Essays on Museum

Introduction

The Boston museum of Fine Arts has a large collection of objects that have different historical relevancies. Most of the objects have similar characteristics as far as texture and composition are concerned. However, individual differences in aspects such as the spatial illusion they portray and the color they have makes the objects unique. Over the years, the museum has done a great work in collecting different objects from different artists in order for them to be stored. This paper will analyze two objects from the museum: Sons of Liberty Bowl and the sugar box. Important to note is the Continue reading...

A painting of the Virgin Mary by Chris Ofili an artist in the year 1996 raised concern and protests from many in London, Berlin and New York. The large painting on a yellow background showed a black woman in a blue robe and it employed mixed media like oil paint glitter and polyester resin together with elephant collaged pornographic images and the name Virgin Mary was on it. The work was termed blasphemous to the church as it mixed the sacred Virgin Mary with profane pornography. Chris Ofili himself had been raised in the Catholic Church and when asked Continue reading...

I saw many stunning, attractive, and thought provoking works of art on my trip to the Denver Art Museum. Many collections flowed together so nicely it was as if you were in a maze, or a different dimension. While I saw many pictures, those from the museum’s “La Cocina” collection, a celebration of contemporary Mexican art, were very captivating. The collection specifically focuses on Mexican cooking and cuisine. In particular, I found “Xictomatl” by Oliverio Balcells to be the most engaging of all the pieces. While it appeared plain at first, after I examined it further, it was Continue reading...

Art from ancient Egypt is a uniform and unequivocal representation of the bona fide life of the day, the visual indication of societal qualities. It didn't allow the specialists the level of chance of representation that is associated with Western skilled workers (Grimal and Grimal). Representational craftsmanship from the First Dynasty up to the end of the New Kingdom is a record of perpetual degree and additionally reliable visual evidence of the social, political, and religious and venture lifestyles of old-fashioned Egyptian power. Different improvements happened in imaginative works all around the many years achieving low down cases that, Continue reading...

Mayfair Solid State 1600, a tape recorder:

The Mayfair solid state tape 1600 is a tape recorder which has an original box with a very simple design. This object is portable and it uses the magnetic tapes in recording and playing the sound or music.it is has two batteries that drive the motor in order for an object to work. It is aided by a microphone for it to operate effectively and efficiently.
The purpose of this object is to record and play sound or voice especially for music. The tape recorder has a glass window. This object aimed at recording as well as restoration of Continue reading...

The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens is the reward of the civic, social, and business activities of the Cummer family. The Cummers came from a long line of lumber dealers. They started in Canada before expanding their business to Michigan, Virginia, and Florida.
Wellington Willson Cummer (1846-1909) went on to found the Cummer Lumber Company in 1896. After the death of Wellington, Arthur Cummer and Waldo Cummer, along with his son-in-law, John L. Roe, all of them had ranks in the family business inherited the company.
Nina May Holden (1875-1958) a young lady from Michigan City, Indiana married Arthur Continue reading...

Describe Place

The New York City is magical. It is described as the most populated city in America. The city is divided into five boroughs namely: Brooklyn, Manhattan, Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island. There are various landmarks available within the city that attracts millions of foreign and domestic tourists. Some of the great marvels in New York include the statue of liberty, the Brooklyn Bridge, the world trade center (now called the ground zero) and other numerous multistory buildings. An experience in the New York City is like a fairytale. An example of just what New York has to offer is Continue reading...

Museum Report(Natural Resources Canada library)

The Basics
There was a visit at the museum in the Natural Resources Canada library. This museum is located at 605 Robson street in Vancouver, British Columbia on the 15th floor. The main objective of the museum visit was to learn about the various rocks, the different minerals and the artifacts in the museum. One was to clearly understand on the History of the British Columbia in Canada .

The Rock, the minerals and Interesting Artifacts in the Museum.

