• National Labor Reform Party (American labor organization)

    National Labor Union (NLU), in U.S. history, a political-action movement that from 1866 to 1873 sought to improve working conditions through legislative reform rather than through collective bargaining. The NLU began in 1866 with a convention in Baltimore, Md., called to organize skilled and

  • National Labor Relations Act (United States [1935])

    Wagner Act, the most important piece of labour legislation enacted in the United States in the 20th century. Its main purpose was to establish the legal right of most workers (notably excepting agricultural and domestic workers) to organize or join labour unions and to bargain collectively with

  • National Labor Relations Board (United States government organization)

    National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), independent federal agency created by the U.S. Congress in 1935 to administer the National Labor Relations Act (also called the Wagner Act). The act was amended in 1947 through the Taft-Hartley Act and in 1959 through the Landrum-Griffin Act. The primary

  • National Labor Relations Board v. Fansteel Metallurgical Company (law case)

    North Chicago: …Court ruling in 1939 (National Labor Relations Board v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corporation) declaring sit-down strikes illegal. Today the city is a centre of pharmaceutical research and production; candy is also produced. North Chicago is the site of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science and the Great Lakes Naval…

  • National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation (law case)

    Charles Evans Hughes: Chief justice: …Hughes delivered the opinion in National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, which sustained the right of collective bargaining under the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (the Wagner Act), and a few weeks later the court upheld various provisions of the Social Security Act. It was…

  • National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning (law case)

    National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on June 26, 2014, ruled unanimously (9–0) that President Barack Obama’s appointments of three commissioners to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in January 2012 were invalid under the recess

  • National Labor Relations Board v. Yeshiva University (law case)

    National Labor Relations Board v. Yeshiva University, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (5–4), on February 20, 1980, that faculty members of a private university were de facto managerial employees and therefore were not entitled to the protections afforded to regular employees by the

  • National Labor Union (American labor organization)

    National Labor Union (NLU), in U.S. history, a political-action movement that from 1866 to 1873 sought to improve working conditions through legislative reform rather than through collective bargaining. The NLU began in 1866 with a convention in Baltimore, Md., called to organize skilled and

  • National Laboratory for High Energy Physics (laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan)

    particle accelerator: Electron storage rings: …the KEK-B facility at the National Laboratory for High Energy Physics (KEK) in Tsukuba, electrons and positrons are stored at different energies so that they have different values of momentum. When they annihilate, the net momentum is not zero, as it is with particles of equal and opposite momentum, so…

  • National Lampoon (American magazine)

    National Lampoon, American adult-oriented humour magazine published between 1970 and 1998, notable for its spot-on parodies as well as its influence on popular culture. National Lampoon was established by Harvard University graduates Henry Beard, Robert Hoffman, and Doug Kenney, all of whom had

  • National Lampoon Radio Hour, The (American radio program)

    Christopher Guest: Acting career: …also began contributing to the The National Lampoon Radio Hour as a writer and performer.

  • National Lampoon’s Animal House (film by Landis [1978])

    Heavy Metal: …unexpected success of the film National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978), the producers of that film considered Heavy Metal, which published illustrated stories with sexual content and adult themes, as an inspiration for a follow-up film that would appeal to the same young-adult audience. The film Heavy Metal was released in…

  • National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (film by Chechik [1989])

    Chevy Chase: Hit movies: Caddyshack, Fletch, and National Lampoon’s Vacation: …appeared in Fletch Lives and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. The latter comedy became a holiday staple. Chase’s popularity during this time led him to host the Academy Awards ceremony in 1987 (with Goldie Hawn and Paul Hogan) and 1988.

  • National Lampoon’s European Vacation (film by Heckerling [1985])

    Chevy Chase: Hit movies: Caddyshack, Fletch, and National Lampoon’s Vacation: …other credits in 1985 include National Lampoon’s European Vacation and Spies like Us, a comedy with Dan Aykroyd. In 1986 Chase starred with Steve Martin and Martin Short in Three Amigos!, a western about a trio of actors who are mistaken for bandits. That year Chase also appeared in Paul…

  • National Lampoon’s Pucked (film by Hiller [2006])

    Arthur Hiller: Later films: Hiller’s last film was National Lampoon’s Pucked (2006), a lacklustre comedy featuring pop star Jon Bon Jovi as a dim-witted lawyer.

