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A participating museum may receive benefits that can outweigh a potential reduction in direct admissions fees. Access to reciprocal membership privileges is usually reserved for membership levels higher than a basic membership, and participating museums have found that membership revenues may increase after announcement of a reciprocal program.
The Sue & Frank Mayborn Natural Science and Cultural History Museum Complex (abbreviated as MMC) is a 142,000-square-foot (13,200 m 2) facility that opened in May 2004 at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
This is a list of science centers in the United States. American Alliance of Museums (AAM) and Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC) member centers are granted institutional benefits and may offer benefits to individuals through purchased or granted individual memberships as well.
He aged the site to about 40,000 years before present based on terrace dating. Following his graduation, 16 mammoths were discovered. These first remains were protected with plaster jackets and stored at the Strecker Museum (now the Mayborn Museum Complex). The other remains were excavated between 1990 and 1997.
Tallest free-standing structure west of the Mississippi: 62 Zhoushan Island Overhead Powerline Tie North tower 370 1,214 2010 Lattice tower Transmission tower China Zhoushan Island: Tallest set of electricity pylons in the world.
Book Tower is a 145 m (476 ft), 38-story skyscraper located at 1265 Washington Boulevard in Downtown Detroit, Michigan, within the Washington Boulevard Historic District. Construction began on the Italian Renaissance -style building in 1916, as an addition to the original Book Building, and finished a decade later, making it, at the time, the ...
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Mayborn was a well-respected man who had served as a Peabody trustee for seven years. [6] After observing Peabody's financial difficulties, Mayborn offered the school a gift of $1 million to be disbursed over 10 years. [7] As a gesture of appreciation, the college changed the name of the Industrial Arts Building to the Frank W. Mayborn Building.