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David Hilton

The Virtual Museum of Canada - 0 views

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  • David Hilton on 22 Sep 09
     
    "As an endless source of discoveries, virtualmuseum.ca is a unique interactive space that brings together Canadian museum collections and riches in a variety of thought-provoking and instructive contents. It's your window on current museum news and your reference guide to plan your next outing. Enter your Canadian museum space." OK!
  • David Hilton on 22 Sep 09
     
    As an endless source of discoveries, virtualmuseum.ca is a unique interactive space that brings together Canadian museum collections and riches in a variety of thought-provoking and instructive contents. It's your window on current museum news and your reference guide to plan your next outing. Enter your Canadian museum space
Alessandro Boninsegna

After School in the Museum - 9 views

Children often feel the museum as a dark, dusty, boring place. Historia Snc, a company that manages the workshops of some museums in Italy, to experience the museum in a different way to younger, c...

museum school workshop

started by Alessandro Boninsegna on 27 May 11 no follow-up yet
Alessandro Boninsegna

Have you ever seen archaeologists on the beach? - 6 views

The Province of Ferrara has two main attractions: the same city Ferrara and the Adriatic coast. The area between these two major attractions is much less known. In this part least famous is the c...

Archaeology workshop museum school

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Michelle DeSilva

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Virtual Tour - 3 views

www.mnh.si.edu/panoramas

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  • Michelle DeSilva on 29 Sep 09
     
    The comprehensive virtual tour allows the visitor to take a virtual, self-guided, room-by-room walking tour of the whole museum. The visitor can navigate from room to room either by using a floor map or by following blue arrow links connecting the rooms. Camera icons indicate hotspots where the visitor can get a close-up on a particular object or exhibit panel.
  • Michelle DeSilva on 29 Sep 09
     
    The comprehensive virtual tour allows the visitor to take a virtual, self-guided, room-by-room walking tour of the whole museum. The visitor can navigate from room to room either by using a floor map or by following blue arrow links connecting the rooms. Camera icons indicate hotspots where the visitor can get a close-up on a particular object or exhibit panel.
Kay Cunningham

Welcome to the Imperial War Museum London Home Page - 4 views

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  • Kay Cunningham on 24 Mar 10
     
    'IWM London, the headquarters of the Imperial War Museum, the multi-branch national museum of war and wartime life from 1914 to the present day"'
Bob Maloy

The Lost Museum - 6 views

www.lostmuseum.cuny.edu/home.html

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  • Bob Maloy on 30 Sep 09
     
    A re-creation of PT Barnum's American Museum as a lens into mid-19th century New York City and antebellum America. The Lost Museum website offers visitors a visualization and spacial interpretation of this extraordinary institution as well as an innovative way to learn and teach about the many issues and events of the period.
Kay Bear

Mobile Museum Service - 6 views

I am conducting some general Market Research in relation to launching a new National mobile Museum Service that will provide a dynamic and flexible on-line and remotely accessible Museum service to...

started by Kay Bear on 15 Jul 12 no follow-up yet
International School of Central Switzerland

Museum of London Releases Augmented Reality App for Historical Photos - 3 views

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  • International School of Central Switzerland on 01 Jun 10
     
    Streetmuseum is a new (and free) augmented reality iPhone app created by the Museum of London that allows you to browse historical photographs in various parts of the city. The app leads you to various locations around London using either the map or GPS. Once you're there, click the "3D View" button, and the app will recognize the location and overlay the historical photograph over the live video feed of the real world, giving you a brief glimpse into how the past looked.
Michael Sheehan

Learning Never Stops: American Centuries - Interactive Online Museum - 5 views

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  • Michael Sheehan on 03 Mar 13
     
    This interactive online museum is a great resource for history teachers.
Alessandro Boninsegna

TURISMO SCOLASTICO CON HISTORIA - 2 views

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  • Alessandro Boninsegna on 12 Jun 10
     
    TURISMO SCOLASTICO con Historia: visita a Belriguardo (FE), con aula didattica + Ferrara; visita ai musei di Finale Emilia (MO) con aula didattica + Modena; visita ai musei di Pieve di Cento (BO) con aula didattica + Bologna; visita ai musei di Massa Lombarda (RA) con aula didattica + Ravenna; visita al museo di Atina (FR) con aula didattica + Cassino agenzia viaggi e tour operator Carpe Viam: http://www.carpeviam.it/ EDUCATIONAL TOURS with History: visit Belriguardo (FE), with classroom + Ferrara; visiting museums in Finale Emilia (MO) with classroom + Modena; visit the museums of Pieve di Cento (BO) with classroom + Bologna; visiting museums in Massa Lombarda (RA) with classroom + Ravenna; visit the museum of Atina (FR) with classroom + Cassino travel agency and tour operator Carpe Viam: http://www.carpeviam.it/
Alessandro Boninsegna

Historia S.n.c.- Valorizzazione Beni Culturali - 3 views

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    workshops in museum
Ed Webb

Modern art was CIA 'weapon' - World, News - The Independent - 6 views

www.independent.co.uk/...rt-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html

