For next week... (11/07)
Writing Assignment: Journal 9 (below)
Project homework: Final research paper (7-10 pages)
Reading: The Internet, pp. 255-291; The Communications Infrastructure, pp. 357-389
- JOURNAL 9 - DUE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28TH
Visit a museum of your choice. Respond to your visit by giving a brief summary, analysis and reaction, keeping the following questions in mind:
- Who created the museum? Why?
- What is the main message of the museum?
- Who is the target audience?
- Who is paying for the museum (ads, private sponsers, gov't grants, etc.)?
- What is left out of the museum? What biases are visible?
- NYC Museums
- Museum of the Moving Image
- Lower East Side Tenement Museum
- American Museum of Natural History
- Ellis Island Immigration Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Museum of Modern Art
12 comments:
The African American Burial Ground was started in the late 17th century in New York City, free and eslaved slaves were buried outside the city walls, sometimes in unmarked graves. They wer denied equality when they were alive, they were also denied burial in consecrated ground. It was between 15,000 and 20,000 children, women and men buriedid within a 7 acre area which is called today the African American Burial Ground National Monument. Africans were separated from their families and sujected to a voyage across the Atlantic in closley packed ships were disease, abuse and death were all to common. The African American Burial ground was originall known as the Negroes Burial Ground, which was situated outside of the Northern boundaries of the city. The burial ground rediscovery inspired research on the lives and countries of origins of these Africans revealing the diversity of their cultures and their tranfomation into America. The Burial Ground was uncovered during pre-construction phase of 290 Broadway. Less than an acre of the approximately 7 acres of the histrical cemetery was excavated between 1991 and 1992. Of these there are 419 human ancestral remain were removed. And then the 419 remain were return and reinterred in October 2003. It was establihed February 2006 and open October 2007. Which was designed by Rodney Leon. This memorial is called The Ancestral Libation Chamber.
Michelle Johnson
History of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 by a group of American Businessmen and financiers, Artists and thinkers . It first opened in 1872 at 681 Fifth Avenue. In 1873, it moved to the Douglas Mansion, at 128 West 14the Street. Then The Museum moved to its current location in Central park in 1880. The building is own by the city of New York with approximately two million square feet. The museum’s work of art is a nonprofit corporation and the governing body of the corporation holds the works of art in trust.
There are different culture that visit the museum, including international visitors from different countries. The message is to bring art and art education to American people. Metropolitan Museum of Art has photographs of American Arts. European Sculpture and Decorative Arts. I did really enjoy visiting The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, I went with my daughter who enjoyed all the museum’s collection of art.
The mission of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is to collect, preserve, study, exhibit, and develop appreciation for and advance knowledge of work of art representing the broadest spectrum of human achievement at the highest level of quality, all in the service of the public specifying with the highest professional standards.
I would recommend anyone to visit this museum because they will learn much of the American’s Art and from other country’s arts. It was the first time I visited The Metropolitan Museum of Art has daily programs for all students.
Martha Fuentes
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I have my grandson with me, therefore I decided to go to the New York transit museum gallery annex at grand central terimal which can be eductional and fun for my grandson, and learning about the museum at the same time. The exhibition was created by lionel, to show the different kinds of trains from cargo, to passenagers trains, to the start of the subway system. On October 27, 1904 the subway system came into existance. The museum gallery showed men working hard to build the tracks which will be able to carry the train from one point to another. The museum was created for the public to view the way the subway in the begining, because it will teach the public and out of towners the history of New York subway system. The message is all about trains, and how they were made. The target audience is anyone who is intrested in trains, and children, because they seem to really love trains such as my grandson. The museum is being funded by lionel, who is the biggest sponser, and Grand Central Terminal, during it's renewal of the termial. What is left out of this museum, is having a train ride on one of the lionel trains, as a ride for the children to feel like they are the ones driving the train. The only biases I view was that, my son grandson, and myself was the only people of color in the museum, and the museum had a shop to buy little trains as well as big train sets, and I notice the security guard ( who's black), seem to be following my son and myself around the store, and no one else. Other than that, the museum was very good and it was hard to get my grandson out of the museum, therefore, what do that tell you about how good the museum is for every child.
