In a message dated 10/9/00 1:01:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> The Yorkshire Museum itself was purpose-built over a four year or so
>  period in the late 1820s. It is probably only the fourth museum to be
>  built as such in the UK (after the Dulwich Picture Gallery, Sir John
>  Soane's private museum, and the British Museum).  The Yorkshire Museum is
>  in a Classical Greek form (a Doric temple) to a design by the fashionable
>  London-based Neo-Classical architect, William Wilkins, who very soon
>  afterwards designed the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square (1838).

Actually, I got the name wrong. It's the York STORY Museum in St. Mary's
Castlegate. I spent a whirlwind day touring the museums of York and get them
all confused, except for the Jorvik Viking Centre which is definitely unique.
:)

Deb

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