Corcoran Institution

The Corcoran Institution is a Kiravian educational, scientific, historical, and cultural institution best known for operating a consortium ten admission-free museums in the Kiravian capital, Kartika.

History
The Corcoran Institution was made possible by Séamus Corcoran, a Fiannrian chemist and best known for pioneering several early methods for the refinement of handwavium ore. Though he never visited Great Kirav himself, he read about it in a book once and declared it "pretty cool", and subsequently bequeathed 600,000 talers to the Confederate Republics of Kirav for the establishment of an institution to disseminate useful and edifying knowledge and educate the citizenry of the nascent republic.

Finance & Governance
The Corcoran Institution is a semi-private organisation receiving some sponsorship, oversight, and financial assistance from the Government of the Kiravian Federacy, with which it enjoys a close relationship. It receives an annual subsidy from the federal budget to defray general operating costs and is a prolific recipient of federal grants for specific research and educational programmes. However, the majority of the Institution's funding comes from its endowment and from private donations.

Museums

 * Museum of the Brewing & Distillation Arts -
 * Museum of Kiravian Aviation & Cosmonautic History -
 * Kiravian Museum of Natural History & Philosophy -
 * Kiravian Ethnographic Museum -
 * Kiravian Museum of Modern Art & Design
 * Conservatory of Ancient & Traditional Coscivian Art -
 * Kartika Museum of Levantine & Foreign Art -