Museum Essays

The Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, or MACBA) is situated on a previously monastic enclave near the historic Casa de la Caritat, in the Plaça dels Àngels, in El Raval, Ciutat Vella, in Barcelona. It was designed by Richard Meier & Partners (1987-1995). The building’s …

            I paid a visit to the Discovery Museum of Sacramento where I found the Gold Rush History Center to be extremely unique, well organized and full of displays that offered so much valuable information about the history of the city of Sacramento.             The interesting history of Sacramento took …

            The Barnes Foundation is one of the most impressive museums in Philadelphia.  It displays many of the works of the masters such as works by Paul Cézanne, George de Chirico, Paul Gauguin, El Greco, Francisco Goya, Edouard Manet, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Maurice …

The title of the painting is “The Hay Wain”. The Hay Wain is the horse-drawn cart in the painting. The scene is in the countryside of Suffolk, England, the artist’s boyhood home. The cart is crossing the river Stour, a winding river found in the farm owned by the artist’s …

As I entered the gallery where the Bust of Queen Nefertiti was displayed, my attention came to a complete focous on the work. The lifelike beauty radiating from this work of art has the ability to capture all attention in the room. I could only imagine that Queen Nefertiti had …

In the book “Blink” by Malcolm Gladwell, the central theory that Gladwell presents is that often the decisions and observations made in only a split-second, in the blink of the eye, are better than decisions which are made after extensive thought. To present and justify this idea Gladwell describes the …

I attended the art museum at the Getty Center built on the mountain sides of north Los Angeles. While attending the Getty I chose to photograph the ‘Madonna and Child’ along with ‘Flowers Still Life’ and my textbook object was the Galatea. My first museum object the Madonna and Child …

Section A: Aim of Investigation After they seized power in Cambodia in April 1975, Saloth “Pol Pot” Sar and the Khmer Rouge were responsible for the death of 1.5-3 million Cambodian’s and were perhaps one of the most ruthless regimes of the 20th century. The aim of this investigation is …

Museum is a place used for storing and displaying different objects, illustrating different cultures, natural history, art and craft. It aims to bringing before public mind new things discovered and new researches made. National Museum is one of the great museums of Malaysia. It is located on Jalan Damansara in …

After visiting the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston for the first time, I observed many interesting works of art representing various time periods. Of all the paintings that I saw last week, two landscaped pieces seemed to stick out in my mind; Andre Derain’s The Turning Road and Thomas …