11.   SAM was the first U.S. museum sued for restitution of artwork lost through German looting during World War II.

12.   She made hers the first Greek museum designed to accommodate visitors with disabilities.

13.   The first museum in the world to collect photography was the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

14.   The first museum built in the United States after World War II, it stands on a rolling, city-owned greensward west of downtown.

15.   The first American museum to buy a Monet?

16.   The Kimbell is not the first American museum to find itself stymied by the Department of National Heritage.

17.   The online exhibition is the first museum show Servon knows of to spotlight blogs.

18.   The Museum of Natural History is hardly the first museum to reach out beyond its doors to schools and homes.

19.   The PHILLIPS COLLECTION, the first museum of modern art in the nation, exhibits masterpieces by Bonnard, Renoir, Klee, Rothko and others.

20.   The same month, Kansas City opened the first American museum devoted entirely to jazz, paid for by the city.