Fieldwork assignment #2: Museum Ethnography I have always been interested in Japanese culture and traditions‚ so for my museum ethnography assignment I visited the American Museum of Natural History‚ where I chose the Stout Hall of Asian Peoples for further analyzing. Japanese culture is a very unique one‚ which differs from others; anthropologists refer to it as “a style”. There are a lot of interesting exhibits in the wing I chose; they all have different stories to tell. It was impossible to
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The 7‚000 ft.² Pennsylvania House Museum had many roles‚ once a local tavern‚ a boarding house‚ a general store‚ a doctor’s clinic and secondhand shop before falling into disrepair‚ The daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) decided to restore the dilapidated building‚ to make it into a house museum in 1939. The museum today is setup as a federal style‚ three story house‚ furnished with 19th-century furnishings and artifacts‚ which were discovered in basement excavations‚ and donated by previous
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Salvador Dali paintings outside of Europe‚ the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg should be a museum most people should get to know. The museum was first opened in 1982 and‚ it was rebuild and reopened to the public in January 11‚ 2011. The new museum hold 7 of 18 “masterpieces” created by Dali‚ and the private collection of A. Reynolds and Eleanor R. Morse‚ who became great friends with Salvador and Gala Dali. The path in the museum is mostly predetermined but there is always a way to make it
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spring break of my junior year. I went on a two-week trip to France with my French class. We traveled all over France‚ from Paris to Mont Saint Michel‚ along the South of France‚ and even to Switzerland! I visited places I usually saw on the television screen. I even climbed 627 steps on the world famous Eiffel Tower. I truly enjoyed visiting the Louvre Museum. It is so big that people say it takes about one whole month to go through the entire museum. That visit was very educational and interesting
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The Heard Museum in Arizona has been hosting a cultural event dubbed Beauty Speaks for Us. It is an important platform for showcasing rich elements of cultures in America as well as the unique behaviors of people belonging to various cultures. The museum has continually grown in stature and size to become a world class center for quality collections‚ festivals and educational programming. It is dedicated to an accurate and sensitive depiction of native cultures and arts. As an institution‚ it combined
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The Museum of Innocence This is a 700 page account of Kamals obsessive love towards Fusun. Pamuk in this masterpiece reveals‚ In current era of speed dating and breakups true romance still has a relevance.Kamal is a wealthy Istanbul playbul who is going to enaged to Sibel and falls for 18 year old Fusun who is a distant relative.Those one and a half months kamal spends with Fusun are described as golden days in his lifetime.Meantime Kamal and Sibel gets engaged and Fusun disappears with her father
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Dear‚ Mother. Last week I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Arts in the big apple. I wasn’t sure how it was going to be like since it was my first time going there. The museum was enormous with lots of art works from different locations around the world. My main focus was the Japanese arts‚ which was very fascinating. As I explored the room with the Japanese arts‚ I’ve stumbled upon a Buddha like figure sitting right beyond the door of the room. It was called Kaikei‚ Fudo Myoo from the early 13th
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Health Care Hall of Fame Museum Proposal Barbara Addoh HCS/235 October 6‚ 2014 Marc Schnitzer Health Care Museum Proposal Healthcare has existed for centuries. As a society we have gone from primitive treatments like casting spells to revolutionary disease breakthroughs. The United States has held steadfast in the evolution of healthcare delivery causing the delivery of healthcare to increase by magnitude proportions. The 1900’s was a time that changes in healthcare and the delivery of it
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The exhibit that I viewed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was one about European Art between the years 1100-1500. This was a series of paintings‚ sculptures‚ architecture‚ and tapestry of the Medieval and Early Renaissance as well as objects from the Middle East. This exhibit was an important part of the history of the Philadelphia Museum of Art because for the first time‚ Italian‚ Spanish‚ and Northern European paintings from the John G. Johnson collection were shown. It gave me a good idea
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Salvatore Ferragamo Founded by Salvatore Ferragamo‚ Ferragamo is a world leader among fashion brands for its quality and craftsmanship. The brand is also one of the pioneers to become publically recognized as fashion “made in Italy” during the1920s. Today‚ the brand name of Salvatore Ferragamo is associated with the words glamour and luxury. But it is important to remember that the man who founded this global luxury empire was also just a shoemaker. Self-dubbed “Shoemaker of Dreams” in his autobiography
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