The State Hermitage Museum is recognised as one of the world’s oldest art museum and boasts a wide collection of Dutch and Flemish artist, staying true to the founder’s, Catherine the Great, love of these types of artworks. The State Hermitage Museum has similar floor plan to that of the Smithsonian where it consists of several building that also double as buildings that are integral to the identity of Russia. Located in St Petersburg, the State Hermitage Museum is regarded as one of the original, publically accessible art museums and identifies itself as one of the greats in the world of museums. One of the key aspects that the State Hermitage Museum prides itself on being up to date, and even leading in, is the development of technologies …show more content…
It will be looking through the history of the museum, the purpose of it creation and the events that it has withstood that we can see that the development of technologies and the preservation of the museum being vital to creating a value museum experience. The establishment and history of the State Hermitage Museum is integral in understanding what make the visit to this place so valuable. The State Hermitage museum was originally founded by Catherine the Great during the years of 1764 and 1775 in where she built the ‘small hermitage’ where she was able to keep and …show more content…
During the First World War, the winter palace transformed itself into a mobile hospital unit for injured soldiers. Many of the great halls and rooms were lined with hospital beds to accommodate the masses; however the dining room kept its function. This was for the staff and the able bodied men to eat like a regular man would outside of war and to being a boosted moral having been taken care of in the Winter Palace. During the First World War, the collection housed in the winter palace was transported to Moscow for safe keeping under the orders of the museum director at the time. It was not until 1921 that the collection returned to St Petersburg, due to the civil war that took place
On My visit to the Hunter Museum I chose the piece of art that I felt best related to. I picked the piece of art Pullman, by Hung Liu, because I loved the way they worked together to accomplish a mission. Pullman is a 2 dimensional wall piece created by Hung Liu in 2004, and was later purchased by the Hunter Museum in 2009. Pullman is A 66x132 inch oil on canvas, colored paining and is displayed on the wall in the museum. There is a wall text about the piece that can be found next to the painting. The painting is hard to define from close distance, but the farther you stand away the colors and textures come together. The paining is on a wall by itself, and is truly a breathtaking piece. We often take for granted the luxuries we have in the United States.
In Stephen Weil’s essay, he argues “the museum’s role has transformed from one of mastery to one of service” (Weil, 196). According to him, museums have changed their mission from one that cultures the public to one that serves
The facility was smaller than expected by many on the tour group. However, the tour guide had a very nice explanation to each of the artworks. By visiting the museum to gain the aesthetic experience it has open many people point of views to how they can express his or her self through art.
In every museum, each exhibition represents a series of decisions that some individual or group undertook to compile a series of artifacts together in a display. Often times people fail to recognize the amount of time and several steps one took in order to assemble each arrangement. Source A, source B, and source C each mention different, crucial considerations one mast take into account when facing the responsibility of securing a new artifact for a museum.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art came about as an idea from Jon Jay in Paris, France in 1866 with the idea of “national institution gallery of art” within the United States. Once this idea was proposed, it was immediately moved forward with his return to the United States. With the help of the Union League Club in NY they began to acquire civic leaders, businessmen, artists, and collectors who aided in the creation of the museum. For over 140 years, the visitors who go here have received everything the mission of the institution states.
The trip to the metropolitan museum was a great trip to learn and to study art. What is art you may ask, well art is an expression you use to show a visual picture. It can be through painting or through sculptures. Some other example of art is music, literature and dancing. For today 's paper we will be talking about art as a sculpture. The two sculptures in this photo are King Sahure and a Nome God and Marble Statue of Dionysos leaning on archaistic female figure (Hope Dionysos). You can find these statues in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. King Sahure and a Nome God is an Egyptian art that was made in 2458-2446 BCE. The artist is unknown. It was during the 5th dynasty and it also belong to the old kingdom. The Marble statue of Dionysos Leaning in the archaistic female figure is a Greco-Roman art. Belonging to the Roman imperial period of the late first century A.D. Augustan or Julio-Claudian period 27 B.C., to 68 AD. It is classified as a stone sculpture and it is made out of marble. The height of the statues is 82 ¾ inches. There is no evidence who was the original artist.
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So this museum was built by the local resident’s memory piece by the piece. Moreover, those materials contain the haptic feeling and the past time would be collected and preserved.
In terms of the claim mentioned before it is noteworthy to understand the functions of both modern art museums and churches and cathedrals of the past. By focusing on (1) the modern art museums vs. cathedrals and churches of the past (2) the ritual of experience museums and churches (3) secular knowledge that art museums provide and (4) why I think art museums are the new platform for artist. In this essay I will use examples such as the Louvre in Paris and The National Gallery in London along with St. Pauls Cathedral in London and the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City to support my argument.
I have selected the artwork Three Trees, Two Clouds by John Beerman 1990 because it caught my attention as soon as I entered the room. Its bright pinks and oranges just captivated me and pulled me in. As soon as I saw the artwork, it brought up good memories of when I use to live in upstate New York; which made me feel happy and helped me enjoy the painting even more. I was so captivated by the painting that I could not keep my eyes off it. As I sat on the cushion and stared at the painting for a while longer, it made me feel very peaceful and relaxed. I felt as if I could have sat there all day and just enjoy the beautiful painting. I adore landscapes and taking pictures of them, which is also what attracted me to this artwork; it reminded me of my passion for photography and how much I enjoy capturing beautiful landscapes such as this one. The colors that the sky can create fascinate me so much, and spark my creativity.
There are many different definitions of museum but will state one here from the most common site to access Wikipedia.
Museums thus provide an insight into the history and give lessons to learn. Moreover many art museums that are present in the city contain a large number of
It was founded in the 16th century thus; it is one of the oldest museums in the world. The museum features 7km of historically, cultural artifacts. You will love the paintings here as these are very impressive. There are audio guides available in a cheap price. That can be bought to have the full knowledge of the different famous statues.
Zagreb is called “a city of museums as there are more of them per square foot than any other city in the world”. Some of these are the “Strossmayer Gallery, the Gallery of Modern Art, the Ethnographic Museum, and the Mimara museum which, with almost 4,000 priceless objects, is one of the finest art galleries in Europe.” Other interesting artifacts located in Zagreb are the “longest piece of writing in ancient Etruscan, and the remains of the Krapina prehistoric man.”
Museum is a place for people to collect data, to explore the history, to learn and get engaged with the information provided. Museum is also documenting the artifacts and provides vast of collection works from various field such as artistic, scientific, historical and cultural that available for public viewing through exhibits. Alexander and Alexander (2008) stated that museum is a non-profit permanent institution in the service of society and development which are open to the public which acquires conserves researches, communicates and exhibits for the purpose of study, education and enjoyment, material evidence of people and their environment. On the other hand, museum also provides information in the environment where people