It Belongs In A Museum Is it worth losing millennia of history just to satisfy a few million for a few years? Museums are responsible for holding many of history’s important artifacts‚ and are one of the more substantial sources to learn about the past. However‚ recently‚ numerous museums have come under fire for not returning artifacts to countries that have a claim on them. Despite demands from multiple countries‚ museums should not send back artifacts due to it being irresponsible‚ and unsafe
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book‚ that illustrates what life could be like if a flue destroyed most humans. The book describes an area called the Museum of Civilization‚ which is a museum which collects things that lost their worth in the pre-collapse. The item which would be best suited to be exhibited at the Museum of Civilization would be a dusty baseball mitt. This item would be well suited for the museum due to the history which pertains to baseball. This will remind those whose who were alive before the collapse‚ of the
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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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Northwest Museums In James Clifford’s essay‚ “Four Northwest Coast Museum: Travel Reflections‚” the appearance of tribal art and artifacts‚ some grouped with modern art‚ in several museum galleries comes under fire. He very critically addresses such museum’s attempts to classify and reclassify primitive art and modern art into one by pointing out only vague similarities. Clifford also highly objects to one museum’s‚ the Museum of Modern Art‚ use of the word ‘affinity’ in a gallery held in 1984 entitled
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National Museums of Kenya Strategic Plan 2009-2014 NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF KENYA where heritage lives on a Century of Heritage Management 1910-2010 National Museums of Kenya Strategic Plan 2009-2014 Published 2009 National Museums of Kenya P.O Box 40658- 00100 Nairobi Kenya Tel; (02) 3742131/4‚ 3742161/4 Fax: 254 -2-3741424 Email: nmk@museums.or.ke Website: www.museums.or.ke Citation: National Museums of Kenya (2009). Strategic Plan 2009-2014 Nairobi‚ Kenya. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acronyms
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Alfaro Mrs. Moore Art Appreciation December 5th‚ 2012 My trip at the Newark Museum of Art As I arrived at the Newark Museum of Art‚ I noticed that the outside of the Museum looked like a house‚ which gave me the feeling of it being a very welcoming place. It really was‚ especially the touring guide‚ who was very nice to our group ‚ and who really seemed very passionate about Art. At first‚ the inside of the museum looked very small‚ and that was because the waiting room at the beginning was not
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Health Care Museum Cindy Wright HCR/235 June 16‚ 2014 Nita-Magee Cornelius Health Care Museum My proposal for a new health care hall of fame museum would include several things. My museum will pay tribute to the five most significant developments in the evolution of health care in the United States. These developments has helped change and save the lives of many people. Exhibit 1: Vaccines and Medications Vaccines and Medications are very important. With these two we have had a significant
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Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site Located in a recreated brownstone on 28 East 20th‚ locals and tourists can visit the exact location where President Theodore Roosevelt was born. Although this is technically the original building where the president was born‚ it was reconstructed in 1919 by the Theodore Roosevelt Association. Visitors can actually take a tour of this historic residence in the Flatiron District near the elegant‚ sophisticated neighborhood of Gramercy Park. Former
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the American museum of Natural History on February 2‚ 2006‚ from 4:00 to 7:00 PM. The purpose of the evening was to acquaint teachers with the Museum’s Darwin exhibition and to offer methods for using it to enhance classroom instruction. The event took place in the Hall of Reptiles and Amphibians and the exhibition in Gallery 3. Darwin is organized by the American Museum of Natural History‚ New York (www.amnh.org)‚ in collaboration with the Museum of Science‚ Boston; The Field Museum‚ Chicago; the
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Museum Visit Paper – Ante Meridian by Frederick Waugh ART 101 My family and I recently visited the Orlando Museum of Art in Orlando‚ Florida. The museum enjoys a seemingly eclectic collection of artifacts‚ sculptures‚ photographs‚ and paintings. While perusing the gallery I was fascinated by one painting in particular. The piece was called “Ante Meridian”‚ oil on board‚ c.a. 1935 by Frederick Judd Waugh (American 1861-1940). This representational painting was of a presumably north eastern
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