...experienced: The International Civil Rights Museum and the Greensboro Historical Museum. International Civil Rights Museum. The first cultural event I attended was the International Civil Rights Museum (ICRM) located in downtown Greensboro on February One street. At this museum you relive and learn the history behind the Greensboro Four and the Civil Rights movement. It was a privilege to have experienced the museum in person. Walking through the Woolworth building where the sit-ins occurred will leave an everlasting impression on me. In that experience, one can understand the sense of anguish and pain that was experienced during that time. The museum can bring up all sorts of emotions in a person that truly enjoys history. The museum exhibited how during the time of the civil rights movement both black and white people came together to rid, not only Greensboro but the nation of discrimination. They believed in equality amongst the people; they protected, marched, and performed sit-ins to display their thoughts and feelings about racial segregation. About the International Civil Rights Museum & Center. (2010, January 20). Greensboro Historical Museum The second cultural event I attended was the Greensboro Historical Museum. This museum was founded in 1924 to tell American history the perspective of Greensboro. It was very enlightening to experience the museum in person. Inside the museum you are able to see how deep the history is within the city. Since the city was...
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...Museum Review for Buffalo Soldier Museum Yan Wu Museum Review for Buffalo Soldier Museum The Buffalo Soldier Museum is the only museum in the U.S. dedicated primarily to preserving the legacy and honor of the African-American soldier. It houses the largest repository of African-American military history in the world. In fall 2012, the museum moved into its new 23,000-square-foot home at the Houston Light Guard Armory in Midtown. The historic armory space is seven-times the museum’s previous space, giving the national museum significantly more room for reenactments, exhibits and lectures. The process of relocating the museum took nearly a decade to realize. The 10th cavalry, an all African-American Army unit, was nicknamed Buffalo Soldiers by Cheyenne warriors in 1867 out of respect for their fierce fighting ability. Over time, the term Buffalo Soldier was applied to all African-American soldiers. The museum aims to articulate, collect, display and preserve historical artifacts, documents, videos, prints and other historical memorabilia which detail the history of the brave men and women who overcame extreme adversity while fighting the great American wars. Original uniforms from the Indian Wars and a musket from 1775 are among the items on display. Visitors will see artifacts stretching from the Revolutionary War through both world wars to present day conflicts. Matthews, a Vietnam veteran and military historian, founded the Buffalo Soldier National Museum...
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...Attending museums may be a fun and an educational experience if the museum is qualified and has all the things to make their facility exciting. Museums focus on purchasing new artifacts with regulations regarding their audience, historical relevancy, and the museums budget and profits. Money is well known as “the root of all evil”. When purchasing items, a budget can play a key role. Budgeting money can be an issue for some because they simply are unable to spend their money wisely and on appropriate items. “The recurring operating deficit approached $1 million a year and was worsening.” (Source A) can provide evidence of how the wrong spending on one person’s behalf can affect the business as a whole. The amount of money proceed by businesses...
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...American art museums faced another of their cyclical crises of relevance, causing them to reevaluate their role in American society. The dominant paradigm in most traditional art museums was the display of Great Works, aesthetic objects existing outside of time and space for the museumgoer's pure contemplation. Since such works were universal in their artistic appeal, they were expected to reach across barriers of time and space to speak to the patron's sensibilities. The insights of great individual artists enriched the consciousnesses of museumgoers who briefly shed their individual subjectivities to encounter the eternal verities of Beauty and Truth. Outside the walls of the art museum, these eternal verities were in much disarray. The feminist and civil rights movements began publicly questioning whose idea of beauty and whose concept of truth was being articulated. The relevance of historical tableaux and delicate still lifes created for wealthy patrons came into question in an era increasingly aware of social inequities and gender and racial politics. How could the museum maintain its position as the repository of classical Beauty while attracting a population which pondered if black were beautiful or if nudes were sexist? Some museums attracted audiences with the promise of the new. Museums such as the Museum of Modern Art offered new movements of new artists, marketing to a hip audience with a modern pop sensibility. Some began to question the nature of the museum itself...
