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Museums
Museums are an important way of educating the public and preserving what is valuable to human society and culture. They are both a repository and a showcase of human knowledge and achievement, in the fields of art, science, technology, history and more.
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Facts about the cloisters museum?
Hi there,
The Cloisters is a specialized branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Its collection is of Medieval European artworks, and it is geographically separate from the main site of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Many facts about the Cloisters and its collections can be found at the Metropolitan Museum's website, <http://www.metmuseum.org/visit/visit-the-cloisters>.
As well as the Wikipedia entry for the Museum: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cloisters>
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's website also has pages devoted to publications by the Museum, where you may find the book "A Walk through the Cloisters", giving introductory information about the site. This book appears as a primary result when searching the METpublications with "Cloisters" as a keyword, and brings up a few other publication results about the Cloisters that might interest you.
These results may also be available in a library near you. You can find them through Wordlcat.org at: <http://www.worldcat.org/title/walk-through-the cloisters/oclc/5029042&referer=brief_results>. This is a great website to discover library materials on subjects across the world, or to locate anything that might be at your local library for use.
If you like, many travel and tourism websites also provide site reviews and other general information about visiting the Cloisters:
<http://gonyc.about.com/od/museums/p/the_cloisters.htm>
<http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g60763-d106609-r62525000-The_Cloisters-New_York_City_New_York.html>
I hope this helps to find the facts you're looking for,
I'd be happy to help if you needed anything else!
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Where was the first public museum in the US established?
The United States of America's oldest public park, Boston Common was purchased by its citizens in 1634 for 30 Pounds and officially set aside as public or "common" land by a vote in 1640. The park's original purpose was for military training grounds and a place for grazing cattle.
Where is the Fayette Art Museum in Fayette Alabama located?
The address of the Fayette Art Museum is: 530 Temple Avenue North, Fayette, AL 35555-2211
Where is the National Slavery Museum Foundation in Richmond Virginia located?
The address of the Us National Slavery Museum is: 1320 Central Park Blvd, Fredericksburg, VA 22401
What is the phone number of the Daviess County Historical Museum in Washington Indiana?
The phone number of the Daviess County Historical Museum is: 812-254-0588.
Where is the London Museum located?
The London Museum on 150 London Wall, London EC2Y 5HN. It is where the wall crosses Aldersgate Street. You can get to the museum by taking the tube, rail or bus.
Why was the imperial war museum build?
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Where is the Children'S Museum-Three Rivers in Pasco Washington located?
The address of the Children'S Museum-Three Rivers is: 5274 Outlet Dr, Pasco, WA 99301
Where is the National Museum Of Crime And Punishment in Washington located?
The address of the National Museum Of Crime And Punishment is: 575 7Th St NW, Washington, DC 20004
What is the phone number of the Tupelo Auto Museum Inc in Tupelo Mississippi?
The address of the Tupelo Veterans Museum is: 689 Rutherford Rd, Tupelo, MS 38801
The address of the Mid-America Windmill Museum is: 732 S Allen Chapel Rd, Kendallville, IN 46755
What is the phone number of the Hockaday Museum Of Arts in Kalispell Montana?
The address of the Hockaday Museum Of Arts is: 302 2Nd Ave E, Kalispell, MT 59901-4942
Where is the Longhorn Museum in Pleasanton Texas located?
The address of the Longhorn Museum is: 1959 E State Highway 97, Pleasanton, TX 78064
What kind of art does the met have?
The "met" or presumably the Metropolitan Museum of Art has a great deal of displays from a variety of artists. These displays include both new and old paintings, statues, and other items which may be classified as "artistic". The range of paintings on display range from the abstract to the direct. To find out more, you may want to visit their website.
Where is the Quincy Museum in Quincy Illinois located?
The address of the Quincy Museum is: 1601 Maine St, Quincy, IL 62301-4264
How many items can the natural history museum hold?
Over 70 million:
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/collections-at-the-museum/intro-to-our-collections/index.html
What is the phone number of the Fort Uncompahgre Living History Museum in Delta Colorado?
The phone number of the Fort Uncompahgre Living History Museum is: 970-874-7973.
Where is the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem Massachusetts located?
The Salem Witch Museum is located in Salem, Massachusetts. They offer information on the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 and they show the evolution of witches over the years.
When did the natural history museum open?
The American Museum of Natural History was founded in 1869 by a group of prominent New Yorkers, including, among others,
Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., the father of
and
Joseph H. Choate, The Museum was originally housed in
the
Central Park. Construction of the first building was begun in 1874 and completed in 1877, and the building has been added to many times since.
The original
building was designed by Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould. The most recent significant addition (or substantial renovation of the old Hayden Planetarium) was the Rose Center Planetarium, completed in 2000.
Museums put together exhibitions in order to?
present a comprehensive collection of a particular kind of art.
How does a Muse relate to a museum?
Museum is a latinized word from the ancient Greek word mouseion an adjective from mousa or 'Muse' a human female person worshipped for the particular art she represented, eg Clio for history. As a noun to mouseion referred to a temple of the Muses or place dedicated to the Muses, the Muses being the collective of 9 individual personifications. In Ancient Greece the museum became a building devoted to scholarship, although none was as famous as the Museum of Alexandria in Egypt which was open from 300BC to 400AD. In Western Europe the emphasis was on collected objects, natural and man made. The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England, dates from 1678, the British Museum, London, from 1753, the oldest museum in the USA is thought to be Charleston Museum SC from 1770.
Where is the Choctaw Museum in Hugo Oklahoma located?
The address of the Choctaw County Genealogy Association is: 703 E Jackson Street, Hugo, OK 74743-4026
What is the phone number of the Polson Museum in Hoquiam Washington?
The address of the Polson Museum is: 1611 Riverside Ave, Hoquiam, WA 98550-2739
