A Reflection on Migration and the EPIC Museum | Examine in Eire

Pupil Ambassador Javier Donoso explores Irish historical past, discovering stunning connections between Eire and his house nation, Chile. Learn extra on the weblog! EPIC, the Irish Emigration Museum, is a spot I visited a few years after arriving in Dublin. Studying the historical past of Eire and its individuals has been an enriching journey since…

Obtain 1,600+ Publications from the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork: Books, Guides, Magazines & Extra

Many people in these previous few gen­er­a­tions first heard of the Met­ro­pol­i­tan Muse­um of Artwork whereas learn­ing E. L. Konigs­burg’s nov­el From the Blended-Up Information of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweil­er. Various of us additionally fan­ta­sized about run­ning away to stay in that huge cul­tur­al insti­tu­tion just like the e-book’s younger professional­tag­o­nists Clau­dia and Jamie Kin­caid. But…

The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork Places 490,000 Excessive-Res Photographs On-line & Makes Them Free to Use

Replace: The Met­ro­pol­i­tan Muse­um of Artwork has put on-line 492,000 high-res­o­lu­tion pictures of artis­tic works. Even guess­ter, the muse­um has positioned the huge main­i­ty of those pictures into the pub­lic area, imply­ing they are often down­loaded direct­ly from the museum’s internet­web site for non-com­mer­cial use. Once you browse the Met col­lec­tion and discover a picture…

Frank Lloyd Wright Thought About Making the Guggenheim Museum Pink

Picture by way of The Frank Lloyd Wright Foun­da­tion Archives Seen in the present day, the Solomon R. Guggen­heim Muse­um, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, appears to occu­py sev­er­al time peri­ods without delay, look­ing each mod­ern and a few­how historic. The lat­ter qual­i­ty positive­ly has to do with its brilliant white col­or, which we asso­ciate…

A Shut Have a look at Beowulf-Period Helmets & Swords, Courtesy of the British Museum

Even when a stu­dent assigned Beowulf is, at first, dis­mayed by its lan­guage, that very same stu­dent could be cap­ti­vat­ed by its set­ting. Whereas that fable­i­cal however some­how each glo­ri­ous­ly and dankly actual­is­tic realm of kings and drag­ons, mead halls and bathroom mon­sters could really feel famil­iar to fan­ta­sy enthu­si­asts, it’s additionally unusual on a…