  • National Lampoon’s Vacation (film by Ramis [1983])

    National Lampoon: Movies and television: …include Class Reunion (1982) and National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983), both of which were written by John Hughes. National Lampoon’s Vacation, starring Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, and Imogene Coca, was based on Hughes’s short story “Vacation ’58,” which appeared in the September 1979 issue of National Lampoon. The film inspired four sequels.…

  • national lands (French history)

    France: Sale of national lands: …designated as biens nationaux, or national lands. The government then issued large-denomination notes called assignats, underwritten and guaranteed by the value of that land. It intended to sell national lands to the public, which would pay for it in assignats that would then be retired. Thus, church property would in…

  • National Latin Movement (political party, Colombia)

    Carlos Lehder: …a short-lived political party, the National Latin Movement, that was described as fascist-populist but that also sought the abrogation of the 1979 extradition treaty between Colombia and the United States. He reportedly fell from favour with Pablo Escobar, the head of the Medellín cartel. On February 4, 1987, acting on…

  • National League (baseball)

    National League (NL), oldest existing major-league professional baseball organization in the United States. The league began play in 1876 as the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, replacing the failed National Association of Professional Base Ball Players. The league’s supremacy was

  • National League (political party, Poland)

    Poland: Accommodation with the ruling governments: …Democratic movement originated with a Polish League organized in Switzerland; by 1893 the organization had transformed into the clandestine National League, based in Warsaw. It stressed its all-Polish character, rejected loyalism, and promoted national resistance, even uprisings, when opportune. Its nationalist ideology tinged with populism gradually evolved into “integral” nationalism,…

  • National League for Democracy (political party, Myanmar)

    2021 Myanmar coup d’état: Background: …dissident Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party, which had vastly outperformed the USDP. As a constitutional provision prohibited Aung San Suu Kyi from serving as president, a different NLD member succeeded Thein Sein. But Aung San Suu Kyi was soon named to the newly created and…

  • National League for Nursing

    Mary Adelaide Nutting: …for Nursing Education; now the National League for Nursing) and twice served as president.

  • National League for Nursing Education

    Mary Adelaide Nutting: …for Nursing Education; now the National League for Nursing) and twice served as president.

  • National League of Colored Women (American organization)

    National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs (NACWC), American organization founded as the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) in Washington, D.C., as the product of the merger in 1896 of the National Federation of Afro-American Women and the National League of Colored Women—organizations

  • National League of Professional Baseball Clubs (baseball)

    National League (NL), oldest existing major-league professional baseball organization in the United States. The league began play in 1876 as the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, replacing the failed National Association of Professional Base Ball Players. The league’s supremacy was

  • National Legislative Assembly (South Sudan government)

    South Sudan: Constitutional history: …power was bicameral, comprising the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) and the Council of States. Upon independence, the NLA body consisted of members of the previous regional legislative body, the South Sudan Legislative Assembly, and South Sudanese who had seats in Sudan’s National Assembly. The majority of NLA members were directly…

  • National Lending Library for Science and Technology (library, London, United Kingdom)

    British Library: In 1962 the National Lending Library for Science and Technology was established at Boston Spa, Yorkshire. The Newspaper Library became part of the British Library in 1973. In 2013 the Colindale library was closed, and its holdings were relocated to a new state-of-the-art storage facility at Boston Spa.…

  • National LGBTQ Task Force (American organization)

    National LGBTQ Task Force, American nongovernmental organization founded in 1973 that advocates for the civil rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals. It was the first such national-level nonprofit organization, and it mobilizes state-level training of LGBTQ

  • National Liberal Federation (British political organization)

    William Ewart Gladstone: Irish Home Rule: …190 strong, supported by the National Liberal Federation, the most powerful political machine in the country. He devoted the next six years to an effort to convince the British electorate that to grant Home Rule to the Irish nation would be an act of justice and wisdom. He spoke at…

  • National Liberal Party (political party, Germany)

    National Liberal Party, political party that was active first in Prussia and the North German Confederation from 1867, then in Germany in 1871–1918. With largely middle-class support, the National Liberals hoped to make the government under Chancellor Otto von Bismarck less autocratic. Originally a

  • National Liberal Party (political party, Denmark)

    Denmark: The Schleswig-Holstein question: …German Confederation, the emerging Danish National Liberal movement called for Schleswig to be incorporated into Denmark. This demand came to be called the Eider Program, named for the Eider River, which formed the southern boundary of Schleswig.

