The Controversy Of A Museum

Museums have long served a purpose as cultural staples. For every museum, big and small, careful consideration is used in selecting its contents. When securing new items for a museum, it is most important to consider public appeal, educational value, and cost-effectiveness.

In the early morning hours of March 18, 1990, a pair of thieves disguised as Boston police officers entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and roamed the Museum’s galleries, stealing thirteen works of art. The stolen works are valued at $500 million, which made the lottery the largest art theft in American history. There were 14 pieces of art that was stolen on the March 18, 1990. There is a reward of $5 million for information leading to the recovery of these works in good condition. No one has found out, it has been 25 years of theories as to what happened.

The museum believes in a pastiche and populist pathway, in which the history of all people is displayed. Its interactive viewpoint allows this museum to convey history in a way that would be more accessible to its audience. For example, patrons are given the opportunity to record their own history. However, academics, such as Keith Windschuttle, assert that the NMA is a “profound intellectual waste”. He argues that although it displays accurate history, it’s purpose of entertaining its audience detracts from its value, thus creating “waste”. Although Windschuttle’s view may be extreme, it demonstrates the considerable extent to which the tension between academic and popular historians exist.

One thing is the author could never truly understand my culture because she is not African american. She never had to go through things that almost every African American goes through on a daily basis. Throughout the article the author incorporated people's opinion of the museum who are part of the African american community. This way she presents opinion significant to me and my heritage. People who deeply rooted to the essay shared interesting insights. One woman whose story was in the article could reminisce the days of Martin Luther King Jr. giving his “I have a Dream” speech on the Washington mall. She wanted to introduce the pride and pain of African Americans. The author described the museum as a place where you can get culturally enriched because of all the things said in the writing. The author wanted to demonstrate who would benefit from the museum. Generations of people can come together and see their history together even if it very dark. This is one way the author The museum is a life changing experience. From seeing the casket of 14 year old Emmett Till who was lynched by a white men in mississippi in 1955. To seeing the slave trade routes and how millions of Africans were taken from their homeland. The museum is very deep there is even an exhibit that shows child size ankle cuffs. It is made clear before you enter the museum you will see heart wrenching things without it being

For chapter 1 I think a proper title would be “A Museum” because the chapter is when Gene goes back to Devon in 15 years and he calls it “a museum”. Gene walks around the school and it reminds him of his time there and everything that happened. When he gets to the tree he has a flashback about one night when they jumped from the tree into the river. The flashback and places he sees and visits reminds him of the past like a museum that reminds us of the past through artifacts. Therefore, I think the title “A Museum” would be a proper title for Chapter 1.

I recently read your reaction to the new Getty Museum. I found that your opinions about J. Paul Getty’s museum align with my thoughts about the museum. You said the outer aesthetics of the museum provide people with a “heated art controversy.” You said that a museum must not portray a non-neutral or partial nature between the museum’s looks and its content. My perception of the museum falls under the relation between a statue and its pedestal. Most people observe and admire statues that sit atop a simple, uniform pedestal. But, when the pedestal receives a makeover making it highly glorified, the spotlight slightly shifts from the statue onto the pedestal. People don’t lose complete sight of the statue, but people still appreciate and admire

I believe that if the museum had taken into the consideration the feelings of the people who were unhappy with the exhibit. By doing so they could have made changes that would have made everyone happy.

An example of the role museums play in controversial issues is from the St. Louis Contemporary Art Museum. The museum displayed works of art that displayed civil rights images and images of black women that were digitally altered. Many people found this to be offensive. The museum decided to leave the exhibit up and to put labels to explain that this exhibit could possibly be offensive. Another example with a very different outcome is when Astoria’s Museum of the Moving Image decided to take down a controversial webcam that was mounted on a wall outside of Astoria’s Museum of the Moving Image. They decided to do this because there were clashes of violence between pro and anti-Trump people (Campanile). These two examples show how museums have roles in controversy and how they can spark debate or worse, they can spark violence.

