Cultural Activity Report - Essay Example

Philadelphia Museum of Art It is one of the largest museums in the world and in connection to this, it attracts many visitors from all over the world. It is located in 2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy, in Philadelphia. The museum has more than 227000 objects, which include some of the world class paintings from Europe, America and the rest of the world. It also has more than 300 employees. As part of the course work, I decided to visit the museum on 15th March, 2014 in order to experience what takes place in the museum.

On my arrival at the gate, I was welcomed by a lady who greeted me, then she gave me a booklet. Inside the book, there were different directions to various sections within the museum. In addition, it had a brief history of the museum. As I was walking, I noticed that the people who were attending the museum, were people from different ethnic background. Although, most of them were Americans and Chinese. Just like any other museum, they were dressed in casual clothes. The Museum has different sections: anthropology, archaeology, arms gallery, art, numistics, educational activities, botany, zoology, geology, children museum, and various laboratories.

However, after visiting all the sections within the museum, there were two sections which caught my attention. This were the archaeology and the anthropology sections. The anthropology section, is basically concerned with preserving data about evolution of man and the activities that they were involved with. It is in this section that I managed to see the first computer that was built in 1930. The computer was about a half tonne and 10 meters long. The curator told me that it was slow, and it could not store information for more than twenty four hours.

I also realised that up to today the way the Egypt pyramids were built, have not been understood. In fact, most researchers believe that the technique that the Egyptians used to build the pyramid is very advanced, and this therefore means that in terms of building technology, the earlier man may have been advanced than us. While, the archaeology section contained ancient Egypt pieces of arts, the protestant reformation arts, the ancient Chinese culture arts etc. Some of the ancient Egypt pieces of art which I saw were, the lion hunting cup, drachma, cow nursing its calf, and horse shaped drinking vessel; as well as images of kings.

While, some of the ancient Chinese pieces of art I saw were, the travellers among mountains and streams by Fan Ku’an, and the three coloured ceramics (Tang Dynasty) by San Cai. Out of these arts, the cow nursing its calf, and the travellers among mountains and streams caught my attention the most. The travellers among the mountain and streams which has been classified under the arts done between 960 and 1279, is a magnificent piece of art. According to the curator, the artist main objective was to illustrate the importance of becoming one with nature.

The artist wanted people to realise the relationship between good life and viewing the world as one with nature. While, the cow nursing its calf has been classified under the arts done between the year 800 and 900. The artist who designed the art, main aim was to emphasize on the need to help one another. The piece of art shows that with love everything is possible. In conclusion, museums play important roles in our lives because they preserve the past information so that the future generation can use.

BibliographyPhiladelphia Museum of Art. Web. 15th March, 2014