Creativity, innovations and
dreams are an incredible combination, when people back up those dreams with effort.
These are the three ideas that I thought of when I read Anand Girldharadas’s
article “Museums see different virtue in virtual world” in the Palm Beach post this
past Sunday which was picked up from the New York Times.
I recently visited my home
town of Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon Museum. It was a wonderful day and I found
myself as giddy as a young boy looking for the first time at the marvels of
history, science and art. My first experience there was as a young man, my girlfriend took me and
they were presenting the "Ancient World" as their main exhibit. A wall from an
ancient city was in the main hall. They had a sarcophagus, that later would be
put in their special Egyptian section many years later; and for many years after that, I
felt that I had to go back home to revel in this sense of wonderment.
However, thanks to two
New York museums, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum they wanted
to bring this vision to the world. As Anand states, in his article they serve different
clientele. “The Met,” he said, “an isle and in the global archipelago of
leading museums, and the Brooklyn Museum more rooted in local soil.” Yet for
all their differences, they share a world conquering dream…The dream that
anyone, anywhere, could participate and would be given the chance to engage the
technology at these museums.”
Below is a link to Anand Girldharas’s article and I hope you enjoy
it as much as I did.