMNIMAX theater, the standard that many major science museums follow today.

Since the taste of interactivity crossed the Atlantic Ocean, a massive Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie in Paris opened in 1986, and smaller but no less influential national centers soon followed by Spain, Finland and Denmark. Their model is emulated around the world. However, the experimental nature of the time Oppenheimer has long since shifted to a standard view of science, favoring experimental models as a primary exempla. In the United Kingdom, the first interactive centers and opened in 1986 on a small scale, but the real boom of science centers has been fueled by its Lottery funding for projects to commemorate the millennium.

The mission of science centers and museums, modern range. But we are all united in positions that make science accessible and encourage the enthusiasm of discovery. An integral and dynamic part of the learning environment, promote research by the first "Eureka!" Moment for cutting edge research of today. However, the negative effects of science and technology, or the uneven development of different sectors are generally not explored.

Traces of DNA in Museum

Probably the first DNA study in 1984, with publication of Russ Higuchi and colleagues at Berkeley, which was the size of the molecular biology revolution, traces of DNA from a museum specimen of the Quagga, not only remained in the sample more than 150 years after the death of the individual, but can be extracted and sequenced. Over the next two years, through research into natural and artificially mummified specimens, Svante Pääbo both confirmed that this phenomenon is not confined to the relatively recent museum specimens, but apparently could be replicated in a series of mummified human samples as far back as a number of one thousand years (Pääbo 1985a, 1985b Pääbo, Pääbo1986). Yet the laborious processes that were necessary at that time to the sequence of such DNA (from bacterial clones) were an effective brake on the development of the field of ancient DNA (DNA). However, the development of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) in the late 1980s the field was presented with the ability to make rapid progress.

Double primer PCR amplification of DNA (PCR-jumping) can produce highly skewed and non-authentic sequence artefacts. Multiple primer, nested PCR strategy was used to overcome these shortcomings.

Single primer extension (SPEX abr.) enhancement was introduced in 2007 to post-mortem damage to DNA modification suits. [

The post-PCR era ushered in a wave of publications and numerous research groups tried their hands on a DNA. Soon a series of incredible findings was published, claiming authentic DNA could be extracted from specimens that were millions of years old, in the realms of what Lindahl (1993b) has labeled Antediluvian DNA. The majority of these claims were based on retrieving DNA from organisms preserved in amber. Insects such as stingless bees (Cano et al, 1992a, 1992b .. Cano et al), termites (De Salle et al, 1992;. The Salle et al 1993.) Wood and mosquitoes (De Salle and Grimaldi 1994) and plants (Poinar et al. 1993) and bacterial (Cano et al. 1994) sequences were from Dominican amber dating from the Oligocene epoch. Even older sources of Lebanese amber-packed weevils, dating from the Cretaceous era, also reportedly yielded authentic DNA (Cano et al. 1993). DNA collection is not limited to amber. Several sediment preserved plant remains dating from the Miocene have been successfully investigated (Golenberg et al, 1990;. Golenberg 1991). Then, in 1994 and international reputation, Woodward et al. reported the most exciting results [9], mitochondrial cytochrome b sequences that apparently was from dinosaur bones to more than 80 million years ago date. Then in 1995 two other studies dinosaur DNA sequences from an egg Cretaceous (An et al, 1995, Li et al .., 1995) it seemed that the field would actually knowledge of the evolutionary history of the Earth revolution . Unfortunately, the golden days of DNA did not last long. A critical assessment of ancient DNA literature by developing the field indicates that, with two well-known but highly criticized exceptions that getting 250 million years old halobacterial sequences from Halite claim.Several recent studies succeeded in enhancing DNA from remains older than a few hundred thousand years. The Dinosaur DNA was later revealed to be human Y chromosome

London Art Museums

Those Äôre housed in buildings that range from being among the ugliest in the world (the Barbican) to the neoclassical splendor of the National Gallery to enter. But the most striking aspects of London, aos art museums is not in their exteriors, but what lies within: vast collections of priceless works of art of any age. If your trip to London, the time on some of the city, aos great art museums, these are our four top recommendations.



The Royal Academy of Arts



Dates from 1786 and the reign of King George III, the Royal Academy in Burlington House, was the first British institution to the internal promotion of the arts and architecture. It is a time for eighty artists, all artists should be active and governors who resign as active at the age of 75. Each of these, ÄòRoyal academics, AU is expected to give an original work of art at the Academy, and gifts are the foundation of its permanent collection. They include paintings by Gainsborough, Constable, Reynolds and Turner.



The Royal Academy presents noteworthy visits to exhibitions, one of which was 2007, The Unknown Monet aos: Pastels and drawings. This exhibition was the first to show that contrary to popular belief, Monet spent much time doing studies drawn from his work before he ever set his brush on the canvas. Although he often claimed defect is drawing, the exhibition emphatically proved otherwise.

