Sentence examples for view of museum from inspiring English sources

The narrow-minded focus on attendance in your article reflects an outdated view of museum metrics.

Every day, they churned out new sculptures in full view of museum visitors, transforming the gallery into a makeshift workshop.

"The basic view of museum curators is that this is ours," said Mr. Bronstein, who said he has encountered resistance at institutions when he has sought to look at the backs of paintings for telltale marks of his family member.

PAGE B1 Ancient History Underfoot At the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, specialists working in full view of museum visitors are cleaning and restoring an elaborate mosaic floor, dotted with cherubs, dolphins and fish, that once graced the courtyard of a third-century villa in ancient Antioch, now southern Turkey.

Following the method of Bergman & Beehner [ 106], raw digital photographs of the dorsal view of museum skins were taken with the same equipment as mentioned above.

"The city may be better from the point of view of museums, but that doesn't touch the lives of most people, who are left to fend for themselves," said Maurizio Gardinazzi, a taxi driver.

"The city may be better from the point of view of museums, but that doesn't touch the lives of most people, who are left to fend for themselves," said Maurizio Gardinazzi, a disgruntled taxi driver.

By challenging the Victorian view of museums as lofty custodians of a sacred artistic canon, visual arts institutions are trying to make themselves more approachable and responsive to their visitors.

The old top-down view of museums, whereby curators and scholars dictated to a passive audience through tendentious displays, had somehow given way to the notion of a democratized museum.

"These galleries are just trophy cabinets for a handful of millionaires," he wrote later in an e-mail message to a reporter, explaining his dim view of museums and his desire to see his work inside one purely to poke fun at the whole idea.

He posited this to be based on a popular view of museums as unexciting or boring places.