Awesome Museum

While researching which museum to do my project on I saw the Tampa Museum of Art is the only boat accessible museum in the country. Being an avid boater that clinched the decision. Founded in 1979 the museum regularly rotates new exhibits, but keeps a permanent collection of modern & contemporary art as well as a vast display of Greek & Roman Antiquities (Tampa Museum of Art). Aside from my interest in the waterway boat access, the museums diversity of exhibits and social angles commanded my attention. Particularly, the antiquities for their historical significance and generational identity. I have visited many museums across the world, some, such as the war museum in South Korea with a specific genre to multi-themed galleries in the gaslight

I approached him and peered into the case to find it filled with small marble figurines and plain looking pottery. Confused at what warranted such a lengthy observation from the patron I asked him if there was a particular piece that he was studying. He then pointed out a drab looking stone vase that was labeled as Kandila from the Cyclades dated 3000-2800 BC. With a sense of disbelief, he said "5,000 years of history lay before you in this case". In a poor attempt at humor, I replied "the stories that vase could tell" to which he simply, yet seriously said "you can hear the stories if you listen closely". I lingered at the case for a while discussing with him the aesthetic communication surrounding the Kandila before moving along to the other antiquity displays (Sporre). I came across another very interesting piece. A small figurine composed of limbs, held together with string. At first, I thought it was done that way by the museum for display purposes, possibly due to the original piece being damaged. However, the placard explained that the doll dated 5th century BC was purposely designed as a child's toy with articulating arms and legs. I pictured my 2yr old playing with his GI Joe's and was transported 2,500 years into the past to visualize a young child playing with what I can imagine was a very advanced toy for the time. These two pieces gave me a sense of humanity. How although separated by thousands of years, humans, despite race, culture, or language, all share the commonality of creation and