From Boston to Los Angeles, from New York City to Chicago to Dallas, museums are either planning, building, or wrapping up wholesale expansion programs. These programs already have radically altered f

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(144) / 评论(0) 分类 新东方背诵文选

AS IT IS 2013-04-27The Oldest Non-Federal Art Museum in Washington, DC and a Jewish Museum in Germany Hello again and thanks for joining us for another edition of AS IT IS. Im June Simms. Coming up today, we visit a Jewish museum in Germany, where th

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 2013年VOA慢速英语(四)月

US Holocaust Museum Show Inspires Hungarian Art Students At first look, the black-and-white photograph seems sweet and innocent. The image was taken in 1929 in Bremen, Germany. Nine neighborhood boys stand together. They are smiling as they look at t

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International Museum Day has been held around the 18th of May every year since 1977. It was started by the International Council of Museums (ICOM). ICOM says: The event provides the opportunity for museum professionals to meet the public and alert th

发表于:2018-12-29 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 英语课程学习计划和讲义

EXPLORATIONS - Koshland Science Museum By Broadcast: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. T

发表于:2019-01-10 / 阅读(352) / 评论(0) 分类 Explorations

By Chad Bouchard Jakarta 27 August 2007 This poster displays the winning design of tsunami museum by architect Ridwan Kamil in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, 21 Aug 2007 Indonesia has picked an architect to design a museum in Aceh province in memory of the c

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By Deborah Block Washington 26 May 2008 A new museum opened Friday in Washington on crime and law enforcement, mostly in the United States. The museum is owned and financed by an entrepreneur and it charges a fee for entry. Visitors are invited to pi

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Lawyer Howard Spiegler helps clients reclaim stolen works of art Nancy Greenleese | Rome, Italy 26 July 2010 Photo: Courtesy Howard Spiegler Howard Spiegler's New York law firm has helped clients and countries recover stolen hundreds of artworks and

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Everything Old is New Again at Met Breuer Museum NEW YORK When it comes to art, perspective is everything. Perhaps that's why directors at New York City's famed Metropolitan Museum of Art decided to shift theirs, setting their sights on a new locatio

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By Mohamed Elshinnawi Dearborn, Michigan 03 October 2007 There are scores of museums in the United States, to educate the public about specific ethnic groups, but not until two years ago was there one devoted to Arab Americans. That is when the Arab

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LA brush fire closes Getty Museum Hundreds of people have been evacuated (被撤退) from the world-famous Getty art museum in Los Angeles as a brush fire rages in nearby mountains, officials say. The fire broke out around 1300 local time (2000 GMT)

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During the summer vacation, I took my children to visit the Creetown gem rock museum, in Scotland. It is highly recommended, as it is the leading independent gem rock museum in the whole of the UK. We travelled about fourty five minutes to get there,

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By Victoria Cavaliere New York 24 October 2007 New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has opened a newly renovated, state-of-the-art education center that will allow students, scholars and the general public to study the museum's world-renown collecti

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By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 21 April 2008 A 66-million-year-old dinosaur is being readied for exhibition in Los Angeles. Mike O'Sullivan reports, visitors can watch scientists as they work on the remains of the Tyrannosaurus rex known as Thomas. U

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By Zulima Palacio Washington 25 February 2008 A permanent, live butterfly exhibit recently open at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington. And for the first time, the museum is charging visitors an admission price. But as VOA producer Z

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Beginners. This summer, my brother has come to visit from New Zealand. We are having such a fantastic time together. He is wonderful person, and also a complete goofball! That is an american expression for a person who jokes and fools about. He has a

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By Kate Miller New York 06 June 2008 Relive the decade of the sixties, a time of change and transformation, at the new Museum at Bethel Woods in New York State. The museum explores the experience of the 1969 Woodstock festival, one of the iconic eve

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By Mike O'Sullivan Seattle 18 October 2007 A museum in Seattle highlights two distinct expressions of popular culture - pop music and science fiction. VOA's Mike O'Sullivan reports, the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum look at inno

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The shah of Irans last home before fleeing his country in 1979 was a huge property in the Alborz Mountains a place no Iranian ever dreamed of visiting. Today, a visit costs them around $1. The Niavaran Palace now welcomes the public to see the life t

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The Metropolitan Museum - a fixture for any tourist to New York and the largest museum in the world - hosts a whopping 7 million visitors each year. It costs 300 million dollars annually to operate the Met, but this art and cultural institution was u

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