Sentences with phrase «as a museum visitor»

Back in London, he poses as a museum visitor when his partner - in - crime, Klaue (Serkis) arrives and stages a heist stealing artifacts with hidden vibranium in them.
In the 2010 MOMA retrospective, The Artist is Present, a team of trained artists re-performed Abramovic's seminal performances, some of which with her former partner Ulay, while Abramović herself sat at a small table as museum visitors waited to sit across from her.
She utilizes personal narratives, archival sources, and divinatory tools — including astrology, graphology, and palmistry — to construct symbolic portraits of well - known figures, such as José Clemente Orozco, and members of the public, such as museum visitors.
He wanted to make sure that I, as a museum visitor, had a direct connection to the work.

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When the free museum inside the Gateway Arch reopens on July 3, visitors will see some old favorites, such as the statue of Thomas Jefferson.
But several other museums have also looked to VR as a way to lure more visitors and create more compelling exhibits.
At the Whitaker - Jaynes House, visitors can tour an extensive museum displays including items from the Lynx Women's Softball Team from the 1940's, a wedding dress display, a pictorial history of Buena Park's entertainment venues as well at the Dreger Clock and various photos of the famous clock throughout history.
«To me, family and food are the two most important things in life,» says Celestino Drago, «I'm honored to bring both to the Petersen Automotive Museum as we introduce Drago Ristorante and have the opportunity to continue providing Angelenos and visitors alike with a taste of our authentic Italian cuisine and Sicilian heritage.»
As an accredited museum, Heritage Park is proud to preserve and share history in a way that lets visitors experience it with all five senses.
Visitors will be able to see up close and learn about live raptors from the Blue Hills Trailside Museum, visit the Animal Adventures petting zoo, and take part in activities led by Boston Nature Center's teacher - naturalists as well as collaborating organizations including Boston Natural Areas Network, the Museum of Science, Renew Boston, and the U.S. Forest Service.
Visitors to Old Sturbridge Village will get a rare chance find out as they tour the historic Village lit only by candles, oil lamps, lanterns, and firelight during the museum's «Evening of...
Visitors to Old Sturbridge Village will get a rare chance find out as they tour the historic Village lit only by candles, oil lamps, lanterns, and firelight during the museum's «Evening of Illumination» set for Saturday, November 8.
The Notebaert Goes to the Birds with New Birds of Paradise Exhibit - Third Coast Review - February 2, 2018 Just as Museum Week was kicking off in Chicago, the Notebaert was celebrating its 161st birthday and the opening of their newest special exhibit, Birds of Paradise — Amazing Avian Evolution, which includes an amazing live animal exhibit called The Bird House that features a rotating cast of local and exotic birds for visitors to meet, learn about and interact with.
Those spaces will be readily available to museum visitors, except on Bears game days — although some museum officials apparently are not happy the Chicago Park District raised rates to as high as $ 12 a day from $ 8 before construction.
The Chicago Park District will allow the museum, formerly known as the Chicago Historical Society, to suggest adult visitors pay $ 12 and seniors and students $ 10.
With an eye toward providing visitors and shoppers with door - to - door service to stores and sights on the Magnificent Mile, as well as a new link to the Museum Campus along the lakefront, the city's transportation commissioner said Monday a new trolley route will debut in May.
As the head of the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum's education department, she oversees programming and resources that reach 65,000 school children, 2,000 educators and hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.
We compiled our photos of staff and volunteers, as well as Nature Museum visitors, striking a pose in and around our exhibits and put them all together in one spot.
In addition to shepherding visitors through the museum, Iorio serves as exhibit chairman.
The Wild Center, Tupper Lake's foremost tourist attraction, reached 1 million visitors Tuesday around noon as 8 - year - old Andrew Chrien of South Carolina was welcomed into the museum by dancing, gifts and bee - related fanfare.
The temporary exhibitions are one of the biggest draws to attract repeat visitors to the British Museum — the value of an offer such as this in boosting the museum's popularity should not be underestiMuseum — the value of an offer such as this in boosting the museum's popularity should not be underestimuseum's popularity should not be underestimated.
About Jennifer Walden Weprin Walden Weprin hails from the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona as Director of Marketing & External Affairs since 2011, where she designed and implemented a marketing and programming strategy that yielded a 21 percent increase in museum visMuseum in Corona as Director of Marketing & External Affairs since 2011, where she designed and implemented a marketing and programming strategy that yielded a 21 percent increase in museum vismuseum visitors.
JAMESTOWN - Community members and a group of 50 museum visitors gathered to be a part of Jamestown history on Monday morning as Gary Peters Jr. and Gary Peters Sr. put their finishing touches on the largest «I Love Lucy» mural in the world.
