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Historical Functions of Museums

way in which museums present information historically and this is perhaps the most exciting point of all. That is, museums are abl...

The Field Museum, Evolving Planet Exhibit

Chicago features a fascinating exhibit, which is titled "Evolving Planet." The focus of the exhibit is on the progression of evolu...

Should Cultural Artifacts be Returned to Their Countries of Origin?

1. "claims concerning the restitution of cultural properties to their ocuntries of origin" 2. "restriction of imports and...

The Modern Museum and the Significance in Defining African American Art

works signed by a famous artist. Rather, the visitor is exposed to the artifacts that suggest what life was and is like to African...

Painter Lee Krasner

works than the colossal The Eye is the First Circle (about 93" x 191" or about eight by sixteen feet), for example. Here her art...

Church and State in the 1992 U.S. Supreme Court Case of Lee v. Weisman 505

In eight pages this paper discusses whether or not the First Amendment rights are being violated by a school function's religious ...

Influences on Management Functions in McDonalds

corporate level, but also a store level, when planning the staffing rotas. Internal influences may come from individual employees ...

Art of China Featured at LACMA

their writing was essential pictorial, but did allow for the expression of abstract ideas. Warfare with neighboring areas was a w...

1937's Weeping Woman with Handkerchief Painting by Pablo Picasso

man very much at war with himself, constantly battling inner demons that prolifically poured onto his canvases. He literally had ...

Historical Tour to Vladivostok, Russia

drills and their equipment. The ecotour organizer states that "East Russia is also the last place on earth, where we have a...

MoMA Exhibits

space" spread over several buildings (About MoMA - Museum history, 2007). One of these, the "Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Educatio...

Transformations of Hagia Sophia

second fire, it was reconstructed yet again by Justinian I (Justinian the Great) during the sixth century. Due in large part to J...

National Museum of African Art

this series, while painted in the late nineteenth century, looks very much as if it were from the Byzantine era. The site gives th...

Virtual Art Museum Tour: African Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

the author also, properly, offers the website of the Metropolitan Museum of Art so that the visitor to this site can go directly t...

Rebranding a Museum

and special displays. The MMAH permanent collection includes a wide variety of works representing many cultures and eras. Among th...

Brickwork of Pennsylvania's Palmer Museum of Art

frontelevation2, one can see the powerful structural design of the building. There are strong high archways that are within a pitc...

Daniel Libeskind's Architectural Works The Dramatic and Theatrical Aspects of Daniel Libeskind's Work

The influences are cited as being form the musical, with Libeskind seeing that the visual and audible as being inseparable, hence...

Overview of the Kimball Museum

serve to offer a very strong visual foundation for the rounded linear shapes of the building. There are also powerful pieces of ar...

Art and Public Funding Controversy

("Art on Trial," 2006). The Court would also issue the injunction as it believed that, after the case would be fully litigated, it...

Ritual and Museums

which is that the exhibits are intended to facilitate the "growth" and "learning" of the visitors (Virtual tour, 2004). The first...

Women's History Museum Design

rotunda. I would have a similar architectural style for my museum, since my point is to awe the visitor with the importance of my ...

Impressive Online Science Museums

Inside the DNA pages, the screens are interactive. You can probe the DNA sequence to find matches, and while youre doing that you ...

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century History, Europe, and the Norton Simon Museum

In many ways we see, in the painting in the Norton Simon Museum, how there are timeless subjects in the world of painting. For exa...

Management Functions

All managers must control certain things. Finances must be controlled, for example, so that the organization operates both efficie...

Why Mass Media is "not just any business"

a whole in different ways. It is the mass media which many organizations will use in order to market there good and try to influen...

Denver Art Museum's Lakota Man's Necklace

In five pages this paper analyzes this 1920s' art piece in a consideration of composition including repetition, symmetry, and colo...

A British Museums' Survey

because of their simple aesthetics. As mentioned, there was possible religious interest, and we also have the reality wherein thes...

Internal and External PR

If we consider relationship management this is similar to employee relations, and may beth be seen as usually undertaken internall...

How Potassium and Calcium Function in the Human Body

The writer discusses the various functions of calcium and potassium in the body and also how disruption of homeostasis in regards ...

Three Differing Views of the Origin of Religion

Tylor asserts that in order to assess a culture, one must approach it from an objective standpoint: if one does not do so, ones ow...