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Penn Museum Presents The Golden Age of King Midas For the opening of The Golden Age of King Midas, Material Culture transformed Penn Museum’s Pepper Hall into an oasis reminiscent of the Turkish Kervansaray, or roadside inns, that offered Silk Road travelers a place to recover from a day’s journey.
Objects and others: essays on museums and material culture. Add to My Bookmarks Export citation. Type Book Author(s) George W. Stocking Date 1985 Publisher University of Wisconsin Press Pub place Madison, Wis Volume History of anthropology ISBN-10 029910320X, 0299103242 ISBN-13 9780299103200, 9780299103248.
Philadelphia Museum of Art made great impression on me as usual. I was there several times before, and I really love this place. I was there several times before, and I really love this place. This time the exhibition of the African Art was very memorable to me because I never seen such collection before as we don't have them a lot in the country where I'm from.
The Objects of Anthropology: All the World's a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876-1916. Robert W. Rydell.; Objects and Others: Essays on Museums and Material Culture. George W. Stocking, Jr.
A cultural museum dedicated to the Philadelphia celebration of the new year, the Mummers Museum offers both a presentation of Mummers' culture, along with events and programs. Housing a large collection of Mummers' memorabilia and paraphernalia, the Mummers Museum offers a look at the spectacular costumes.
The opening four essays, especially the Csikszentmihalyi one, provoke broader conversation on the topic of reading history from material culture. The rest are esoteric and probably tedious to anyone not interested in their specific periods or places.
The British Museum sees itself primarily as a world museum of material culture and art. The new permanent Enlightenment exhibition (2003) in the King’s Library, created to celebrate the museum’s 250th anniversary, acts as a type of museum history lesson.