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Smithsonian Institute provides us with 19 Amazing historical museums, but they can not be funded relying on solely government funds. All of the Museums are located relatively close to one another and most are on the National Mall. Each of them provides us with a different type of history, whether it's a culture, telling of history, or art. Also, they are a great place to learn numerous things. The Smithsonian Institute is a series of educational museums that if you donate historical items or some monthly

Museum is a place of presenting and preserving history of a country or a place with educational implication. Museums, as stated by Brown and Davis-Brown (1998, p. 19), “help to preserve a collective national memory and thence to constitute a collective national identity”. The way of displaying war photos and different exhibits may have functions of raising national identity and present multiculturalism to audience. This essay will be discussed about how nationalization and multiculturalism presents

The two sites that I have chosen to compare are the National Gallery of Art (NGA) and The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met). The reason I chose these specific sites was the first images I saw which made me want to explore the webpages. I will be comparing the visual quality of the homepage, pictures, text, and content along with the overall quality of the two sites. I will go into detail about the differences and which site, in my opinion, would be more enjoyable based on their website.

I’ve never been exposed to paintings, or sculpture, but my career has given me exposure to construction and architecture. My favorite work of art is the National Building Museum (Pension Building) in Washington DC. The building was designed by Montgomery C. Meigs. Construction began in 1881 and completed in 1887. Meigs based his design on Italian Renaissance precedents, notably Rome's Palazzo Farnese and the Palazzo della Cancelleria. The building is the largest frameless, freestanding brick building

‘recognize and affirm’… Native cultures… and [advance] knowledge and understanding of those cultures” (Atalay 600). Thus creating a sharp contrast from that of the Holocaust. Despite the hardships and the genocide which befell the Native Americans, this museum has a different narrative to preserve, one rich with culture, rather than brutality. The differences displayed in architecture and design help effectively deliver each narrative because they visually and psychologically affect each visitor, adding

The National Museum of American History It was a nice morning when I have decided to take a trip to one of the national museums in Washington DC - The National Museum of American History. It was a great experience to discover something new, and to get some knowledge and a new information about the history of the United States of America. The museum has a collection of historical writing records science, industry and culture objects. The American History museum is very large, and it has three floors

Museums have to keep in touch with customers to keep themselves in business. In this day and age, the way to keep in touch with most people is to have a presence on social media with the use of Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. YouTube is also an option because it adds connectivity through videos and it gives the museum access to the users on the Google+ side of the social media network. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is one museum that has an extensive list of videos to help grow their customer

The National Churchill Museum is located in Fulton, Missouri at Westminster College where Winston Churchill held his Iron Curtain speech in the gym of the college. It was very interesting to learn that because of the gym’s historical significance, it has not been remodeled or touched structurally so that it would preserve the history of the place of the speech. Westminster holds a beauty in itself, but the history of the college opens up a whole new meaning and feeling when visiting. Not only does

The National Building Museum (NBM) was founded in 1980 without a collection. The museum currently has about 250,000 objects, primarily photographs and architectural drawings all housed in 7,000 square feet of on-site storage. The NBM’s primary collecting focus is everything related to buildings, but the structures themselves. They document the process of building with their collection of architectural plans, photographs, architectural models, and tools. The NBM do not actively collect artifacts,

Smithsonian, National Museum of African Art along with attending the Million Man March down in Washington D.C. The experiences were wonderful and I was very excited to be at both events. While at the museum I took two tours one at 10 am that was led by a woman named Nkechi Obi. She talked about docent African Arts. The next one was shortly after at11 am that was led by a teen ambassador named Nicholas Stewart, who was very intelligent. He talked about numerous pieces throughout the museum that had some