Gene's 'A Museum': Questions And Answers

The museum representatives were very nice and helpful. Entering the Charles H. Wright museum, my fiance and I were stopped by a cameraman who worked at the museum. The cameraman was very welcoming, encouraging, and persistent. Entering the D.I.A, the representatives at the desk were very respectful and understanding. Admission was free to the D.I.A for all Wayne County residents; however; I forgot my state I.D at home and the lady was kind enough to accept an old check stub as proof that I resided in Wayne County. Both museums were very clean and quiet, with the exception of the kids who were enjoying the moment. Comparing the two, my most favorite exhibit would have had to be the slave ship I mentioned at the Charles H. Wright museum. The slave ship is more than an exhibit, it’s like two minutes in a slave’s shoes. Walking through the dark ship, I could slightly imagine and empathize the life of slaves on that ship. My least favorite thing was a picture that I’ve attached to the essay. The picture is of a black slave beating another slave while the Master’s watched. Though the image may represent the truth, I’m not a big fan of ugly truths - especially when they don’t compare to the bigger

For this essay, I decided to analyze the art collections of the Fowler Museum at UCLA, more specifically in the Jerome LioMel Joss Gallery. The Jermone LioMel Gallery contains the arts works of Africa, and the Pacific Islands so I will be analyzing arts from the two areas from Papua New Guinea and Nigeria. These arts pieces are the Veranda posts (opo), and the ornament for a sacred flute.

The Heard Museum conveys the life and culture of Native Americans in the Southwest, with the help of pre-Colombian to contemporary art and a variety of traditional artifacts. Something that caught my eye was Rosie Yellowhair’s “Emergency Story” sandpainting. It depicts the Navajo creation story and how there were five worlds and what made the people move from the first world to the next. I thought that this was interesting because in class we talked about creation stories about Native Americans and I found those intriguing. So, seeing this sandpainting and knowing that its purpose was to tell its story of creation was astonishing because I’ve never seen a sandpanting that depicted a creation story.

As a Chinese immigrant who moved to the US when I was in 5th grade, I have always been fascinated by the diverse backgrounds of people in the city. My interest in history was sparked at ten years old, on my first field trip to The Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side. I was interested in the culture and background of the families who lived in those buildings at that time.

Museums are institutions of cultural, artistic, and scientific knowledge. They have taken many forms over the centuries, Older museums subscribed to elitist ideologies. The architecture and interior design of these highbrow establishments reflected this with either over the top grandeur or stark, blinding white galleries. However, has museum values became rooted in the community and public education, the architecture changed as well. The Royal Ontario Museum consists of two interconnected main buildings.

The Museum of Natural History is an enchanting place for children of all ages, but it is an especially important place for Holden Caulfield. The Museum is a known certainty in Holden’s inconsistent life, where the glass displays always remain the same. Holden has been relocated to many different boarding schools, and few things remain constant throughout his life. As a result of this he clings on to this one place, the Museum of Natural History, because even if Holden, himself, returns to the museum different, “the deers would still be drinking out of that water hole…and that squaw with the naked bosom would still be weaving that same blanket,” (Salinger, 157-158). In Holden’s ideal world, life should mimic the museum exhibits, where everything is simple, people never come and go, and everything remains frozen in time forever. In The Catcher in the Rye, one symbol J. D. Salinger uses is the Museum of Natural History to show how Holden’s fear of variation makes him hold onto the past, and how he fears mental change even more than just aging physically.

The sounds loud, deafening even, as shots rang out. The fighting raged on, over to the left, an explosion went off, knocking a young man off his feet, pain stung his arms, legs, his body, as he fell to the ground, first to his knees then to his hands. His face hit the dirt. The sounds were loud, deafening even, as more shots rang out, and then the sounds were just in the background, a distant memory, the young man faded, but as he did, he did for his country. Before I walked into The Coles Museum, after I left, and during my time there, I had, and still am thinking and pondering greatly on what freedom is, and what it means to me. Freedom is a power, freedom is a privilege, and we have it because of our veterans and those who fight.

Thesis statement: “For a student who is interested in studying the art and the history of the famous art works, a visit to the museum becomes quite inspiring and exciting.” The visit to the Getty center was an incredible experience for me because I was exposed to a lot of famous art work made by several famous artists. It became an opportunity for me to learn how the art work is displayed in a museum and I got to experience viewing and analyzing the art work of many famous artists. The professionals in art field were also present in the museum. This factor accumulated the benefits of my learning opportunity.