The rock structure in the museum could be presumed to be igneous. These rocks are intrusive and are formed through the crystallization of magma from the earth’s inner cores. This Continue reading...

Art history aims at creating aspects of knowledge and developing expertise in the history of the visual arts from the medieval to the contemporary. In an increasingly image-based culture that includes a rapidly growing museum and gallery industry, techniques in visual literacy are important for a variety of professions as well as for daily life. Fashion interactions entail a multidisciplinary display that is involved in exploring fashion culture through modern art and media. The works that are put on exhibition give insight on fashion industry unsustainability. Besides, it assesses the connection between fashion and corporeality as well as investigates Continue reading...

Cultural heritage may be defined as that legacy of the physical artifacts as well as intangible attributes of a given group or a society, which is usually inherited from the previous generations, preserve in the present time, and bestowed mainly for the benefits of the future generations. Some of the tangible cultural heritage may include items such as sculptures, coins, monuments, shipwrecks, archeological sites, underwater cities and ruins, paintings and manuscripts. Intangible cultural heritage may include rituals, performing arts, music, festivals, dances, carnivals, falconry, tango, Chinese shadow puppetry, Mediterranean diet, kabuki theatre, and oral traditions. Moreover, it can include Continue reading...

In this article, written by Jean-Claude Passeron and Emmanuel Pedler, the authors describe the sociology of artistic reception, which is logical and philosophical act of the aesthetic experience such as pictorial, musical and literary. Further, the authors explain that the esthetic of reception can be understood through three principles. Firstly, perceptibility principle, which indicates that, the survey only includes the work supposed by the real publics. Secondly, there is specificity principle, which represents that before making final interpretation, observation is made then consequences of the methods used are checked and then any final decision is made. Thirdly, there is Continue reading...

The Hollywood wax museum is located in Los Angeles at 6767Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028, United States. The phone number of the museum is +1 323-462-5991. The museum operates from 10.00am-12.00am, 365 days a year. The museum is located on the well-known Hollywood Boulevard along the renowned Hollywood walk of fame. It is the leading wax museum in the United States. The museum has operated for more than 45 years. The same owners have owned the museum since opening in the year 1965. The reason the museum is very productive due to the celebrity figures that are figured Continue reading...

For my narrative reflection and journey into a visual experience I chose to visit the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. It exhibited many pieces I was able to connect to McCloud’s theories about closure and visual literacy (6). Certain pieces stood out more than others, inanimately, but somehow speaking to me. Collections spoke, punctuated, and ended themselves as comics do with direction, icons, and framework. McCloud’s philosophy on our sense of self in relation to what we see around us was also very present during my excursion (10). I saw myself differently depending on what exhibit Continue reading...

ART WORK

The chosen artwork for this specific question is a piece of art by famous painter Leonardo da Vinci. This particular artwork is titled St. Jerome in the wilderness. This piece of art is dated as far back as 1480.thus, this particular art piece is very informative of the world as it existed in the 15th century and gives insight into the mind of artists as well as their emotions at that particular point in history. This is a painting that exists in the Vatican museum. Most of the artwork by Leonardo da Vinci is respected with almost all of Continue reading...

In the fourth chapter (“Cultural Works and Cultivated Disposition”) of “The Love of Art Bourdieu”, the author continue with the argument that access to cultural works such as the ones exhibited in museums is a privilege of the more cultivated individuals in the society. The authors argue that the reason for this is that unlike the less cultivated individuals in the society, there is stronger “cultural need” in the more cultivated individuals that prompt them to visit museums and fulfill this cultural need. A cultural need is the propensity to consume rare objects such as the ones exhibited in Continue reading...

The cultivated class mostly visits the museums to access the cultural works. The society takes advantage of cultural works by displaying them in the museums. There is a lot of cultural inequality that needs fulfillment. The pattern behavior of visiting the museum is either out of duty or aesthetic pleasure. Visitors spend a limited amount of time inside regardless of the level of education.
Museum visits appeal to people due to their inexpensive nature. The information received from the museums mostly is distorted and confusing. Museums do not have homogeneous information. The exhibition in a museum displays cultural artifacts Continue reading...