  • National Liberal Party (political party, Estonia)

    Estonia: Estonian national awakening: >National Liberal Party and organized its first congress in Tallinn on November 27. The 800 delegates soon split into a Liberal and a Radical wing, but both voted for resolutions demanding political autonomy for Estonia. In December Päts summoned a peasant congress in Tallinn. The…

  • National Liberation Army (Algerian military organization)

    National Liberation Front: …Algerian war for independence, the National Liberation Army (Armée de Libération Nationale [ALN]), under the command of Col. Houari Boumedienne, acted as the military arm of the FLN. From camps stationed behind Tunisian and Moroccan borders, the ALN’s external contingent provided logistical support and weaponry to ALN forces within the…

  • National Liberation Army (Colombian guerrilla group)

    Colombia: La Violencia, dictatorship, and democratic restoration: The first was the National Liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación Nacional; ELN), which was created by a group of Colombian students who had studied in Cuba. Founded in 1964, the ELN followed strategies espoused by Che Guevara. Another guerrilla group, which followed two years later, was the Colombian Revolutionary…

  • National Liberation Army of Iran (Iranian political organization)

    Iran: Foreign affairs since 1989: continuing tension abroad: One remaining exception was the National Liberation Army of Iran, a leftist Islamic group based in Iraq that was set up by the Mojāhedīn-e Khalq. But change was evident even in this organization; its officer corps had become mostly female, including many educated Iranians from Europe and the United States.

  • National Liberation Command (Brazilian militant group)

    Dilma Rousseff: Early life and political career: …associated with the militant group National Liberation Command (Comando de Libertação Nacional; Colina), and she married fellow activist Cláudio Galeno Linhares in 1968. After a raid on a Colina safe house resulted in police fatalities, the pair went into hiding in Rio de Janeiro. She and Galeno later fled Rio…

  • National Liberation Committee (Polish history)

    World War II: Allied policy and strategy: Octagon (Quebec II) and Moscow, 1944: …at Lublin, a Committee of National Liberation independent of the London Poles. In Romania, despite the government’s change of side in August, the Soviets proceeded to disband the Romanian Army; and early in September they declared war on Bulgaria, invaded that country, and sponsored a Communist revolution there.

  • National Liberation Forces (rebel group, Burundi)

    Pierre Nkurunziza: Presidency: …also made overtures to the National Liberation Forces (Forces National de la Libération; FLN), the last Hutu rebel group remaining outside the peace process. His first attempt to renew the peace talks was rejected by the FLN in September 2005, but he brokered a tentative cease-fire with the group during…

  • National Liberation Front (political party, Algeria)

    National Liberation Front, the only constitutionally legal party in Algeria from 1962 to 1989. The party was a continuation of the revolutionary body that directed the Algerian war of independence against France (1954–62). The FLN was created by the Revolutionary Committee of Unity and Action

  • National Liberation Front (political organization, Yemen)

    Aden: …Yemen (FLOSY) and the Marxist-oriented National Liberation Front (NLF), for eventual control of the country. It was as a part of the NLF-ruled People’s Republic of Southern Yemen that Aden achieved its independence on November 30, 1967, and became the national capital in 1968 of what was known as South…

  • National Liberation Front (nationalist movement)

    National Liberation Front, title used by nationalist, usually socialist, movements in various countries since World War II. In Greece, the National Liberation Front–National Popular Liberation Army was a communist-sponsored resistance group that operated in occupied Greece during the war. In

  • National Liberation Front (political organization, Vietnam)

