Had a secular museum staged such an exhibit, there would have been a gargantuan outcry.

More recently, with the hiring in 1995 of Dan Cameron, a critic and independent curator, as senior curator, the museum has been staging more one-person exhibitions.

While other museums around the country aggressively staged fund-raising drives or applied for grants, the Gardner did not, acknowledged Malcolm Perkins, the museum's president.

In 2012, the recently re-opened museum staged an exhibition of Maastricht silver.

Over three thousand items from the permanent collection are on display and the museum also stages temporary exhibitions.

It focuses on the primitive and Art Brut schools; there is no permanent collection as such but the museum stages some three temporary exhibitions a year.

The museum is staging a special exhibition of the items, which explore the social history of music-making from 1600 to the 1960s, and it traces the development of taste during that period.

It isn't even surprising that two museums of the region are currently staging shows of his work.

From June 2010 until January 2011, the museum staged an exhibition of Sekaer's work titled "Signs of Life."

In an action that nearly defies belief, the museum had staged a fake burial, burying a cloth-swathed, human-sized log to trick the child into believing his father rested in the earth.