Barbie Museum Research Paper
Take a stroll through the Brandenburg Gate; to the banks of the River Spree and you will be spell bounded to see so many classical sculpture and masterworks at one single place, a rare sight! There stands one of the world’s most intriguing and fascinating cultural treasures, the Berlin’s Museum Island.
According to Visit Berlin, more than 3 million people come to visit this panorama display of exquisite 20th century art forms each year. Amongst the five famous museums of this island, stands the unconventional and thought provoking exhibit- the Bode Museum, also known as “ THE LOST MUSEUM”. If you are someone who is intrigued by the idea how several world-class artworks disappeared and reappeared, as an effect of the World War II, then this …show more content…
The Bode Museum has access to accurate moulds of original treasures in the Gipsformerei ( the cast studio), that were utilized to carefully recreate new versions of these lost treasures. The museum website also displays some of these selected works. Many master paintings that were destroyed are reproduced from careful prior documentation as monochrome, full-size images.
The Bode museum presents several rooms of exhibits with varying themes, the first being the room of the “Loss and Restitution” room. This room tells the history of the impact of controversial military decisions of German, Soviet, and American forces on this artwork, and explains the artworks’ evacuation and its restitution. One of the damaged sculptures shows a distressing yet interesting facial expression, as if it witnessed a crime!
The second room entitled “Remembrance” mounts full-size black and white prints of these lost paintings. One could feel a palette of colors missing, and listening to the audio about each painting gets some life back into these ghostly
According to Visit Berlin, more than 3 million people come to visit this panorama display of exquisite 20th century art forms each year. Amongst the five famous museums of this island, stands the unconventional and thought provoking exhibit- the Bode Museum, also known as “ THE LOST MUSEUM”. If you are someone who is intrigued by the idea how several world-class artworks disappeared and reappeared, as an effect of the World War II, then this …show more content…
The Bode Museum has access to accurate moulds of original treasures in the Gipsformerei ( the cast studio), that were utilized to carefully recreate new versions of these lost treasures. The museum website also displays some of these selected works. Many master paintings that were destroyed are reproduced from careful prior documentation as monochrome, full-size images.
The Bode museum presents several rooms of exhibits with varying themes, the first being the room of the “Loss and Restitution” room. This room tells the history of the impact of controversial military decisions of German, Soviet, and American forces on this artwork, and explains the artworks’ evacuation and its restitution. One of the damaged sculptures shows a distressing yet interesting facial expression, as if it witnessed a crime!
The second room entitled “Remembrance” mounts full-size black and white prints of these lost paintings. One could feel a palette of colors missing, and listening to the audio about each painting gets some life back into these ghostly