In the case of the United States, Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), a painter and a collector, first opened a museum, Peale's Cabinet of Curiosities in Philadelphia to show and record the history of discovery in the new world in 1786. He displayed his own portraits of George Washington, and later with bones he unearthed of a North American woolly mammoth. According to Ford Bell, early American collectors put emphasis on a different impulse compared to the kings in Europe. Bell said "In the U.S., we had a new continent we were exploring and opening up and discovering, and that brought this realization of all the tremendously diverse life forms that were out there." (Mondello, 2009) The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), considered
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Doing the Civil War (1861-65), American museums evolved in two different ways: One was management by one or more owners, and the other was operation by a board of trustees. Both types of museums emphasized amusement and enlightenment. The former focused more on entertaining features so as to draw people’s attention and gain more profits, while the latter laid emphasis on history, art and science in order to enhance the comprehension of them and advance research and education. The American nonprofit museums predominatingly pursued the educational model until the late nineteenth century (Alexander, …show more content…
This museum was also founded with similar motives to the Metropolitan Museum. Their aims were to offer opportunities and means to deliver popular instruction in drawing, painting and modeling to the public (Zeller, 1989). The Metropolitan Museum, founded in 1870, gave a lecture series to adult citizens who live in New York two years later (Alexander, 1988). Its purpose of establishment was to inspire people to study the fine art and the application of the art to mass production and practical life, and to promote the general information relevant to the art (Zeller, 1989).
The movement of using museums for education was widespread throughout the countries and educational activities became diverse. Educational objectives also widened from adults to children and school groups (Alexander, 1988). The trends and views towards art education came from the founding charters of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Brooklyn in their 1890 charter declared their goal
Doing the Civil War (1861-65), American museums evolved in two different ways: One was management by one or more owners, and the other was operation by a board of trustees. Both types of museums emphasized amusement and enlightenment. The former focused more on entertaining features so as to draw people’s attention and gain more profits, while the latter laid emphasis on history, art and science in order to enhance the comprehension of them and advance research and education. The American nonprofit museums predominatingly pursued the educational model until the late nineteenth century (Alexander, …show more content…
This museum was also founded with similar motives to the Metropolitan Museum. Their aims were to offer opportunities and means to deliver popular instruction in drawing, painting and modeling to the public (Zeller, 1989). The Metropolitan Museum, founded in 1870, gave a lecture series to adult citizens who live in New York two years later (Alexander, 1988). Its purpose of establishment was to inspire people to study the fine art and the application of the art to mass production and practical life, and to promote the general information relevant to the art (Zeller, 1989).
The movement of using museums for education was widespread throughout the countries and educational activities became diverse. Educational objectives also widened from adults to children and school groups (Alexander, 1988). The trends and views towards art education came from the founding charters of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Brooklyn in their 1890 charter declared their goal