The Heritage Of The Americas Museum

Quoted by Handler and Gable, critic Ada Louise Huxtable declares the newly constructed reproduction of Colonial Williamsburg as “too clean,” arguing that it “does not include the filth and stench that would have been commonplace.” (Source E) This sanitation of the truth completely misrepresents history, and the educational value greatly suffers. Conversely, the National Museum of the American Indian hopes to avoid this lack of judgment by dedicating itself to the “preservation, study, and exhibition of the life, languages, literature, history, and Arts of Native Americans.” (Source C) The main goal of the museum is to “span all major cultural areas” (C) and educate the public about and preserve the rich history of such a vast culture. The authenticity and significance of artifacts are important to representing culture and history, and the ability of these artifacts to educate should be a key factor of the selection process.

Michel Graulich is a researcher in art history and religions of Pre-Columbian America and particularly Mesoamerica. He has a degree in History (University of Ghent, 1966) graduated in art history (University of Brussels, 1970) and a doctorate in art history (University of Brussels, 1979), he made his career at the Free University Brussels, where he was professor at CIERL (Interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Religions and secularism) of the Free University of Brussels. He was also director of studies at the Fifth Section of Religious Sciences at the EPHE. Graulich “suggests that the Aztecs had a complex theology in which sacrifice had one basic and what some might deem more exalted purpose: atonement.” Those of the casualties, almost

Museums play an important role in preserving our American history. Some of the things they preserve include important documents from the World War 1 and 2. One of these important documents is the “National Crisis Day” Proclamation of 1917. This Document stated that from then on the government would be the production of food supply substantial and sent out a letter to all clergymen to tell other (farmers) to do the same.The Memory of the people's past is presented and preserved in these documents and events that have occurred throughout history. Exhibits from the Florida Memory give residents an insight of what it would be like to live in the era where World War 1 and 2 began. It shows them how the people were rallied, the victories, and the

My first artifact is the House of Chan’s menu. I chose this because I love food and the idea of early types of food in the 1800 till now fascinates me mostly its price. The menu was made when the restaurant was built in 1957. The building was founded by Irv Howard and is located at Bathurst Street and Eglinton Avenue West, which sadly closed, but they built a new one on 514 Eglinton Ave and Penny Lyons later on. The menu show the prices of the food in which they were selling. The prices are so amazing that with just 10$ I can eat my breakfast lunch and dinner and still have some cash left. When the first House of Chan was built it was around the time of the Vietnam War when America was fighting Vietnam to stop communist from spreading. What shock me the most was that even when China were communist people still accept their food and there culture. In one of website that I read Mr. Howard knew how to run a room but with the amount of hate against the war I can’t imagine how he could have run the place. Also during the time rock roll was a popular thing and Elvis Presley the king of rock

Module: Empires in the Americas a) One theme from the module Empires in the Americas was warfare. a. One instance where this theme was seen was the expansion warfare of the Aztecs. i. The key players in this instance were the Aztec empire/emperors and local rival states. The Aztec’s generally were the attackers and the rival states were the recipients.

Given that this “visit” was more like a virtual experience, I was still able to access a couple of my senses, just as if I was at the actual exhibition. Through the use of anecdotes and detailed images, I am able to see all of the personal experiences an individual had while practicing a particular dance and what it meant to them. In this exhibition, there are ten different dances displayed, including the: Yup´ik Yurapiaq and the Quyana (Thank You) Song Dance, Yakama Girl’s Fancy Shawl Dance, Cubeo Óyne Dance, Yoreme Pajko’ora Dance, Mapuche Mütrüm Purun, Tlingit Ku.éex ' Entrance Dance, Lakota Men’s Northern Traditional Dance, Seminole Stomp Dance, Hopi Butterfly Dance, and finally, Quechua Danza de Tijeras (Scissor Dance). All parts of the exhibit were insightful, but the two that sparked my interest the most were the Yup´ik Yurapiaq and the Quyana (Thank You) Song Dance and the Quechua Danza de Tijeras (Scissor Dance).

