A series of free outdoor exhibitions also gives some sense of the museum's character.
For extra credit, groups may create an exhibit for a "living museum," developing characters for extended role plays, costumes, props, and scripts to help depict key scenes in the story of how their symbol came to represent American freedom.
"There are too many sources of interest neglected — whole categories of manners, whole corpuscular classes and provinces, museums of character and condition, unvisited".
Through its brand a museum creates its character and projects its presence into the world.
The sparse arrangement of the 160 sculptures in the vast rooms gives the museum its special character.
The relaunched Mauritshuis exquisitely combines the conveniences of a modern museum with the character of a collection and house that go back to the Dutch Golden Age itself.
On a sunny morning this spring, the four first-years — and two visiting students from other New York grad schools — gathered for their "Evolution" seminar in a cozy classroom that reflects the museum's Victorian character.
She misuses Ojibwe words, he says, calling them "display, with language itself a museum piece". The characters in "Love Medicine," her best-known book, are modeled on people of the Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota, but don't even speak the right dialect, he says.
Visiting a museum in Hiroshima, a character connects the dots between America's actions during World War II and her family's record of cancer in Los Alamos.
Gavriel Rosenfeld, writing in the Forward newspaper, has even suggested, fascinatingly, that the museum's "self-effacing character" is the architectural version of an interest in cultural assimilation.
