is the Best Museum in Boston? Boston is a city rife with history‚ waterways‚ amazing seafood and great museums. It is nearly impossible to choose just one‚ and there are great museums all over town. Still‚ we will point out a couple of our favorites. In the Seaport area‚ be sure to visit the Institute of Contemporary Art‚ a waterfront building offering galleries and shows‚ and lots of kid-friendly art displays. Nearby‚ make a visit to the Museum of Fine Arts and the Children’s Museum. Near the
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and from work and in the home. Computers are now considered the most effective‚ accurate and comprehensive means of an acquiring knowledge on any topic. From our computer we can take an aerial tour Disneyland. We can get information from the British Museum Library or from the Library of Congress in America. With the proper equipment we can sit at our computer and communicate with someone anywhere in the world. With the help of our computers we can send e-mail‚ receive electronic newsletters even chat
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and Britain‚ a Parliamentary committee was selected to debate the legality of Elgin’s ownership. The British government decided to purchase the sculptures from Lord Elgin at half his investment and exclaimed they would be better cared for by their museum than returning back to Greece. My view on the proper location of the “Parthenon Marbles” is that of Greece. From the very beginning‚ the removal of the marble sculptures have had a
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Between 1980 and 1990 he expanded in inventory of images and icons to include heads‚ portraits‚ masks and the urban and suburban imagery. Arkley returned from a trip from Europe where he had searched for inspiration. Upon walking home‚ he noticed the pattern of his front gate‚ he then ran around to all his neighbours gates using them as inspiration in his later artworks. Arkley’s inspiration was taken from the patterns‚ colours and forms (gates‚ doors etc.) found in Australian suburbia. Strong visual
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Walter C. Gwin Sr. HUMN-B21 Elgin Marbles I will take the position that the Elgin Marbles should remain in the British museum. Ancient artifacts are a means of understanding a culture’s value system‚ their beliefs and their worldview. It is important that these artifacts be preserved as much as possible. The Parthenon is “the greatest of all Greek temples. It was built in the old Doric order‚ even though it was built in the middle of the classical age when the Ionic style was coming into vogue”
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Museum Synthesis Museums bring history and culture to life by allowing individuals to gain unique hands on experience that is different from learning from textbooks or television. One can never know the reality behind certain artifacts and art until they see it for themselves. The perception of viewing a multitude of replicas and pictures such as the Mona Lisa can be dramatically different from witnessing the painting up close. The interactive experience allows one to engage and immerse ourselves
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restaurants‚ little places to shop and most important educational places like the Museum of Tolerance. I chose the museum of tolerance to write my new assignment for my class because the name fascinated me and it is a place where I can go with my family. This museum gives examples of tolerance to its visitors by the setups it has inside. The museum is located on the west side of Los Angeles on Pico Boulevard. To enter this museum is not easy‚ they have checked by security two times before you go inside
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Edgewood Museum By Dayanaira Cornwell‚ Special to The Echoes The Edgewood Museum is becoming a real life example of the Edgewood town saying “where vision meets reality.” The Edgewood museum corporation is a non-profitable organization. There are about eight board members on the museum corporation. The idea for the museum came about from a Facebook page called “Edgewood‚ Iowa history and more”. That Bart Hamlett‚ part of the Edgewood museum corporation made. He also is donating his whole Edgewood
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Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. In the beginning‚ we learned the history of this museum. This museum is made up of a private collection from the Thyssen-Bornemisza family‚ and both the privatization and time period make this collection unique. The collection includes many landscapes‚ still lives and genre paintings‚ but not many portraits. The family was extremely wealthy from their success in the industrial world‚ so they were able to purchase a vast amount of artwork. Lastly‚ the museum is located in Madrid
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There have been museums that let the public in on the history of African Americans in this country for years‚ but it has never been done like the newest museum: Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). In September of this year‚ the museum finally cut the red tape after breaking ground in 2012. This expansive museum contains nearly 37‚000 artifacts that various prominent figures and people from the African American culture donated to address the history of
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