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...MUSEUMS: THEIR ROLES AND IMPORTANCE In this section of our presentation we will discuss the roles and importance of museums in relation to art and the society in general. Museums were an early form of public education intended to enlighten the general population. The creation of the Public Museum was an expression of the 18th century enlightenment which generated enthusiasm for equality of opportunity in learning. According to the declaration made in the Copenhagen 10th General Assembly of the International Council of Museums held in 1974, a museum is defined as “a non - profit making permanent institution, in the service of the society and its development and open to the public, which acquires, conserves, communicates and exhibits, researches for the purpose of study, education and enjoyment, material evidence of men and his environment". Generally speaking, museums collect objects of significance that comply with their mission statement for conservation and display. Many assert that the primary function of art museums ought to be research and scholarship, staunch in their pursuit of objectivity, while others insist that it is about pluralism, the fortification of diversity in a pleased and intrigued public. Art Museums, not only because of the scientific and humanistic disciplines practiced in them, such as conservation, art history, archaeology etc., are seen as preservers of the community’s official cultural memory. Consequently, it can be argued that museums should be placed...
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...TOURISM MANAGEMENT Historical Tourism: A study in Malacca, Malaysia’s Historical City Due Date: 12/12/2011 Executive summary Historical tourism is an important component of the Malaysian economy as well as a significant source of its foreign exchange revenues. Few years ago, historical tourism does not seem like an important asset toward the development of tourism industry but yet, we cannot deny that historical tourism is a contributing part to the industry and also toward the economy now. Historical sites can be used to attract tourist and to increase number of visitors. It is a potential asset to improve Malaysia’s tourism development. Strategies that can be implemented by Tourism Promotion Division of Malacca for future such as increase historic preservation awareness towards some key persons and also citizens. They can help to maintain and expand the state-wide inventory of historic properties and develop improved access and comprehension of historic property’s inventory information and also to encourage respectful utilization of historic and cultural resources as a mean to achieve compatibility with sustainable tourism and economic revitalization. In addition, governments determine to promote cooperation and understanding between participants in the historic preservation review process. It gives a view of past activities that carry out by our ancestors. It connects us with the country. Historical places of a country represent a nation’s identity where it...
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...Benin plaques have changed, and how this has been reflected in their presentation in museums. In considering the question as to how views about the Benin plaques have changed and how these views are subsequently reflected in their presentation in museums, it might be helpful to consider the definition of art objects and how their interpretation can change when moved from one context to another. Understanding what we conceive as ‘art’ is an ever-changing abstract concept that requires knowledge of the contextual circumstances of its creation. In order to understand the implications in which the Benin bronzes are contextualised and how the display of these artefacts is approached from both anthropological and artistic view point I seek to examine the way in which the Benin Bronzes are interpreted. My evidence will be gathered using Nigerian historian Joseph Eboreime’s description of the Horniman Museums Africa collection and ethnographers Charles Read and Ormonde Daltons interpretation of the British Museums African Galleries using readings 2.6 and 2.7 of AA100 cultural encounters book 3 as well is referring to plates 3.2.22, 3.2.24, 3.2.25 and 3.2.26 of the AA100 illustration book. Regarded as some of the most important cultural symbols of the African continent, the Benin bronzes are highly acclaimed artefacts that have been subject to a great deal interest in the world of art history. Following the seizure of the Benin Bronzes by British forces, their arrival came at...
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...Cultural Event Report (Museum) HUM 112 World Culture II September 11, 2011 South Carolina State Museum 301 Gervais Street Columbia, South Carolina Friday, September 9, 2011 Cultural Event Report (Museum) The South Carolina State Museum tells the story of South Carolina through its many exhibits and programs. The museum shares many cultural history, natural history, science, technology, and art that display an interconnection to its tourists. The museum is located in the Columbia, South Carolina downtown area in a large building that holds many historical items and accommodates large groups of people. The museum’s elevator has a capacity that holds about 75 people, which is larger than the average elevator. There are four floors of historical pieces for viewing. The museum exhibits some of South Carolina most tangible and historical collection of the early 18th, 19th and 20th centuries including an area dedicated to the civic war, African American (slavery) and first discovered equipment such as, various communication equipment, audio, television, and electricity. The African American area exhibits some inspiring cultural displays. During my visit to the South Carolina State Museum on Friday, September 9, 2011, my most memorable African America exhibit was the African America Custom Funeral display. The museum displayed a hearse that African American used to carry a coffin for the decease. The black box hearse had a glass view on both sides revealing...
