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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The Clarke Historical Museum gives a glimpse to our past‚ run by the love and dedication of people proud to teach and shows a piece of history. The Clark Museum is the largest Humboldt County museum and holds a large collection of northwest Native Indian artifacts from a variety of tribes. One hundred years ago the Bank of Eureka opened its newly constructed building‚ presently known as the Clark Museum. The property including the Clark Museum was originally homestead in the 1860s later in 1871
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and the importance of preventing genocide‚ the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum was founded in Washington D.C. in1993. It is ironic how the museum is located among monuments and museums that symbolize freedom on the National Mall. The “Holocaust which occurred elsewhere but which is of universal significance” (Ruffins) was responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews in Europe. The mission of the museum is “is to advance and disseminate knowledge about this unprecedented tragedy; to preserve
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quirky fusion of kinship‚ locality‚ experience and even spirituality. There is no rule book on how to belong so it must be frequently improvised. Peter Skrzynecki communicates the concept of belonging through his poems ’10 Mary Street’ and ‘In The Folk Museum’ by using such techniques as similes metaphors and person pronouns and I‚ Frank McCourt‚ communicate my ideas on belonging in my biographical novel‚ ‘Angela’s Ashes’‚ through the use of analogy and allusion. By using similes it allows Skrzynecki
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Pillars of ashoka The pillars of Ashoka are a series of columns dispersed throughout the northern Indian subcontinent‚ erected or at least inscribed with edicts by the Mauryan king Ashoka during his reign in the 3rd century BC. Originally‚ there must have been many pillars but only nineteen survive with inscriptions‚ and only six with animal capitals‚ which were a target for Muslim iconoclasm. Many are preserved in a fragmentary state. Averaging between 40 to 50 feet (12 to 15 m) in height‚ and weighing
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