Author : Molly Oldfield
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,91 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Museums
ISBN : 9781526360281
Open up this treasure trove of wonders to visit 43 museums and 50 exhibits! Discover the most fascinating and mysterious objects found in museums, from star attractions to unsung exhibits. With Molly Oldfield, research elf of hit television show QI, unearth the astonishing stories of how these treasures were created, found and finally displayed.
Author : Yen Musson
Publisher :
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 44,32 MB
Release : 2021-03-09
Category :
ISBN :
Let's experience fine art at one of the top 50 museums in the world. In this Great Museums Of The World book, you will discover: - Acropolis Museum // Greece - British Museum // UK - Forbidden City // China - Goethe House & Goethe Museum // Germany - Imperial War Museum // UK - Museum of Alchemists & Magicians of Old Prague // Czech Republic - Museum of Mummies of Guanajuato // Mexico - National Museum of Anthropology // Mexico - Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret // UK - Prison Gate Museum // The Netherlands - Sir John Soane's Museum // UK - Styrian Armoury // Austria - Torture Museum // The Netherlands - Vasa Museum // Sweden - Viking Ship Museum // Norway - Whitney Plantation // USA - The world around us // Natural history museums - Kunstkamera // Russia 6 - Messner Mountain Museum // Italy - Sarawak State Museum // Malaysia - Smithsonian Institution // USA - Human creativity // Art & culture museums And so much more! Take a chance to discover 50 attractive museums in the world!
Author : Horace Moehle
Publisher :
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 25,43 MB
Release : 2021-03-23
Category :
ISBN :
Let's experience fine art at one of the top 50 museums in the world. In this Great Museums Of The World book, you will discover: - Acropolis Museum // Greece - British Museum // UK - Forbidden City // China - Goethe House & Goethe Museum // Germany - Imperial War Museum // UK - Museum of Alchemists & Magicians of Old Prague // Czech Republic - Museum of Mummies of Guanajuato // Mexico - National Museum of Anthropology // Mexico - Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret // UK - Prison Gate Museum // The Netherlands - Sir John Soane's Museum // UK - Styrian Armoury // Austria - Torture Museum // The Netherlands - Vasa Museum // Sweden - Viking Ship Museum // Norway - Whitney Plantation // USA - The world around us // Natural history museums - Kunstkamera // Russia 6 - Messner Mountain Museum // Italy - Sarawak State Museum // Malaysia - Smithsonian Institution // USA - Human creativity // Art & culture museums And so much more! Take a chance to discover 50 attractive museums in the world!
Author : Aldo Palko
Publisher :
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 40,53 MB
Release : 2021-03-08
Category :
ISBN :
Let's experience fine art at one of the top 50 museums in the world. In this Great Museums Of The World book, you will discover: - Acropolis Museum // Greece - British Museum // UK - Forbidden City // China - Goethe House & Goethe Museum // Germany - Imperial War Museum // UK - Museum of Alchemists & Magicians of Old Prague // Czech Republic - Museum of Mummies of Guanajuato // Mexico - National Museum of Anthropology // Mexico - Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret // UK - Prison Gate Museum // The Netherlands - Sir John Soane's Museum // UK - Styrian Armoury // Austria - Torture Museum // The Netherlands - Vasa Museum // Sweden - Viking Ship Museum // Norway - Whitney Plantation // USA - The world around us // Natural history museums - Kunstkamera // Russia 6 - Messner Mountain Museum // Italy - Sarawak State Museum // Malaysia - Smithsonian Institution // USA - Human creativity // Art & culture museums And so much more! Take a chance to discover 50 attractive museums in the world!
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 23,73 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Museums
ISBN :
Author : Giuliana Bruno
Publisher : Verso
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 44,21 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781859848029
Maps a cultural history of spatio-visual art emphasizing that "sight" and "site" but also "motion" and "emotion" are irrevocably connected.
