Museum Field Trip Research Paper

Museum Field Trip Last night I had an amazing experience. I toured museums in multiple States and on two Continents. This also happened to be the least expensive cultural experience of my life since it was done from the privacy of my own home. “How is that possible?” you may ask. I toured each museum from my computer. Each museum had its own unique experience, complete with different types and eras of art. All of the art was beautiful in its own way. However, I’d like to inform and impress upon you not the art itself, but the manner in which the art was displayed. I’d like to tell you about the web sites. The art, you’ll have to see for yourselves.

The two museum sites I’d like to talk about are the Metropolitan
So let us discuss art. When you look at the Highlights hypertext on the Collections pull-down menu of both museums you’ll find their prized works of art. Each compendium of pictures is amazing and beautiful in its own way. Complete with a myriad of sculptures, artifacts, pictures, and paintings both museums offer a visual portal to culture and civilizations of the past and written descriptions insightful to life very different than that of the present. I would like to point out some distinct differences in the pictures from both sites. Not so much as the pictures themselves, as I stated they both had such beautiful pictures that I would be hard-pressed to make a distinction as to which ones I liked more and that is also not the intention of this writing, but the manner in which they are displayed. The Metropolitan Museum of Art had a much more fluid presentation of the pictures than the National Gallery of Art. When I clicked on the pictures in The National Gallery of Art the pictures were presented in a digital fashion. What I mean by that is that the picture would appear digital block by digital block. So, as you could imagine, when I zoomed in to take a closer look there was a definite, and sometimes substantial, delay in the appearance of the picture. There was also an annoying thumbnail that I couldn’t escape.