How to Answer: What do you know about this museum?
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16. What do you know about this museum?
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1. That the museum is very open and collects works from the 40s until now, and collects all sorts of mediums.
2. Local museum background info.
3. The Foundation was formed in 1974 by three members, and has since grown to include multiple works off site and the Beacon galleries. Dia Beacon was opened in 2003 in a reclaimed Nabisco box printing factory to better facilitate the housing of large pieces that could not be accommodated in a traditional NYC museum.
4. Well, I know the museum is the leading resource for informal science education and that as of last July you reached a record number of memberships with more than 66,300 active member households thus earning one of the largest membership bases among natural history museums in the U.S.
I’ve read about many exciting recent gifts and grants such the 4.85 million dollar gift fro the Avenir Foundation for all aspects of collections conservations, including a new collections center that opened a little over a year ago to rehouse collections and endowing long-term conservation as well as the 90,000 grant from the National Park Service as part of a 1.5 million repatriation and consultation grants from the NAGPRA program and that the Museum was one of 16 museums to receive awards to assist in identifying and returning ancestral remains and cultural objects to Native tribes.
5. The kennedy gallery opened in 1987
6. The New Orleans Museum of Art opened on December 16, 1911. When it first opened, it only displayed 9 works of art. Today, it holds over 40,000 works of art ranging from French and American art, glasswork, pottery, African and Asian Art. It is one of the oldest fine arts insitutions in the South.
7. The New Orleans Museum opened up on December 16, 1911 and it only featured 9 pieces of work. Now it is a home to almost 40,000 works such as paintings, sculptures, photography from continents such the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia and still growing. It is one of oldest fine arts institutions of New Orleans. The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture garden is a 5 acre landscape with over 60 sculptures.
8. It houses the national collection of arms and armour. Some of the collection was housed at the Tower of London before being moved to Leeds when the Royal Armouries opened in 1996. The collections are displayed in 6 galleries over 5 floors.
9. I know that this museum is a non profit organization interested in teaching and engaging the community in art. It offers a wide selection of different kinds of exhibits so that there is something for everyone to enjoy.