Museum Essay

On the inside of the bed, next to the wall, he could feel with his hands, the comfortable piece of lead pipe. Outside the world was still except for the weeds that swayed with the frosty breeze and the occasional howl of victory from a wolf who got his prey. In the stillness of the frigid night, behind twisted, pale trees, a dark silhouette emerged from the shadows. He passed under jagged crystals while his breaths, for a moment, hung suspended in front of him before they disappeared. The snow…

Symbol Example from story Importance Act 1: Nature “Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.”- Lady Macbeth (Act 1 scene 5 line 72-73) “The air nimbly and sweetly recommends itself unto our gentle sense.” - King Duncan (Act 1, Scene 6, Line 1-2) “... heaven’s breath smells wooingly here.” - Banquo (Act 1, Scene 6, Line 6-7) All of these lines compare Macbeth to something in nature. Lady Macbeth’s line says that Macbeth needs to look like a flower but really be a snake deep…

At the Huber Machinery Museum, located at the Marion County Fairgrounds various Huber equipment are preserved. Students saw various Huber tractors, harvesting equipment, and other farming equipment. During my visit I noticed the Huber Corn Husker & Shredder and at first glance it looked like thresher machines used to process the grain. After speaking to volunteers at the museum, the Huber Corn Husker & Shredder displays some social history, and how it is innovative for the farmer. The Huber…

The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art consists of an abundant amount of unique and interesting pieces of art. While touring the museum, I found several pieces of art in which were rather amazing at how they were created; one could tell a lot of thought and hours of dedication were put into each piece. While there were so many pieces to choose from, I chose two pieces which stood out to me the most to discuss in my paper, one is The Jackleg Testament, Part One Jack and Eve: A Woodcut Motion…

One of my classes at the University of Iowa allowed me to go to an exhibit in the Old Capital Museum called “THEM: Images of Separation.” This exhibit it a traveling exhibit that will only be on campus for a little while longer. The exhibit has a meaning to it that is very beneficial and I wanted to tell you about what I saw and how it affected me. I hope that this encourages you to go to the museum before it is gone. The first image from the exhibit that affected me was the “bitch game”. At…

For this thesis, I travelled to the Snite Museum of Art on Notre Dame University’s campus in South Bend, Indiana. I chose this particular museum for the simple fact that I had indubitably limited transportation and time windows. The piece of art that will be discussed in this theses is the Human/jaguar transformation head on a tenon. The artwork was a gift to the Snite museum I visited from a gentleman known as Peter David Joralemon in 2005. Properly displayed within the Snite, the viewer can…

The Timken Museum of Art has its roots in the coincidental San Diego Relationship between two sisters, the Misses Anne R. and Amy Putnam, members of the Timken family of the Timken roller bearing treasure, and a local attorney, Walter Ames. The affluent Putnam sisters arrived in San Diego in the early 1900s from Vermont, accompanied by their elderly parents and preceded by a millionaire uncle, Henry Putnam. The two sisters never were married, spent decades obtaining Old Masters. Initial…

Looking over the list of art galleries, one uniquely caught my eye; The Elmhurst Art Museum located in Elmhurst IL. Wandering through the museum's website, I stumbled upon an article that stated that David Wallace Haskins, a Chicago-based artist of the Skycube would be making an appearance on Sunday, November 29th. I thought that was interesting, so I decided to check it out. When I arrived, I was greeted by a thin older woman who smiled at me warmly. Right away, she asked me if I was a…

W. H. Auden is a very well respected author in both American literature and also British Literature. One of his very famous pieces of writing is the poem In the Museum of Beautiful Art, as it is translated in English, is a very famous poem that is written about a painting. The painting might have been even more famous than the poem, it was a painting called The Fall of Icarus. Icarus is a Greek character that had a father as an inventor, unfortunately Icarus got in some trouble and ended up…

To the Federal Government of Canada. I am writing on behalf of the Museum of Science and Technology in Ottawa as an exhibition planner and we are currently in the process of preparing for next year’s special exhibition. Each year, the museum displays an exhibit which has had a significant impact on human history. An object rich in history and culture would be Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press. This object was the invention that historians consider brought civilization to an entirely new level…