Abstract The Iraqi National Museum was established by the British traveler and author Gertrude Bell and opened shortly before her death in 1926. The Iraqi National Museum contained priceless relics from Mesopotamian civilization; it contains important artifacts from over 5‚000 year long history of Mesopotamia. The National Museum of Iraq was looted in April‚ 2003. Its contents has been illegally scattered around the world through sales to private collectors and museums. Iraq‚ as of yet‚ is still trying
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I. Identification 1. The Issue The British Museum‚ located in London‚ England‚ purchased the Parthenon Marbles‚ also known as the Elgin Marbles‚ from Lord Elgin on July 11‚ 1816 through an Act of Parliament (1). The Parthenon marbles consist of 115 panels of frieze and 92 mesotopes of which the British Museum owns 56 panels of the frieze and 15 mesotopes. The museum also owns 17 pedimental figures‚ and thus houses about half of surviving sculptures of the Parthenon while the other half is in Athens
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School of Computing E-COMMERCE (ECRET) Museum Guidance System Individual Element Student name Student Id Word Count Modhitha Iroshan Weerasundara mudiyanselage 632831 1360 Page | 1 Contents 1. Introduction ........................................................................................................................................ 3 2. Success of the proposed mobile application ...................................................................................... 3 2.1. Information
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is known for its diverse collections of art and artifacts that characterize the civilization throughout time. The Los Angeles Museum of History‚ Science‚ and Art was where LACMA first developed in 1910. In 1965 LACMA became its own institution‚ placing further emphasis solely in art. In 1976 the museum opened the first exhibition dedicated to the compositions of black artists from 1750 to 1950. There are historically collected art‚ dating as far back as before
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The Museum of Natural History Museums are essential for sustaining the world’s biological and cultural diversity. Yet they can do more without undermining their commitment to thorough and rigorous science. For example‚ they can increase the accessibility of their collections. The advent of new information technologies allows natural history museums to digitize collections and to make associated scientific data accessible to wide audiences. These technologies enable the sharing of data with countries
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Museum Tour of Louvre I decided to take a virtual tour of the Museum of Louvre located in France. The web site can be found at http://www.louvre.fr/llv/musee/visite_virtuelle.jsp I took the tour place on May 28‚ 2006. I was introduced to this web through my step father who was raised in Paris. The tour consisted of many different aspects of arts such as Islamic arts‚ paintings‚ Greek‚ Etruscan and Roman antiquities‚ sculptures and decorative arts. The tour was very quick and precise. They gave
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A Day at the Museum In the contemporary Art section of the Cleveland art museum we stopped in looked at an open book exhibit where different portfolios of pictures‚ words‚ and artist thoughts and ideas were on display for everyone to see. This was one of the more interesting pieces in the museum because you could interact with each artist on a more personal level. Most art displays you are not allowed to touch and u must admire from a distance and some you are4 not allowed to take pictures of.
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As far as the article went‚ there were two directors for the University Museum after the founder passed away. It started as a small‚ personal collection that happened to be held at the University and only the owner’s friend were invited to view the small collection of art. Once the collection was passed on to Miss Kirkoff‚ she found the collection too valuable to be hidden away and thought that it should be shared and expanded upon for the greater good of the University. She thought it should be
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Ella Sharp Museum Jackson Exhibit Overall Ella Sharp is an art and history museum. The exhibit I went to was the one on Jackson history. It is one of three permanent exhibits in the museum. The Jackson Exhibit was about the history of Jackson Michigan area from “pre-history to now (circa. 1980’s). It took me a good bit of searching to find the exhibit label. Partially because I thought the label should be near the main entrance to the exhibit and larger than a 9x11 piece of paper. But once I did
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Collection remains the predominant reason for many a museum’s existence. Most museums collect because they believe that objects are important and evocative survival of human civilization worthy of careful study and powerful educational impact. They carefully preserve their holdings as to transmit important information to the present generation and posterity. Art museums are said to concentrate on beauty and their mission is often defined as the direct transmission of the artist’s aesthetic understanding
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