21.   While many big museums still receive various forms of aid from local governments, most are now operated by private, nonprofit groups or are owned by universities.

22.   Even before its opening, the museum had received considerable public response.

23.   The museum received copies this week of records of properties and bank accounts that may have belonged to Holocaust victims.

24.   The museum may receive it sooner now, although no antiquities official was willing to speculate when.

25.   The museum received the two halves as a gift and rejoined them.

26.   The museum recently received a letter saying the machine would be destroyed if the ransom were not paid by midnight on Friday.

27.   The private donation was the biggest the museum has ever received.