Museum Trip

The main purpose of the museum is to amaze the new generation and to show how life was like back then. There were many things I was amazed by of how people survived the passed. Nowadays people can't stand a day without internet, but back then people stay days without eating and managed to survive. This explains why the latest generation is lucky to be living in this generation. Mostly the museum purpose is to entertain the

Never before have I seen a museum as grand as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. From its architecture to its massive art collection, The Met has a little bit of everything and one is sure to find something that captures his or her interest. Considering that The Met is the United States' largest art museum, it is easy to get lost within its many corridors and wings. My visit to The Met took place during the last week of July. Despite the almost unbearable heat and humidity that hung in the air, visiting museums under these climate conditions is a welcome respite from a suffocating, yet bright summer afternoon.

During my visit to the Brooklyn Museum, I found it both intriguing and informative. The layout of the exhibition was divided into about three to four sections. Each section of the museum represented a movement of the 60’s. The themes represented were segregation of blacks and whites, how they tried to gain equality and the changes they anticipated would happen in the future. The artwork throughout the exhibit was displayed in a varying gradient of black and white to colors.

Over the weekend, I took the time to explore two museums. The first museum I visited was the D.I.A , also known as the Detroit Institute of Arts. The D.I.A was a very beautiful, multicultural, and unique place. I also took the time to visit and explore the Charles H. Wright Museum of Detroit. Luckily, these museums weren’t too far from each other they were roughly 5-7 minutes apart. The Charles H. Wright Museum was also very beautiful, it was more appealing to me because it is a museum that exhibits and highlights the history of the African American culture. The Charles H. Wright museum also happens to be the largest African American museum in the world.

The museum provides a place for the family to have a hands-on experiece with science and have creative learning moments with technology, art, engineering and math. Kids can take on the challenge of engineering their own projects with the help of the

I hope to see museums make more concerted efforts to educate the public. Too many exhibits are of the “passive, didactic looking” than like the engaging Object Stories program (Dartt, Murawski). Exhibits should seek to tell untold narratives, and programs should be places of communication and cross-cultural encounters. For too long, difficult confrontations have been avoided, both inside the museum, and by dominant communities

Much like the name suggests, the exhibits revolve around two of the most defining aspects of history, Art and Science. Their galleries include displays from both the past and present, along with a planetarium for shows about our galaxy and the always entertaining laser rock shows. To learn about events and new exhibits coming to the Museum of Art and Sciences, you can visit their website here.

In school, so far, I have learned about World War 2 briefly, and that was when I read Number the Stars and other things like that in middle school. I have never actually learned about World War 1, and I knew nothing about World War 1 before I went to the museum. When I arrived at the museum, I learned a great deal of things that I did not know previously. I learned: that the war was fought on ground, water, and air; what America’s involvement was; what Kansas’s contribution was; and how high the number of casualties was.

Visiting the museum gave me a close look of what I am studying in anthropology. By spending time with the exhibits, the people and in that environment, it gave me a lot of information of what people have been through and how horrible it was back then. As I started to walk out, I read this on the wall, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” from Declaration of Independence,

Before I went to the museum, my prospective about a museum was poor expectations. What can a museum will offer? , this was one of the questions that I always had in mind. For these reasons, I never thought that I could enjoy a museum tour. However, everything change after visited the Phoenix Art Museum. I went to the trip with poor expectations, but since I arrived in the lobby with all of my classmates and the professor. I started feel that this trip will be sash an educational experience.

The museum of tolerance taught a lot about Anne Frank and her experiences of the holocaust. In my opinion the holocaust was a genocide, it was the biggest genocide there was. That single genocide took 6 million lives of innocent people. One was the famous Anne frank which died in Bergen-Belsen, the cause of the death was because of typhus. Going to the museum of tolerance helped me understand more about the holocaust and how it was so tragic.

History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past is an anthology of writings about the National Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian and the controversy surrounding the Enola Gay Exhibit. Each author, though discussing the same events, told a different story about the controversy. The overall themes of this book have to do with control, differing perspectives, education, and the role of the historian. The Enola Gay controversy became a cautionary for historians and museums; their expertise, interpretations, and freedom of expressing history were questioned.

Analyzing the success and failures of prior museum interpretation can give guidance for creating successful future exhibits. Reviewing the controversy surrounding the proposed 1995 exhibit The Crossroads: The End of World War II, the Atomic Bomb and the Cold War, at the Smithsonian Institution leads to some possible solutions that could have reduced or perhaps solved the controversy.

The Smithsonian is known for its realization and absolute beauty shown in the exhibits. Every exhibit of this museum has great detail and precision. Not only was each exhibit filled with things of its nature, but also had the right colors to make you feel the exhibit. For example, the vibes flowing from the ocean hall were incredible. The way they accomplished the feel of actually being in the ocean was a surreal experience to even see through the screen. I also liked the way that everything was pretty close to life scale, like the huge whale hanging from the

This was actually my first visit to this museum since I have gone to Kennesaw. My expectations were pretty high initially upon going, because I have heard so many things about it from my peers. Just by their opinions, and my love for art I have myself, I was actually excited about going in to take a look. I must say, I was not disappointed by any of the art work I saw in there. I really enjoyed the exhibit of work from some students from a high school around this area. It really shows that the college really supports the youth of the future and their passion for art as a whole.