Metropolitan Museum Of Art

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Museums have always been close to my heart; as cliché as it might be, with the knowledge and adventure they provided to me as a child, I thought the obvious next step would be to become the next Indiana Jones. A role I am happy to say, I would still take on without a second thought. When I was five I had just gone through surgery for a fixable case of deafness, and my parents took me to the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a celebration. I remember so many details about that day simply because of emotional reactions; how excited I was that I could hear every little thing, how my heart felt like it had stopped from so much excitement on seeing suits of medieval armor, how everything seemed so white it made me feel small. The most important thing …show more content…

What it is meant to imply is that I’m foolish; for my career having the word art in it, for wanting to work in an environment that is deemed unnecessary and thought of as dying. What I want to express more than anything, is that we need museums. Museums show us where we have been and where we are going as a society, it is a mission to catalog and preserve the things we never thought to write down. In Sam Smith’s essay, he compared museums to newspapers to try and prove a broken system. Museums are not articles of news generated daily and then thrown out. Museums are places where ideas and conversations are allowed to grow; they connect communities, they inspire new thoughts while being taken from centuries old objects that’s purpose was supposed to expire after their specific age had …show more content…

Technology allows people from all over the world to have access to an exhibit; it gives art the ability to travel to far corners of the globe without damage. It allows exhibits to show incredibly complex information in video, rather than having it written on a tiny plaque on the wall. Here’s the problem, digital will never replace the real thing. Photos will never give you a feeling in your gut, they will never leave you speechless, and they will never give you the accurate portrayal of the object. So, why are museums still considered outdated if they have technology? I think the problem comes from our society and the want for something theatric and quick. Our reliance on technology has made it difficult to stop and take the time to enjoy things; we want quick explanations, and if something takes too long, we leave and consider it

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