About world museums

The Cotton Museum

noreply@blogger.com (Harindh) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:16:00 -0800

The Cotton Museum, located in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, is a historical and cultural museum opened in March 2006 on the former trading floor of the Memphis Cotton Exchange at 65 Union Avenue in downtown Memphis.The mission of the Cotton Museum is to share the story of the cotton industry and the many influences on daily life, art, and the development of the Mid-South region. The museum highlights objects through interpretive exhibits, educational programs and research archives that help tell the story of cotton and cotton trade, the harvest to be fabric.The Cotton Museum preserves the history of the cotton business and its impact on economics, history, society and culture, and science and technology. The museum exhibits are suitable for trips for middle school students and older, and provide the context for other visitor attractions in the city.

Osaka Maritime Museum

noreply@blogger.com (Harindh) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:11:00 -0800

The Osaka Maritime Museum is a maritime museum in Osaka, Japan. It was opened by the Mayor of Osaka City on July 14, 2000 have started on site in March 1998. Designed by architect Paul Andreu in Engineering Design and Arup Tohata.The museum was built on reclaimed land in Osaka Bay at a cost of 12.8bn yen, with a replica Edo Period trading ship, the Naniwa Maru in the center. The requirement of the dome to seismic, wave and wind loads and the successful completion, led to the building winning a structural Special Award in 2002 from the Institution of Structural Engineers resist UK.Osaka City wanted a museum that maritime reflected development history of the port. She planned to be placed on reclaimed land in Osaka Bay, where a number of office systems and a convention center was built to create a building to sign
people from the center. When approaching Paul Andreu he preliminary sketches show a dome, and suggested that the museum should be placed in the water itself and as a 300,000 sqm pool had to be excavated from the land reclamation with a spherical
dome seems to float in the bay, reached by a tunnel under water.Andreu, based on the dome of a Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome. Arup was responsible for the design of structural, mechanical,electrical and seismic technical solutions for the dome and the internal structure within the exhibitions, while the Japanese company had Tohata
responsible for the engineering of the building entrance, the tunnel under water and the dome base.

With a site consisting of 25 m of reclaimed land on the top 15 m of alluvial clay, piles were designed to be 40 m long. To prevent the building sinking into the ground like an earthquake causes liquefaction of the ground, the top 10 m of the piles designed as precast concrete piles with steel tubes. To prevent the building rises due to buoyancy of the piles were cast with a floor plate from 1.6 to 2.5 m thick enough to weight.The hemisphere landside building contains a ticket office, hall and administrative offices, with storage and plant space in two underground floors below. From the hall, visitors descend to the sunken tunnel in glass risers. The tunnel is made of reinforced concrete and is 15 m wide and 60 m long, but the shortest distance from the dome to the coast is 15 m.The final design was for a 20,000 m2 building, which consists of a 5,000 m2 land side entrance building, the 60m underwater tunnel of 1,000 m2, opening in the dome, four levels totaling 14,000 m2 locked.

Sydney Tramway Museum

noreply@blogger.com (Harindh) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:08:00 -0800

The Sydney Tramway Museum is an active streetcar museum located in Loftus in the southern suburbs of Sydney, Australia. Sydney Tramway Museum is the trade name of the South Pacific Electric Railway (blocking). The museum was officially opened in its original position on the edge of the Royal National Park by NSW Deputy Premier Pat Hills in 1965. It moved to a larger location on the Princes Highway, which opened on March 19, 1988. Prior to the opening of the new site of the museum was the tram at both locations.

The museum has an extensive collection of trams from Sydney and cities in Australia and around the world. There are two tram lines of
The museum used to run the tram rides to museum visitors. A line runs 1.5 miles north almost to Sutherland Station, a parallel suburban
highway in a manner typical of previous tram from Sydney. The second uses a former railway branch line to Illawarra's city rail
2 km to enter the Royal National Park, which borders southern flanks of Sydney. Some of the suburbs of Sydney electric train services used to terminate Royal National Park, but the line closed in 1991, and Waterfall is now the southern terminus of suburban electric train services on the Illawarra line.

The Sydney Tram Museum is run entirely by volunteers and self-finance its daily operations, restoration and construction programs of the port companies and donations from the public.

Museum of Trade Ceramics

noreply@blogger.com (Harindh) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:02:00 -0800

Located in a traditional house, this museum traces the origins of Hoi An as a trading port and provides the most prominent trade item. Objects from the 13th to 17th centuries and include Chinese and Thai works.

While many of the exhibits are in fragments, the real beauty of the place is that the very detailed descriptions are in English, giving you a real sense of the origins of the city and its history. also
the architecture and the renovation of the old house are thoroughly explained, and you are free to wander through the two floors, courtyard, and front room. After all the explanations distributed to other historic houses, you'll finally have a sense of what Hoi An architecture is all about.

