Collection on Display
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), located in the center of Manhattan, has positioned itself as a museum of international significance. Reflect of that is its mission to collect, preserve, study and exhibit art of high level in order to give its visitors, which are mainly tourists, both foreign and domestic, a general understanding of what is universal high culture.
With this purpose in mind, the Met dedicates the first and second floor of its separated, renovated and enlarged building to exhibit the reconceived New American Wing Galleries for Painting, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts , “one of the finest and most comprehensive [collection] in the world” on American art. Since its creation in 1870, and after a long …show more content…
Subjects as freedom, exploration, and expansion that permeate United States during the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as Colonial Portraiture, the American Revolution, the Young Republic, the Civil War Era, Art in the Folk Tradition, the Hudson River School, the West, the Cosmopolitan Spirit, and American Impressionism . The American Wing is also home to one of the best-known artworks, an icon of the United States´ art history and the largest painting in the Metropolitan's collection Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutzes in …show more content…
Such a large collection takes substantial resources to maintain; therefore the institution has a harder work attracting funding than its competitor in Manhattan. In this context, when in 1997 Arnold L. Lehman assumed the direction of the museum, “his strategy was to forget about Manhattanites and to concentrate on Brooklyn´s diverse population.” Hence, the Brooklyn Museum attempts to be a less touristy space and more committed with the community surrounding and its neighbors, as an institution that acts as a bridge between the heritage of its collection and the diversity of its visitors. One of Lehman tactics was to attract community surrounding by making the museum a social center. For this purpose, he decided make a reinstallation of the American Art collection as a way to include in the museum´s galleries a multiplicity of cultural narratives in a ludic and colored
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), located in the center of Manhattan, has positioned itself as a museum of international significance. Reflect of that is its mission to collect, preserve, study and exhibit art of high level in order to give its visitors, which are mainly tourists, both foreign and domestic, a general understanding of what is universal high culture.
With this purpose in mind, the Met dedicates the first and second floor of its separated, renovated and enlarged building to exhibit the reconceived New American Wing Galleries for Painting, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts , “one of the finest and most comprehensive [collection] in the world” on American art. Since its creation in 1870, and after a long …show more content…
Subjects as freedom, exploration, and expansion that permeate United States during the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as Colonial Portraiture, the American Revolution, the Young Republic, the Civil War Era, Art in the Folk Tradition, the Hudson River School, the West, the Cosmopolitan Spirit, and American Impressionism . The American Wing is also home to one of the best-known artworks, an icon of the United States´ art history and the largest painting in the Metropolitan's collection Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutzes in …show more content…
Such a large collection takes substantial resources to maintain; therefore the institution has a harder work attracting funding than its competitor in Manhattan. In this context, when in 1997 Arnold L. Lehman assumed the direction of the museum, “his strategy was to forget about Manhattanites and to concentrate on Brooklyn´s diverse population.” Hence, the Brooklyn Museum attempts to be a less touristy space and more committed with the community surrounding and its neighbors, as an institution that acts as a bridge between the heritage of its collection and the diversity of its visitors. One of Lehman tactics was to attract community surrounding by making the museum a social center. For this purpose, he decided make a reinstallation of the American Art collection as a way to include in the museum´s galleries a multiplicity of cultural narratives in a ludic and colored