Museum Essay

For this assignment, I visited the Hickory Museum of Art (HMA) in Hickory, North Carolina. Their major exhibition was “Unexpected Beauty,” a collection of photographs by photojournalist Steve McCurry. I observed several ways in which the HMA replicated historic museums practices, especially in regards to the museum effect, princely galleries, and above all, reinforcing an emphasis on the visual. By visiting the HMA I gained a firsthand experience of what these practices look like and the…

A. Different museums in the L.A. area i. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art was first established in 1910 in Exposition Park and in 1965 it was opened to the public in its new Wilshire Boulevard location. Since 1965, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has been devoted to collecting works of art is both historic and geographic. Today the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is the largest art museum in the western United States, with a collection that includes over 120,000 artworks dating from…

The Musical Instrument Museum, Phoenix Public Library, and the Phoenix Art Museum have key characteristics that represent the landscape as well as their functionality. It can be said that the design of these buildings are similar and at the same time completely different in the way that they represent the landscape. The Instrument museum was designed by Rich Varda, an award-winning architect. The construction began on February 2008 and the museum opened its doors in April 2010. The Phoenix…

The Frida Kahlo Museum, also known as La Casa Azul, is located in the center of Coyoacan, an old and picturesque neighborhood in the south of Mexico City. La Casa Azul is the place where the famous Mexican artist Frida Kahlo was born, lived and died, becoming a Museum in 1958, four years after her death. Today is one of the most visited museums in Mexico City at national and international level. Each month receives about 25,000 visitors, 45% of them foreign. Frida Kahlo is the most famous…

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…

Cornell’s Johnson Museum has been blessed with a collection of a rarer variety. The “From the Dark Sea” exhibit displays a handful of glass invertebrate models created by the celebrated Blaschka family. The creative side of the Blaschka family consisted of Leopold Blaschka and his son, Rudolf. In the 19th and early 20th century, the pair produced blown glass replica of various marine life which they sold to museum and universities around the world. Cornell is one of a few academic institutions…

This was my first visit to The Museum Of The City Of New York, a small museum dedicated to the history of NYC that includes a variety of exhibits. If you’re an out of town visitor with a taste for the history of the “Concrete Jungle” this is just the attraction for you. You’ll find that your experience here is not only educating but it’s very welcoming. As an individual migrating from the Dominican Republic this experience better helped me get a more intimate New Yorker experience. Upon…

the city of New York, there stands an iconic art museum Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by the celebrated American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Built in 1959, the museum flares as an expression of modern artistic construction. The museum permanently houses “world-famous collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artworks, as well as some of the greatest 20th-century paintings by famous painters from all over the world” . The museum was named after the philanthropist, Solomon R.…

should be included in a museum? That is a question that not many visitors ask about a museum, however as an architect or designer it is a fundamental question to ask one’s self when it comes to describing a museum. It can become a debate, deciding whether the museum should or should not be a simple massing where art is displayed. If the answer is it should, then why not just design a white box where all the attention goes into the art on the inside? When it comes to museums, we think of a place…

Renaissance is most realistic compared to any other art. During my trip to the St. Louis Art Museum I look through hundreds of paintings from the Renaissance and Baroque period. My favorite painting I looked at from this period at the museum was Peasants Dancing in a Tavern by Adriacn van Ostade. The Renaissance and Baroque art section stood out the most to me at the museum. When I first arrived to the St. Louis Art Museum I went down to the first level where most of the art was from ancient…