american museums

Question 1

National Air and Space Museum (Washington)

Answer 1

exhibitions include:
many planes with the Wright Brothers’ earliest flying machines, planes used in WW2 or “Spirit of St. Louis” which Ch. Lindbergh used on a first ever transatlantic solo flight in 1927
several artifacts from the Apollo missions
a piece of lunar rock you can touch

Question 2

The Getty Center (Los Angeles)

Answer 2

art museum, the building is a piece of modern art itself
architect Richard Meier designed it
focuses on European art from the Renaissance to modernity, includes photography and decorative arts
famous work: “Irises” by Van Gogh
free entrance

Question 3

Asian Art Museum (San Francisco)

Answer 3

includes art from across all Asia
the oldest works date back several thousand years, with the oldest known Chinese Buddha sculpture
you can also see Samurai armour, Hindu deities and Persian ceramics

Question 4

Greenfield Village (Dearborn, Michigan)

Answer 4

you can see life from various periods of time in the US with actors doing daily tasks from years ago and many significant artifacts form the US history such as:
the bus where Rosa Park refused to stand up, the Wright Brothers’ home and shop, the limousine in which JFK was assassinated and the chair in which Lincoln got shot
outdoor museum i part of the Henry Ford Complex with his old home and garage

Question 5

Salvador Dalí Museum (St. Petersburg, Florida)

Answer 5

started from a private collection
the building is inspired by artists work
the biggest collection of Dalí’s works including “The Lobster Phone” and “The Hallucinogenic Toreador”, a surrealist masterpiece inspired by his wife’s distaste for bullfighting

Question 6

The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis
(Indianapolis)

Answer 6

nearly half a million square feet large
highly interactive
attractions include: digging out fossils, model of a mastodont skull, climbing rock walls, building floating boats and touching a real T-Rex bone

Question 7

Kennedy Space Centre (Titusville, Florida)

Answer 7

interactive museum with two IMAX theatres
you can learn about the physics behind the launches, see moon rocks and on certain days even meet an astronaut
if you’re lucky you can see an actual shuttle launch

Question 8

The National WW2 Museum (New Orleans)

Answer 8

built on a former factory, where D-day boats were made
to get in you ride a train car
you can listen to histories, see boats and tanks up close and sometimes speak with the veterans
they have an old American style canteen

Question 9

National 9/11 Memorial and Museum (New York City)

Answer 9

commemorates victims of 9/11 and the 1993 attack on WTC
tells the story of what happened before, during and after the attacks
hundreds of thousands of people visit each year
exhibits feature artifacts such as photographs and archival recordings
Survivor Tree standing in the Memorial as a symbol of strength and hope

Question 10

Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland)

Answer 10

regarder as one of the best in the US
over 6000 exhibits from around the world
big collection of Asian art and decorative art
the photography wing with pictures of the Dust Bowl is said to be the best
free entrance
you can see Botticelli’s “Virgin and Child with the Young John the Baptist” there

Question 11

Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit)

Answer 11

National Historic Place
one of the most often visited museums in the world
reminder of past greatness of Detroit
cover thousands of years of art history, from Ancient Egyptian encryptions to contemporary art, including artists like Van Gogh and Degas
Diego Rivera’s faourite work of his, commisioned in 1930s, is located there “Detroit Industry Murals”

Question 12

Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)

Answer 12

second biggest art collection in the US
mainly focuses on European and American art
you can see Ancient Egyptian sculptures there as well as Gilbert Stuart’s “George Washington”, never finished art piece, which you can see on 1$ bill

Question 13

National Museum of African American History and Culture (Washington, DC)

Answer 13

opened in 2016
one of the 10 most visited museums in the US
educates on the history of slavery, segregation and the Civil RIghts Movement, shows what is often ignored by the mainstream history
you can listen to oral histories and song recordings or see clothing and photographs, including personal items of Harriet Tubman (the woman who helped free countless of slaves using undergruond railroads) , of which some were given to her by Queen Victoria

Question 14

National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)

Answer 14

established in 1937
free entrance
located near the Capitol Hill
started from a persnal collection donated from a patron
focuses mainl on American and European art includina artists like Henri, Monet and Degas
da Vinci’s famous “Portrait of Ginevra de’ Benci” is sidplayed there, the only one of his works in both Americas

Question 14

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washigton, DC)

Answer 14

officlial commemoration of the Shoah
at the entarnce you get a card describing the history of a victiom or survivor of the Holocaust, to show how big the numbers truly are
you can see original letters from the victims, audio and visual recordings of their Testimonies and various other artifacts
in the Hall of Remembrance you light a candle next to the eternal flame

Question 15

National Museum of American History (Washinton DC)

Answer 15

cover periods of time from the life of the Indigenous people until today
collections include original letters from the Civil War, propaganda posters for WW2, props from famous films, Julia Chld’s kitchen and the Origial Star Spangled Banner Flag, which inspired Francis Scott Key to write what later became the national anthem of the US

Question 16

The Art Institue of Chicago (Chicago)

Answer 16

about 300,000 pieces
one of the world’s geratest museums
bulit in city’s Millenium Park
collection cover history of art from its beginning until now
displays pieces like “American Gothic”, “The Child’s Bath” and the impressionit masterpiece “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”

Question 17

The Museum of Modern Art (New York City)

Answer 17

onof the best collections of modern art in any country
located in the centre of Manhattan
over 200,000 pieces
collection covers everything form imperssionism to cubism to abstract geometry to contemporary works, including:
“Starry Night” (Van Gogh), “Persistnce of Memory” (Dali), “Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair” (Frida Khalo) and “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” (Picasso)

Question 18

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City)

Answer 18

the largest museum in the US
more than 2 million pieces, it takes at least a few days to see everything
sometimes there are lectures or exnibits from around the wolrd are brought there
collection includes an Egyptian Temple, Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures, Middle Age armour, Nigerian ivory masks and some of the famous artworks like “Madonna and the Child Enthroned with Saints” (Raphael), “Cow Skull” (Georgia O’Keeffe), “Self Portrait with a Straw Hat” (Van Gogh), “Bridge Over a Pond of Water Lilies” (Monet)

Question 19

American Museum of Natural History (New York City)

Answer 19

more than 32 million specimens
one of the best science museums in the world
interactive fun space wing and 3D films
you can see the largest dinosaur fosslis in the world, taxidermied elk an underwater creatures from all around the world