Rutland Railway Museum

noreply@blogger.com (Harindh) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:41:00 -0800

Rutland Railway Museum is now trading under the name Rocks By train: The Living Ironstone Museum is a heritage railway on part of a former Midland Railway mineral branch line. It is located NE of Oakham, in Rutland, England. The branch line connected to the main Oakham to Melton Mowbray in Ashwell Station. Exchange sidings were once located at the museum for three separate private quarry railway systems associated with Past mining of iron ore. The museum site is known locally as Cottesmore Iron Ore Mines Sidings.

The museum aims to collect and display industrial locomotives and wagons and similar minerals from iron ore mines. They also face shovel

and dumpers used in a quarry. The cab of the dragline excavator huge Sundew is exhibited.

The museum operates trains on a 0.75 miles (1.21 km) length of the track and covers an area of nearly 7 acres (28,000 m²).

wagons

The museum has a wide selection of cars used for demonstrations on open days. Details are below.

Open Wooden Wagon rake

This rake is currently not operational.

Stanton Ironworks Co. 4 strips 624 wagon.
Stanton Iron Works Co. 5-plank wagon 818.
Stanton Iron Works Co. 5-plank wagon 849.
Stanton Iron Works Co. 5-plank wagon 860.
Stewarts and Lloyds four strips wagon 3046.
Stewarts and Lloyds four strips wagon 3153.

Hopper Wagon Train

This rake is available for use and can be seen in operation.

LMS Iron Ore Hopper Wagon M691079.
LMS Iron Ore Hopper Wagon M691193.
LMS Iron Ore Hopper Wagon M691448.
LMS Iron Ore Hopper Wagon M691595.
LMS Iron Ore Hopper Wagon M691982.
Appleby-Frodingham Iron Ore Hopper Wagon P210000.
Sheep Bridge Iron and Steel Co. Hopper Wagon 8251.
Steel Hopper Wagon private owner Mineral P15675.

noreply@blogger.com (Harindh) — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 08:54:00 -0800

New London's story is filled with famous names like Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry and Daniel Boone. It includes the great events of American history, particularly the Revolutionary War, when New London a Continental Army arsenal hosted and was the site of a Tory conspiracy. It is also the story of decay and rebirth, because the city's economic hardships suffered in the 19th century, but found new life as a glamorous summer resort. Perhaps most importantly, the story of New London is about the many families that the city and the surroundings of their home made over the last 250 year above.

Lyman Allyn Art Museum

noreply@blogger.com (Harindh) — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 08:48:00 -0800

Lyman Allyn Art Museum is a community-based museum in New London, Connecticut. Founded in 1932 by Harriet Upson Allyn in memory of her father, Lyman Allyn Museum, the population of Southeast Connecticut and is free to the residents of New London. The museum is accredited by the American Association of Museums and is a non-profit organization with 501 (c) 3 status. Lyman Allyn Art Museum is a founding member of the Connecticut Art Trail.

Housed in a beautiful neo-classical building designed by Charles A. Platt, the permanent collection includes over 10,000 paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, furniture and decorative arts, with emphasis on American art from the 18th to 20th centuries.

Lyman Allyn Art Museum offers a wide range of family friendly programs and classes as well as lectures and other events. We look forward to your visit.

Ostalgia Museum

noreply@blogger.com (Harindh) — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 08:38:00 -0800

Simon Starling's work process "Flaga" began in Turin, Italy in 2002, where a 1974 Fiat 126, which he acquired was built and developed. He drove the car to a Fiat factory in contemporary Bielsku-Biala, Poland, home of the Polski Fiat. Upon arrival, Starling replace the hood, trunk, and doors with white parts were produced in the Polish plant. He returned to Turin, stripped of the car and the chassis on the wall, in a representative view of the Polish flag. The resulting piece "Flaga (1972-2002)" represents a social commentary on the changing discourse between East and West in the past forty years.

The Fiat 126 was first introduced in 1972 at the Turin Motor Show as a replacement for the Fiat 500. Opened the Fiat factory in Poland in the early '70s, which presumably work and activities were more cost effective under Communist leadership. The Fiat 126 was not produced for customers in Western Europe after 1982, but continued to be manufactured in Poland until 2000. What was originally intended as an Italian city car became the symbol of the Polish daily life in the Communist Bloc.

The work is being shown as part of the larger concept of the group exhibition at the New Museum called "Ostalgia" - a German expression that describes a longing for life during the era of communist rule. More than fifty artists from twenty countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics are represented in the exhibition can be seen through Oct. 2 at the New Museum in Lower Manhattan.

ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL MUSEUM

noreply@blogger.com (Harindh) — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:23:00 -0700

Gene was born in Turbigo in Lombardy, and studied at the University of Pavia. He published many works on natural history, especially entomology. In 1828 he became lecturer in natural history at the University the following year he went to Hungary and returned with a collection of insects. Between 1833 and 1838 he made four trips to Sardinia collecting insects.

In 1830 succeeded Franco Andrea Bonelli Gene as a professor of zoology and director of the Royal Zoological Museum at Turin contains a picture of the gene. Most of his insect collection in the Turin Museum of Natural History. Duplicates are in the Museo di Storia Naturale de Milan Civic and Museo di Storia naturale, Pisa.

Slender-billed Gull Larus gene was named after him.

Science Museum

noreply@blogger.com (Harindh) — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:22:00 -0700

A science museum and a science center is a museum devoted primarily to science. Older science museums tended to concentrate on static displays objects related to natural history, paleontology, geology, industry and industrial machinery, etc. Modern trends in museology have broadened the range of issues and introduced many interactive exhibits. Many, if not most modern science museums - which is increasingly referred to themselves as "scientific centers" or "discovery centers" - that is also a lot of weight to technology. One of the main aspects of science are ignored in most museums is the history of the discipline. The pursuit of knowledge is full of trials and errors, but the science museums hardly ever recognize that human frailty and mistakes that go along with a story that lasts for centuries.

"... The public museum as understood today is a collection of specimens and other items of interest to the scholar, the man of science, and the most casual visitor, arranged and presented in accordance with the scientific method. In its original sense, "museum", the term meant a spot dedicated to the Muses - "a place where the mind of man could achieve a mood of aloofness above everyday affairs. '"- Technology Museum Jurassic, Introduction & History,

Since the Renaissance, many aristocrats collected curiosities for display to their friends. Universities and especially medical schools also maintained study collections of specimens for their students. Scientists and collectors appear finds in private offices of curiosities. Such collections were the predecessors of modern natural history museums. The Utrecht University Museum, among others, continues to display an extensive collection of 18th-century animals and humans "rare" in its original setting.

The first science museum was the Museo de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain. Opened in 1752, virtually disappeared during the regime of Franco, but then recovered and now works closely with the CSIC.

Another line in the genealogy of science museums came during the Industrial Revolution, with great national exhibits designed to highlight the triumphs of science and industry. For example, heavy exposure to Crystal Palace (1851) eventually led to the Science Museum in London.

In America, several of Natural History Societies was founded collections in the early 19th century, which became a museum. Notable was the first New England Museum of Natural History (now the Science Museum), opened in Boston in 1864. The Academy of Science of Saint Louis was founded in 1856 as the first scientific organization west of the Mississippi (although the organization for the management of scientific collections for decades an official museum is not created until the mid-20th century).

The modern interactive science museum seems to be pioneered by Deutsches Museum in Munich in the early 20th century. This museum had moving exhibits where visitors were encouraged to push buttons and levers work. The concept was taken to the U.S. from July Rosenwald, chairman of Sears, Roebuck and Company, who visited the Museum Deutsches Museum with young son in 1911. It was so-charmed by the experience that he decided to build a similar museum in the city of Chicago. Chicago Museum of Science and Industry opened in phases between 1933 and 1940.

In 1959 the Science Museum and Natural History (now the Saint Louis Science Center) was established officially by the Academy of Science of Saint Louis has many interactive exhibits of science and history.

In the mid-20th century, Frank Oppenheimer includes interactive exhibits on science Exploratorium in San Francisco. The Exploratorium disclosed details of their exhibits, published in "Cookbooks» that served as inspiration to other museums.

Opened in 1967, the Ontario Science Centre has continued the trend of featuring interactive exhibits, rather than just static displays. Most science centers have emulated it since then.

Four years after the Exploratorium opened its first OMNIMAX Theatre opened the Reuben H. Fleet theater and Science Center in San Diego's Balboa Park. The slope-Dome Theater Space doubled as a planetarium. The Science Center was an Exploratorium-style museum included as a small part of the complex. This combination of interactive science museum, planetarium and OMNIMAX theater, the standard that many major science museums follow today.

Since the taste of interactivity crossed the Atlantic Ocean, a massive Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie in Paris opened in 1986, and smaller but no less influential national centers soon followed by Spain, Finland and Denmark. Their model is emulated around the world. However, the experimental nature of the time Oppenheimer has long since shifted to a standard view of science, favoring experimental models as a primary exempla. In the United Kingdom, the first interactive centers and opened in 1986 on a small scale, but the real boom of science centers has been fueled by its Lottery funding for projects to commemorate the millennium.

