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Most people have probably seen a museum label or two in their time--usually a small explainer of the object: title, date created, artist or origin. That can do the trick for those looking for ...
Here's an interesting removal label from a section of the Field ... Here’s a recent example of an alternative from the Rubin Museum: the object has been removed and a sign added to explain ...
7000 B.C.E. The clue that indicated that Woolley had uncovered a Neo-Babylonian museum was the presence of artifact labels. Each object corresponded to a small clay cylinder that boasted ...
It added: "Jane was answering a very specific question about how we make the information on object labels accessible to a wider range of people." Answering a question as part of the museum's # ...
Christine Coulson, who spent 25 years working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ... For the rest of the novel, the object labels offer up a road map of her well-bred life: from the Chapin School ...
For any object in the Museum we try to make the label as clear as possible, to visitors of all origins, within a tight word limit. More context is provided through digital content and our public ...
The object, which the Met says it acquired in 1962, is listed as part of the museum’s Islamic Art Department as a sixth-century amulet from Egypt. It is dated at A.D. 500–1000. Forwarding the News ...
Curated by the British Museum’s Richard Abdy ... “Legion” personalizes our understanding with wall texts and object labels bearing excerpts from the letters of Claudius Terentianus ...