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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Background Museum: The McNeil Museum of Art (MMA) is a not-for-profit museum founded in the city of Universal‚ in the western United States. Originally chartered in 1925‚ under the founding name Fannel County Museum of Fine Arts‚ the museum went through a name change in 2000 to reflect the museum’s main benefactor‚ Jonathon A. McNeil. Before the museum went through a name change‚ however‚ in 1997 MMA benefited from a $28 million dollar bond election. This election allowed MMA to expand their
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KONE: Final Exam 1996 – KONE was about to launch Monospace BUT: region-wide construction slumps & low differentiation among competitive offerings = significant price competition & margin erosion in the industry. Now‚ CEO was looking for an opportunity to grow with Monospace. Pricing Positioning Cannibalisation of own products? The elevator industry (new equipment & services) Number & types of elevators depended on urbanisation‚ population density‚ government support for public housing
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ARTH 1001: Museum Formal Analysis Paper The Tiber Muse Winged Victory of the Nike of Samothrace Justinian and Attendants from San Vitale Adrienne Keiser TA- Anna‚ Tuesday Section April 23rd‚ 2013 The Tiber Muse‚ originally discovered in the vicinity of the Tiber River in Rome in 1885‚ is a product of the Graeco-Roman era and is dated around the 2nd-1st century BCE. This date and other formal qualities of the sculpture such as the pose‚ drapery and medium suggest that it was produced
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Laguna Art Museum The Laguna Art Museum’s collection consists of works from the early nineteenth century to the present day. The museum was celebrating The Plein Annual Laguna air Painting show‚ which consists of various painters that painted in and around Laguna Beach. The public was encouraged to view the painters during the week as they created the paintings which were available on the second floor of the gallery for sell and viewing. The Artists in California‚ Early Twentieth Century from
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There may be a lot of beautiful places that we can go into but Pinto Art Museum can be classified as one of the best. It was actually my first time to go to this museum that’s why I am very thankful to our Professor in Hum13 for giving us the opportunity to visit such a nice place. This is not just a place where we can see a lot of amazing artworks but also a place where we can relax and have fun. As I go through a lot of paintings‚ Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee (After Rembrandt) by Crispin
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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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1) Which museum did you visit? Univ. of Utah 2) Describe at least one of the permanent collection exhibits on a theme‚ period‚ geographic region‚ or topic) within the museum. For this question‚ I chose Wasatch Mountains with Salt Lake City and the Great Salt Lake in the Foreground. This painting was created in 1877. I noticed that there’s a lot of water in the picture‚ last time I was at the Great Salt Lake (eight years ago)‚ there wasn’t very much water. I don’t know if it’s because It might have
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Boca Raton Museum of Art Collections Plan Executive Summary – The overall goal of the collections plan created by the Boca Raton Museum of Art is to outline the parameters for preserving‚ collecting‚ and exhibiting contemporary and modern art‚ while fulfilling the museum’s mission. The plan will guide museum staff in making decisions regarding collections management that properly represent the museum to the community with high professional standards and fiscal responsibility. This plan also addresses
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Museum Assignment The two museums that were visited were the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)‚ and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). While the MOCA held artist that were fairly new‚ the LACMA held quite a few of well known artist such as Jackson Pollock‚ Maynard Dixon‚ or Thomas Hart Benton. When visiting MOCA the most interesting artwork that was appealing was "War Never Ends" by Mathew Monahan‚ and when visiting the LACMA the most interested artwork that was appealing to me was
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