J. D. Salinger uses the Museum, the Profanity on the Walls, and the Carrousel to express that the loss of innocence is inevitable as the harsh realities of the world are encountered.
"I loved that damn museum. I remember you had to go through the Indian Room to get to the auditorium" (Salinger 65; ch. 16). " When I got to the museum, all of a sudden I wouldn't have gone inside for a million bucks. It just didn't appeal to me" (Salinger 66; ch. 16). "The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where Continue reading...

Artistic Analysis of Artwork in the Museum

I went to a local museum, and I felt like as if I entered the realm of the past. The objects were literally talking to me, and they were giving a set of very clear and concise messages as I moved along the various regions of the facility. Villa Terrace was established as a historical center in the year of 1924, and the fonder of the establishment was Lloyd R. Smith. The Smiths came back from the journey from Italy, and requested, architectural expert, David Adler to build them a new residence, and the museum was its part at Continue reading...

Molly is a beautiful young lady in the fourth grade, she is ten years old. She barely performs well in class and is in constant need of extra tuition which she is happy to get. She knows that she has to do well in school and makes an effort on her part. Being an outgoing student who has proven her prowess in the football field, she was thrilled when she was told that there would be a classroom visit to the Metropolitan museum of art.
New York’s Metropolitan museum was established in 1870 and was visited by more Continue reading...

Documentary records reveal that, just like any form of ancient art, the Chinese gallery at the Metropolitan Museum art has managed to create some of the most iconography forms of art of their times. For many years, these forms of art have acted as the site for reference to a combination of Chinese art and cultural reference. Perhaps, no better site with reference to the documentation of the Chinese artifacts from the entire globe can outplay the gallery in the league of reference. The Museum and its artifacts have played a significant role in revealing the various historical activities Continue reading...

The Museum of Tolerance Experience

Travelling Back to the Gruesome Years of Intolerance:The Museum of Tolerance Experience
I know very well the history of the holocaust during the Nazi Germany. I know that Jews were evicted from their homes, brought down from their profession, were made to live in the concentration camps and killed. However, my tour to the Museum of Tolerance in San Diego, California was different to the point that I cannot hide my goose bumps. The technology made the scenes interactive that things appeared to be in the present tense. The portion where they showed us the concentration camps with the Continue reading...

The “Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Center for Public Affairs” is a museum and library of works and life of the 40th president as well as his burial grounds. It is located in Simi Valley, California and contains artifacts, records, speeches and data from his childhood up to his political career. It was the largest of the presidential libraries in the United States administered by the National Archives and Records Administration. It is also one of the most visited museums in the United States which exhibits changing temporary and permanent exhibits. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library could bring information about Continue reading...

A visit to the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) in Little Tokyo in Los Angeles was inspiring and an enlightening experience. There were stereotyped beliefs that were eventually acknowledged to be erroneous. For one, I thought the museum would be a place where I would find only Japanese people been angry about how they were treated after World War II. Instead I found people from various ethnic groups: visitors, museum staff, guests, and participants in various exhibitions. Likewise, I also found the Japanese people to be very welcoming. In fact, the feeling of welcoming was so overwhelming that I Continue reading...

Sculpture is one of the earliest forms of art that graced the most beautiful of the ancient human civilizations. From the life-sized carvings of human forms to gigantic sculptures that enhanced a major architecture, sculptures presented different functions and meanings across various ancient civilizations. Among the several civilizations that produced the world’s well-known artifacts of today was the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia, from which the Assyrian kingdom descended. Artworks from the Mesopotamian civilization, specifically those of the Assyrian kingdom, varied highly when compared with other forms of art produced by other civilizations—a fact that reflects the diversity Continue reading...

