Design Your Own Museum

Research Assignment: What is a curator at an art museum?What does the curator do at the Art Museum?What are some other occupations at the Art Museum?

http://www.collegesurfing.com/blog/museum-curator-description-salary/

Create Your Own Museum

http://pinterest.com/jahacurator/what-does-a-museum-curator-do/

A curator’s responsible is changing

http://www.ehow.com/facts_4865466_does-art-museum-curator-do.html

What are some other responsibilities of being a curator

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art31080.asp

Designing a Museum in the inside and on the outside.

• This is an exercise where students to design an art museum using creativity, organization and critical thinking skills.• Materials: recycled file folders. (any color), color construction paper, glue, scissors,and small replicas of famous museum collections in numerous categories in the museum.

Directions-Step –by-Step• Fold recycled file folder into four equal part “hotdog” style• Crease the folds as strong and straight with a pair of scissors pressing very firm• Open the folds up- there should be four folds “hotdog” style (hold folded folderin landscape style)• Take folder and fold the points of each folder’s sides down- to-the –center of the folderPress very firmly• Do the same fold to the other point of the folder’s side down-to-the-center of the folderPress very firmly• After the steps: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.You will view an inside to the museum and an outside of the museum• Create a list of the items you will display in the museum.• Your list should contain the “name/title” of the famous piece, the date (century), the location it was invented or attributed by, the artist’s name, the media used to designthe famous itemEX: A painting on display: the title of the artwork, year painted by artist/inventor,media use to design the famous item.

• The next steps ------------------------------after you have cut all your famous pieces out withscissors.• Cut out the small replicas of famous museum collections. Try to use creativityin your layout.• After you have placed you small replicas of famous museum collections you mayglue them down onto the areas where there is no crease/fold

Water Lilies - name1915-1926 – date paintedClaude Monet – artist’s nameFrench Impressionist – *data to describe1840-1926 – *date artist was born/diedMedia- oil on canvas – type of material used to designthe item*extra data you may need to include underneath thefamous item

EX: A painting on display: the title of the artwork, year painted by artist/inventor,media use to design the famous item.

open the doorsto the Museum

open the inside

Place your displayof famous piecesinside the 4 panels(do not place items on the folds1 and 3)

1 32 4

Design the outsideof the museum

Design the outsideof the museum

Heineken2007Louis Cameron American, born 1973

Water Lilies1915-1926Claude MonetFrench Impressionist1840-1926Media- oil on canvas

Female Mask19th CenturyUnidentified BaumanMedia-wood, copper, glass beads,crowie shells, metal, fiber, and cloth

Mummy Caseof Amen-Nestawy-Nakht900 BCEgyptainMedia-linen, plaster, and pigment

Tialoc Mask1300-1500 CenturyMixtecLate Postclassic period

Stairway at Auvers- 1890Vincetn van GoghDutch, 1853-1890Media- oil on canvas

Alpha Tau1960-1961ContemporaryMorris LouisAmerican-1912-1962Media- acrylic on canvass

Flowering Cherry Tree and PeonyArtist- John La FargeAmerican -1835-1910Media- leaded glassInspired by La Farge’s paintingsDesigned for Fredick Lathrop Ames’ housein Boston, MA – one of a pair of windows for a redesigned home

Easy PoseSeated Bodhisattva Avalokitesvars(Guanyin)11th CenturyChinese/Northern Song dynasty960-1127Media-wood, gesso, and pigmentwith gilding

Three-quarter Armor2nd quarter of the 17th CenturyMaybe GermanMedia- steel, leather,brass, and modern restorations

Mail Cape (so-called Bishop's Mantle)first half 16th century

Close Helmet1550-55Maybe Frenchetched and gilded steel with brass and pewter repairs, and leather fragments