The mission of science centers and museums, modern range. But we are all united in positions that make science accessible and encourage the enthusiasm of discovery. An integral and dynamic part of the learning environment, promote research by the first "Eureka!" Moment for cutting edge research of today. However, the negative effects of science and technology, or the uneven development of different sectors are generally not explored.

Traces of DNA in Museum

noreply@blogger.com (Harindh) — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:21:00 -0700

Probably the first DNA study in 1984, with publication of Russ Higuchi and colleagues at Berkeley, which was the size of the molecular biology revolution, traces of DNA from a museum specimen of the Quagga, not only remained in the sample more than 150 years after the death of the individual, but can be extracted and sequenced. Over the next two years, through research into natural and artificially mummified specimens, Svante Pääbo both confirmed that this phenomenon is not confined to the relatively recent museum specimens, but apparently could be replicated in a series of mummified human samples as far back as a number of one thousand years (Pääbo 1985a, 1985b Pääbo, Pääbo1986). Yet the laborious processes that were necessary at that time to the sequence of such DNA (from bacterial clones) were an effective brake on the development of the field of ancient DNA (DNA). However, the development of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) in the late 1980s the field was presented with the ability to make rapid progress.

Double primer PCR amplification of DNA (PCR-jumping) can produce highly skewed and non-authentic sequence artefacts. Multiple primer, nested PCR strategy was used to overcome these shortcomings.

Single primer extension (SPEX abr.) enhancement was introduced in 2007 to post-mortem damage to DNA modification suits. [

The post-PCR era ushered in a wave of publications and numerous research groups tried their hands on a DNA. Soon a series of incredible findings was published, claiming authentic DNA could be extracted from specimens that were millions of years old, in the realms of what Lindahl (1993b) has labeled Antediluvian DNA. The majority of these claims were based on retrieving DNA from organisms preserved in amber. Insects such as stingless bees (Cano et al, 1992a, 1992b .. Cano et al), termites (De Salle et al, 1992;. The Salle et al 1993.) Wood and mosquitoes (De Salle and Grimaldi 1994) and plants (Poinar et al. 1993) and bacterial (Cano et al. 1994) sequences were from Dominican amber dating from the Oligocene epoch. Even older sources of Lebanese amber-packed weevils, dating from the Cretaceous era, also reportedly yielded authentic DNA (Cano et al. 1993). DNA collection is not limited to amber. Several sediment preserved plant remains dating from the Miocene have been successfully investigated (Golenberg et al, 1990;. Golenberg 1991). Then, in 1994 and international reputation, Woodward et al. reported the most exciting results [9], mitochondrial cytochrome b sequences that apparently was from dinosaur bones to more than 80 million years ago date. Then in 1995 two other studies dinosaur DNA sequences from an egg Cretaceous (An et al, 1995, Li et al .., 1995) it seemed that the field would actually knowledge of the evolutionary history of the Earth revolution . Unfortunately, the golden days of DNA did not last long. A critical assessment of ancient DNA literature by developing the field indicates that, with two well-known but highly criticized exceptions that getting 250 million years old halobacterial sequences from Halite claim.Several recent studies succeeded in enhancing DNA from remains older than a few hundred thousand years. The Dinosaur DNA was later revealed to be human Y chromosome

London Art Museums

noreply@blogger.com (Harindh) — Sat, 3 Sep 2011 05:36:00 -0700

Those Äôre housed in buildings that range from being among the ugliest in the world (the Barbican) to the neoclassical splendor of the National Gallery to enter. But the most striking aspects of London, aos art museums is not in their exteriors, but what lies within: vast collections of priceless works of art of any age. If your trip to London, the time on some of the city, aos great art museums, these are our four top recommendations.

The Royal Academy of Arts

Dates from 1786 and the reign of King George III, the Royal Academy in Burlington House, was the first British institution to the internal promotion of the arts and architecture. It is a time for eighty artists, all artists should be active and governors who resign as active at the age of 75. Each of these, ÄòRoyal academics, AU is expected to give an original work of art at the Academy, and gifts are the foundation of its permanent collection. They include paintings by Gainsborough, Constable, Reynolds and Turner.

The Royal Academy presents noteworthy visits to exhibitions, one of which was 2007, The Unknown Monet aos: Pastels and drawings. This exhibition was the first to show that contrary to popular belief, Monet spent much time doing studies drawn from his work before he ever set his brush on the canvas. Although he often claimed defect is drawing, the exhibition emphatically proved otherwise.