The Tate Modern



If ever an art museum and captured the spirit of a certain age, it would be the Tate Modern Museum to capture the spirit of the 20th century. The upheaval of two world wars, together with the full flowering of post-industrial revolution technology has created a liberty among the artists who dared to work in a brand new styles and media



The Tate Modern Museum in London, aos southern bank in full view of St. Paul Cathedral aos directly on the Thames and also a new approach to display his treasures. They are not grouped by artist or chronology, but in concept, with each of the two wings of the 3rd and 5th floor with exhibits of paintings arranged by theme.



You, Äôll the works of finding, among others, Rothko, Monet, Dali and Miro represented on the third floor, while the fifth floor houses modern conceptual art and sculpture, including pieces from the cubist, minimalist and futuristic schools. The Tate Museum, aos visit exhibitions on the fourth floor. Works with all major postwar modernists such as Pollock, Matisse, Bacon and Twombly are shown in the Tate, and see the permanent collection is free.



There are special activities for children whose artistic value is not fully developed, where a visit to the Tate Modern as a family-friendly way to spend the day.



The Hayward



Also located on the South Bank as part of the arts complex known as the South Bank Centre, Hayward, aos massive concrete facade houses an art gallery that no permanent collection of her own. The Hayward is instead the place for between three and four major traveling exhibitions per year, for which it charges admission fees. Exhibitions at the Hayward are works of art from all periods, and some of her most memorable shows have included works by da Vinci, the French impressionists, and Edward Munch.

In more recent years, however, the exhibitions at the Hayward by artists like Flavin and Gormley, whose work is more in harmony with the cavities and concrete structure.

The Courtauld Gallery is a relatively small art gallery located at the Courtauld Institute of Art at Somerset House. Although the collection contains pieces from every period of Art, the Courtauld Gallery is best known for its Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings. Perhaps the most famous of these is Vincent Van Gogh, aos self portrait, painted after he had broken his right ear with a knife. All collections donated at the Courtauld Gallery exhibited intact.



London is a city rich with culture for centuries, and these four museums are only a handful of cultural delights that await you during your stay!

Bank of England Museum

Having been in existence for more than 300 years the Bank of England has, unsurprisingly, accumulated a considerable number of items associated with its history. These items are grouped into 'Collections'. Some of them, such as banknotes and furniture, represent the survival of tools used in the everyday working of the Bank whilst others, such as the cartoons, have been acquired over the years either by purchase or presentation. Items from the Bank's collections are displayed in its Museum where they are used to illustrate the history of the institution and its role today at the centre of the UK.

The Currency Museum of the Bank of Japan is formally known as the Currency Museum, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan is a museum about Japanese currency located in front of the Bank of Japan building in Chūō, Tokyo.

The Currency Museum of the Bank of Canada

Located just down the street from Parliament Hill on Ottawa's Sparks Street Mall, the Currency Museum of the Bank of Canada offers a fascinating look at something that interests most of us - money. Admission to the Museum is free!
Fast Facts

* The Museum houses the largest institutional collection of Canadian money and monetary objects in the world, and chronicles the evolutionary of Canadian currency from pre-colonial times to the present.
* Exhibits trace the origins of money in different cultures around the world - from teeth and bones to coins and paper.
* One of the Museum's most popular attractions is a 3-ton Yap stone, used as currency in Micronesia.
* The Collector's Corner features some of the most rare Canadian and international coins and currency you'll see anywhere.
* A Discovery Room plays host to children's activities.

American Museum for genetics

Genetic information of species on National Park Service land that is threatened with extinction will now be frozen and stored for future research at the American Museum of Natural History.

The Ambrose Monell Collection for Molecular and Microbial Research in the basement of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City houses eight liquid nitrogen-cooled containers to genetic material of animals to save. Researchers can access the free samples. Samples were placed in small bottles, which in this slide numbered boxes. Each sample has a known location and is followed by a unique bar code.Lab manager Julie Feinstein calls the laboratory has a low-tech storage technology. Boxes of DNA samples in the racks slide on the bottom shelf of each tank shelf.The spins "as a lazy Susan," said Feinstein, so technicians are not too far out in the vessels are cooled to - 256 degrees Fahrenheit (-160 degrees Celsius). Samples are located above eight inches (20 cm) of liquid nitrogen, so it is the vapor, rather than the liquid itself, that cools and maintains the genetic information.Darrel Frost, associate dean of science for the American Museum of Natural History collections and Bert Frost, associate director of natural resource stewardship and science for the National Park Service, signed the agreement to the house of DNA from endangered species on the land at the park facilities at the museum.