    National Liberation Front (NLF), Vietnamese political organization formed on December 20, 1960, to effect the overthrow of the South Vietnamese government and the reunification of North and South Vietnam. An overtly communist party was established in 1962 as a central component of the NLF, but both

  • National Liberation Front-National Popular Liberation Army (political organization, Greece)

    EAM-ELAS, communist-sponsored resistance organization (formed September 1941) and its military wing (formed December 1942), which operated in occupied Greece during World War II. Fighting against the Germans and the Italians as well as against other guerrilla bands, particularly EDES, EAM-ELAS

  • national liberation movement (society)

    war: Socialist analyses: …proved more powerful than socialism: “national liberation” movements appeared and had to be forcibly subdued in the Soviet Union, despite its communist regime. Also, war between socialist states was not unthinkable, as the doctrine indicated: only the colossal preponderance of Soviet forces prevented a full-scale war in 1956 against Hungary…

  • National Liberation Party (political party, Costa Rica)

    Óscar Arias Sánchez: …began working for the social-democratic National Liberation Party (Partido Liberación Nacional; PLN), and in 1972 he was appointed minister of planning in the government of Pres. José Figueres Ferrer, a post he held until 1977. He was elected secretary-general of the PLN in 1979, and in 1986 he won the…

  • National Liberation, Committee of (Italian political organization)

    Italy: The partisans and the Resistance: …normally worked together in local Committees of National Liberation (CLNs), which coordinated strategy, cooperated with the Allies, administered liberated areas, and appointed new officials. Above all, they organized the uprisings in the northern and central cities, including Milan in April 1945, which fell to the partisans before Allied troops arrived.…

  • national library

    library: National libraries: For a table of selected national libraries of the world, see below. In most countries there is a national or state library or a group of libraries maintained by national resources, usually bearing responsibility for publishing a national bibliography and for maintaining a…

  • National Library of Australia (library, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia)

    Canberra: …Stromlo Observatory (established 1924), the National Library of Australia (1968), the High Court of Australia (1981), the Australian National Gallery (1982), the Church of St. John the Baptist (1845), the Australian National War Memorial (1941), and Parliament House (1988). Old Parliament House, where the national legislature met between 1927 and…

  • National Library of China (library, Beijing, China)

    Beijing: Museums and libraries: …holds the collections of the National Library of China, is located in the southern Haidian district, just west of the zoo. The library inherited books and archives from the renowned Imperial Wenyuange library collection of the Qing dynasty that has existed for more than 500 years and that, in turn,…

  • National Library of India (library, Kolkata, India)

    library: Other national collections: The National Library of India (formerly the Imperial Library) in Calcutta was founded in 1903. It is the largest library in India and holds a fine collection of rare books and manuscripts. In some countries, such as Iceland and Israel, the national library is combined with…

  • National Library of Medicine (library, Washington, District of Columbia, United States)

    National Institutes of Health: …institutes, the NIH maintains the National Library of Medicine, which is the foremost source of medical information in the United States. The NIH also maintains several general research centres and the Division of Computer Research and Technology, which uses computer technologies to support health research programs nationwide.

  • National Library of Tajikistan (library, Dushanbe, Tajikistan)

    Tajikistan: Cultural institutions: The Tajik National Library, constructed to look like an open book, demonstrates the pride Tajiks place in their literary heritage. Housing about six million items and providing about 484,000 square feet (45,000 square metres) of space, it is the largest library in Central Asia. It overlooks…

  • National Library of Wales (library, Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom)

    Wales: Cultural institutions: The National Library of Wales (1907) at Aberystwyth, like the British Library, receives copies of virtually all books published in the United Kingdom. It is also the main Welsh reference library and a repository of documents and manuscripts relating to Wales from the earliest times. The…

  • National Lutheran Council (council of churches, United States)

    Lutheran Council in the United States of America (LCUSA), cooperative agency for four Lutheran churches whose membership included about 95 percent of all Lutherans in the U.S., established Jan. 1, 1967, as a successor to the National Lutheran Council (NLC). The member churches were the Lutheran

  • National Mall (mall, Washington, District of Columbia, United States)

