| Authors: |
Echo Productions.
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
Doyle, Marc
Doyle, Chesney Blankenstein.
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| Material type: |
DVD-Video |
| Subject: |
Museums.
Television programs.
Educational television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
[Brighton, MA] : Distributed by PBS Distribution, 2012. |
| Description: |
7 videodisc (ca. 22 hr., 30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| ISBN: |
9781608837588 1608837580 |
| Notes: |
"Major funding provided by the Eureka Foundation."--Container. |
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Originally broadcast on television by PBS as episodes of the television program Great Museums between 2001 and 2012. |
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DVD, NTSC region 1, widescreen presentation; stereo. |
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In English; English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. |
| Contents: |
Disc 1. New Orleans: a living museum of music -- National Music Museum: America's shrine to music -- Institute of Texan Cultures: behind the Lone Star -- The Charleston Museum: America's first museum -- The Deta Blues Museum: the Blues lives on! -- DuSable Museum of African-American history: American soul -- Disc 2. The National Baseball Hall of Fame: home base -- Ellis Island Immigration Museum: Face of America -- Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian: native voice -- National D-Day Museum: triumph of the spirit -- The Library of Congress: volumes to speak -- Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum: water ways -- Disc 3. Molly Brown House Museum: the unsinkable -- Colorado History Museum: crossroads of culture -- California Surf Museum: proudly we wave -- Autry Museum of Western Heritage: spirit of the west -- The National Museum of Racing: horse power -- Disc 4. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: a world of art -- The Museum of Modern Art: in our time -- George Eastman House: picture perfect -- Isabella Stewart Gardner museum: collective vision -- Disc 5. China: West meets East: at the Metropolitan Museum of Art -- The Great Museums of Havana: curious about Cuba -- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: art gets a start in America -- National Museum of Women in the arts: a woman's touch -- Disc 6. An Acquiring Mind: Philippe de Montebello and the Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Riches, Rivals & Radicals: 100 years of museums in America -- The Walker Art Center: creative catalyst -- Morris Museum of Art: the art of the south -- Disc 7. The Smithsonian National Zoo: wild thing! -- The Franklin Institute: wonderland of science --The Boston Children's Museum: mind over matter -- The Whale Museum: science at sea -- New York City Fire Museum: trial by fire -- The Henry Ford: made in America -- California State Railroad Museum: behind ties. |
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| Summary: |
Celebrate the world of museums with this award-winning series that opens the doors of the museum world to millions of viewers and discover why fact is even more fascinating than fiction. Go behind the scenes to a museum vault, an art restoration lab, or an archaeological dig on this journey behind the scenes of museums all over the world. |