is insufficiently understood that a museums power lies not in the possession of objects and collections, but in the acceptance of its authority to name them by both label and context. This is the most jealously guarded divine right of the museum as the curator of soi-disant public collections” – Duncan F. Cameron. Duncan F. Cameron served as a museum curator and director in the Brooklyn Museum in the New York City Borough of Brooklyn, the second largest museum in New York City and one of the largest
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The McNeil Museum of Art (MMA) is a non-profit organization founded in 1925 locating in Universal City, in the western United States.Mcneil museum primarily sourced by appropriation from Fannel County and chartered as the Fannel County Museum of Fine Arts, the museum went through a name change in 2000 to reflect the museum’s main benefactor, Jonathon A. McNeil, who left $28 million dollar as a gift to the museum.Museum endeavors to hold its difference from other museums by holding both art and history
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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
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Art and Design program requires a foundation of knowledge that includes art history and famous art pieces since I was young, so I found a part-time job as a custodian in Nanjing Art Museum from 2006 to 2009 and in Singapore Art Museum from 2011 to 2012 in order to understand art pieces from diverse cultures. In the museum, I learned detailed information of each art piece and how to distinguish age of art pieces by
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to its current location until 1999 and received a major renovation in 2009 to be reopened in 2010. You can tell that a great amount of time, money, and thought was put in to the Indiana Historical Society. It didn’t really give me the traditional museum feel that I was expecting. The majority of IHS really worked for me. I though the library collection was incredibly impressive, and even more impressive was the staff’s knowledge on the collection’s. All of the items that Carrie Nye pulled for us
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Inside the Native American Museum of the Smithsonian starts off with a video that greets visitors in English and tribal languages. There is a gift shop and, down the hall from it, a restaurant. To view the exhibitions, you have to go up to the third and fourth floors. There the first things they'll see are display cases that include arrowheads, dolls and animals. Very beautiful ,but the objects are presented in no obvious order. The very old and the very new are mixed together. They say you must
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The Museum of Shenandoah Valley, or also called the MSV, is located in Winchester, Virginia. The museum focuses on the social history of the valley between the 18th and early 20th century. However, some exhibits have shown to include pieces from the present time. Most of the exhibits show the living conditions and artifacts that were made or imported in to the valley. Their focus seems to be on not hiding secrets from or placing barriers between their audience. Such things as being open about building
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locked up the criminals. 17. They must have left the keys behind. 18. The robbers made up the story. 19. The boy is eating the cake. 20. Dad promised by a box of chocolates. 21. The spider scared her. 22. The guide will show us the Natural History Museum in the afternoon. 23. The dentist is cleaning the woman’s teeth. 24. She showed her relatives the new house. PASSIVE VOICE PV 4 Change the sentences to passive voice. 1. Many people begin new projects in January New projects are begun in
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The museum offers a space to the public for education, meditation, reflection of the self and others. The issue of gender challenges, if not simply questions, an institution with a profound sense of power in deciding what makes history, what is representative of culture, and how individuals can be identified among a greater scheme of social construction. Feminist critique reveals museums to be generally colonising spaces of the female body. In a profession now largely occupied by women, there appears
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Fieldtrip: Children’s Museum of Phoenix Visiting museums has always been an interesting experience for me since I was a child. When I would go on fieldtrips with the schools that I attended, I preferred going to museums rather than amusement parks because I enjoyed learning about the history of people and was extremely ecstatic with seeing art. When I was given this assignment I was excited, not only because I was going to go to a museum here in Phoenix, but also because I choose a museum that my five year
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