Chrysler Museum Report

The cultural event that I visited was the Chrysler Museum of Art located in Norfolk, Virginia on July 31, 2016. Before the museum was named the Chrysler Museum of Art it was the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences. Walter Chrysler, Jr. came to Norfolk, Virginia in 1971, bringing with him, collections of art in the thousands. Walter Chrysler, Jr. contributions to the museum are among many other artists that have contributed to the museum as well. This was not known when I entered the museum. While wandering around the museum, I took the time to notice that the museum is enormous. Upon asking some specific questions of the museum employees and gathering information, I was able to find out that the museum is 210,000 square feet and that there are two two-story wings that flank the museum's front entrance. The museum has gift/museum shops, two gardens, and Wi-Fi. The galleries on the first floor have Egyptian, Asian, Meso-American, African, and Greco-Roman works. The architects of the museum were Ferguson Peebles and the museum has been updated, renovated several times since it opened in 1933. The museum was renovated in the 30s, and the 60s, and ten years later there were more renovations and again in the 80s. In the 80s 40,000 square feet of the museum was …show more content…
This particular piece was in shades of black, gray, and white. From gathering more information, I found that the Viviano glass diagrams are three-dimensional; it is based on a story of the rise and decline of the urban industries, four hundred years ago. It is about the fluctuations in manufacturing that caused dramatic caused intense changes in the population. The blown form was very intriguing and learning the history of the art made it more appealing and gave understanding to why it was