«A task - oriented robot would be used for simple services, such as greeting visitors at museums or restaurants, while an interaction - oriented robot is more than likely used for entertainment processes, such as playing music or videos,» said Sundar.
Poised on a bluff above the Mississippi River, the new home of the Science Museum of Minnesota showers visitors with gifts of light, air, and space — as well as a chance to explore the river's geology and ecology.
The museum must adopt «more interactive» displays, he says, using electronics and videos, to attract visitors «bombarded by movies such as Jurassic Park».
By ANDY COGHLAN As if propelled by a mysterious, alien force, wheelchairs for disabled visitors at the new Museum of Tokyo glide automatically through the exhibits.
It's now open to visitors as a historic house and museum and is a charming and romantic little place, decorated with Parisian wallpaper and antique furniture.
About Blog - Pérez Art Museum Miami exists to improve the quality of life for individual residents of and visitors to Miami - Dade County, as well as social life in the communities they represent, by facilitating catalytic engagements with the most progressive visual arts of our time.
Today, Grauman's Chinese Theatre forecourt is among the world's most photographed tourist sites, annually attracting as many visitors as the Taj Mahal in India and the Prado Museum in Madrid.
H also proves a credible low - key foil for the more lively performances of Williams» bully Roosevelt, Luke Wilson as the overly emotional mini-cowboy at war with coolly snide mini-Roman Steve Coogan, and Ricky Gervais as the supercilious museum director with an inability to finish sentences or lighten up with the museum's dwindling visitors.
As museums bring a focus on learning to the fore, they become more aware of, and thoughtful about, their views — or theories — about how visitors learn.
In art museums, visitors are learning actively when they do such things as: formulate their own questions about works of art, reflect on their own ideas and impressions, make their own discerning judgments, construct their own interpretations, and seek their own personal connections.
Students can also «march» to the newly opened visitor's centre from the Memorial Museum of Passchendaele as part of an experience - orientated themed walk, «The Road to Passchendaele».
The tourism industry as a whole has embraced this and offers through visitor attractions, museums, theatre and more an enormous amount of curriculum orientated insights and activities that can support teachers.
The Blackwell History of Education Research Museum provides a search engine that allows visitors to explore topics such as The New - England Primer.
Museums reported increases in audience without compromise to artistic quality, as well as a change in the practices of staff members who took ownership of their institution's new mission and visitor - centered culture.
As The National WWII Museum grows into a world class institution, the need to serve a rapidly increasing number of visitors, students, scholars, and educators also continues to grow.
To help the National Corvette Museum remain enticing to younger visitors, it has just hired Derek E. Moore of Garrettsville, Ohio to serve as curator of the mMuseum remain enticing to younger visitors, it has just hired Derek E. Moore of Garrettsville, Ohio to serve as curator of the museummuseum.
For example, the Museum just celebrated Kentucky's 225th anniversary as a state by telling visitors the story of transportation through the years in a unique way.
They introduced «surface» which is a new touch screen technology that you see mainly on business tables and in other luxury brands, such as visitors centers and museums.
Her ear near a hole in the paint - chipped wall of Hard Pan's Found Object Wind Chime Museum and Visitor Center, she listened as Short Sammy told the story of how he hit rock bottom.
Estonia National Museum has adopted EIH - developed 32 - inch e-paper for visitor guiding signage as well as 6.8 - and 9.7 - inch e-paper for displays showing information of exhibited items, with the displays allowing visitors to choose languages based on NFC and RFID technologies.
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The installation comes as part of a wave of smart signage on electronic paper ushering museums into the 21st century, be it through in - gallery digital labels or through visitor - led interactive screens.
As we have demonstrated above, implementing V - Tablets inside a museum can vastly improve the visitors» experience.
«Top attractions such as the Mark Twain House and Museum and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art contribute to the region's vibrancy and help attract visitors to the Hartford - Manchester area,» said Ilir Bici, general manager.
Colonial Houses Renowned as the largest living history museum in the world, Colonial Williamsburg offers visitors a taste of 18th - century life through its architecture, costumed interpreters, and historical reenactments.
While Friday afternoons for most New Yorkers means happy hour, it also marks the time when some of city's biggest and best museums throw open their doors and let visitors in for free, including otherwise pricey museums such as the Museum of Modern Art (normally $ 25!)
How It Works: Faced with the rapid destruction of the city's machiya town houses, marked by their distinctive latticework and open - air courtyards, KCCC launched a campaign to help owners — some 70, to date — restore these houses and open them to visitors as living museums.
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