The Bishop White Gallery of Chinese Temple Art is among the galleries in the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). This is dedicated to the Chinese art and archeology. It is a symbol of one of the most significant collection of the Chinese temple art globally. It involves three Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368 AD) temple wall paintings from Shanxi Province that decorate the three walls of the Gallery and a number of wooden sculptures showing bodhisattvas since 12th to the 15th centuries. These make the most iconic structure in the ROM (Royal Ontario Museum, 1959).
The gallery is named in respect of Continue reading...

J D Salinger uses The Museum, Profanity on the walls, and the Carousel to express that the loss of innocence is inevitable as the harsh realities of the world are encountered in his novel, ‘The Catcher in the Rye’. The novel, ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ was written by American author Jerome David Salinger in the year 1951. The novel gathered a huge controversy once it was published because of its realistic and explicit portrayal of youth and related issues. Born in a wealthy family, Salinger witnessed all luxuries in his life and he portrays a number of events Continue reading...

Bianzhong is an ancient Chinese musical instrument that consists of a set of bronze bells that are played melodically. The set of bells used to function as polyphonic musical instruments and evidence shows that some of these bells have been dated between two thousand to three thousand six hundred years of age. These set of bronze bells used to be hung in a wooden frame that would be struck with a mallet (Ye et al, 98). The bronze bells were important instruments in China’s ritual and court music in the ancient times along with the chimes known as “ Continue reading...

The global village is a term that can describe the world today technology has taken over by storm. Most of the services are now available by just a click from shopping to the most basic ones like learning if services like transport were available online 99%would be travelling online. Smooth, fast and effective are the words curtailing the digital age. our archives and museums are some of the places that are left out in this digital error. The availability of internet makes it necessary to digitize nearly everything making it a requirement to do the same for museums.
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In order to complete this museum report, I visited the Bowers Museum that is located in Santa Ana. The visit and the entire experience was fun for me because it gave me an opportunity to learn in an entirely different and stimulating environment. History is not as much fun when sitting in class and talking about people and cultures that one cannot relate to. Thus, going to the museum makes the learning experience relatable and easier to understand. This was my second time visiting the Bowers Museum. This visit brought back memories because the last time I was there, Continue reading...

The vision of possible partnership in this elephant sanctuary and wellness resort is an opportunity that any spa director cannot surpass. The fact that the resort will integrate different lifestyles, they also incorporate luxury accommodation for the guests, a spa program and an elephant sanctuary and a full operation museum.
The prospect of managing such a wide based sanctuary and resort facility is a dream that every director of a spa plans to achieve. I like the idea that possibly will increase the profits of the resort by a wide margin compared to any other spa. I believe in Continue reading...

The cloister museum is an extension or a branch of the metropolitan Museum of Arts. It is found in the Washington heights part of the upper Manhattan in the Fort Tryon Park. The museum exhibits an extensive collection of architecture, artifacts and art from the medieval Europe. The museum integrates portions of the five European abbeys that were disassembled and reconstructed in New York City. The cloister has approximately five thousand European medieval artworks, and it emphasizes particularly on pieces that date from the twelfth through to the fifteenth century. It also has a library that is among the Continue reading...

Western Australian museum

The western Australian museum was established in the old Perth goal in the year 1891. It consisted of geological collection and was therefore known as the geological museum Biological and ethnological exhibitions were added and in the year 1892. It was pronounced the western Australian museum and art Gallery in the year1897. The Museum was recognized under the Museum act 1969. Within the art portfolio, Western Australian museum is a statutory authority. It is the premier organization of the state. It houses western Australian’s cultural and scientific collection. For the past 120 years, the museum has been making Continue reading...

Architecture of every country embodies the history, traditions and the spirit of a nation, especially when it stays within a country it was created. The history of Elgin Marbles, a piece of magnificent art of the Ancient Greece, takes its origin between 1801 and 1805 when the lord Elgin illicitly robed the Parthenon and took away the beautiful sculptures that were later sold to the British museum. Several decades later there appeared a debate either Elgin Marbles should be returned to Greece or not?
On the one hand, these sculptures are an integral part of Greek history and culture. Continue reading...