Linda Shorts
The American Museum of Natural History is a nonprofit research institution chartered as a Museum and Library by the State of New York in 1869. Since that time the Library has grown into the largest natural history library in the Western Hemisphere. The Library's primary function is to serve and support the work of the Museum's scientific staff. The Library also serves scholars in natural history from around the world, as well as interested members of the general public. The Library's holdings are comprised of a research collection, special collections, and digital collections. The research collection is made up of more than 450,000 volumes, as well electronic resources and microform materials. Subject areas include anthropology, astronomy, geology, paleontology, zoology and, to some extent, exploration and travel, history of science, and museology. This collection provides a continuous record of the natural world dating back to the beginnings of Western science in the 15th century, and is particularly strong in the historical materials important to research in systematics. In its early years, the Library expanded its book and serial collections mostly through such gifts as the John C. Jay conchological library, the Carson Brevoort library on fishes and general zoology, the ornithological library of Daniel Giraud Elliot, the Harry Edwards entomological library, the Hugh Jewett collection of voyages and travel, and the Jules Marcou geology collection. In 1903 the American Ethnological Society deposited its library in the Museum and in 1905 the New York Academy of Sciences followed suit by transferring its collection of 10,000 volumes. In 1997 the Library incorporated the Richard S. Perkin Collection in Astronomy and Astrophysics of the former Hayden Planetarium. This collection consists of over 8,000 volumes, 55 journal titles, over 10,000 photographs, and archives dating back to 1934, one year before the opening of the original Hayden Planetarium.
I went to the Museum with my husband where we visited the Space Show at the Hayden Planetarium where, with the Zeiss Star Projector not only gave you the feeling of three-dimension but the feeling that we were actually moving, flying through space. We also saw the Milky-way Galaxy, which is one of the thousands of galaxies in the Virgo Supercluster, it is unimaginable that this huge Supercluster is only a very small part of the known Universe. We saw gas and dust nebulas, globular clusters, the rings of Saturn, and the Moons of Jupiter. Following the explosive Big Bang, we exited onto the Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn Cosmic Pathway, a dramatic, spiraling ramp that took us through 13 billion years of cosmic evolution. At the start of the walkway, we could measure the length of our stride and determine how many millions of years pass with each step. Thirteen markers along the way denote the passage of each billion years, and at eight landings, computer interactives are available to help visitors visualize how large the universe was at that point in time. To illustrate the development of the universe, astronomical images highlight each era in which you stand. Artifacts are also on display, including evidence of the earliest bacterial life on Earth and the fossilized tooth of a giant carnivorous dinosaur. At the end of the circular pathway, the thickness of a human hair illustrates the relative duration of human history, from cave paintings to the present. I would recommend everyone to visit this museum.
Sharon Teekasingh
"The Weeksvile Historic Museum"
The community of Weeksville is an historic African American community located in central Brooklyn originally formed by African Americans during early post slavery New York. In 1838 James Weeks a free slave purchased an area of land from Henry C. Thompson also a free slave. This area of land was located in the ninth ward of Brooklyn, before Brooklyn became a borough of New York City. Although slavery was outlawed in New York, life for Blacks in NY was still very difficult. Weeksville provided a refuge from a world of misery and discrimination experienced by those former slaves.
Weeksville had its own churches, newspaper, elderly home,orphanage, and even its own baseball team, the unknowns”. Weeksville also had its own share of individuals, who achieved intellectual notoriety
such as Henry Highland Garnet, renowned Presbyterian preacher and abolitionist , and
Susan Smith- McKinney Stewart the first Black female to practice medicine in New York State.Weeksville is a true testament of the African American spirit of triumph.
Like Linda I also visited the Holiday Train Exhibit at the Transit Museum Grand Central Annex. Joshua Lionel donated his trains to the exhibit. The only thing I can add on is that Joshua Lionel Cowen, NYS Council on the Arts, A state agency, and NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs are the sponsors.
P.S. The guard followed me also, I almost asked him why was he doing that?
DW
For my museum field trip, I chose to visit the Btonx Museum of the Arts. The museum is located in The Bronx on the Grand Concourse.
The Bronx Museum was founded in 1971 by a group of local residents to bring the visual arts to the Bronx. It has remained the only fine arts museum in the Bronx.
The main message of the museum addresses an ongoing commitment to exhibit, preserve, and document the work of artisits not typically represented within more traditional museum collections.
It is the Museum's hope to serve as a cultural leader in the South Bronx and as a catalyst for economic development within the surrounding communities.
The targer audience is the Youth and Families of diversed cultures.
The City of New York purchsed and donated the building which the museum is housed.
The museum collection is composed of more than 800 contemporary works of art in all media, conveying a broad range of modern and contemporary art practices. What is left out is the traditional art exhibits. The museum focuses on culturally diverse and under-recognized artists from a spectrum of levels, on themes of special interest to the Bronx Community, and themes that explore the intersections between popular culture and contemporary art.
This can be considered a visible biases; A museum that only focuses on culturally diverese and under-recognized artists.
