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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) |
 The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) it is one of the most famous museums of modern art and contemporary, and in the meantime one of the main goals of the millions of tourists that every year visit the town of New York. The museum is situated in a building of 1939 planned from Philip Goodwin and Edward Durrell Stone. The " MoMA&Quot; in half of the years 80 was broadened to work of the architect Cesar Skins. On the back it is also a splendid garden with sculptures of open - Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculptures Garden. To the inside of the MoMA all areas of the visual limbs are represented: Paints, Sculpture, Installations, Drawings, graphic Art, Books illustrated, Photography, Architecture, Design and Cinema. The museum exhibits works of Umberto Boccioni, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí, Edgar Degas, Edward Hopper, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Georges-Pierre Seurat, Vincent Van Gogh, Vasily Kandinsky, etc... |
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museum of natural history |
The American Museum of Natural History that is the American Museum of Story Natural is one of the main Museums of New York.
Situated in the Upper West Side of Manhattan between the 79ma road and the Central Park. The Museum employs beyond 1.200 persons and from always adopts a special formula of support articulated on large and small sponsor. The American Museum of Natural History it is able surely between the greater Natural museums of Story of the World.
It was been based on in 1869 for at first to be used to arsenal of the close Central Park. Some years after, in 1874 had began the edifice of the stable than still today occupies big part of Manhattan Square. The original neogotic structure thought out between 1874 and 1877 from the architects Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould - that collaborated with Frederick Law Olmsted in the organization of the Central Park - left in effects then the place to a classic style, thanks to the intervention of J. Cleaveland Cady, that it was influenced from the work of Henry Hobson Richardson.
The triumphant access in classic style that gives on Central Park West, completed from John Russell Puts in 1936, it is constituted from a monument in architectural style Beaux-Arts (slow neoclassical of French school) dedicated to Teddy Roosevelt, such access leads to an immense Roman basilica where outstanding immediately between the monumental volume the skeleton of a mother of barosauro in action of the small one from an allosauro to defend. The museum is well-known for his reconstructions of African habitat of mammals, Asian and Nordamericani, for the model in natural size of a Blue Balenottera that it hangs from the ceiling of the Room of the Oceans, for the canoa from the Haida war painted and carved in the long wood 62 foots came from the North-West of the Pacific, and for it "Star of the Indian", the largest one dark blue sapphire existing.
The route of everything a plan is dedicated to the evolution of the vertebrates, included that of the well-known Dinosaurs. Considerable also the museum collections of anthropology: the salt with collections on the Asian peoples and the inhabitants of the Pacific, on the man of the Africa, on the American native, the collections of the Mexico and of the central America.
Between the most well-known names associated of AMNH are that of the paleontolog and geologist Henry Fairfield Osborn, that it was president of the foundation for different years; the hunter of Dinosaurs of the Desert of Gobi Roy Chapman Andrews (that it has inspirng in part the famous character of Indian Jones), George Gaylord Simpson, Ernst Mayr and the ornitolog Robert Cushman Murphy. The known philanthropist John Pierpont Morgan - that it was the first publisher of the photographer of the native american Edward Sheriff Curtis - figure between the different benefactors of the museum.
The Hayden Planetarium connected to the Museum now it is part of the Roses Center for Earth and Space, accommodated in a pleased cube of glass a spherical Vault of the sky (it Space Theatre), planned from James Stewart Polshek. The center was open to the public february 9 2000.
The Museum is easily attainable means the lines B and C of the subway of New York thanks to an immediately adjacent stop to the museum. The American Museum of Natural History of New York offers really a lot to the actual visitors and this gives back it certainly one of that from not to loose absolutely for those who are in visit in the " Large Apple"
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ellis island |
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Ellis Island, today assigned to Museum of the Immigration it is a little island to the seals of the river Hudson in the bay of New York. Ancient military arsenal, from 1892 to 1954, year of its closing, the greater boundary of entrance for the immigrants was that disembarked in the United States.
The port of Ellis Island it welcomed more of 20 millions of inhaling American citizens, that to the arrival should show the documents of journey with the information of the ship that had carried to New York. Treat the Service Immigration monitored swiftly each emigrating, marking on the back with a plaster, those that should be submitted to a further examination to ascertain it the conditions of health (for example: PG for pregnant woman, K for ernia and X for mental problems). Those who surpassed this first examination, came then accompanied in the Room of the Registers, where were awaited from surveyors that recorded their Name, Place of Birth, Civil Statute, Place of Destination, Availability of Money, Profession and Criminal Precedents. Are received to the end that it allowed to disembark and after a period of quarantine came accompanied to the wharf of the ferry for Manhattan.
A wall that travels all the circumference of Ellis Island, over a metallic covering, restores all of the Names and Surnames of the immigrants recorded on the island.
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the metropolitan museum of art |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art it is found to 1000 Fifth Ancestors. At 82 nd St. to New York – United States; is an encyclopedic museum, with ancient sections of art, modern and contemporary.
In this museum the works of Artists of the caliber are exhibited of: Pierre Bonnard, Sandro Barrel, Agnolo Bronze, Caravaggio, Paul Cézanne, Enjoys Courbet, Edgar Degas, El Greek, Paul Gauguin, Artemisia Gentileschi, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Georges-Pierre Seurat, Vincent Van Gogh, Jan Vermeer, Paul Klee, etc.
The enormous majority of the works that today we find to the Metropolitan Museum are fruit of donations and legacies.
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the carnegie hall |
The Carnegie Hall it is one of the sacred places of the classic and light music to world level. Situated to New York in the 7th Avenue, was build in 1890 from the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. It is composed from three salt: the isaac Stern Auditorium (2804 places), the Zenkel Hallway (599 places) and the Weil Recital Hallway (268 places). The Carnegie Hall it enjoys of an actual artistic planning that it presents about hundred shows for season. It has not a company resident, even if the New York Philharmonic resided stable until 1962. |
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