Sentences with phrase «historical museum architecture»

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My interests include photography, gardening, botanical gardens, historical sights and architecture, as well as movies, museums, musical theater, travel,...

Whether intentionally or not, museums embody views about what's worth learning, and the way that artworks, objects, and historical material are presented — from exhibitions to architecture to wall texts — embody views about how learning happens.

1) Bangkok - > Ayutthaya (ruins, historical interest) 2) Ayutthaya - > Sukhothai (via Phitsanulok)(ruins, historical interest) 3) Sukhothai - > Chiang Mai (trekking centre, temples) 4) Chiang Mai - > Chiang Khong (riverside town, day trips, crossing to Laos) 5) Chiang Khong - > Huay Xai (riverside town) 6) Huay Xai - > Pakbeng (riverside town, half - way point to Luang Prabang) 7) Pakbeng - > Luang Prabang (temples, riverside town, scenic) 8) Luang Prabang - > Vang Vieng (scenic, backpacker scene) 9) Vang Vieng - > Vientiane (capital city, temples, riverside city) 10) Vientiane - > Tha Khaek (riverside town, caves, scenic) 11) Tha Khaek - > Savannakhet (riverside town, national parks, colonial architecture) 12) Savannakhet - > Pakse (riverside town, daytrips) 13) Pakse - > Champasak (ruins) 14) Champasak - > Four Thousand Islands - Don Khong, Don Dhet & Don Khon (scenic, waterfalls, backpacker scene) 15) Four Thousand Islands - > Kratie (riverside town, dolphins) 16) Kratie - > Phnom Penh (capital city, colonial architecture, scenic) 17) Phnom Penh - > Siem Reap (Angkor Wat, backpacker scene) 18) Siem Reap - > Battambang (riverside town, rural daytrips, ruins) 19) Battambang - > Phnom Penh 20) Phnom Penh - > Saigon (museums, nightlife, daytrips) 21) Saigon - > Mui Ne (beaches, sand dunes) 22) Mui Ne - > Nha Trang (beaches, boat trips) 23) Nha Trang - > Hoi An (riverside town, shopping, tailoring) 24) Hoi An - > Hue (Imperial capital, temples, trips to DMZ) 25) Hue - > Hanoi (capital city, colonial architecture, shopping) 26) Hanoi - > Ha Long Bay (stunning scenery) 27) Hanoi - > Sapa (trekking, minority groups, scenic)

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.

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.

Brimming with sites of historical interest, museums and amazing architecture, visiting the city is recommended to anyone who loves learning about new world cultures and exploring colourful streets in the sun.

Add in historical architecture and museums, boat trips and a chance to take on Lady Luck at the casino, and you'll see why Meloneras is known as one of Gran Canaria's classiest destinations.

Packed with magnificent buildings, Renaissance architecture and fascinating museums Verona has inspired novels and plays thanks to its unique streets, noble historical monuments and important cultural position in Italy's history.

A favorite city in Ecuador, you can find many fantastic historical buildings with impressive architecture as well as a lot of other tourist attractions, such as churches, museums and attractive city parks.

Recognised as a cultural and colonial destination that offers exceptional local cuisine and the best historical attractions to discover, Celaya offers plenty to explore, including parks, temples, museums, monuments, and vibrant Spanish architecture.

An independent curator who was teaching in the art and architecture department of Brown until the museum scooped her up, Martin is not specialist in Dia's minimalist, historical works.

ABOUT THE HIGH The High Museum of Art is the Southeast's leading art museum and home to a renowned collection of historical and contemporary art, special exhibitions, and celebrated architecture by Richard Meier and Renzo Museum of Art is the Southeast's leading art museum and home to a renowned collection of historical and contemporary art, special exhibitions, and celebrated architecture by Richard Meier and Renzo museum and home to a renowned collection of historical and contemporary art, special exhibitions, and celebrated architecture by Richard Meier and Renzo Piano.

Since then, he's become an indispensable fixture in the museum's design department, having organized innovative group shows, like 2012's «Field Conditions,» which brought together creatives, such as Tauba Auerbach and Rafael Lozano - Hemmer, who work at the cusp of art and architecture, and authoritative retrospectives, like 2013's «Lebbeus Woods: Architect,» which firmly placed the inventive, influential Woods within the art - historical canon.

Art - world denizens may think of New York as the center of it all, but Chicago has historical caché: Picasso's works first landed on these shores at the Art Institute of Chicago (the second - largest museum in the country), Art Deco enjoyed its heyday in the Second City's architecture, and this season the metropolis's art scene is having a moment with the return of EXPO CHICAGO.

As one walks through the Stedelijk Museum's revolving doors and into the entrance hall, the most striking element of the new architecture emerges: the former rear façade of the historical building is integrated into the central atrium as if it were part of a grand theater production's stage design.

From the mesmerizing replication of apartment windows in Andreas Gursky's Avenue of the Americas, 2001, which captures both the interconnectedness and the loneliness of city life; to an exploration of the way historical spaces are experienced by the contemporary public in Thomas Struth's Pergamon Museum I, Berlin, 2001; to a consideration of ubiquitous Stepford Wives - like housing estates as brilliantly conceived by James Casebere in Landscape with Houses (Dutchess County, NY) # 2, 2009, the collected photographs offer myriad ways of contemplating the shaping influence of architecture, and its photography.

«The ensemble includes spacious galleries infused with natural light from the historical architecture and artificially lit abstract galleries that correspond more to the «white cube» of big modern museums.»

Dennis Adams is a visual artist that produces urban interventions, museum installations, performance videos, and art objects that address historical and sociopolitical undercurrents in photography, cinema, public space and architecture.

(2) LSUC's Osgoode Hall headquarters in downtown Toronto (since 1832), becoming a museum so as to maintain the memory of the historical anomaly of a 19th century - type law society in the 21st century; Osgoode Hall being a beautiful example of early 19th century architecture.