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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I attended the art museum at the Getty Center built on the mountain sides of north Los Angeles. While attending the Getty I chose to photograph the ’Madonna and Child’ along with ’Flowers Still Life’ and my textbook object was the Galatea. My first museum object the Madonna and Child was created by Luca Della Robbia in Florence‚ Italy during the mid 1400’s.It’s a picture that displays Madonna in a blue robe‚ sitting down‚ holding what seems to be her naked child and alongside is a person unknown
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My First Brush with an Art Museum Being a fairly artist person for my entire life‚ I feel like it is a little weird that I have never been to an ‘art museum’. I grew up with a very artist mother‚ who did a lot of carvings and even won prizes for some of her carvings‚ and I believe that artistic talent rubbed off on me as well. I have always had interest in art‚ and strived in high school where I was placed in advanced art‚ painting and drawing classes. These days‚ I have traded my pencils and
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chose for my ethnographic essay was The Museum of Modern Art‚ commonly known as the MoMA. I traveled to the museum on Saturday‚ March 6th‚ 2017 and arrived at 3:11 pm. Surprisingly this museum was quite small at least in comparison to the grand museums I’ve visited in the past. The exhibit that I focused on was their ongoing collection gallery that displayed art from the 1880’s through the 1950’s. I chose this particular exhibit because whilst walking through the museum that this was by far the MoMA’s
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Museums are a place where one can see a collection of rare pieces; it is a house of historical and valuable pieces of history. When I arrived at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum‚ the outside structure of the building was an architectural piece of art in itself. The walls are windows to the outside giving an 180 view bringing the outside in. When I got inside the museum and walked through the hallway of windows to the museum‚ I was taken into another era. The light and airy hallways were replaced
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I have also been to many museums. One of my favorite museums that I love to go to multiply times is the Art museum in Denver‚ Colorado. I love to go there because it makes me want to do art right in the museum. I really love to go there because it kind of feels like home in a senses. There are also many art pieces that confuse me because they aren’t he style that I do so they are for sure going to be strange but at the same time they make me really think about what the piece is trying to get through
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this paper is to visit The Metropolitan Museum of Art and write a reaction paper about art works at the museum based on my impressions about them. To begin‚ I will start by giving you a little of background information about this interesting museum. The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 by a group of American citizens. It opened on February 20‚ 1872 and was originally located at 681 on Fifth Avenue. Also known as “The Met”‚ the museum is located on the eastern edge of Central
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Discover World Treasure At The Victoria and Albert Museum‚ London LEAD PARAGRAPH If art and design is your forte‚ there is no better place to visit than London’s Victoria and Albert museum. Located in the world famous museum district of South Kensington‚ this real treasure of a collection is sure to captivate art lovers of all ages. It’s easy to fall in love with this architectural gem as well as the astounding exhibits on show. The Victoria and Albert museum combines education with a enjoyable day out
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Read the following extract from reading 2.2 ‘Benin antiquities at the British Museum’ and look at Plates 3.1.14 British officers of the Benin punitive expedition with bronzes and ivories taken from the royal compound‚ Benin City‚ 1897 and 3.2.24 Display of Benin bronzes in the Sainsbury African Galleries‚ the British Museum‚ 2005 in the AA100 Illustration Book. How do the different contexts of display reflect different attitudes to the art of Benin? At the end of the 19th century‚ Africa was
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School of Computing E-COMMERCE (ECRET) Museum Guidance System Individual Element Student name Student Id Word Count Modhitha Iroshan Weerasundara mudiyanselage 632831 1360 Page | 1 Contents 1. Introduction ........................................................................................................................................ 3 2. Success of the proposed mobile application ...................................................................................... 3 2.1. Information
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