Landmarks in Media
In the 1930s black-and-white film King Kong, a giant gorilla climbs this NYC building.
The Empire State Building
New York City's first museum.
The New York Historical
This department is responsible for museum fundraising events.
Development
This drawing medium is made when wood, like willow, is heated at a high temperature in an enclosed vessel. It was popular during the Renaissance to draft ideas, lay outlines, and map areas of shadow.
Charcoal
It was believed that Vincent van Gogh ate this to brighten his mood.
Yellow paint.
(According to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, this wasn't true. During his struggles with mental illness, he felt a compulsion to eat paint and turpentine.)
In the movie Stuart Little, a mouse sails a toy boat in this historic NYC park.
Central Park
The Guggenheim Museum's iconic building was designed by this famous architect.
Frank Lloyd Wright
This is the single biggest employer of historians in the United States.
The Federal Government
Tessarae are arranged into images in this ancient art form.
Mosiacs
Archaeologists in Ireland keep finding this food product preserved in bogs.
Butter
In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby purchases a mansion in this wealthy neighborhood.
West Egg, Long Island
This museum, founded in 1988 by historian Ruth Abram and social activist Anita Jacobson, is located in a historic residential building, and is used to tell the stories of the families that lived in those apartments between the 1860s and 1930s.
The Tenement Museum
This employee uses their training to care for collections, sometimes specializing in types of objects or materials-- paper, paintings, decorative arts, etc.
Conservator
The oldest form of printmaking.
Woodcutting
The Willis Museum in Basingstoke, UK, has the oldest intact example of this dessert, baked in 1898.
A wedding cake
A children's book series by Kay Thompson is set in this iconic NYC building, and follows a mischievous little girl named Eloise and her Nanny who live in the penthouse.
The Plaza
This museum in NYC was founded in 1969 by artist and educator Raphael Montañez Ortiz and a coalition of Puerto Rican parents, educators, artists, and activists.
El Museo del Barrio
If your job includes managing the museum's investments, endowment, and be expected to donate time, expertise, connections, and/or financial support, you might be part of...
The board of directors
This textile art was also a household object, and had a functional use. The American Folk Art Museum uses this collection to explore women's contributions to American art history.
Quilting
David Lynch's writing ritual included going to the same diner at the same time, and drinking as many as seven cups of this-- with lots of sugar added.
Coffee.
This monument's unexpected appearance was the shocking plot twist in the 1969 film, Planet of the Apes.
The Statue of Liberty
This museum, opened in 1976, is located underground, in a decommissioned 1936 subway station in Brooklyn.
The New York Transit Museum (celebrating 50 years of operation this year!)
This employee would be in charge of keeping the paperwork for donations and loans, and which objects in a collection belongs to whom.
Registrar
In this kind of ancient medium, egg yolk acts as a binding agent for powdered pigments. It was used by artists like Botticelli for The Birth of Venus, but fell out of popularity with the introduction of oil paints.
Tempera
From 1936 - 1973, this line of dinnerware used uranium in its ceramic glaze. Though one company is well-known for producing this line of radioactive ceramic dinnerware, The Museum of Radiation and Radioactivity states that "almost any antique ceramic with a deep orange/red color is likely to be radioactive."
Fiestaware