The Museum as a Racist Institute Racism‚ particularly against those of African descent‚ is a very dark past for the Western world‚ one that still prevalently haunts and invades the future. As racism is a part of societies’ history‚ cultural institutions that present said history‚ such as museums‚ deal with the idea of racism every day in the exhibits within their walls. Many efforts are made to show how terrible the racism of the past was and is‚ but the line between the racism of the past and
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Museum Visit Paper The museum that I visited was the Holocaust Museum in Maitland‚ FL. The Holocaust Museum in Maitland was the first Holocaust Museums in the United States. This was my first time visiting the museum. I was nervous in the beginning about visiting the Holocaust Museum for I did not know what to expect so I invited a friend to go with me. When I open the door of the museum there was a lady with a smile on her face to welcome us. She hands us a few pamphlets and explained the
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To educate millions of people about the dangers of hatred and the importance of preventing genocide‚ the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum was founded in Washington D.C. in1993. It is ironic how the museum is located among monuments and museums that symbolize freedom on the National Mall. The “Holocaust which occurred elsewhere but which is of universal significance” (Ruffins) was responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews in Europe. The mission of the museum is “is to advance and disseminate
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Liberty Biblical Museum is located in the Jerry Falwell Library. One can find the museum by walking in the main doors‚ and going down the stairs. The purpose of the museum is to bring the Bible to life by showing different artifacts of the time. The museum has many artifacts that are from the holy land‚ different manuscripts‚ and it also has the rare Bible. With reading and visualizing all the different artifacts‚ one can learn a lot about a culture and their way of life. The museum offers tours‚
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The Clarke Historical Museum gives a glimpse to our past‚ run by the love and dedication of people proud to teach and shows a piece of history. The Clark Museum is the largest Humboldt County museum and holds a large collection of northwest Native Indian artifacts from a variety of tribes. One hundred years ago the Bank of Eureka opened its newly constructed building‚ presently known as the Clark Museum. The property including the Clark Museum was originally homestead in the 1860s later in 1871
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the marketing mix to be able to be used. • The price is the amount a customer pays for the product. The business may increase or decrease the price of product if other stores have the same product. Retailers use different pricing strategies to attract different
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Stereotypes around people with disabilities Imagine going down a hallway at school or work and seeing someone with a disability stopped in the hallway talking to someone who is not his or her caretaker . Other people in the hallways are waving and saying hello to that person. Once that person is done interacting with people‚ he or she walks into his or her own office to work his or her own day job. This seems like a fairly normal scenario except the fact that the person who has a disability is getting
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What Motivates people to have sex? You ask yourself what motivates you to have sex? So I thought about and I guess the more appropriate question to me would be what doesn’t motivate you to have sex? Upon being asked this question for a topic for a paper it really got me thinking about how big of a role sex the thought of sex plays in the role of almost everything we do. In all reality as sad as it is to believe I think sex one day will be more dominant then it already is now. So the past day or
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ANT201 23 February 2017 The Lightner Museum: A Window into the Gilded Age The Lightner Museum in St. Augustine contains several exhibits that accurately reflect American culture in its Gilded Age. From stained glass windows to rusted railroad tracks‚ this brilliant museum offers a window into late 19th to early 20th century American lifestyle. Museums and their artifacts are often used as resources to ethnographic research‚ which is what our classroom attempted to do at Lightner. After
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Theoretical context “There is no escape from the politics of our knowledge.” This chapter will focus on state of the art theory regarding museums in a global perspective‚ but also museums in a post-Apartheid context. A number of concepts have already been mentioned that warrant explicit explanation due to the nature of the terms. The concept of ‘museum’‚ ‘heritage’‚ ‘community’ and ‘identity’ are broad enough to warrant explanation within the context of this paper. These concepts have been unpacked
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