museum mile
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Presentation on Museum Mile NYTRANSCRIPT
By: David P, Nico, Rubén
VOCABULARY Weapons: armas Avenue: avenida Foundated: fundadado Foundation: fundación
MUSEUM MILE Museum mile is the name for a section of the
fifth Avenue in Manhattan (New York). There are 9 museums in this section of the
fifth Avenue but we are only going to talk about three of them.
METRPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART It was open in 1872. In total it has more than 2 million paintings,
sculptures, Egyptian art, Islamic art, weapons…
The director of the museum is Thomas P. Campbell
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM It´s one of the first museums created by the
foundation Solomon R. Guggenheim. It´s the most famous museum of this foundation. It was founded in 1937. The architect was Frank Loyd Wright.
Solomon Guggenheim had an important collection of modern art and he decided to make a museum.
John Chamberlain´s exhibition
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART It was open on 7th September 1929 It is one of the best modern art museums. The director is Glenn D. Lowry There are paintings of P. Picasso, Mark
Chagall, Andy Warhol…
Diego Rivera´s exhibition
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