The Tate Modern

If ever an art museum and captured the spirit of a certain age, it would be the Tate Modern Museum to capture the spirit of the 20th century. The upheaval of two world wars, together with the full flowering of post-industrial revolution technology has created a liberty among the artists who dared to work in a brand new styles and media

The Tate Modern Museum in London, aos southern bank in full view of St. Paul Cathedral aos directly on the Thames and also a new approach to display his treasures. They are not grouped by artist or chronology, but in concept, with each of the two wings of the 3rd and 5th floor with exhibits of paintings arranged by theme.

You, Äôll the works of finding, among others, Rothko, Monet, Dali and Miro represented on the third floor, while the fifth floor houses modern conceptual art and sculpture, including pieces from the cubist, minimalist and futuristic schools. The Tate Museum, aos visit exhibitions on the fourth floor. Works with all major postwar modernists such as Pollock, Matisse, Bacon and Twombly are shown in the Tate, and see the permanent collection is free.

There are special activities for children whose artistic value is not fully developed, where a visit to the Tate Modern as a family-friendly way to spend the day.

The Hayward

Also located on the South Bank as part of the arts complex known as the South Bank Centre, Hayward, aos massive concrete facade houses an art gallery that no permanent collection of her own. The Hayward is instead the place for between three and four major traveling exhibitions per year, for which it charges admission fees. Exhibitions at the Hayward are works of art from all periods, and some of her most memorable shows have included works by da Vinci, the French impressionists, and Edward Munch.

In more recent years, however, the exhibitions at the Hayward by artists like Flavin and Gormley, whose work is more in harmony with the cavities and concrete structure.

The Courtauld Gallery is a relatively small art gallery located at the Courtauld Institute of Art at Somerset House. Although the collection contains pieces from every period of Art, the Courtauld Gallery is best known for its Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings. Perhaps the most famous of these is Vincent Van Gogh, aos self portrait, painted after he had broken his right ear with a knife. All collections donated at the Courtauld Gallery exhibited intact.

London is a city rich with culture for centuries, and these four museums are only a handful of cultural delights that await you during your stay!

Bank of England Museum

noreply@blogger.com (Harindh) — Sat, 3 Sep 2011 05:35:00 -0700

Having been in existence for more than 300 years the Bank of England has, unsurprisingly, accumulated a considerable number of items associated with its history. These items are grouped into 'Collections'. Some of them, such as banknotes and furniture, represent the survival of tools used in the everyday working of the Bank whilst others, such as the cartoons, have been acquired over the years either by purchase or presentation. Items from the Bank's collections are displayed in its Museum where they are used to illustrate the history of the institution and its role today at the centre of the UK.

noreply@blogger.com (Harindh) — Sat, 3 Sep 2011 05:34:00 -0700

The Currency Museum of the Bank of Japan is formally known as the Currency Museum, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan is a museum about Japanese currency located in front of the Bank of Japan building in Chūō, Tokyo.

The Currency Museum of the Bank of Canada

noreply@blogger.com (Harindh) — Sat, 3 Sep 2011 05:33:00 -0700

Located just down the street from Parliament Hill on Ottawa's Sparks Street Mall, the Currency Museum of the Bank of Canada offers a fascinating look at something that interests most of us - money. Admission to the Museum is free!
Fast Facts

* The Museum houses the largest institutional collection of Canadian money and monetary objects in the world, and chronicles the evolutionary of Canadian currency from pre-colonial times to the present.
* Exhibits trace the origins of money in different cultures around the world - from teeth and bones to coins and paper.
* One of the Museum's most popular attractions is a 3-ton Yap stone, used as currency in Micronesia.
* The Collector's Corner features some of the most rare Canadian and international coins and currency you'll see anywhere.
* A Discovery Room plays host to children's activities.

American Museum for genetics

noreply@blogger.com (Harindh) — Sat, 3 Sep 2011 05:31:00 -0700

Genetic information of species on National Park Service land that is threatened with extinction will now be frozen and stored for future research at the American Museum of Natural History.

The Ambrose Monell Collection for Molecular and Microbial Research in the basement of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City houses eight liquid nitrogen-cooled containers to genetic material of animals to save. Researchers can access the free samples. Samples were placed in small bottles, which in this slide numbered boxes. Each sample has a known location and is followed by a unique bar code.Lab manager Julie Feinstein calls the laboratory has a low-tech storage technology. Boxes of DNA samples in the racks slide on the bottom shelf of each tank shelf.The spins "as a lazy Susan," said Feinstein, so technicians are not too far out in the vessels are cooled to - 256 degrees Fahrenheit (-160 degrees Celsius). Samples are located above eight inches (20 cm) of liquid nitrogen, so it is the vapor, rather than the liquid itself, that cools and maintains the genetic information.Darrel Frost, associate dean of science for the American Museum of Natural History collections and Bert Frost, associate director of natural resource stewardship and science for the National Park Service, signed the agreement to the house of DNA from endangered species on the land at the park facilities at the museum.

