Word Definition Example museum (noun) a place for displaying and collecting valuable objects related to science, history, or art. The students visited the art museum on their school field trip. exhibit (noun) a place where something is shown to an interested audience The museum exhibit on the Westward Expansion displayed images of settlers traveling in horse-drawn carriages. curator (noun) a keeper of a museum exhibit The museum curator designed the exhibit on the solar system. evoke (verb) to bring or recall to a person’s mind The museum exhibit evoked feelings of pain and sadness for the viewers. The museum exhibit evoked feelings of happiness and fun for the viewers.
In the metropolitan museum I had a great time and got a lot of knowledge. First, the visit was great as I personally need it as a break from school and finals. Seconded, I did not visit the museum almost for four years. Even though I been there in 2011 but I got hard time to find what I am looking for but the worker were really helpful with the direction. I actually started by the Gallery of Mughal South Asia and Later South Asia that painting of (Black Stork in a Landscape) looked at 464. I found the paninting interested because I came from a village and I used to see Black Stork a lot in the fields. In Egypt we call him the farmer friend as he eats the bad warms that may affect the farmer’s crop. I love the color of the painting as it was black, gray, white, , dark brown, light green that is represent the crop. As the painter used water color to address the painting and to show the Indian geography in the back ground. In addition the painting from the South Asia and the Himalayan Region, 1800–1900 A.D. the Painting was in the medial size according to the note that was besides the painting it was H. 21 1/2 in. (54.6 cm) W. 29 3/4in. (75.6cm) Mat: H. 35 1/2 in. (90.2 cm) W. 27
Washington, D. C. is not only one of the most popular tourists destinations in the United States, but because it is the capital of the United States, there is an enormous amount of history associated with the city. In fact, you could never see all of the great sites in one visit, but if you only visit this city once, there are three sites that you must see on your trip. The following is a brief description of these sites.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and finest art museums. The main Neoclassical architectural style building is located on the eastern edge of Central Park in New York City, New York. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1986. It was founded in 1870 with a mission to collect, preserve, and display works of art. In 1866 a group of Americans gathered at a restaurant to celebrate the Fourth of July. After dinner, John Jay, a prominent lawyer gave a speech proposing that he and his compatriots decided to create a “national institution and gallery of art.” In the next four years, they convinced American civic leaders, art collectors, and philanthropists to support the project, and finally in 1870 the Metropolitan Museum of Art was incorporated. During the 1870s the museum was housed in two different locations in New York City, first in a building at 681 Fifth Avenue and later at 128 West 14th Street. In 1880 the museum moved to its present location in Central Park on Fifth Avenue between 80th and 84th Streets. The museum moved to this land to make a permanent home for the collections. This original Gothic Revival-style brick building, designed by Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mold, was opened to
BY MANY MEASURES, the museum world today seems sexier and more successful than ever. The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced in June that its annual attendance had topped 6 million for the third year in a row, its highest levels on record. In the Boston area, institutions including the Institute of Contemporary Art, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Peabody Essex Museum have opened sleek NEW additions or entirely NEW buildings designed by big-name architects. The Museum of Fine Arts recently opened a glamorous new American wing to great fanfare.
Master’s Dissertation International Museum Studies Museion/Göteborg University Spring term 2004 Author: Guðbrandur Benediktsson Supervisor: Cajsa Lagerkvist
On the de Young Museum’s website allotted for the Art of Americas exhibit, it describes the background and the importance of the different cultures that it chooses to feature through their art. The site chronicles how the collection provides insight into the thriving civilizations of the North and South America before the actual Spanish Conquest, that brought many their demise. It points out the general themes of the entire exhibit itself, “human and divine rule, the importance of ritual life, relationships between this life and the afterworld, shamanism … and adoration of or curiosity about the natural world”. This gives the potential visitor an idea of the background, not only of the pieces,
For chapter 1 I think a proper title would be “A Museum” because the chapter is when Gene goes back to Devon in 15 years and he calls it “a museum”. Gene walks around the school and it reminds him of his time there and everything that happened. When he gets to the tree he has a flashback about one night when they jumped from the tree into the river. The flashback and places he sees and visits reminds him of the past like a museum that reminds us of the past through artifacts. Therefore, I think the title “A Museum” would be a proper title for Chapter 1.
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.