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...Ara Pacis Museum The construction of the museum of Ara Pacis has caused a confrontation in the eyes of Roman citizens for sometime now. The museum was designed by Richard Meier and was fully established by the year 2006. The museum remains for the most part unchanged and was designed to be “permeable and transparent in the midst of an urban environment, without compromising the safety” of Ara Pacis (en.arapacis.it/sede/ il_progetto_meier). The historical contradictions and its detachments from Rome’s orthodox architecture can be viewed as only a masterpiece or utter disaster. The museum was created to house the Ara Pacis, an altar erected as a symbol of Roman peace from around 9 B.C. The design of the museum was integrated to illuminate its surrounding by supplementing the high quality materials that it was built with. For instance the “travertine gives continuity in the colour scheme, the plaster and glass, which create a two-way transition between the interior and exterior, give a contemporary effect of volume and transparency, simultaneously full and empty.” (en.arapacis.it/ sede/il_progetto_meier). Future changes have been discussed and approved to modify the area. The changes will be “drastically reducing the height of the wall between an open-air plaza and the museum, which houses the 2,000-year-old altar, and a heavily trafficked road along the Tiber river” (www.nytimes.com/2006/09/25/arts/design/). The reconstruction and road-relocation will cost 20 millions euros;...
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...INTRODUCTION Site A: Istana Lama Seri Menanti The Istana Seri Menanti also known as the Istana Lama Seri Menanti is one of the famous landmarks in Negeri Sembilan. It is situated in the Royal Town of Seri Menanti, about 50 km from the capital, Seremban. It is a timber palace constructed between 1902 to 1908. Yang Dipertuan Muhammad Ibni Almarhum Yamtuan Antah officially opened the palace. The palace was his royal residence until 1931 before moving into the new palace that was built not far from the old palace. Two local carpenters, Tukang Kahar and Tukang Taib designed the palace and Mr. M.Woodford who was the head draughtsman at the Public Works Department provided the detailed drawings. This four-storey building is special because it was built without using any nails or screws. They used wooden pegs called pasak to hold the structures together and to ensure that the palace would be able to withstand the times. It also uses 99 solid timber pillars to denote the 99 warriors of the various clans, soaring 2 meter above the ground. Site B: Lukut Fort Lukut Fort was built by Raja Jumaat bin Raja Jaafar circa 1847 during the reign of the 3rd Sultan of Selangor, Sultan Muhammad Shah. It was situated on Bukit Gajah Mati or Bukit Raja. This fortress is very strategic becaused it faced Sungai Lukut and the Straits of Malacca. Raja Jumaat built this fortress to prevent attacks from his enemies and to be protected from any disturbance or rebellion as happened to Raja Busu...
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...Signature assignment: The Impact of Jewish life in Florida Michael Otero West Coast University Abstract This paper identifies and shows my reflection on the Jewish museum of Florida which exhibits the richness and diversity of Jewish life from 1763 to the present Jews, non-Jews, Florida residents and visitors alike. I examined how Jews during these times grew to develop a dynamic variety of ethnic groups, all seeking to balance the continuity and traditions of their heritage wit the values and customs of a larger society. This paper also explains the central issues rose from the museum and historical purpose it served as the Jewish community made its contributions in Florida. Topics * Identify and explain the central issues raised by the museum. * Formulate a distinct, individual point of view (personal reflection) that engages critically with various perspectives offered by the museum. * Evaluate the evidence that the museum offers for its point of view. * Consider how the site/exhibit/museum uses cultural, political, and (or) historical contexts to present its issues and purposes. * Exhibit your knowledge of how the museum presents and uses cultural worldview frameworks, and also how you use your own knowledge of those frameworks to engage the museum. The Jewish museum of Florida located in Miami was home to congregation Beth Jacob and was the first synagogue on south beach. The synagogue is the building in which congregation meets, its...