Innovations and various developments have been developed over time to in attaining the modern day fashion and design. The predecessors of fashion and design formed a core background for the various designers that emerged after them; hence, their designs were used as reference designs. The borrowing of ideas in fashion designs is common in the development of fashion. Outstanding designs have been used as a source of inspiration and motivation for upcoming designers. This evaluates how Vivienne Westwood and Zandra Rhodes have drawn inspiration from historical dresses in the pre 19th century.
Zandra Rhodes carried out an extensive research Continue reading...

Exploring the Role Museums Play in Engaging their Audiences

Art and Architecture: Exploring the Role Museums Play in Engaging their Audiences
Museums are here for a purpose. Beyond the display of interesting objects of olden years, museums provide a glimpse of a bygone era by preserving a nation’s heritage or an occasion’s memory. They provide entertaining educational opportunities for children outside the classroom and accurate, truthful information for adult visitors. James Durston’s article, Opinion: Why I Hate Museums, dated August 22, 2013, speaks volumes about the current state of most museums all over the world, especially the ones that cater to the interests of adult Continue reading...

In her report “Reports of our Deaths Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: Reconsidering the Curator”, Nancy Villa tries to explore the changing roles in curatorship. It’s such interesting to note that curators are still struggling with the task of redefining their roles in the museum sector. In Nancy Villa’s account of what she experienced, she says the number of alliances has evolved both extrinsically and intrinsically. To some degree, there has been a change of the role of the curator within a museum. Elizabeth Schlatter notes that there is a dominating mentality that the curatorship has increasingly become Continue reading...

INTRODUCTION

All across the globe there are amazing ecosystems that contain millions of differing plants, animals, and insects. These creatures and life forms both great and small, each and everyone are ideally adapted for the environments that they call home. One such rich ecosystem is the Sonora Desert. This locale is a vast desert that stretches across multiple states in the southwestern areas of the United States. Of all of the many reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals that call the desert home, there is one creature more than any that remains entirely misunderstood; Aphonopelma chalcodes, also known as the Arizona Continue reading...

Strolling through the corridors of The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art was an amazing experience that offers an unexpected enjoyment to its visitors. The Morse Museum houses the world’s most complete collection of art works by the American designer, Louis Comfort Tiffany. The museum has the most important compilation of American paintings during the nineteenth and twentieth century and excellent collections of American art pottery, decorative and graphics arts. The museum also features several installations such as the iconic Tiffany lamps, restored Daffodil Terrace, the award-winning glass windows made with lead and traditional fixtures.
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It is 9.00am on Saturday morning at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This prestigious museum has over 2 million pieces of arts spanning over many centuries (“(The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Home”). Victoria, Mark and I are having a chat right outside the main entrance of the museum gallery. We look very anxious and existed and occasionally refer to our green notebooks before resuming our chat. At exactly 9.15 am, the entrance door opens and we are ushered into gallery 526 by the museum attendant assigned to them. The attendant introduces herself as Miss Rice and begins to elaborate Continue reading...

The Secessionist Movement (Jugendstill) Klimt-schiele and others

The camaraderie of Vienna Secession and Wiener Werkstatte, Vienna around 1900 was one of the cribs of contemporary painting. The Foundation Beyeler mounted the initial complete show specific in Switzerland to varied themes. One point of view revealed two-hundred paintings, watercolors and sketches backed by models of architect, furniture and fixtures, textile designs, artists’ posters, photographs, and silver objects. Viennese modernism at the heart of a show exposed famous decorative sketches and sceneries of Gustav Klimt, the explicit shape depictions of Egon Schiele, and the well-known drawings of both artists. Gustav Klimt from 1862 to 1918 remained the influencer Continue reading...