Science museum

What is the purpose of a museum or a historic site? On the surface, many would indicate that it is education. Through his monograph, Upon the Ruins of Slavery: Slavery, the President’s House at Independence National Historical Park, and Public Memory, Roger C. Aden argues that the purpose of a museum is much more complex than that, and it varies from person to person. He examined the various processes and problems that occur in the creation of a historical site. Specifically, Aden examines…

The world sees museums as a place to go to be entertained or to learn about something. One of the world’s most popular museum resides in the upper west side of New York City. Aside from it being a tourist spot, it’s also one of the biggest museums and holds a huge collection of artifacts varying from different times of history. An approximation of the amount of artifacts is, “8 million, but many curators will privately admit that this is most likely a guess.” (Preston, :176). What people don’t…

thought for this essay assignment was to choose the website that made me want to visit their museum the most, and compare and contrast it to the site that made me want to visit their museum the least. I planned to write about what attracted me to the museum that I wanted to visit and why I may not want to visit the museum that appealed the least to me. As I began viewing all the websites for the different museums, I did not expect there to be such a huge difference in the appearance and layout…

1. Problem description A common problem with museums today is that they place heavy emphasis on reading as a method of delivering information. While effective for many, there are specific groups of people that are either not capable of reading, struggle to read dense blocks of text, or do not have the attention span to read. The museum experience should be able to cater to as many groups as possible, and without reading the descriptive plaques, the experience is stripped to visuals with little…

The Facts For my first encounter I decided to visit The Fern Bank Museum of Natural History and explore the exhibit, “Reflections of Culture”. This exhibit is a permanent exhibit and allows one to learn about several civilizations around the world and their cultural similarities, differences and behaviors. I found the exhibit to be interesting, due to the fact that the exhibit displayed creative examples of contemporary and traditional forms of customs over eras of history. The varied forms…

This particular study abroad program encompasses so much of the history and craft that goes into my major. As an artist of the theatre, I need to be aware of the historical significance of theatre and the stories that have been written. Seeing, reading, and visiting monuments and plays will make the history that I’ve learned in class tangible. Attending productions will further allow my creativity as an artist to flourish with diverse genres of theatre that will be available on the trip.…

cultural event I visited the aSHEville Museum, specifically I went to see the “Her Nobel Words” exhibit. An exhibit honoring sixteen women who have fought to make the world a better place and have been honored with the Nobel Peace Prize. I have visited this museum once before and thought this exhibit would be an interesting and encouraging event to invest my time in. It is also something that relates to the gender discussion in Humanities. The aSHEville Museum focuses on encouraging and…

For my Museum report I chose to go to the Ralph Mark Gilbert Museum. Someone I knew told me this was one of the best museum to go to and they had a lot of information on Savannah way back in the days when slavery was around. The civil rights movement made Ralph the father. When I walked into the museum the first thing that caught my eye was the parts on segregation. They had information on how colored people were treated and how whites acted towards colored. I saw things about how black kids had…

(Link: Now that we have learned a little bit about Marie, let’s discuss what Madame Tussauds’ Wax Museum is all about.) B. Madame Tussauds’ a. While the wax figures were originally created as a visual narrative of events in a time where television and newspapers did not exist, todays wax figures are of celebrities and are merely for…

Lloyd on Lemmy Troma’s Lloyd Kaufman remembers Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister. The following Lemmy tribute was written by Lloyd Kaufman: writer, director, producer, co-founder and president of TROMA Entertainment for Girls and Corpses Magazine. December 30th, 2015 was my saddest birthday. It was my 70th birthday and I was with the Guna Indians in very remote San Blas Islands when the news of Lemmy Kilmister’s death reached me. The loss of Motörhead legend Lemmy, on December 28th, 2015, had a…