There great exhibits that I viewed during my visit.
It is a great museum located in my borough The Bronx!!!!
T. Williams
The museum I visited was the New York Transit Museum. The museum is located in a subway station in Brooklyn Heights. The museum was opened in 1936. There was not one person responsible for the creation of the museum, in fact it came about from NYC Transit employees and Volunteers. The museum was opened to show how mass transit has changed through the years. Transportation started with the horse and buggy to fuel and electrical powered vehicles. There are some train lines that work electronically, where you do not physically need a person to run the train. The message the museum is displaying is how advanced our society has become in mass transportation. The fare for riding the bus and trains was as low as five cents. Coins were used to pay the fare, then tokens were used for trains, buses and different tokens were used for the bridges and tunnels. All of these methods are used to pay the fare. The museum gets it funding from donations, revenue from other MTA agencies and proceeds from the transit museum shops
I thought it is fascinating how transportation has changed over the years.
I.I.
I enjoyed my visit to the American Museum of Natural History on Tuesday, Nov. 6th. My fiancee and I both went and I think he had a better time than I did. To our surprise, the Museum reminded us of our class trips when we were younger. We laughed and joked about that for a minute. We started our excursion on the first floor and walked around to the various exhibits and halls of the Museum. If memory serves me right, we spent a good three hours in the American Museum of Natural History. It was crowded. There were many people there that day. It was a nice brisk day for a trip to the Museum. We toured the Wing Hall of Dinosaurs, 4th Floor. We took pictures of the various dinosaurs and my financee even took pictures of me next to the dinosaurs. (It was hilarious). We had a really nice time sharing the moment @ the Musueum. The American Museum of Natural History is a nonprofit research institution chartered as a Museum and Library by the State of New Yokr in 1869. Since that time the Library has grown into the largest natural history library in the Western Hemisphere. The target audience is conservation researcheres with little or no remote. During more research i also found out that there were many people who created the museum. The museum's exterior is designated an official NYC landmark, by G.D. Stout who became President of the Museum. (The Hall of African People on the 2nd Floor). I would definately recommend everyone to visit this Museum. Cathy
My Trip To the Brooklyn Museum
On Saturday December 5th 2007 I went to the Brooklyn Museum. I wanted to observe some
of the Indian Culture. When I arrived I was excieted to see the displays of all the Indian sulptures, satues, and many paintings. I went to see how the indians dressed, they wore bright colors for ex.
Reds, yelloe, and green. The cloth was strong and the coats were heavy. Made out of animal skin.
In 1940 the first ponco was designed, this is unbelieable because poncos are 64 years old.
People are wearing them in 2004 and have no ideal the history behind them.As I went to the other floors and observed different sculpures and big statues there was history lesson in everything I saw that day.
Here are two statues I observed, one was called a Nuu -chah -nuth also knowned as a speaker figure in the ecocl village in 1912 the indians would pick a man to stand behind the speaker figure and announce who was coming into the tribe to visit. He would announce who was coming and going, and the nature of their business.
The second thing was a huge tree abount 10 to 12 inches high. It was carved with several different images and expressions it was called a todum pole. Also in the 19th century this todum ploe stood out in front of the house., it was used to ward off evil sprits and unwanted guests. Me and my son had a good time at the Brooklyn Museum and took away from this experience that it is important to know your history and embrace otheres as well.
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Theresa Tribble #9
The movie “Network” made for quiet a laugh. The main character Howard Beale was not able to get ratings for the show he hosted. While Howard seemed to be frustrated the network was even more so and wanted to get rid of him. Howard knowing that he was being fired went on the show and announced that he would commit suicide. Howard is fired but is allowed to return on a promise that he would apologize to his audience. Instead of an apology, Howard again talks about the effects of life and how it is ‘bullshit’. The ratings for the program immediately soar and then the executives of the network are now arguing that Howard should be kept on. A new show is created and Howard is able to say explicitly and do as he pleases. On one show he was able to get his audience to yell out a window.
This movie is a typical example of everyday life and how one can be used to garner ratings or enhance a business even if they are not considered essential in the environment that they work. In Howard’s case when things did not work out the way executives wished, an on air murder during one of Howard’s show was enacted in order to get rid of him.
Yvette S.
The Africian Burial ground in lower manhattan represent the important role and major contribution Africian slaves made to the economy development and culture of america. It's has been estimated that as many as 200 burials remains undisturbed on this site. The remains that are found at 290 Broadway are of African descendant. The memorial of the African Burial Ground National Monument honors their memories, was open october, 2007
Maria
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