After graduating from the University of Oklahoma, I started working at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. For about a year, I worked with artists and authors to organize book signing events. Now, life has taken me to Texas, and I am currently working at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, the most visited museum in Houston. I have decided that a graduate degree in Museum Studies will help advance me in a career field in which I am very passionate. For my graduate research, I would like to delve deeper into museum theory, work to fully understand how guests interact with objects, learn how curators create exhibitions, and research the capabilities of digital technologies in the galleries.

The second part of chapter one discusses the ways digitization is changing the face of museums and archives, in terms of the ways they curate device collections. This unprecedented and continuous shift has left many cultural institutions struggling to adapt and are forcing them to rethink how to maintain their unique qualities while at the same time adding value. Today, no organization is immune to the disruptions caused by digitization and technological innovation, forever changing the make-up of cultural institutions, and by extension, film and media museums and archives. There are new forms of (digital) museums and archives being developed, for instance via the Internet, ‘that make use of participatory media to

On 29th May of May 2017, I had planned to visit the Dallas Art Museum. I was very excited to visit the Museum because this was my first visit to the museum of Dallas after I had been in the United States as an international student. I am very much interested in the arts and history around the globe. Therefore, I was very happy and excited when I knew that the visit to Dallas Art Museum was also the part of my graded college assignment. I reached the Dallas Art Museum at 12:30 pm and I parked my car in the parking under the building of the museum where I paid twelve dollars for the entry. I went up to the entrance gate of the museum through the stairs. Right next to the entrance gate, I saw the name of that building was “The Nancy And Jake L. Hamon Building” as written on the wall. Just straight ahead of the building, there was a colorful painting on the wall and on the right, visitors were enjoying the food in the chair outside the building. As I entered the building, I felt the atmosphere peaceful and calm at that moment. I saw many visitors and security around the building so that I felt free and secure when I walked around the museum. There was a help center on the right where staffs are having conversation with the visitors. As I walked ahead, there I saw the museum store on my left and the white statue of “Semiramis”, queen of Assyria carved with the marble few ahead of the store. When I was going through level 1, I saw the numerous collection of sculptures from Africa,

User generated is used to help describe content such as video, blogs, digital images, audio files and other media which is created by consumers or end-users online which is publicly available for other individuals. It reshaping museum through opening the dialogue, breaking down the walls inaccessibility and making visitor a part of the exhibit. Opening the dialogue is the traditional experience becoming a dialogue which is where individuals share their visit to the museum. Through user content such as social media, the visitor lets other individuals know their highlights of the museum. Through this, it gives museums a new voice but also can give a new perspective of museums such as a behind the scenes of a museum which isn’t access to

This is an immense and actual task, for “[t]he achievement of a beneficial inter-action between the potentially conflicting expectations and aspirations of visitors and host or local communities, presents many challenges and opportunities.”13 I believe that within the museum world lies much knowledge and experience which is certainly relevant to further discussion and development of the relationship between cultural heritage management and tourism. Though my topic is connected to the field of cultural tourism, it has to be kept clear that this thesis is on museums and museology rather than on tourism. The reason is that cultural tourism is a form of tourism – it is not a form of cultural heritage management and is not a form of museum management.14 Museums can on the other hand contribute to cultural tourism as attractions, because they work with the cultural heritage, or even are themselves cultural or heritage assets. Therefore their input to the development in the field of cultural tourism is certainly valid. Though the tourism sector and the cultural heritage management sector, including the museums, actually do have

I’ve only ever viewed religion as a painting at a museum that one might observe as they strolled around an exhibit. It was the type of art piece that one approached as an outsider. One could appraise the artist’s skill and watch as crowds huddled around each work, and yet the significance of the piece was lost. It was understood that this museum held works of great value, but for what reason I could not discern, for the exit door to the museum always seemed so close by.

An afternoon in Thailand was scorching and stuffy with the sun out shining and blindingly beaming. We started the day arriving at our destination set up by our tour guides, but unfortunately, I was unable to enter the royal museum in Bangkok. My mood shifted and was irritable and uncomfortable to be waiting outside in the musty polluted air. The reason for the refusing admission would be the apparel that I was wearing was unsuitable to be entering the museum. I had no choice but to stay outside accompanying my mom and aunt also having the same problem. I watched the other tourists and my family approaching the entrance, leaving me behind. However, we were fortunate enough to find a spot in the shade to sit and wait for their return. Surrounding us were shouts from vendors trying to appeal and promote their items to bypassers. Meanwhile, I found it to be intolerable to be sitting with the humid air and insects crawling around us. In the distance I noticed my cousin coming towards us. As well, she was not allowed to enter and had to come back. Feeling bored, my cousin and I decided to wander around the area.