Robert Bishop, the museum's director, said he had always been certain that the museum would return to its old address.

"From a design point of view, some of these textiles are extraordinary," said Robert Bishop, the museum's director.

Robert Bishop was warden from 1926 to 1937, and was followed by his grandson, Billy, from 1937 to 1978.

Mr. Esmerian had helped Robert Bishop, then the director, guide the institution through turbulent times.

"Right now we have 10 touring all over the world," boasted Robert Bishop, director of the museum since 1977.

Robert Bishop, 56, a board member and former Silicon Graphics executive, will succeed him.

That they do was always the contention of Robert Bishop, the museum's activist director for 25 years until his death in 1991.

Inside the bank, the other six had also drawn rifles and were demanding money from the teller, Robert Bishop.

In the 1970s and 1980s, fetish artists like Robert Bishop were published extensively in bondage magazines.

"I don't think they're going to find anyone else to pay much more than that," said Robert Bishop, an analyst with Salomon Brothers.