The Museum of Arts & Sciences (MOAS) is the main and largest art, science and history museum in Central Florida. It is found in a 90-acre nature reserve, which is home to around 30,000 curated objects. It is primarily known as home to one of the biggest American art collection in the Southeast. Other than this, it also has a large collection of Chinese Art at the Schulte Gallery and a collection of Cuban paintings in the Cuban Foundation Museum. The rest of the museum has an eclectic collection of displayed railroad cards, automobiles and a collection of Coca-Cola memorabilia in the Root Family Museum. There is a collection specifically for children at the Linda and Charles Williams Children's Museum, a big state-of-the-art planetarium, and

The art museum I chose to visit is The Frist Center in Nashville. I have been to this museum before, but I was much younger and do not remember it being so marvelous. The entrance itself is very fascinating. The designs below the name of the museum really caught my eye, however, they did not catch my eyes like the eagles on the sides of the building did. Once you are inside of the building, it was as if I instantly knew I was in for some very elegant artwork. The first exhibit I saw was the Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty exhibit. The mood of this exhibit to me was back and forth. I liked some of the pieces and then I did not. In my opinion, Penn was somewhat of a demented artist. The second exhibit I walked through was Claire Morgan: Stop Me Feeling.

This painting is done with oil on canvas. The painting itself holds visual texture and substance. The repetition and sorting is well executed. With some other works, subject matter which is so simple can come off as bland and boring. Yet Thiebaud was able to turn something so simple into a beautiful piece of art. Wayne Thiebaud uses heavy pigment and defined shadowing. All while the attention to detail is divine. With the well defines brushstrokes to luscious look of the frosting that coats the pieces of cakes. The color is vivid and imminently captures your eye; with intensity and he uses his shading properly while also using proper proportions as the pieces of pie

I was toured by the docent Ms. Alba Muniz at the Ringling Museum of Art located in Sarasota, Florida. Asking her and some of the tours many questions, one of the answers they gave me was that the museum does have a lot of Renaissance, Gothic and Rococo but the museum is particularly strong in the Baroque period. This museum was very interesting and exciting to visit. It had featured exhibits such as Peter Paul Rubens’s, The Triumph of the Eucharist Series, Trenton Doyle Hancock’s, What the Bringback Brought, and Builder Levy’s, Appalachia USA. These three exhibits where really compelling and had a strong background to them. For example Peter Paul Rubens’s, The Triumph of the Eucharist Series, was comminsioned by daughter of King Phillip II in 1625. Her name was Isabella Clara Eugenia and she was actually in one of the tapestries presented in the museum. That tapestry was called The Defenders of the Eucharist. The

Today’s visit to the museum was exciting! Having the opportunity to see John Simpsons vision for the museum in its current state, and knowing we could influence the design is a golden opportunity from my perspective. What this signaled was Amsterdam, when talking of flow and influence of language and historical content. I knew when I first saw the Seuss advertisement, I had my eye on a few of them. However, as a dyslexic person writing, and applying for all three, last minute I wrote for research on his life.

The first author I would like to discuss is Michael Baxendall. His article Exhibiting Intention: Some Preconditions of the Visual Display of Culturally Purposeful Objects, is centered around understanding the relationship between the visitor and the museum label as well as the intent behinds the objects and the exhibit design. Baxendall has 2 major points in his article. The first point and his own unique idea is the museum set. The museum set is “a sense of the museum as a treasure house, educational instrument, secular temple, and the rest” . The typical adult visitor with this mindset comes to museums expecting that he will view a large array of objects and learn interesting cultural facts about them. This is the observer that most curators make their exhibits to interact with and as such must be aware of their expectations.

Founded in 1989, the National Automotive Museum holds approximately two-hundred cars, but still has the records of all the cars that Harrah collected before he died. The Automotive museum provides knowledge of all the cars that are in the museum as well as the cars that were sold off after Harrah’s death. Projects that go into working with this museum include archiving both old and new knowledge of cars, sorting research done on sold cars for new owners, transcribing letters of a man who originally owned the cars before Harrah, and finally putting new information in the computer system called PastPerfect. All of these things are behind the scenes of the museum, but help by being a large factor in the income and general knowledge for the museum.