Do expect an encyclopedic collection of wrapped and tinned confections.

As a result of its encyclopedic collection, the museum ranks nationally among the top ten art museums in attendance.

The museum's encyclopedic collection spans from ancient to contemporary art.

Beginning today and drawing almost entirely on its own encyclopedic collections, the museum will exhibit nearly 150 works produced some 2,000 years ago.

In contents the natural and artistic objects represent the programme of the late Renaissance encyclopedic collections.

"Like all regional museums, we have an encyclopedic collection," said Lewis Sharp, the museum's director.

By the time the museum redefined itself exclusively as an art institution in the 1930's, an encyclopedic collection was in place.

A virtually encyclopedic collection of surviving recordings was recently released.

It holds an encyclopedic collection, employs more than 600 people and has a $69 million annual budget.

Unlike most collectors of their generation, they did not try to form an encyclopedic collection.