I visited the Kimbell Museum last Friday and I specifically looked at the ‘Pre-Columbian Art’ from the permanent collection which was painted or based on Spanish/Latin American culture. These art pieces are very important to the Spanish culture because each of them hold a part of their history; even the long gone cultural beliefs/ practices. The pieces are there so we can learn about the past or how each of the pieces have influenced the cultural values of the Spanish speaking world. The first art that I saw were the Pendants: Twin Warriors, Two Deer Head which were animals carved from gold. The idea of carving with gold originated in Panama, Azuero Peninsula and only the high-status people owned massive amounts of the ornaments. After

I had an opportunity to visit the oriental institute museum . During my visit to the museum I was made aware of its location and the importance of it to chicago. The museum housed many exhibits of historical value dating civilization back to the paleolithic period of 2,500,000-100,000 B.C. Below you'll find examples of mans rise through the use of tools and refined skills from cave living to structured living throughout evolution. This is an experience that has grounded me to a new interest in structures that we have devised to become the homes we use today for the rest of my life.

While in Panama, Heritage Enactus worked closely with an indigenous Panamanian tribe known as the Ngöbe-Buglé. Their interest is to protect the environment, develop small business, develop agriculture, and improve sanitary conditions and enhance education. Enactus is aligned to help create those small businesses and investigate environmental restoration and protection.

One pleasant afternoon, my classmates and I decided to visit the Houston Museum of Fine Arts to begin on our museum assignment in world literature class. According to Houston Museum of Fine Art’s staff, MFAH considers as one of the largest museums in the nation and it contains many variety forms of art with more than several thousand years of unique history. Also, I have never been in a museum in a very long time especially as big as MFAH, and my experience about the museum was unique and pleasant. Although I have observed many great types and forms of art in the museum, there were few that interested me the most.

This is not to say that these other art forms were not still being developed at that time. Though, looking the what the ceramics were ornamented with, the shift to earthenware seems to carry over some of the tradition of painting, calligraphy and poetry. Although, this gallery has little on the transition itself and more on the well developed end result of the centuries of progression. Similar to the comparison of the Dings from each part of the Zhou dynasty there is apparent development but unlike the progression of the Ding there is no hint as to what the earthenware was before the Ming Dynasty. There are some other prominent missing items from this gallery. The text panels, every piece had one, everyone had the location, name and date of the piece, but most had little information on the piece it stat next too, some just exclaimed who had donated the piece, not the meaning behind anything or the significance of it in relation to the time period, now this may be because some of these things have an apparent significance but I feel that that will be lost for people who know little about what was significant during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Now because of this general lack, I had little more insight into the significance into what lead to the development of things like blue and white ware, and underglaze techniques. I am unsure if the curator intended this or if it was a hapless byproduct. I wish that there had been some details focused on the pre-Ming developments, even minor ones or just a brief overview of what the years prior and what they had done to make these advancements. Not only that but, covering nearly 600 years of ceramic progress and improvement, whilst throwing in some of other items not related to porcelain, this

There are many communications between Chinese and other Far-Eastern cultures and western cultures. In the United States, because of the limitation of length of history, many museums choose to collect relics from other countries. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is one of the examples.

The first time I visited a museum was in 2001, during elementary school. My mother took me to the National Museum of Cultures in Mexico, City (Museo Nacional de las Culturas del Mundo). In this delightful building, they had an exceptional and extraordinary exhibition, including Japanese culture and the country´s finest heritage. I consider, reading all the museum labels during the tour, provided my childhood inspiration by the compelling history of Japan.

The British Museum exhibition utilized imagery of stone faces, not illuminated to see the details, but drenched in stripes of darkness to emphasize the mysterious, subterranean existence of the statues. (Portal and Kinoshita 2007). Press releases from Atlanta’s High Museum emphasized the “legacy” of the “iconic,” magnificent warriors. (High Museum 2008). The Canadians called the Chinese culture “fascinating” and “captivating”, and again, emphasized the “legacy” of the army (Royal Ontario Museum 2010). And in Sydney, the story of The First Emperor: China’s Entombed Warriors

Museum is a place of presenting and preserving history of a country or a place with educational implication. Museums, as stated by Brown and Davis-Brown (1998, p. 19), “help to preserve a collective national memory and thence to constitute a collective national identity”. The way of displaying war photos and different exhibits may have functions of raising national identity and present multiculturalism to audience. This essay will be discussed about how nationalization and multiculturalism presents through history in China’s museum from examine several museums in China. China as a communism country usually takes various measure to remain the stability of the country to emphasis the identity of People’s Republic of Chinese other than