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  • The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War. In the manner of a Renaissance prince - except that it acted secretly - the CIA fostered and promoted American Abstract Expressionist painting around the world for more than 20 years.
  • in the propaganda war with the Soviet Union, this new artistic movement could be held up as proof of the creativity, the intellectual freedom, and the cultural power of the US. Russian art, strapped into the communist ideological straitjacket, could not compete.
  • The decision to include culture and art in the US Cold War arsenal was taken as soon as the CIA was founded in 1947. Dismayed at the appeal communism still had for many intellectuals and artists in the West, the new agency set up a division, the Propaganda Assets Inventory, which at its peak could influence more than 800 newspapers, magazines and public information organisations. They joked that it was like a Wurlitzer jukebox: when the CIA pushed a button it could hear whatever tune it wanted playing across the world.
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  • Initially, more open attempts were made to support the new American art. In 1947 the State Department organised and paid for a touring international exhibition entitled "Advancing American Art", with the aim of rebutting Soviet suggestions that America was a cultural desert. But the show caused outrage at home, prompting Truman to make his Hottentot remark and one bitter congressman to declare: "I am just a dumb American who pays taxes for this kind of trash." The tour had to be cancelled.
  • This philistinism, combined with Joseph McCarthy's hysterical denunciations of all that was avant-garde or unorthodox, was deeply embarrassing. It discredited the idea that America was a sophisticated, culturally rich democracy. It also prevented the US government from consolidating the shift in cultural supremacy from Paris to New York since the 1930s.
  • If any official institution was in a position to celebrate the collection of Leninists, Trotskyites and heavy drinkers that made up the New York School, it was the CIA.
  • Moscow in those days was very vicious in its denunciation of any kind of non-conformity to its own very rigid patterns. And so one could quite adequately and accurately reason that anything they criticised that much and that heavy- handedly was worth support one way or another
  • As president of what he called "Mummy's museum", Rockefeller was one of the biggest backers of Abstract Expressionism (which he called "free enterprise painting"). His museum was contracted to the Congress for Cultural Freedom to organise and curate most of its important art shows. The museum was also linked to the CIA by several other bridges. William Paley, the president of CBS broadcasting and a founding father of the CIA, sat on the members' board of the museum's International Programme. John Hay Whitney, who had served in the agency's wartime predecessor, the OSS, was its chairman. And Tom Braden, first chief of the CIA's International Organisations Division, was executive secretary of the museum in 1949.
  • "It was very difficult to get Congress to go along with some of the things we wanted to do - send art abroad, send symphonies abroad, publish magazines abroad. That's one of the reasons it had to be done covertly. It had to be a secret. In order to encourage openness we had to be secret."
  • Would Abstract Expressionism have been the dominant art movement of the post-war years without this patronage? The answer is probably yes. Equally, it would be wrong to suggest that when you look at an Abstract Expressionist painting you are being duped by the CIA. But look where this art ended up: in the marble halls of banks, in airports, in city halls, boardrooms and great galleries. For the Cold Warriors who promoted them, these paintings were a logo, a signature for their culture and system which they wanted to display everywhere that counted. They succeeded.
Deven Black

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust - 13 views

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  • Deven Black on 23 Dec 09
     
    A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust offers an overview of the people and events of the Holocaust. Extensive teacher resources are included."> This is a cached version of http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/default.htm. Diigo.com has no relation to the site.x


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Charles Byrne

Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History NMNH - 4 views

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    The Smithsonian Institute Museum of Natural History
spoutnik ogik

Homepage | Mémoires européennes DU GOULAG - 5 views

museum.gulagmemories.eu/...homepage

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  • spoutnik ogik on 13 Mar 11
     
    From 1939 to 1953, nearly one million people were deported to the Gulag from the European territories annexed by the USSR at the start of the Second World War and those that came under Soviet influence after the War: some to work camps but most as forced settlers in villages in Siberia and Central Asia. An international team of researchers has collected 160 statements from former deportees, photographs of their lives, documents from private and public archives and films. Many of these witnesses had never spoken out before. In these statements and these documents, the Museum invites you to explore a neglected chapter of the history of Europe.
Deven Black

picturing the thirties - 14 views

americanart.si.edu/...picturing_the_1930s

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  • Deven Black on 23 Oct 09
     
    Learn about the 1930s through eight exhibitions: The Depression, The New Deal, The Country, Industry, Labor, The City, Leisure, and American People. Artworks from the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection are supplemented with other primary source materials such as photographs, newsreels, and artists' memorabilia. Users can explore this virtual space and find information by clicking on people and objects. Visitors can gather artworks and place them in their bin for later documentary production. The theater's feature presentation is a series of interviews produced by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Abstract Artists Describe the 1930s. Additionally, user-created documentaries can be viewed from the theater's balcony. Go to the theater's projection booth to find PrimaryAccess and a movie-making tutorial.
Rob Jacklin

CivilWarSallie - home - 3 views

www.civilwarsallie.com

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  • Rob Jacklin on 01 Apr 11
     
    Hi! My name is Sallie Ann. I was made in Gettysburg, PA, and I'm named after the mascot of the 11th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry from the Civil War. My job is to travel around the U.S. looking for Civil War battlefields or museums and schools learning about the Civil War. Along the way, I hope to teach kids more about the Civil War while also helping them to learn about using technology. I'll start out in Gettysburg, PA,and learn about the battle that took place there. My visit to you will last about one week, but before I leave, I hope that you will put something from the battlefield, museum or your school in my backpack so I can keep it as a memento of my visit.
Mary Higgins

Art Project, powered by Google - 8 views

www.googleartproject.com

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  • Kendra Nielsen on 02 May 11
     
    Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces.
  • Mary Higgins on 15 Aug 11
     
    Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces.
Michael Sheehan

Learning Never Stops - 10 views

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  • Michael Sheehan on 16 Feb 13
     
    The Digital Comic Museum features comics from the 1930's to the 1950's. They can be used to show American culture from that period and many comics from that era are good examples of propaganda from WWII and the Cold War
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