The Monument Men: A Short Answers To The Museum

Museums have long served a purpose as cultural staples. For every museum, big and small, careful consideration is used in selecting its contents. When securing new items for a museum, it is most important to consider public appeal, educational value, and cost-effectiveness.

There are many monuments in the world and they are all built to honor someone or something that was done by that person. For example, after the Maine Lobsterman was built, the fake bronze statue returned to Maine and spent several decades being moved from city hall to museum to museum. No one seemed to want the man and his lobster. The issue at hand is if the monuments being built are memorializing the person or moment created accurately. Monuments capture legacy and preserve the individual's actions throughout history. Specifically, monuments should consider purpose, location, and size in their creation.

Depending on the placement of the monument the importance of the events contues genrations on. For an example, inorder for placing something of sagnificant value, the holocaust, would be placed somehwere of sagnifcant value, like a nations capital, but just anywhere in the nations capital. Eventhough DC is the nations capital "placeing the holocaust museum in a mall in DC is disrespectful and offensive" to the people who died and the servivers(source E). Just because its the national capital doesnt mean a mall in the nations capital is appropreate, besides lives were lost, not material things being bought. The failure for the creator(s) to think of that stripped the meaning and the pain behind the holocuast away. The placement of that museum made fun of, or even mocked the holocuast as if it is important to be remebered by America but not important to petray horrifying details of it. If the placement of the museum was to be in central DC near the White House, it creates a more important rule in Americas everyday life, because its near where the prisident lives, its near where people go to live the American dream. It would reinforce the meaning of the tragidy, the menaing of being saought out just becuase of you religion, the meaning of being gased alive, the meaning of being torn away from your family, the meaning of starving in the cold winters, and lastly

First, removing all these statues and monuments cost a lot of money and take a long time. For example, The cost to remove all the monuments and statues in New Orleans could cost $600,000. Thats a lot of money for one city to pay for, and that money could be used for more important things. Another reason I feel that we should keep these statues and monuments because it’s a part of our history. Yes, the Confederacy did believe in slavery, but it isn’t about honoring slavery. It’s about understanding that this is what we once were as a nation. Keeping this symbolizes how far we’ve come as a country and how much we’ve progressed. Taking these monuments down would be in a way an attempt to erase our

Now we move onto the monuments destroyed by the Nazis as Germany was retreating. A giant bronze statue of Paul von Hindenburg located Hohenstein (modern day Poland) was destroyed by the Germans; as was the Tannenberg memorial where Hindenburg's remains were kept was also partially demolished. Likewise in Austria, the Nazis set fire to several old monuments and buildings, a good example being the Schloss Immendorf castle, which was burned by the SS in 1945.

After careful consideration I have decided that Confederate monuments should not be aloud in public places. These monuments stand for things that our country doesn’t. I think even if we take down the monuments that we will never forget our history. I still think that we should keep some monuments ,but in museums and for learning because we need to teach children about our past so they

In the article "The Monuments Must Go”, Christian and Christian are writing to the Mayor of Richmond, Virginia, Levar Stoney, as well as the members from the Monument Avenue Commission and requesting them to remove the Confederate statue of Stonewall Jackson along with the rest of the Confederate monuments that lie along Monument Avenue. The authors argue that these monuments in Richmond, Virginia that line up Monument Avenue serve to preserve a racist ideology. Christian and Christian begin their article by initially stating, “We are native Richmonders and also the great-great-grandsons of Stonewall Jackson. We are writing today to ask for the removal of his statue, as well as the removal of all Confederate statues from Monument Avenue. They are overt

Although the idea of taking away Confederate monuments is appealing and presents sound foundation to do so we should leave them where they are. At first, one can argue about the benefits our society would harvest from taking them away, but without doubts that action would come with collaterals that might be even worse than the alternative. As John Daniel Davidson in "Why We Should Keep The Confederate Monuments Right Where They Are", in the Federalist, cites Donald Trump being mocked after elaborating on the idea that tearing down those monuments would, indeed, portrait a logical argument for also tearing down monuments that represent Liberty and Human Rights. Not only with demands but also with vandalization of Lincoln Memorial in

Agencies might not want to have Holocaust memorial “...in the United States, who did little to stop the Holocaust from occurring…” (Source E). People might get offended if the place where the memorial is located does not really fit or if it does not make much sense for it to be there. The surroundings should be appropriate, somewhere where the memorial actually belongs. The memorial itself should be appropriate as well. Statues and plaques are made out of respect, to admire and remember. To just “...[slap] a coat of bronze paint over [a] plaster model…” (Source F) does not seem like the thing someone would want to do for a memorial. The Christopher Columbus statue in Philadelphia (Source B) is a good example of a respectable

Brandenburg historian Gerry Fischer, believes that taking the monuments down is “shameful because ‘You study your history to learn from it’ [...] ‘The bad parts, too’”(Harlan). While it is understandable to be concerned about what the fall of the monuments would mean, it would never mean the erasement of the history. The Civil War is a huge and important part of America’s history which means in turn, so is the Confederacy's part in the war. America wouldn’t take learning about the Confederate Army and their generals out of schools learning curriculums they are just taking down monuments that looked like they are honoring bad guys. They might be painted in a different light than they usually are though. Instead of being thought of as one of the heroes of the country, they would painted as the bad guys they were. The fought for the wrong cause. They fought for a cause that would keep people of other races enslaved which makes them the villains of the Civil Wars story. They would be painted as the villains of the Civil War like the Nazis are the villains of WWII because they both acted out of hatred and racism. The monuments serve as awful feelings for people thinking about how their ancestors suffered. So it would probably be best to remove the Confederate

The battle about what to do with the Confederate monuments is not new. Unless we figure out how to honor infamous events in way that does not glorify them, we as a country will continue the long and complicated debate. There are many perspectives, but the four biggest are to leave them up, take them down, put them in museums, and learn more about them before making a permanent decision. Right now, the United States seems to be taking the side of forming a more educated decision, although some cities, like Charlottesville, have been making the decision of taking them down. The United States is a very undivided nation, which makes it difficult to come up with a solution, especially because it is impossible to make everyone happy.

To begin with I believe that they should tear the monuments down,because in the it states “, New Orleans it beginning to remove monuments that honor, lost,immoral,and confederate cause.Some of these monuments are being taken down because they have caused violent threats and having an employee’s car put in flames.I strongly agree that they should come down for those reasons.

The monument is in New York City, New York, receiving more than 10,000 visitors every day since it was built in 2011. The ticket amount ranges from $15 to $50 and free if you are a member. There are different types of tickets you can buy depending on what you wanna see. The monument is open daily from 9 a.m., to 9 p.m., and the Museum is open every weekday and weekend, earliest 9 a.m., latest 9 p.m. There are guided tours for both the museum and monument. For the Museum you get a 45 minute tour of what happened on 9/11, how people responded after the attacks, the rebuilding of it, and history. At the monument, you learn the significance of the World Trade Center, learn about what happened that day, and understand the symbols of the Monuments

The Holocaust was a devastating time for many people. Eleven million Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and other non-Aryans were killed. But lives were not the only thing lost during the Holocaust. Hitler and the Nazis stole several million works of art. Five million were tracked down and recovered by the Monument Men. These courageous people helped to find and save the art stolen during the greatest cultural disaster in history.

Knowing others might say it is the meaning of the statues is why they want them to take them down but, what will be different when the statues are all down? The history is still there, we will always remember the statue, and we will always have the information about the time period and the lafayette’s Alfred Mounton Statue.