noreply@blogger.com (Harindh) — Sat, 3 Apr 2010 09:35:00 -0700

The National Museum of Saudi Arabia is a major national museum in Saudi Arabia. Founded in 1999. It is part of the King Abdul Aziz Historical Centre in Riyadh.
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The National Museum is part of the "Murabba 'Development Plan for the area in and around the old Murabba' Palace district for the centenary in Saudi Arabia to renovate. Thus, the deadline to early 1999, with only 26 months [3] for the planning and construction of the museum from scratch, but ideas for such a museum had been discussed since the eighties. For the design of the lead architect Raymond Moriyama was inspired by the shape and color of the sand dunes of the 'Red Sands' just outside Riyadh. [4] The west facade along Murabba 'Square, similar to the soft contours of a sandune with the layout, a crescent points to Mecca. [3] The west facade opens into a large lobby, which also opens onto a small square in the east that separates the main organs of the museum to the north and south, each organized around a small courtyard. The north wing is devoted to the pre-Islamic and galleries linked by a bridge to the south wing of the Islamic galleries of the history of the Arabian Peninsula hosts. For the final galleries the visitor enters the "Unification Drum" that shows the current Saudi State. The last room illustrates the two holy mosques and the hajj. There are also two galleries for special exhibitions.

The concept for the didactic design of the exhibition is different from the traditional approach of traditional museums. There is less emphasis on individual exhibits displayed in their cultural context as objects of great value. There are many replicas and life-size displays dioramic, illustrate and teach about certain issues and problems. As such, it is sometimes difficult to identify certain specific documents and even replicas indistinguishable from originals. The idea is not to focus on individual pieces in their own right but rather to use them as models for the general ideas or concepts they represent. [4] shows that
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The exhibitions are organized into eight "Exhibition Halls" or "Galleries
* Man and the Universe

The first exhibition in the museum is a large fragment of a meteorite found in the Wabar craters in the desert of Rub 'al Khali'. Further exhibitions and interactive displays explain the solar system, plate tectonics, geology and geography from the Arabian Peninsula and development of the fauna and flora of Arabia. Major exhibitions are the skeleton of a Platybelodon and Ichthyosaur. The gallery ends with Stone Age man.

* Arab Kingdoms

This gallery shows the early kingdoms, focusing on Dilmon, Madian, and Gariah Tima'a. The exhibition continues with the Arab kingdoms intermediary by presenting the city Al-Hamra, Al-Jandal Dawmat, and Tima'a Tarout. The late Arab kingdoms are represented by the civilizations that flourished in Al-Aflaj, Najran and Ain Zubaida.

* The pre-Islamic era (Jahiliyyah)

This gallery is devoted to the period from about 400 BC to the dawn of Islam. Cities of today are portrayed Mecca, Jarash, Yathrib, Khaibar, Najran, and Khadrama Dawmat Aljandal and the markets Okaz, the Al-Majaz, Najran and Habasha. The evolution of writing and calligraphy will be displayed and illustrated by numerous examples [6].

* The Prophet Mission

Here the life and mission of the Prophet Muhammad is depicted. On one wall hangs a large family tree explaining the Prophet's family and relationships in great detail. This gallery is a bridge that a symbolic cross-over forms from the time of ignorance for the time after the revelation of Islam to the prophet.

* Islam and the Arabian Peninsula

Time in this gallery are the Islamic beginning in Medina and the history of the rise and fall of the caliphate. It also illustrates the time of the Mamluks and the Ottomans to the first Saudi state.

* First and Second Saudi States

Shown here is the culture and history of the two early Saudi State. A large model of Diriyah is displayed under a glass floor, so it can be considered a commodity in great detail.

* The unification

This gallery is dedicated to King Abdul Aziz and how he returned to Riyadh and established his Kingdom.

* The Hajj and the Two Holy Mosques

A major exhibition at this gallery is a large model of Mecca and its surroundings.

noreply@blogger.com (Harindh) — Sat, 3 Apr 2010 09:35:00 -0700

The National Museum of Oman formerly known as the Museum of analyzed Bait / bin Faisal bin Turki Nadir is a national museum, located along A'Noor Street Ruwi, Oman.

Founded in 1978, the museum contains silver ornaments, copper crafts and displays of Omani ships. The museum has a section devoted to the properties of Al Busaidi dynasty and the rulers of Zanzibar. The museum also has a very important letter 8th century by the Prophet Mohammed to the rulers of Oman spreading the Islamic faith in the country

The museum also has a number of items to display, such as bracelets, jewelry, pendants and copper items and some personal belongings of Bint Said bin Sultan Al Sayyidah Salimah that many of the museums include silverware.

noreply@blogger.com (Harindh) — Sat, 3 Apr 2010 09:34:00 -0700

The Muscat Gate Museum is a museum, located on Al Saidiya Street, Muscat, Oman.