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...7-1-2014 Art Search One The Sacred Realm * Title of the work of art: Assumption * Artist: Tiziano Vecellio also known as Titian * Date: 1518 * Page number from Getlein: p. 42 * Material: Primarily used oil-ground paint * Historical Art Movement: This painting represents the assumption of the Virgin Mary into heaven body and soul. Titian imagined the way she died and all the angels gathered around her in time of comfort and at the top of the picture there is God welcoming her home. This is considered to be a sacred realm because it is a world we cannot see except through faith. What is interesting about the sacred realm focuses mainly on faith by demonstrating it through abstract ideas. I say that because we really do not know what angels and God look like so when the artist creates that for the viewers to see and have an image in their head. Although this painting is not in a museum, “The Assumption can be seen from the far end of the church, drawing the eye to the sacred space of the altar” (Getlein, 2010, p. 43). Politics and Social Order * Title of the work of art: Lion Panel * Artist: Jean Marie Chauvet * Date: 30,000 B.C.E. * Page number from Getlein: p. 5 * Material: Cave Art * Historical art movement: I chose this cave art because it is not typically the type of art that I would usually pay any attention too. This piece of art is pictured in chapter one. “Archaeologists have formed some tentative conclusion about how the paintings...
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...Running Head: Historical Context of Images for your Virtual Art Gallery Tour Historical Context of Images for your Virtual Art Gallery Tour Louis Rodriguez Jones International University Historical Context of Images for your Virtual Art Gallery Tour [pic] Broken Glass By: Victor F. Gonzalez Dated: 7/27/2012 Artist Victor F. Gonzalez and I quote “Forget for a moment what country your from, what race, what color, and what religion, we are all reaching out, life, and love. The moments that we live! Mr. Gonzalez is an ex-brother in law from East Broadway, New York. From my knowledge he was raised most of his life in the projects of the lower Eastside, my reminder of that area is the Brooklyn Bridge that obviously crosses from lower Manhattan to Brooklyn. To this day I’ve had nothing but great admiration for his artistic paintings and point of view. I find Joey’s painting (It’s the name I always knew him by or called him, since he was a little child) somewhat Neo- Expressionist. Neo-Expressionism as we all know was practiced during the 1920s. According to Artstory.com a Mr. George Baselitz led a revival which dominated German Art in the 1970s. In Germany the return of expressionist art was part of a more general shift in society towards addressing the country’s modern history. Led by Mr. Baselitz revival in the 1980s this resurgence had become part of the...
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...Over the years, many different ways of displaying Jewish objects have been created and used in museums, world fairs, and exhibitions. In the years before 1940, there were three main models of display for Jewish objects which drastically influenced the ways in which Jewish objects were both displayed and experienced by both Jewish people and non-Jewish people. The three models which will be discussed in this essay are the decorative model, the religious model, and the historical model. While each different model creates a different type of narrative, one is not inherently better than another. The decorative model discusses the ways in which Jewish objects can be interpreted as art, specifically focusing on visual elements of the objects and not paying explicit attention to the religious and historical context. The religious model seeks to educate people (specifically non-Jewish people) about the Jewish religion by displaying objects in a way which explores the function in relation to religious ceremonies. The historical model explores a combination of religious context and cultural context in order to create a well-rounded documentation of Jewish history. All though each of these models showcases Jewish objects in very different ways, they all have the underlying goal of wanting to display and preserve the history of the Jewish people as well as educate others on the lives of Jewish people. One of the many models of display for the presentation of...
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...referred to as the handmaiden of history. The two studies are integrally connected. While archaeology needs history to give it a basis of theories and experiments, perhaps archaeology is more vital to history. What is known about history was discovered through the practice of archaeology. No one living today can tell what it was like living hundreds, thousands, even millions of years ago. Archaeological resources are the only window into the far past. This is why it is so troubling that archaeological resources are under such great threat today. Under threat from uncontrolled antiquities markets, violence, political and economic agendas, and even the archaeological community itself. This destruction has been ongoing since...
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