The Museum of Curiosity project requires a symbolic donation of an object that represents an event that is historically important. My donation is a handpainted propaganda sign from the secret‚ government town of Oak Ridge‚ Tennessee. The decision to choose this as my donation was simple considering the way that the compound of Oak Ridge has changed both Tennessee and the world. But how does this particular sign represent the secrecy and importance of the goings on in Oak Ridge? This sign was constructed
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Washington Exhibit Celebrates the Art of Wood Turning and Carving Friday‚ January 14‚ 2011 Photo: VOA - J. Taboh Wood turner Eliot Feldman uses a lathe to shape a block of wood into a drinking vessel. Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. I’m Doug Johnson. This week we play music by Nora Jane Struthers‚ and answer a question about Facebook. But first we look at an exhibit in Washington that celebrates the art of wood turning and carving. Revolution in Wood www.justlisten.cn
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He didn’t seem to like the name of the museum. The “Holocaust” Museum. Just didn’t seem right‚ ya’ know? Like they reduced it to just that and nothing else‚ he tried to make it seem like his opinion really didn’t mattered‚ but this was just their history. This was his story. Now he’s just walking alongside her‚ her with the fair skin that had gentle freckles the sun gave to her every now and then‚ bright grey eyes that had tinges of subtle brown like oak. Her hair was long‚ brown‚ and swift and her
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discuss is ethics. I believe that museum exhibits should be set up in a way that visitors can learn ethics from viewing or interacting with the exhibit. I say this because as far as museum ethics I know that for the most part‚ ethics concentrating on environment‚ marketing‚ education‚ and services‚ are already confronted. This is a concern for me because the last museum I visited‚ the Michael Garman Museum claimed to be a museum‚ but it did not feel like a museum to me. According to ICOM‚ “ethics
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Abstract The Iraqi National Museum was established by the British traveler and author Gertrude Bell and opened shortly before her death in 1926. The Iraqi National Museum contained priceless relics from Mesopotamian civilization; it contains important artifacts from over 5‚000 year long history of Mesopotamia. The National Museum of Iraq was looted in April‚ 2003. Its contents has been illegally scattered around the world through sales to private collectors and museums. Iraq‚ as of yet‚ is still trying
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Beloved & The Colored Museum Kimberly Austin-Baker ENGL & AAAS 469: Contemporary African American Literature University of Michigan-Dearborn The Colored Museum by George C. Wolfe and Beloved by Toni Morrison are two very different literary masterworks. Although these works seem to be so very different‚ they share several parallels between their authors‚ within their themes and even their characters when examined closely that prove otherwise. The authors share a perspective gained through
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Strengths: The Collections. The collection of the clyfford Still Museum far and away the largest collection of work by Clyfford Still on earth. The museum has more than 900 paintings in its collections and many have yet to even been unpacked. The museum has plenty of fodder for new‚ never before seen exhibitions of Still’s for decades to come. This means there will be something brand new to market 3-4 times a year. Repetition is rarely something that is done in marketing this institution‚ especially
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It has a total area of 25‚000 square meters‚ with over 14‚000 square meters of exhibition space. Admission price is ten euros and the museum is open daily. The museum contains multiple galleries filled with a diversity of displays. The Gallery of the Slopes showcases artifacts that were founded on the slopes of the Acropolis. The Archaic Gallery gives visitors the opportunity to view three-dimensional
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After visiting the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts‚ I will write about four art works. The first one is called Salome Receiving the Head of St. John the Baptist by Andrea Solario. The work is very colorful‚ and it shows chiaroscuro with the dark background and light on the faces of Salome and John the Baptist. The focal point is on John’s head. This is one of Solario’s most notable works‚ and the figure style is influenced by Leonardo Da Vinci. The story behind the painting is that Herodias had a quarrel
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San Diego’s Timken Museum of Art is considered one of the great small museums in the world. the Timken Museum houses the world-class Putnam Foundation Collection of European old master paintings‚ American paintings‚ and Russian icons. Each collection displays unique and priceless representations of the distinct genre. Artists represented include Rubens‚ Francois Boucher‚ Fragonard‚ Bierstadt‚ Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Eastman Johnson. The Timken Museum is home to the Putnam Foundation. The affluent
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