Opened in January 2001, the museum contains displays about Oman's history from the Neolithic times to the present. It Has A number of special exhibits on Muscat's water springs, the ancient wells, underground channels, the souks, houses, Mosques, forts and Harbors

noreply@blogger.com (Harindh) — Sat, 3 Apr 2010 09:34:00 -0700

Beit Al Quran (Arabic: بيت القرآن, ie the House of the Quran) is an Islamic museum in Hoora, Bahrain. The museum was built to an extensive and valuable collection of rare manuscripts and the Koran, a concept that is unique in the Persian Gulf to meet. All visitors are welcome, and the complex comprises a mosque, a library, an auditorium, a school and museum consisting of ten exhibition halls.

This great institution and its museum house an internationally renowned collection of historical manuscripts Quran from different parts of the Islamic world, from China to the east to Spain in the West, which represents a progression of calligraphic traditions from the first century of the Islamic era to the present.

noreply@blogger.com (Harindh) — Sat, 3 Apr 2010 09:34:00 -0700

The National Museum of Bahrain (also known as the National Museum of Bahrain) is the largest and one of the oldest museums in Bahrain. It was built near the King Faisal Highway in Manama. The museum possesses a rich collection of ancient artefacts archaeologyical Bahrain since 1988 and covers 6000 years history of Bahrain. This U.S. $ 30 million complex consists of three rooms dedicated to archeology and the ancient civilization of Dilmun, while two other rooms display the culture and lifestyle of the recent pre-industrial past of Bahrain. In 1993 a new hall was opened, the Natural History Hall, focusing on the natural environment of Bahrain. This hall has specimens from Bahrain's flora and fauna. One of the exhibits in the history section is a real mound which was transported from its site in the desert and back into the museum. Another feature is a tableau in which a scene from the Epic of Gilgamesh (in which reference to Bahrain is made as the paradise of Dilmun), depicts. Ancient Quranic manuscripts, notes on astronomy and historical documents and letters will be exhibited in the documents and manuscripts Hall. The building was designed by KHR Arkitekter of Denmark

noreply@blogger.com (Harindh) — Sat, 3 Apr 2010 09:33:00 -0700

Dubai Museum (Arabic: متحف دبي) is the most important museum in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is located in the Al Fahidi Fort, built in 1787 and is the oldest surviving building in Dubai.

The museum was opened by the ruler of Dubai in 1971, with the aim of presenting the traditional way of life in the Emirate of Dubai. It includes local antiquities and artifacts from African and Asian countries that trade with Dubai. It also includes a number of dioramas showing life in the emirate before the arrival of the oil. Alongside objects from the recent discoveries as old as 3000 BC

History

Al Fahidi Fort was built in several phases. The oldest tower was built around 1787 and probably the oldest building in Dubai, which still exists today. The fort was used to determine the landward approaches to the city from the incursions of neighboring tribes. It has also, at various times throughout history as the palace of the monarch, a garrison and a prison.

The fort was renovated in 1970 and opened as the Dubai Museum on May 12, 1971 by Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, then ruler of Dubai. Additional galleries were added in 1995

noreply@blogger.com (Harindh) — Sat, 3 Apr 2010 09:33:00 -0700

The Museum of Contemporary Calligraphy is the first Russian museum displaying calligraphy art works.

On August 14, 2008, Russia joined the World Society Museums calligraphy. Recently, the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy became an institutional member of the International Council of Museums (ICOM). Although calligraphy museums exist across the world (Turkey, China, Japan, United Arab Emirates), Russia was the first experience. Opened in August 2008 the museum was registered with the RF Ministry of Justice on July 22, 2008.

The museum has the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of national Russian calligraphy, the writing of the European systems, samples of Hebrew calligraphy, Arabic calligraphy colorful, strict Japanese hieroglyphics and ancient Chinese calligraphy. These art creations show a man's history and ongoing development of world scripture. Calligraphy artworks are added by rare handwritten books, pens and stationery.

noreply@blogger.com (Harindh) — Sat, 3 Apr 2010 09:32:00 -0700

Abu Dhabi Louvre Museum is a program will be based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Tuesday March 7, 2007 in Paris, the Louvre announced that a new Louvre museum in Abu Dhabi will be completed by 2012. This is part of a 30-year agreement between the city of Abu Dhabi and the French Government. The museum complex will be located in Saadiyat Island, will be about 24,000 square meters (260,000 square feet) in size. The final construction cost is expected to be with € 8,300 million and € 1.08

Works from around the world will be on display in the museum, particularly focusing on narrowing the gap, the Eastern and Western Art. However, the museum building has caused much controversy in the art world, because many objections, in order to enhance the motivation of the Louvre in this transaction.