    National Mall, in Washington, D.C., broad promenade and greensward extending westward from the Capitol to the Potomac River beyond the Lincoln Memorial. The National Mall is as wide (in the north–south dimension) as the grounds of the Capitol; it is bounded on the north by Constitution Avenue and

  • National Mall, the (mall, Washington, District of Columbia, United States)

    National Mall, in Washington, D.C., broad promenade and greensward extending westward from the Capitol to the Potomac River beyond the Lincoln Memorial. The National Mall is as wide (in the north–south dimension) as the grounds of the Capitol; it is bounded on the north by Constitution Avenue and

  • National Marcian Library (building, Venice, Italy)

    Venice: The Old Library: The Campanile stands close to the 21 bays of the Old Library (1529, also called the National Marcian Library or the Library of St. Mark), on the western side of the piazzetta. The library was designed by Sansovino to house a great collection…

  • National Marine Fisheries Service (United States government agency)

    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: …disseminating global environmental data The National Marine Fisheries Service, for managing and conserving the coastal fisheries within the 200-mile (320-km) exclusive economic zone of the United States The National Ocean Service, for activities related to the health and productivity of the oceans and coasts bordering the United States The National…

  • National Maritime Museum (museum, Greenwich, London, United Kingdom)

    National Maritime Museum, national museum concerned with the maritime history of Great Britain. It is situated near the River Thames in Greenwich Park, Greenwich, southeast London. With the Queen’s House, the Royal Observatory, and Cutty Sark, the National Maritime Museum forms the Royal Museums

  • National Medal of Arts (American arts award)

    National Endowment for the Arts: …manages the awarding of the National Medal of Arts. This medal is presented by the president of the United States to any living citizen or group of citizens or organization that is “deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to the excellence, growth, support and availability of…

  • National Medal of Science (American award)

    National Science Foundation: …also responsible for administering the National Medal of Science, presented by the president of the United States. Winners of the medal are listed in the table.

  • National Military Council (political party, Suriname)

    Suriname: Suriname since independence: The National Military Council (Nationale Militaire Raad; NMR), installed after the coup, called on the moderate wing of the PNR to form a cabinet composed mostly of civilians. After the new cabinet proclaimed that Suriname would return to democracy in two years, the Dutch government agreed…

  • National Military Establishment Act of 1947 (United States legislation)

    20th-century international relations: The economic battle with Communism: The National Military Establishment Act of 1947 (in the works since the war) created a permanent Joint Chiefs of Staff, a single secretary of defense, the U.S. Air Force as a separate service with its nuclear-armed Strategic Air Command, and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Kennan…

  • National Military Organization (Jewish right-wing underground movement)

    Irgun Zvai Leumi, Jewish right-wing underground movement in Palestine, founded in 1931. At first supported by many nonsocialist Zionist parties, in opposition to the Haganah, it became in 1936 an instrument of the Revisionist Party, an extreme nationalist group that had seceded from the World

  • National Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (German government agency)

    Joseph Goebbels: A National Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda was created for him, and he became president of the newly formed “Chamber of Culture.” In this capacity he controlled, besides propaganda as such, the press, radio, theatre, films, literature, music, and the fine arts. In May 1933…

  • National Missile Defense system (United States)

    Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty: With this in mind, a National Missile Defense (NMD) system was proposed in the United States. Although it would involve no more than 100 interceptors, it was a system designed to provide nationwide defense and so would be inconsistent with the ABM treaty. For this reason, Russia publicly opposed the…

  • National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam (American organization)

    A.J. Muste: …later became known as the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam (MOBE). Muste was chairman of MOBE until his death.

  • national monument (American protected area)

    national monument, in the United States, any of numerous areas reserved by act of Congress or presidential proclamation for the protection of objects or places of historical, prehistoric, or scientific interest. They include natural physical features, remains of Indian cultures, and places of

  • National Movement (Spanish political movement)

    Spain: Franco’s Spain, 1939–75: …Falange lost power in the National Movement, the sole legal political organization; its attempts to create a Falangist one-party state were defeated in 1956, though tensions between the Falange and the conservative elements persisted.

