Personal Narrative: My Experience At The Royal Ontario Museum

When I was younger, my dad and I used to go on dates to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Although I haven’t been there for over five years now, I still remember one piece of art that took my breath away; not because of the beauty of the artwork, but because of the shiver it sent down my spine, and the uneasy feeling I had when I looked at it. The piece of art that made me so apprehensive was a wax model of a museum security guard. The intricate detail of the figure, including the pores in the skin and the hair on the knuckles, left me wondering if this man were going to suddenly leap forward and yell, “Gotcha!”

I have always been intrigued with the idea of preserving history for future generations to see. Therefore, upon hearing about a streetcar/trolley museum called The Connecticut Trolley Museum in East Windsor, CT, I quickly became affiliated.

During Parent’s Weekend at Marquette, my family and I went to the Haggerty Art Museum. While I pleaded with my family to not go, as I am not a huge art fan, my Mom’s opinion overruled mine. From the outside, Haggerty looked like it would be small, but in reality, was quite large. When walking in, I immediately assumed that the art would not make any sense to me like at most art museums. However, I was quickly proven wrong as a lot of the art we saw was what I would consider impressive. They were not the drawings of a line or pieces that look like a child made them that you see at most museums, but what I call “real art”.

What I have found surprising about my professional experience so far is how much I have come to enjoy conducting oral histories and working in an archival setting. While volunteering with the Los Alamos Historical Society, my mentor has given me the primary task of helping them complete their oral history project, which has been an ongoing project for the society for nearly a year and a half. The oral history project has provided me with a new perspective of the past. The other task that my mentor has given me is to help the historical society to catalog their archive’s artifacts. I was surprised while cataloging the archive’s artifacts the amount of photographs, videos, and many other historical objects that the historical society possesses. While the projects that my mentor has instructed me to work on while volunteering with the historical society has surprised me in several ways, I

I would go to canada and other diffrent countries in discover new things like religion citys

Living in Prince Edward Island, as a citizen, I have a lot of concerns for the future of my land. In the province of Canada, voices for confederation are coming out. This idea sounded exciting at first, after all who wouldn't want a strong country that unites all people, but for us things are different. Imagine if we handed our money and resources, or even right and prosperity to the government, how much would we get back. Our voice would still be unheard since we are of small population, very insignificant in the united government. We are already stable in development, with all these timber, farming, ship building business and more as we are developing a strong tie with Britain and United States. I’m worried that if we joined, our peaceful

I visited the Swedish American Museum. It was a nice, little, cozy museum that taught me a lot about the Swedes and their trip to America. The main exhibit focused on the immigration of the Swedes to Chicago and what they did when they got to Chicago. It was their dream to immigrate to Chicago, because in 1850, there was not a lot of jobs outside of the agricultural service leading to a lot of them being poor and there was a drought which kept crops from growing. Also, the Swedish came to America because they wanted to express their religion more and not be forced in to the army, which was what America promised. Another main reason on coming to Chicago was there were more jobs in the city and the Homestead Act of 1962 allowed people who settled

My experience to the Dallas Museum of Art was a bit different from the last time I had attended the museum. I was curious to see what pieces of art there would be and if it would be the same as the previous visit which was long ago, but to me all the pieces of art were so different and very interesting. It may have been because I saw all the pieces in a new perspective since learning about the different types of paintings there can be and knowing how and where sculptures come from. Even though I do not know much of art I really gave it a try into seeing what the artist may have wanted us to get out of his work. By reading a view of the chapters made me aware of art, I wouldn’t call myself an expert, but it was actually nice knowing that a

For my cultural event my family and I went to the Virginia Living Museum. We chose to go to the Virginia Living Museum because we had never been there before, furthermore it gave us the opportunity to spend time together as a family. To be honest, I was quite hesitant to go to a museum with my four year old son. We have previously gone to other events and places together, but as four year old, keeping his attention, and his little feet going, is always a task. To my surprise, our experience was absolutely wonderful! The museum offered a lot of kid friendly exhibits, while giving all of us the chance to be together, learn about our environment, and animals in Virginia. By having this experience, I learned that I really should spend more time

After graduating from the University of Oklahoma, I started working at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. For about a year, I worked with artists and authors to organize book signing events. Now, life has taken me to Texas, and I am currently working at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, the most visited museum in Houston. I have decided that a graduate degree in Museum Studies will help advance me in a career field in which I am very passionate. For my graduate research, I would like to delve deeper into museum theory, work to fully understand how guests interact with objects, learn how curators create exhibitions, and research the capabilities of digital technologies in the galleries.

I visited the path of life at the Arizona State Museum. I decided to talk about the Indé Indians that are the White Mountain Apache, San Carlos Apache and the Tonto Apache all categorized as the Apache tribe of Indians. The apaches lived in the central Arizona Mountains. Here the apaches provided raw materials for food, shelter and their clothing. I will be focusing on the human environment interaction on how the Apaches practiced agriculture, how they obtained their food and water and lastly how the tribe utilized its land on a seasonal basis.

The future is bleak. Looking out over the horizon, it dawns on me: how did we, as humanity, get to this point? The barren hills, the half-demolished buildings; it breaks my heart to see the home of my ancestors in such abysmal shape. However, I am on a mission. To be distracted is to fail. My sources tell me that the location of the archeological site is set on the twelfth floor of one of many dorm sites on the ancient campus. This 500 year old building is set on the southern border of the archeological remains. Ascending the never-ending stairwell, it is clear to me that this structure is in incredibly poor shape. The structural integrity is weakened; just walking up the unstable, eroded stairs makes me fear that whatever is in the site was

A greater number of educators are looking to museums to help them attain their educational objectives. Howard Gardner has identified Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood as the perfect environment for stimulating the natural curiosity of a child. Furthermore, in response to demands for new educational approaches, older children are using museums to develop their critical facilities in art and design (Campbell, 1992).

Life would be so different if my family was a family of archaeologists! If we were archaeologists… well the Galioto family and digging in the hot sun from dawn to dusk could be potentially disastrous! I would miss out going to McAuliffe Middle school and seeing all my wonderful friends and teachers. I would have to give up my amazing room, extensive collection of books, comfy feather bed, hot showers, and delectable meals my mom makes. If we were archaeologists I would have to say goodbye to soccer and leave my dreams of being a marine biologist behind and start digging! Instead of the picturesque life we lead now, we would dig, sort, clean, log, examine, and catalogue our findings day in and day out.

I went to The Art Institute of Chicago on a Thursday when it was free for Illinois resident and when there were different exhibitions going on. There was long line at the entrance near the museum at 6pm in the evening. I went alone because I thought I can have better focus on picking a good art work. I was ready to go through all the magnificent paintings for my art museum paper. As I walked through the museum, there were colorful Indian Modern art exhibited for the occasion. They were big and vibrant. The was also a special exhibition of Tarsila Do Amaral, one of the leading Latin American Modernist artist who paint like Cubism, Futurism and expressionism. Her artworks were childlike in terms of the painting style of objects and people. I was most fond of the modernist and contemporary part of the gallery with painters like Salvador Dali and Francis Bacon. I was fascinated with Salvador Dali’s Venus de Milo with Drawers. The drawers unnaturalistically located on a human body was intriguing. The depth of the human mind and subconsciousness are creatively represented by these drawers on Venus de Milo. Francis bacon’s work Figure with meat was not bad either. Figure with Meat is a disturbing depiction of Pope Innocent X sat in front of a cow carcass cut lengthways in half. (Gould) Like his other painting, the theme is dark and twisted. The carcass is included serve as a direct reminder that death will be at the end await