Sentence examples for folk museums from inspiring English sources
As well as making a serious study of art history, I was studying popular art in folk museums.
The most popular folk museums are the Openluchtmuseum (Open Air Museum) at Arnhem and the Zuiderzeemuseum at Enkhuizen.
I'm a sucker for folk museums, never happier than when I'm standing in front of a diorama showing a tinker, cobbler or candlemaker at work.
Folk, then, is a book about tradition and belonging, but also about how folk museums and what Schuman calls "museum people" curate these artefacts and, in doing so, direct our way of looking – and looking back.
The seeds of Beamish were sown in 1952, when he toured Norway and Sweden and witnessed the success of "folk museums" such as Stockholm's Skansen, dedicated to preserving traditional rural culture, which was founded in 1891.
The Museum of Modern Art has said that it does not know yet what it plans to do with the folk museum building.
The MoMA expansion would consist of five buildings, including an 82-story residential tower just west of the folk museum.
The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum in Cultra provides a particularly interesting link with the peasant origins of Northern Ireland and includes an open-air folk museum.
In addition to its holdings of folk art, the folk museum has a collection of outsider art, including several thousand drawings, books and related material by Henry Darger.
The Museum of Modern Art agreed on Tuesday to take over the American Folk Art Museum's new building on West 53rd Street because the folk museum has serious financial problems.
Maybe the former folk museum could become a respite in the future Modern — or its galleries a refuge for photographs or drawings or design objects.