  • National Movement for Simeon II (political party, Bulgaria)

    Simeon Saxecoburggotski: …announced the formation of the National Movement for Simeon II, an organization that set out to field candidates in the national legislative elections scheduled in June. When the courts ruled that the party had not met all of the requirements for registration, it joined two minor parties’ coalition and was…

  • National Municipal League (American political organization)

    United States: Urban reforms: The National Municipal League, organized in 1894, united various city reform groups throughout the country; corrupt local governments were overthrown in such cities as New York in 1894, Baltimore in 1895, and Chicago in 1896–97. And so it went all over the country well into the…

  • National Museum (museum, Bogotá, Colombia)

    Colombia: Cultural institutions: The National Museum displays treasures and relics dating from prehistoric times to the present and possesses various collections of Colombian painting and sculpture. The July 20 Museum contains documents from the period of independence.

  • National Museum (museum, Taranto, Italy)

    Italy: Museums and galleries: The permanent collection in the National Museum in Taranto provides one of the most important insights into the history of Magna Graecia, while the archaeological collections in the Roman National Museum in Rome and in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples are considered among the best in the world. The…

  • National Museum (museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

    museum: The spread of the European model: …South America a number of national museums originated in the early 19th century: the Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences in Buenos Aires was founded in 1812, and Brazil’s National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, which owes its origin to a selection of paintings presented by John VI, exiled king of…

  • National Museum (museum, Niamey, Niger)

    museum: New museums and collections: …also a feature of the National Museum in Niamey, Niger, and products of these workshops are exported to Europe and North America.

  • national museum

    museum: Administration: A number of the national museums in Paris operate under a semiautonomous administrative council, with an executive chairman who has a dual responsibility for policy and executive matters. In addition, there are a number of national museums located outside Paris, and some technical control over the country’s municipal museums…

  • National Museum (museum, Damascus, Syria)

    Damascus: Cultural life: The National Museum, established in 1936, boasts an extraordinary collection of artifacts from across the country, representing six millennia of civilization. A military museum occupies the cells of the 16th-century Ottoman takiyyah (monastic complex) of Süleyman I. The small yet impressive Museum of Arabic Calligraphy is…

  • National Museum (museum, Tokyo, Japan)

    Tokyo National Museum, the first and foremost art museum in Japan, located in Ueno Park, Tokyo. (Read Sister Wendy’s Britannica essay on art appreciation.) The original collection, formed in 1871 and initially housed in temporary residences, was a mixture of artistic, historical, scientific,

  • National Museum (museum, Lima, Peru)

    National Museum, museum in Lima, Peru, that contained artifacts offering an overview of pre-Hispanic human history in Peru. It constituted an archaeological record spanning the period from 14,000 bce to 1532 ce. The museum closed in the 2010s, and its collection (along with that of the Museo

  • National Museum (museum, New Delhi, India)

    National Museum, museum in New Delhi devoted to Indian art and archaeology as well as to Buddhist studies. The collections also include examples of anthropology; arms and armour; decorative arts, including jewelry; epigraphy; and pre-Columbian and Western art. The art of painting is well

  • National Museum of Afghanistan (museum, Kabul, Afghanistan)

    National Museum of Afghanistan, national museum in Darulaman, outside of Kabul, Afghanistan, displaying art and artifacts related to the country’s history and heritage. Founded in 1919 and first housed in Bagh-i-Bala palace in Kabul, the museum moved to its current location in 1931. It houses a

  • National Museum of African American History and Culture (museum, Washington, D.C., United States)

    National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), museum of the Smithsonian Institution located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., that presents the history, art, and culture of African American people from slavery to the present day. It was established by an act of Congress

  • National Museum of African Art (museum, Washington, District of Columbia, United States)

    National Museum of African Art, American museum of African art, part of the Smithsonian Institution, located on the Mall in Washington, D.C. In 1964 former American foreign service officer Warren M. Robbins established a privately run museum of African art at the Frederick Douglass House (now the

  • National Museum of American Art (museum, Washington, District of Columbia, United States)

    Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), the first federal art collection of the United States, now the world’s largest collection of American art. The Washington, D.C., museum showcases more than 40,000 works of art, representing 7,000 American artists. Featured permanent collections include

  • National Museum of American History (museum, Washington, D.C., United States)