Author : Steve Green
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,47 MB
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310351480
From Steve and Jackie Green, founders and curators of the Museum of the Bible--a fascinating exploration of the history, authenticity, and power of the Bible, the book that has changed people and nations throughout the centuries. It is the top selling book in history. It brings social upheaval, international arguments, and political controversy. It has been used to justify both love and war. And for generations, it has found its way into the hearts of millions, offering comfort, direction, and life-changing truths. How could one book have such power? In This Dangerous Book, Steve and Jackie Green explore the incredible history and impact of the Bible. As the founders and visionaries of the Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C., the Greens have a unique perspective on the Bible's journey--from its ancient beginnings, to its effect on the moral fiber of nations, to its transformative influence in individual hearts. The Greens share the challenges they have faced in acquiring biblical artifacts from around the world and why generations--in every time period and in every geographical location--have risked their lives to preserve this precious book. Exploring ancient tablets, medieval commentaries, and modern translations, This Dangerous Book offers fascinating insight into the miracles and martyrdoms that have led to the Scriptures we read today. The Greens explore how cutting-edge technology gives new insight into the authenticity of the Bible, including the work of fifty scholars who recently uncovered hidden details about thirteen unpublished Dead Sea Scroll fragments. This Dangerous Book also looks at the link between the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, what we can learn from how the Bible was passed down to us, and why God's Word is foundational to America's past and crucial for its future. The Bible is a world-changer and a heart-changer. Whether you have read the Bible for years or are simply curious about its influence, This Dangerous Book could change your heart as well.
Author : Constantin Iordachi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 24,7 MB
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1350103721
This volume offers fresh perspectives on the representation of the recent past in museums of the Second World War and of communism in post-communist Eastern Europe. It does so against the background of recent European-wide debates on history, memory and politics. The contributors from across Europe focus comparatively on a wide variety of case studies, pointing out similarities and differences, and accounting for transnational patterns of remembrance at regional and European level. Occupation and Communism in Eastern European Museums argues that museums have a huge influence on the image of the communist past in Eastern Europe. It shows how they use a vast array of media tools, visual tactics and commercial strategies in order to substantiate ideological approaches to the past and to shape the attitude of public opinion.
Author : Bettina Messias Carbonell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 16,36 MB
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1405173815
Updated to reflect the latest developments in twenty-first century museum scholarship, the new Second Edition of Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts presents a comprehensive collection of approaches to museums and their relation to history, culture and philosophy. Unique in its deep range of historical sources and by its inclusion of primary texts by museum makers Places current praxis and theory in its broader and deeper historical context with the collection of primary and secondary sources spanning more than 200 years Features the latest developments in museum scholarship concerning issues of inclusion and exclusion, repatriation, indigenous models of collection and display, museums in an age of globalization, visitor studies and interactive technologies Includes a new section on relationships, interactions, and responsibilities Offers an updated bibliography and list of resources devoted to museum studies that makes the volume an authoritative guide on the subject New entries by Victoria E. M. Cain, Neil G.W. Curtis, Catherine Ingraham, Gwyneira Isaac, Robert R. Janes, Sean Kingston, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Sharon J. Macdonald, Saloni Mathur, Gerald McMaster, Sidney Moko Mead, Donald Preziosi, Karen A. Rader, Richard Sandell, Roger I. Simon, Crain Soudien, Paul Tapsell, Stephen E. Weil, Paul Williams, and Andrea Witcomb
Author : Karen A. Rader
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 34,41 MB
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 022607966X
Life on Display traces the history of biological exhibits in American museums to demonstrate how science museums have shaped and been shaped by understandings of science and public education in twentieth-century society. Karen Rader and Victoria Cain document how public natural history and science museums’ ongoing efforts to create popular educational displays led these institutions to develop new identities, ones that changed their positions in both twentieth-century science and American culture. They describe how, pre-1945, biological exhibitions changed dramatically--from rows upon rows of specimen collections to large-scale dioramas with push-button displays--as museums attempted to negotiate the changing, and often conflicting, interests of scientists, educators, and the public. The authors then reveal how, from the 1950s through the 1980s, museum staffs experimented with wildly different definitions of life science and life science education, and how, in the process, natural history and science museums and science centers faced significant public and scientific scrutiny. The book concludes with a discussion of the ways corporate sponsorship and contemporary blockbuster economics influenced the content and display of science and natural history museums in the century’s last decades. As a dynamic historical account of how museums negotiated their multiple roles in science and society, Life on Display will attract a diverse audience of cultural historians, sociologists, and ethnographers of science, as well as museum practitioners.
