Columbus Room as Henry was designing the room along with bright colors and memorable tiles of his own creations. As Henry Mercer was creating and designing his home from the interior to the exterior‚ he decided that his own was going to be created into a museum so the world could also enjoy his home and all his handcrafted tile
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The Parthenon Marbles Dispute Several art museums around the world have been created with the sole purpose to culturally enlighten and entertain us. An appropriate example is the local Nelson Atkins Museum‚ right here in our own backyard of Kansas City‚ where collections from Asia‚ Europe‚ Africa‚ and Japan increase our understanding and appreciation for different geographical regions. In England‚ the British Museum is arguably one of the best in the world at displaying this kind of internationalism
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Hampshire Parks Department and IBM give grant money annually to the Seacoast science Center. E-As the internet grows and the amount of money will spend on luxury activities dwindles ‚ the Seacoast science center must deal with declining numbers of museum goers. S-Science related attractions have recently been declining in interest amongst the general population as sports and ambiguous entertainment grow . T-A lot of research has been done and seems to be plateauing ‚ plus there is only so much money
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Chua Mia Tee & Tan Swie Hian. Chua Mia Tee was born in 1931 in China. Chua was only six when he and his family migrated to Singapore in 1937 because of the Sino-Japanese war in China. At the age of 19‚ he began his art training under Chen Chong Swee at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. In his third year‚ the principal of NAFA‚ Lim Hak Tai‚ asked him if he could teach the afternoon class and Chua agreed to it. Upon graduation in 1952‚ he began to teach in the Academy. Between
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and corruption of England has allowed for the long-term confinement of a Greek monument within the dark and winding halls of a dusty British museum. Even as facts have repeatedly come out over the centuries showing just how corrupt Lord Elgin’s “noble” expedition was‚ the British Museum continues to deny Greece access to the art. To this day‚ the British Museum will not consider
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to Greece of the sculptures of the Parthenon‚ now in the British Museum‚ has been so encouraging that it has given rise to hopes that the Elgin Marbles‚ as they have come to be known‚ may indeed one day be restored to their rightful home. The favourable response has come from UNESCO and from public opinion world-wide‚ including Britain. For the time being‚ however‚ the British government and the authorities of the British Museum do not agree that the marbles should be returned. They base their
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1771. It was sold another time by the Hermitage Museum in 1932 when the Soviet government was desperate for western currency. It was then that it was acquired for the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The painting was made in Italy in either the year 1635 or 1636. The medium that Poussin used was oils on canvas‚ and the size of the painting is roughly around 38 by 42 inches. This painting is considered to be included the Baroque period. (Philadelphia Museum of Art) Along side of the painting on display
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theft of art is often controversial. The removal of art‚ especially ancient objects taken from the county of origin by colonizers can be defined as theft. In 1846‚ the Elgin Marbles were removed from Greece by Thomas Bruce and shipped to the British Museum with permission of the Ottoman Empire. The removal of that classic marble statuary that once stood in the Parthenon is disputed to this
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Dan Bussiculo November 19‚ 2005 Ancient Civilizations Museum Project For this project I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art‚ on at least four different occasions‚ September 20th being the first visit‚ the subsequent three I didn’t write down. I chose to examine the Ancient Egypt civilization‚ which is extremely rich in everything from hieroglyphics and statues to jewelry and tombs. The first item I examined was the royal acquaintance Memi and Sabu‚ from Dynasty 4 2575-2464 BCE. It
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Analysis: September 11: Bearing Witness to History The date of September 11‚ 2001 is a date that possesses great significance globally. To most‚ it is remembered as one of the greatest tragedies of Western Civilisation. The Smithsonian Museum and their representation of the tragedy‚ 9/11‚ makes apparent how one’s personal experience to a particular situation‚ fabricates what is considered ‘history’. On the home page‚ colouring is used in ‘September 11’ in which red is the predominant colour‚ connotating
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