Old Greek Museum

Museums collect information to show to the public for educational advancement and personal enjoyment. Museum curators have a very imperative job, when it comes to the success of a museum. Museum curators take the time and dedication to find artifacts that not only fit the theme of the museum but they also have to consider price, authenticity, and origin. The artifacts chosen mush hold a “Wow” factor registering remembrance and relevance into the minds of its visitors. The artifacts should be chosen based upon significance not the monetary value.

Positioned alongside Central Park in the heart of New York City, The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the largest and most influential art museums in the world. The Met houses an extensive collection of curated works that spans throughout various time periods and different cultures. The context of museum, especially one as influential as the Met, inherently predisposes its visitors to a certain set of understandings that subtly influence how they interpret and ultimately construct meanings about each individual object within the museum. Brent Plate in Religion, Art, and Visual Culture argues that “objects obtain different meanings in different locations and historical settings.”An object placed on display behind a glass case inside a museum would hold a vastly different meaning if it was put on sale by a street vendor, like the ones who set up their tables in close proximity to the Met. The different meanings that objects are able to obtain is attributed to the relationships that are established between the object itself and the environment that surrounds it. These relationships often involve the kind of audience that a museum attracts, where the work is exhibited, and how the exhibits within a museum is planned out. Museums subsequently have the ability to control how these relationships are established which influences the way a viewer is able to construct meaning. When a visitor observes an object on display at the Met, they instinctively construct a certain set of

To highlight the relationship between each of the exhibitions, the staff could provide daily visitors with a cohesive guide map of the entire museum. The current location of the museum is massive to accommodate for the displays as well as three research laboratories, but due to large size, each exhibit feels isolated and

For this report, I will write a reflection concerning society in ancient Greece. I will include information pertaining to the lives of those who lived in ancient Greece and what their daily lives consisted of. Social issues and political philosophy will also be discussed along with other material that is considered significant to ancient Greek society. This concludes my introduction. When did Ancient Greece exactly flourish and how?

There are many are many time periods and phases in the world like the roman empire,american revolution era, pre columbian african and many more. This essay is about one in particular time period which is Ancient Greece. A few things we will talk about in ancient greece what they wore,how marriage was set up and their religion. This essay is also about the housing in ancient greece.

This was the medium in which the MET used to construct their narrative and to educate the participant. These artifacts spoke in a unique way, each one depicting images that told about the structures of society, trades, religious motifs, as well as the techniques and mysteries around the methods used in creating such masterpieces. As I continued from one display to the next, reading the descriptions and tidbits of history, I easily transitioned from one period to the next. I describe this experience as being engaged with a living

Theastre Gates' minimalist exhibition, How To Build A House Museum, is a historic event for the Art Gallery of Ontario. Commonly regarded as a somewhat conventional gallery, Gates' immersive work is a monumental step towards engaging the AGO with contemporary artists lives and works. As we walk into the fifth floor, the audience feels as if we have crossed through time to another space, similar to the transportive journey that listening to music or being in a club takes you on. Gates uses his art to evoke that same form of escapism. However, once your mind feels relaxed and is open to take in the exhibit, Gates throws a multitude of historical graphs, personal items and architecture layered in meaning onto you, as a reminder that this whole

The city-state of Athens is a part of the Greek Archaic cities. The history of Athens dates back to 3000 BCE, where the earliest evidence of occupation is documented, but the focus here is on Athens in the Archaic Period, which dates from 800-500 BCE. During this period there were a large variety of features that were detailed in the accounts of the city’s society and history. The center of the city is dominated by two hills, the Pnyx and the Acropolis. Pnyx is where the Popular Assembly held its meetings. The Acropolis was the fortified center, then later became a religious sanctuary, the home of Athena, the patron goddess of the city, and a host of other deities. During the 6th century the Athenian Empire was at the peak of its power under

Nowadays we are surrounded by an abundance of technology in which public historians make use of this technology in order to make memories and history come alive. One of the more common ways public historians use technology to make memories interactive and interpretive are through documentaries and movies based on true stories. For example, the movie we watched in class on the Massacre of 1913 is a use of digital media. The use of digital technologies is important for public historians because many of citizens across the world are immersed in different technological devices and are up to date with technology. Public historians are taking advantage of this opportunity and are incorporating them into museums and public history sites to engage

Last Sunday my friend and I went to the Hellenic museum down town Chicago. It was a very slow day at the museum we were the only two visitors. In the entrance of the museum was the gift shop, the attendee was very kind and great us when we came in. She explain to us the two exhibitions that were open. She gave us a brochure of the museum, then explain to us a survey which if we fill we could get a 10% discount on the shop in the museum. The attendee gave us a description of the museum. It has three levels, the first level is a white spacious room with big windows facing the street. We took the stairs to the second level which was the one with rock and petrified exhibitions. In the entrance of the second level there were dresses and ornaments of the Greek culture. In the wall there were description of recent history of Greeks and celebration of the Greek independency from the Ottoman Empire. On the second level of the museum there were historical rocks of different parts of Greece and they have a brief history of catastrophes by volcanos. The museum have residuals of petrified forests and animals. They had the history of islands of Pythagoras and other famous Greek thinkers.

Classical Greece consisted of many buildings and temples. In this audio, I will be informing you about the Temple of Zeus, The temple of Athena Nike and the famous Parthenon. Zeus was the king of all the Olympian gods and a temple was built in his honour. The temple was built in Olympia and measured 64 metres long and 21 metres high. This building was built in 450 BCE and the temple was faced in a specific direction so Zeus could watch over the Olympic games held every 4 years. The temple contained a magnificent statue of Zeus on a throne which was housed there for over 800 years. The statue was colossal and measured around 13 metres high and 6 metres wide.The temple of Athena Nike is the smallest temple in Athens and was constructed on the

The small price of admission invites a larger audience and automatically makes the historic house museum approachable and easy to visit. It could also justify the high prices of the museum cafe. The great number of volunteers is as well an active and pleasant aspect. In studying new means that determine a successful art institution Maxwell L. Anderson writes, “ Those museums with a large number of volunteers . . . may fairly be assumed to enjoy the strong support of their community”

Brian Droitcour says in his article, The Institution as User: Museums and Social Media, published by the electronic magazine Art in America the following:

The digital platform is an interactive space developed by the Area of Education and Audiences of the Museum. The questions that aim to motivate the public participation are: “Do you know what happened in your neighborhood during the dictatorship in Chile? Where were your relatives the day in which the government’s palace was bombed? What was in the place in which today your school is located? Do research and report the memory of your neighbor, your city, your family and publish it in our Memory Map”. The goal is –as the website points out- to awake the local memory and to promote youth engaged

I toured the virtual Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Though it was not face-to-face, I still really enjoyed my experience through the virtual word. I was more fascinated about the liveliness in the virtual world than anything else. I think the virtual museum itself was more of a work of art than the art it displayed because it covered almost every inch from many different points of view in the museum. I also liked how it was pretty easy to operate and move around, and no matter how much I zoomed in or out I could read almost everything perfectly fine. While being able to explore this museum from the comfort of my own home was a plus, I truly missed out on being able to read the display labels to learn more about the artifacts. Reading about the history or story behind a work of art is, in my opinion, the best part. This virtual tour was captivating, and I hope to someday visit the museum in person.”