What wealthy American industrialist created the largest history museum of its time in 1929 in Dearborn, Michigan?
Henry Ford
100
What three great American museums were founded in 1870?
American Museum of Natural History, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
100
What really large object did the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum have on exhibit (about WWII) that was so controversial? Why was there so much controversy?
The Enola Gay (airplane that transported the first atom bomb)
100
What national leader discouraged viewing of some kinds of art that he called "degenerate"?
Adolph Hitler
100
What was the first public art museum in the US and when was it founded?
The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT, 1842.
200
Who advocated that museums should pursue a largely educational function in behalf of the general public?
John Cotton Dana
200
What three New York museums were among the first to adopt modern architecture?
MOMA, Guggenheim, Whitney.
200
What unbelievable object did Barnum have on exhibit in his museum?
A Mermaid
200
How did President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration contribute to the growth of museums in America?
More funding for maintenance, development and expansion of American museums and exhibitions during the New Deal (mostly late 1930s).
200
What was America's first PUBLIC museum and when was it formed?
Peale's Museum, 1786.
300
What museum was commissioned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen?
Experience Music Project
300
Cultural critic Tom Wolfe called which museum "a colonial complex inflated to prodigious dimensions"?
MOMA, NY. He said that the building's architecture signaled MOMA's intent to "colonize" the post-war spoils of Europe.
300
What device did John Cotton Dana design to aid museum visitors?
"Museum fatigue stools"
300
What impact did the Cold War have on American museums?
More "patriotic" exhibits and information presented. More science, math and other related information (STEM) was presented.
300
What was America's first African-American museum formed and when?
Hampton Institute (Virginia), 1868
400
Who advocated for pure aesthetic contemplation in art museums?
Benjamin Ives Gilman
400
What recent style of museum architecture is characterized by resurrection of “ornament, whimsy, and more attention to popular taste”?
Postmodernism
400
What is the more polite and elevated term for the extraordinary amount of shopping, looting, and stealing that eventually led to the founding of museums?
Collecting
400
What justification did the French authorities offer for the confiscation of Italian paintings during Napoleon’s campaign of 1796-1797?
Conservation and restoration
400
According to Alexander, who was "the first great American museum director"?
Charles Willson Peale, in Philadelphia
500
Who founded the Mouseion of Alexandria?
Ptolemy Soter
500
What do museums such as the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, the Wing Luke Asian Museum and the El Museo del Bario have in common?
Subject matter is more inclusive and diverse so as to appeal to a more diverse audience.
500
At which museum will you find a bunch of old cars, windmills, and other "Americana"?
Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan.
500
John Julius Angerstein's collection of pictures was the start of which museum?
The National Gallery in London
500
The first European museum open to the public was founded in 1683. What was it and where was it located?