Introduction: We as humans usually have the need to gather and preserve knowledge. Remarkable events in the civilization of mankind are known to us in contemporary times through the records‚ written or visual‚ that were left by people from past times. Such instances prompt the need to preserve historical collections in a specified location and time period. Sources of natural history are held with importance by enthusiasts as well as scholars because they shed light on questions posed in modern times
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I am writing in response to the Education Assistant opportunity that was posted on your website. As an aspiring museum educator‚ I am highly interested in helping the Education team at The Walters. After taking an Ancient through Gothic art history course last semester‚ I got to learn extensively about the collection‚ and I am enthusiastic about the possibility of leading tours and activities centered around it. In my résumé‚ you will see that I have worked with children and teens from a wide
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Human Remains Human remains is a very controversial topic in the world of science but to be more specific in the world of Anthropology. What are exactly human remains? Well human remains is described as; “The physical remains of the body of a person of Native American ancestry/ The term does not include remains or portions of remains that may reasonably be determined to have been freely given or naturally shed by the individual from whose body they were obtained‚ such as hair made into ropes or
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Chapter 1 – A World of Art Multiple Choice Questions with Slides 1. (Slide: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Umbrellas‚ Japan and United States) (figs. 1-2; pp. 9-10) The Umbrella Project is a typical artwork by the collaborative team: a) Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt b) Christo and Jeanne-Claude c) Herbert and Dorothy Vogel d) Ron and Nancy Howard Answer: (b) 2. (Slide: Albert Bierdstadt’s Rocky Mountains) (fig. 3; p. 11) Bierdstadt’s picturesque view of the Rocky Mountains combines
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Executive summary Rafferty Goldstone has been working at Bulwark Securities in Minneapolis‚ Minnesota as a sales representative for eight years. He also has an M.B.A. from Kellogg‚ and his boss Paul McKinley thinks that he has experience in the field of management‚ so to speak. Goldstone is only thirty-eight‚ and he seems like the obvious choice for a management position that is opening up at another branch. With a little bit of thought Goldstone accepted the offer to manage over thirty different
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material is a very topical one‚ with this year seeing a statue of Aphrodite being returned to Sicily by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles‚ the Boston Museum of Fine Arts re-uniting the statue of the “Weary Herakles” to Turkey (see fig 1 below)‚ the Minneapolis Institute of Arts sending back a Greek krater showing a Dionysian procession to Puglia‚ Italy‚ and Berlin’s Pergamon Museum returning the Hattusa Sphinx of Hittite origin to Turkey almost 100 years after German archaeologists had excavated
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Are Seltz’s new Japanese museums ‘counter-museums’ by Patterson’s definition? Patterson and Seltz introduce new museums differing in subject matter‚ context and methodology‚ but sharing analogous goals. The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia (JCM) in the United States is touted by Patterson as a ‘counter-museum’ that ‘seek[s] to engage visitors as active participants in dynamic‚ continuing memorial processes’ (66)‚ and one that ‘seeks to use products of intolerance to teach understanding’ (68)
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of news about Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) drew my attention. It said that this nonprofit museum suffered decreasing investment and donation since the worldwide financial crisis in 2008; indeed‚ it lost about 18% money. It is no doubt that the great power of financial crisis damages the development of nonprofit museums‚ which rely on the endowments and donations from the individuals‚ institutions‚ government‚ etc. There may be some negative expectation on the future of nonprofit museums because of the
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In this essay‚ I will argue that ethnographic museums privilege viewing‚ at the expense of other senses. I will further argue that by privileging the visual‚ ethnographic museums become problematic in two ways- firstly‚ by not accurately representing the cultures they are supposed to be exhibiting‚ and secondly‚ by limiting the experience of museum-goers who may be visually impaired or otherwise unable to visit museums that are purely mono-sensorial. After outlining and discussing the problems associated
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The Kennedy Museum of Art is the university museum at Ohio University in Athens‚ Ohio. The Museum is known for their Southwest Native American Collection that comprises extensively on weavings‚ jewelry‚ and silverwork from the cultures of the Diné (Navajo)‚ Zuni‚ and Hopi peoples‚ respectably. Additionally‚ the collections include a renowned print and photo collection‚ 20th century American art‚ and a notable African art collection. Together the staff executes exhibitions to be used as pedagogical
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