At the Virtual Florida Museum‚ there are many exhibits that correlate with and give more insight into the information learned in this course. The exhibits include information about World War 1‚ World War 2 and other various topics. The “Significant Documents” exhibit‚ which is what I will focus on‚ includes photographs‚ letters and other historical records. Of the many Significant Documents in the exhibit‚ the “World War 1 ‘National Crisis Day’ Proclamation‚ 1917” Document stood out to me the most
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During the CDC museum visit‚ the two exhibits I found the most interesting were "Where Children Sleep: Photographs by James Mollison" and the Iron Lung. Both of these exhibits caught my attention and I learned a lot from the tour guide‚ especially about the iron lung and polio. The “Where Children Sleep” exhibit was very enlightening and it was fascinating to see how different children live across the united states and the world. In the photos that I took pictures of‚ there was a young boy form Italy
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these times in our history. Many of these items were either donated or loaned by the Veterans Museum in Balboa Park and the Japanese American Historical Society of San Diego. While researching for museums‚ early in February I came across the main website for these historical sites. It caught my eye because I knew that this exhibit would cast a different kind of perspective than other grand museums. There are a ton of histories on World War II‚ but there are very few on the home front experience
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(Singapore) Art‚ culture‚ and society; these three elements are closely linked. These three elements affect one another in one way or another. There is often a conflict of interest between the artist‚ the audience‚ and the government body. The artist’s aim is to express art freely. The audience’s aim is to view art in forms that are not offensive to them. The government’s aim is to mitigate the conflict of interest between the two parties by implementing policies and restrictions to art pieces that
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A few months ago I visited the History Colorado Center museum in Denver. One of the exhibits is about the internment camp Amache-Granada that is located in southeastern Colorado. It was a very nice exhibit‚ during the exhibit a video played that went over the history of Amache and the internment of the Japanese Americans. During the video there was a picture of little girl with her hand over her heart. The voice on the video said “When I went to school on December 8th‚ kids came up to me and shouted
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Slater Memorial Museum Slater Memorial Museum is located at Norwich Free Academy and displays art from the Americas‚ Europe‚ and Asia. William Albert Slater built the museum in memorial to his father‚ John Fox Slater. Slater has 227 plaster casts of classical and Renaissance sculptures and almost 600 photographs of famous works of Europeans and art and architecture. The museum serves to expose students of Norwich Free Academy and the community to culture and aesthetics outside of their reach.
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What was the short term significance of the establishment of the Metropolitan Police in 1829? The nineteenth century saw the birth of an organised‚ uniformed policing body. With greater benefits and expectations than their law enforcement pre-decessors‚ such as the Night Watchmen or the Thief Takers. The establishment of this body was responsible by the actions of Sir Robert Peel in June 1829‚ with his two associates Colonel Charles Rowan and Richard Mayne. Central around this period‚ there was
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The Jim crow museum depicts very accurately how racist southern america used to be. It is astonishing how much hatred people can have for something as messily as the color of someone’s skin. Jim Crow was developed as a fictitious character that heavily embellished the negro culture with much mockery. Jim crow became the symbol of how blacks should be treated hence the Jim Crow Laws that were developed. Whites would paint their faces black and perform on stage as bafoons. These shows helped
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Perception Essay After viewing the power point presentation and the videos provided‚ I learned about the relationship between representation and abstraction in art‚ context within art‚ contemporary art and finally about visual perception. Representation and abstraction was discussed in the video. In the discussion‚ representational art was compared to a lie or a falsehood. In the video‚ the commentators compared a representation painted by John Everett Millais called “Ophelia” (1851) and an abstract
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he Laguna Art Museum is a museum located in Laguna Beach‚ California‚ on Pacific Coast Highway. An exhibition titled WoW: Emergent Media Phenomenon was displayed at the museum from June 14 to October 4‚ 2009.[1] The museum recently presented a major retrospective on the artist Roger Edward Kuntz.[2] The museum is a member of the North American Reciprocal Museums program. References[edit] Jump up ^ A group of small marine paintings by Frank Cuprien are on display on the mezzanine. . An
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