Since ancient times, humanity has used art to express feelings, emotions, ideas, and much more. Also, it was used as a medium to communicate between each other. As a result, it is not surprising that we feel delighted while observing works of art. Now, there are many opportunities to go to museums, and enjoy the precious art pieces shown there. One of the museums that has a wide variety of art, is the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Field Museum started as a Columbian exposition held in Chicago. Everyone who worked in the exposition saw the effect it had to the people who came to visit the event so a year later, Marshall Field agreed to invest on the museum project (Encyclopedia, 2005). In 1894, the museum was established in Jackson Park, but due to the decision of the committee to change the name, they decided to relocate the museum to Grant Park and leave the museum to be known as the Museum of Science and Industry. It was a struggle to find a new location for the museum, but eventually everyone agreed to build it by the lakefront (Field Museum, 2016). In my standpoint, I would not have made the decision better myself. I believe the Field Museum stands where it belongs. It is located in one of the best area in Chicago. It is near other fascinating attractions such as Navy Pier, Adler Planetarium, and Shedd Aquarium; making it easy for
Although the Wichita Art Center is not as big as the Wichita Art Museum that we visited couple weeks ago, the artworks there are interesting. For what I have known, most of the artworks there were done by students. That was amazing to me because their works don’t look much different from the art of famous artists. Some of them made me impressive. I really like the color of the oil painting “Heaven on Earth” created by Lori Moody. The color change made a pretty art piece, from dark orange to light orange, then dark blue to light blue to make the sunset color. One of the sculptures that I like is “My Dad the Farmer”. It was made by Mary Frances Skinner. The first time I looked at it I didn’t have any impression. Then I saw the small photograph
In this week’s assignment, a common theme highlights observation of child and teen in non-museum setting. Recording my observations when I got to observe many children with their parents I found that control of the child particularly from 4 to 6 years old within the public places one of the most difficult tests that are faced by parents, especially in malls where the children as soon as they enter the mall are accelerating their feet around and then catch or touch anything that is in front of them, even if it is something inappropriate for them. In this stage children are showing overactive and want to discover everything around them by catching and touching or observing things. According to Piaget, children are active in constructing their understanding of the world.
During the summer last year, I worked at a children day camp and we did various activities outside of the building that its located in such as taking the kids to the zoo, the park, the imagination station, swimming, and to the art museum. while on a trip to the art museum on a regular field trip there was one exhibit that the tour guide focused on which was a wall made u of disassembled stuffed animals and a chair. The room it was in was larger there were other sculptures and paintings in the room as well. The lighting was very bright in this room and there was a sensor about six or seven feet in front of the stuffed animals that went off if you went to close.
The Tampa Museum of Art is a unique place, and definitely different from most art museums in the USA. The first difference is that it has its own hotel for visitors, specifically for the museum. A Second important difference is the type of art that it exhibits. The museum façade is reflected with programmable LED lighting installation. When the lights go on at dusk, it creates the magical effects the artist, Leo Villarreal, programmed for this purpose. This artwork reflects across the Tampa Bay, and can be seen from across the bay as well. During the daytime, it creates a “moiré-like pattern.” The museum has exhibitions inside and outside, making it unique in that way. This museum would definitely entertain, and educate you from the moment
The shot shows a male figure viewing photographs. We see the person from the rear, look over his shoulder, past him, as he passes along the collection of images, and at the same time we look into some of the faces that are visible in the photos and which seem to be looking at us outside of the picture frame rather than at the person in the picture viewing them. We are dealing here with black-and white photographs from the late 1920s, which, among others, were taken by the German anthropologist and racial theorist Egon von Eickstedt between 1926 and 1929.1 A selection of these pictures, created in connection with research into the indigenous population of India listed under the generic term Adivasi and—this should be stressed first—without explicit reference to the problematic race-theory-based history of its origins, was brought back to India in 2012. Accompanied by a team of ethnologists from Germany and England, the photographs were exhibited in Tejgadh, in the state of Gujarat in northwest India, in different locations: in the still young “Museum of Voice” of the Adivasi Academy, in individual private houses in the neighbouring villages and in a consecrated place in the open air, reserved for rituals. This latter-mentioned setting has been recorded in the above-mentioned photo. Mounted on brown card, the photographs hang in long lines, three rows above one another on a movable wattle wall, which flanks the place of encounter in the outside space. A presentational