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Your Family Adventures- in Washington, D.C. Your inside source for family friendly D.C. Welcome to “Your Family Adventures- in Washington, D.C.”. Getting Here and Getting Around. 8220;Other” Modes of Transportation. What You’ll Need For Your Trip. Welcome to “Your Family Adventures- in Washington, D.C.”. I have been in the Washington, D.C. area for over six years now and I just keep getting more and more enamored by this city! So, this blog is coming to the rescue! Leave a Reply Cancel reply. You are com...
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Special gifts of the house museum | Museums with impact
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Museums, a way in to doubt? The ‘uncurated’ Christmas tree →. Special gifts of the house museum. July 26, 2015. Recently, blogger, Hannah Lawrence, observed that ‘no matter who you are or what your background, when you are permitted to open grand towering doors you feel a sense of self-indulgent import’ (. I think, however, that house museums are more than just palettes for our imaginations and romantic fantasies. A recent visit to Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens. However, the lovely moments of ordin...
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Museums, a way in to doubt? | Museums with impact
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In defense of museum ‘narcissism’. Special gifts of the house museum →. Museums, a way in to doubt? June 7, 2015. Poet Jane Hirshfield’s hopeful insights. Into the role of poetry in helping to solve big social problems make a powerful case for the public celebration of uncertainty and nuance in the world. I didn’t realize until my Memorial Day visits to Freer Sackler. Can also be a crucial ‘way in’ to uncertainty, and healthy doubt. Doubt, I think, is an important precursor to empathy which is a hot topi...
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The ‘uncurated’ Christmas tree | Museums with impact
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Special gifts of the house museum. Rootedness and Museum Champions →. The ‘uncurated’ Christmas tree. August 9, 2015. Every time I drive west down Duke Street past Landmark Mall (towards 395), I am cheered and comforted by the sight of an eclectically decorated ‘Christmas tree’ growing out of the sidewalk by the overpass to the Mall. Photo by David Konigsberg. Me and my late grandmother by our Christmas tree. However, I think we might consider what we are sacrificing when we ‘edit’ someone’s participator...
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The empowering exhibition | Museums with impact
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Dropping in on museums. Museums and the pure joy of learning →. January 13, 2015. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. S current exhibit,. Days of Endless Time. Promises to explore themes of nature, solitude, and escape through moving image works that attenuate and suspend time or evoke timelessness (see website. So when I visited with my mum last Wednesday, I expected any resulting blog post to focus on the exhibition’s meditative qualities. Unexpectedly, I was drawn down another path. The works e...
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