Contract

In the 30-year agreement, signed by French Culture Minister De Vabres and chief Sultan Tahnoon Al Nahyan, will prompt the construction of a Louvre museum Saadiyat Island, close to central Abu Dhabi, in exchange for 1.3 billion U.S. dollars [2]. The contract prohibits the establishment of any such action and the Louvre's name and any other emirates in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, Iran or Iraq. [3] French President Jacques Chirac praised the museum deal with Abu Dhabi, said it reflected "a world of thought", in which each side of the agreement, "the root of pride and its identity, is conscious of the equal dignity of all cultures . "

Development

The establishment of the museum has passed the French Parliament on October 9, 2007. The building will be the architect Jean Nouvel and the engineers are Buro Happold. for Nouvel also designed the Arab World Institute in Paris.

Part of the museum, unit 1 270 million tourism and cultural development will be built on Saadiyat Island, the building also includes three other museums, including the Guggenheim Museum. According to the United Arab Emirates interaction: "The French Museums agency co-operation in tourism development and investment company (TDIC), which is the transformation of Saadiyat Island behind. It will be chaired by French financier and Member States of the Academy of Fine Arts, Marc Ladreit de Lacharriere , publishers of the two World Series Opera. "[9] Bruno Maquart, former Executive Director of the Pompidou Centre, the position of executive director to be taken. "

By choosing the Louvre, the Emirate of Abu Dhabi not only sealed the partnership with the world's most visited and well-known museum, but select one, from the beginning, there was a job, access to the world, the essence of humanity through thought works of art.

noreply@blogger.com (Harindh) — Sat, 6 Mar 2010 07:50:00 -0800

The relationship between fashion and art has always been a passionate one. This fine blend drips onto the covers of chic wine bottles and plates of designer food, as well as the clothes we wear. Whichever art or fashion period interests you, luxury hotels can be show-homes for every artistic appetite.

If classicism with a fine Italian touch tickles your Jimmy Choos, try the Halkin Hotel in London. The sleek lines and marble-like shades drawn from the Modernist period will please even the most capricious design enthusiast. Expect beautifully-crafted Thai dishes from their Michelin starred restaurant to mirror the artistic focus.

Let's not forget the delectable Georgian and Victorian art periods, which some London hotels portray so well. The Cannizaro Hotel in Wimbledon whispers back to its 300 year old roots. The rooms are plush and have played host to distinguished individuals, such as King George III, through to writers Oscar Wilde and Henry James. The nearby Wimbledon Village (yes, where the tennis championships are held) is a delightful spectrum of fashion boutiques, some of which are the best in London.

But for boutique-lovers, nothing can surpass the selection available in New York. If you like avant-garde then the Seven boutique downtown is for you. Fashionistas hunting the next big thing should head to Debut (also downtown), as it showcases all the fresh New York designers. If the midtown big name stores are more to your taste, check out New York hotel, The City Club. Originally built in 1904, it provided a non-partisan atmosphere where Democrats and Republicans could meet to discuss the politics of the day. The layout of the building has not changed since 1904, but the décor certainly has. Abstract art twinned with vintage books and framed maps will delight art and fashion-lovers and compliment any cultural trip to New York.

If you fancy a change from the Big Apple, Miami's Art Deco area will certainly provide this. Splendia, the luxury hotel operator describes The Betsy Palace as the benchmark in Miami hotel accommodation. Its colonial façade and chequered rooms are an ode to the roaring twenties, with twenty-first century luxury mixed in. Further up the strip and in complete contrast, The Sanctuary Hotel and Spa offers a taste of the Modernist period. Influenced by Japanese art, it has a secluded Zen-like courtyard with bright reds and clean, sleek lines that provides a peaceful hideaway from the buzz of Miami life.

Finally, when discussing art, fashion and hotels in the same article, it would be a sin to not mention the flair of San Francisco hotels . For the bold, fashion-forward, Hotel Frank with its punchy dog-tooth-patterned interior will wow even the most daring followers of fashion. However, if a calm literary theme suits your style then visit the Hotel Rex. Originally inspired by the San Francisco literary salons of the thirties, the hotel has a wide collection of antique objects and drawings from this period to browse during your stay.

From the days of Dali and the Bocca sofa, it's clear how art has influenced fashion and how we seek it in our everyday lives. Luxury hotels are like post-modern museums, reflecting all different artistic periods, as well as a welcome retreat after a hard day's shopping in designer shoes.