Waterloo Regional Museum Analysis

Conestoga Wagons, also known as covered wagons, originated around the region of Pennsylvania’s Lancaster Country in the mid to late 18th century. At first they were just used to haul farm products to different towns, then when the Oregon Trail became of use the decided to use the wagons.

A new exhibit on the history of crime in Lake County, “Crime and Punishment”, is open for the summer at the Courthouse Museum in Lakeport. Stagecoach robbers, a notorious sneak thief and a gang of murderous miners are featured in the same building their sentences were handed out.

The writer went to the Leepa-Rattner Museum at Tarpon Springs campus of St. Petersburg College. Before the visit, one went to the museum webpage and read about the museum and current exhibitions. It showed the " East meets West: New Japanese Traditions." Therefore, one was expected to see the Japanese style of art, like dragon and Japanese cherry blossom. At the beginning, one's feeling was perplexed, because the exhibitions were a mismatch with one's thought, but one could find the section for the Japanese art. In addition, this paper will cover about the museum, its artifacts, and relationship between humanities and art.

Opened to public in 2012, the museum focuses on the history of the town of Newburgh, and located on the first floor of the historic Old Newburgh Presbyterian Church.

Canada is a multicultural nation whose population was vastly built through the immigration of peoples from around the world. The McCord Museum of Canadian History explores Canada’s multiculturalism through several exhibits. The museum was brought to life by David Ross McCord who wished to “shed light on the history and cultures of his country and thus bring its people together.” The Museum features several exhibits which are physically available at the museum, and some of which are available online. One of the online exhibits entitled Being Irish O’Quebec explores the impact in which Irish culture has had on the province of Quebec from past to present.

The Brooklyn Museum hosts around 1.5 million works of art of different variations. One particularly fascinating genre is the Ancient Egypt exhibition. On the third floor, the exhibit is split into two sections: Early and New Kingdom, which is separated by a conjoined gallery. Entering into the conjoined gallery, artifacts from both eras are encased in rectangular glass. On the left, is the entrance to the New Kingdom Wing. In this section, a string of spotlights illuminates each encasement with a golden warm hue. Inside some cases are miniature shaved skulls placed upon a singular black pole. In others are lapis jewelry, and fragments of etched clay pottery. Further into the exhibit is yet another enclosed space. The walls are painted midnight black and the lighting is dimmed. There are rows of laid canvas wrapped mummies and tablet remnants all separated in glass.

For this essay, I decided to analyze the art collections of the Fowler Museum at UCLA, more specifically in the Jerome LioMel Joss Gallery. The Jermone LioMel Gallery contains the arts works of Africa, and the Pacific Islands so I will be analyzing arts from the two areas from Papua New Guinea and Nigeria. These arts pieces are the Veranda posts (opo), and the ornament for a sacred flute.

The Canadian War Museum provides an exhibition specifically on ways in which women lives were transiting throughout the First and Second World War. The exhibition laid many artifacts which came from women, such as photographs, voice overs, diaries, and souvenirs. The artifacts played a prominent role in understanding the experience of the World Wars from a woman point of view. The artifacts provide an understanding of the stories that women were facing challenges with. The challenges allowed women to grow and show what they are capable of. Since men were occupied fighting with their allies’ women took control and started participating and working.

“This is going to be so much fun!” I said. Me, my sister, and my two friends, Addison and Julia are avout to enter the Ripley’s Believe it or Not museum!

The Getty Center Museum offers a modern architecture and an outstanding view of Downtown Los Angles. The visitor of Getty Center Museum could reach the premises by car or by taking a public transportation. The Entrance to the parking structure located next to San Diego Freeway. After they parked at Getty Center Parking Structure, the visitor could take a tramway or walk along the sidewalk to get into the main museum. After they reach the Arrival Plaza, the visitor could take the stair to go up to the Rotunda Building where the information booth located at. Inside the rotunda building, on the plaza level, the visitor will see the information desk and the museum entrance hall. At the left side of the information desk, there’s a museum store.

“The Iroquois Creation Story” as told by David Cusick cites two worlds being in existence during ancient times. “The lower world was in great darkness;--the possession of the great monster; but the upper world was inhabited by mankind”(23). As a pregnant woman in the upper world went to sleep she descended down to the dark world. The story goes on to say that the monsters saw her descending and sought to “… secure the woman from the terrors of the great water…” which lie below (23). Turtle volunteered to save the woman and the back of turtle’s shell became an island for the woman’s body to fall upon. The beginning passages of the story are transformational because the story tells of humans, monsters and animals being separate beings

With the world gradually becoming more consumed by the ‘media-saturated contemporary culture’, American artist Blair Thurman explores the place art has in the modern world. Located on the second floor of the Oklahoma Museum of Art lies his 370 x 274 x 90 centimeter Honeybadgers installation created in 2009, a sculpture piece constructed with plywood, acrylic, glass, neon, and wire pieces. This exhibition occupies a small, but tall room that is approximately 400 square feet, and is on display until May 1st, 2016. Museums are traditionally the institutions that produces conversations for the audience to speak back to, and Thurman uses this discurvisity to communicate his works. His work appears to relay the idea of conceptual art in that concept

The Iroquois Creation Story is set before the existence of humans as we know them, but not absent of a physical place, or other beings. The Iroquois Creation Story has a very supernatural setting with many mythical and magical elements. The first lines of the story stated, “Among the ancients there were two worlds in existence. The lower world was in great darkness; - the possession of the great monster; but the upper world was inhabited by mankind.” The physical setting starts out in in the upper world, but changes to the lower world when, as stated in the story, the mattress the woman laid on “sunk down towards the dark world.” Eventually the setting changes one more time when the mattress landed on the back of a turtle, and eventually changed in to an island. “While holding her, the turtle increased every moment and became a considerable island of earth.” The inhabitants of these settings are just as enigmatic as the actual setting. Mankind inhabited the upper world we know but the lower world was “the possession of the great monster”. The monsters of the lower world are never described, except we know for sure that there was a turtle where the woman came to rest. Eventually the inhabitants of the lower world would include Enigonhahetgea and Enigorio, who would go on to transform the setting even more.

The myth “The World on the Turtle's Back” tells the story of how a woman created the Earth by using dirt that she took with her when she fell from Sky-World. The myth shows how the beliefs of the Iroquois are quite different from mine because I believe there is a scientific explanation for how the world was created.

This summer, the Smithsonian museum has appointed me to travel through history in their time machine to collect six artifacts for their latest exhibit, The History of Communication Technology. All of the artifacts need to be able to fit into one backpack, and reflect the time and place the object was from. The technology of communication represents the change as well as the continuity of how cultural ideas spread from one person to another throughout history. I am thrilled to have the opportunity to travel in a time machine to learn about the past of communication technology.