    Washington, D.C.: Museums and galleries: These are the National Museum of Natural History (1910), the Freer Gallery of Art (1923), the National Gallery of Art (1941 and 1978; housed in two buildings), the National Museum of American History (1964), the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (1974), the National Air and Space Museum (1976),…

  • National Museum of Anthropology (museum, Mexico City, Mexico)

    National Museum of Anthropology, in Mexico City, world-famous repository of some 600,000 art and other objects relating to Mexico. Many anthropological, ethnological, and archaeological materials in the collection date from the pre-Hispanic period. Exhibited on two large floors, these displays show

  • National Museum of Antiquities (museum, Ravenna, Italy)

    Ravenna: Ravenna’s National Museum of Antiquities, housed in the cloisters of the Church of San Vitale, has an important collection of classical and Early Christian antiquities, including inscriptions, icons, ceramics, ivories and other sculptures, and sarcophagi. The Church of Santa Maria in Porto Fuori, built after 1069,…

  • National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru, The (museum, Lima, Peru)

    The National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru, museum in Lima, Peru, noted for its historical artifacts that showcase Peru’s cultural history. The National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru is the country’s first and largest state museum. The assembly

  • National Museum of Arms and Armour (armor and weapons collection, Tower of London, London, United Kingdom)

    Royal Armouries, in the United Kingdom, a collection of weapons and armour that was originally situated in the White Tower at the Tower of London. The Royal Armouries has been an integral part of the Tower of London since William I the Conqueror in the 11th century ordered it to be built. Paying

  • National Museum of Australia (museum, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia)

    Australian Capital Territory: Cultural life: The National Museum of Australia, long under consideration, opened in 2001 in time for the centenary of the country’s federation. The Australian academies of science, social sciences, and humanities are located in Canberra. A number of poets and novelists, including A.D. Hope, Judith Wright, Marion Halligan,…

  • National Museum of Canada (museum, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)

    museum: Other national and regional museums: …Canada the collection of the National Museum commenced in 1843 in Montreal as part of the Geological Survey, while the precursor of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, the Ontario Provincial Museum, was founded in 1855. In Australia the National Museum of Victoria was established at Melbourne in 1854; it…

  • National Museum of China (museum, Beijing, China)

    National Museum of China, museum in Beijing, located on the east side of Tiananmen Square. The museum was created in 2003 by the merger of the National Museum of Chinese History and the Museum of the Chinese Revolution. It is the largest museum in China and one of the largest museums in the world.

  • National Museum of Chinese History (museum, Beijing, China)

    National Museum of China, museum in Beijing, located on the east side of Tiananmen Square. The museum was created in 2003 by the merger of the National Museum of Chinese History and the Museum of the Chinese Revolution. It is the largest museum in China and one of the largest museums in the world.

  • National Museum of Colombo (museum, Colombo, Sri Lanka)

    museum: Asia: The National Museum of Sri Lanka, in Colombo, opened to the public in 1877; the Sarawak Museum (now in Malaysia) opened in 1891; and the Peshawar Museum, in Pakistan, opened in 1907.

  • National Museum of Denmark (museum, Copenhagen, Denmark)

    museum: Museums of antiquities: …in 1892 to form the National Museum of Denmark. In France the Museum of National Antiquities opened at Saint-Germain-en-Laye late in the 18th century. It still acts as a national archaeological repository, as does the State Historical Museum in Stockholm, which houses material recovered as early as the 17th century.…

  • National Museum of Fine Arts (museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

    National Museum of Fine Arts, museum of art in Rio de Janeiro, formally established in 1937. The original collection was inherited from the National School of Fine Arts (formerly the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts). It comprised art from the personal collection of King John VI of Portugal; paintings

  • National Museum of History (museum, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan)

    Turkmenistan: Cultural institutions: …notable of these is the National Museum of History, which features a sizable number of exhibits representing 50,000 years of Turkmenistan’s history. Another museum, housed in the gold-domed Palace of Knowledge, celebrates and glorifies Niyazov. The city is full of marble edifices and golden statues, most of which were erected…

  • National Museum of History (museum, Mexico City, Mexico)

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