Metropolitan Museum Analysis

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The metropolitan museum is the largest art museum in the United States, and one of the largest in the world. Upon going to the museum I found myself wondering how I can choose three artifacts out of nearly a million different relics. After spending countless hours roaming the three story museum and looking at the vast amount of artifacts I found myself overwhelmed with inspiration to write this analysis. The only dilemma was how one can narrow down the selection to three relics out of hundreds of thousands. After sometime I picked the three relics that I found interesting, spiritual, and showed a significance in modern and ancient history. The three relicts I will discuss in this essay are the following; Family Tree, Emperor’s Twelve-Symbol Robe, and lastly Mans Shirt, these three artifacts show in my opinion how god, the spirit and the universe all reflect upon the individual wearing the clothing/stories painted upon the person.
Before I discuss the relics I found during this trip, I would first like to reflect upon the experience I had on this trip. I found this trip to the Metropolitan Museum very interesting, because it had a massive amount of relics from all over the world and from different time eras throughout the museum. The one area I found fascinating was the Asian area of the museum. I found this area very interesting because it had a broad array of artifacts, and a lot of the work seemed to talking to you spiritually and mentally. I found it very easy to examine these collections without having to look at the description. The collection I found to be extraordinary was the robe room of the Emperor. This was by far the most fascinating part of the trip, because each one was designed for different events or cere...

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...helped me understand how god, the universe and our spirit revolves around almost every aspect of our lives, now and in the past. Two out of the three artifacts that I picked were from the Asian area, because it was one of the area’s I enjoyed exploring while at the museum. The museum stated that the emperors’ were sons of heaven, which caught my attention so I did a little further research and found an article that supports my opinion on how spiritual ancient china was. The article states the following, “it established that a ruler must be wise and just, follow the Dao- the way of Heaven- and be attuned to destiny.” (Chan & Li, 2012, P. xx-xx) This supports my analysis about the universe, god, and spirit are in everything we do, and especially found in these there artifacts which help to understand how they represent the individual associated with the relics.

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