(Los angeles hotels) The Museums of San Francisco
No commentsBy Gerry Lamb
With around 65 museums, it’s no wonder that it is quite difficult to narrow down the choices and select the San Francisco museum that you absolutely must visit while vacationing here. The good news is that it is quite possible to narrow down the choices according to your personal preferences. Museums are a great way to discover the history, the art, and the future of a city. If that city gives a great amount of effort into building great places of learning about the art, music, history, and future of said city, then that city has a bright future ahead of it.
Art is something that is becoming more and more often overlooked as budget cuts hit school curriculums and great emphasis is placed on learning specific facts and details rather than the learning process, but art is a vitally important component of societal development. Think about it, the one thing that survives the generations of old and appears in museum today is most often art of some sort. Art is a way of expressing who we are, what we dream, and where we hope we are going. If we take the art from our lives, we are stifling our societies and risking our progeny.
In case you haven’t guessed, I’m a little passionate about art and feel that art museums are an integral component not only of preserving our pasts but also of insuring our futures. The first art museum I would like to mention is of particular interest here because not only does it showcases artists that are local to the San Francisco area but it also deals with visual arts, performing arts, and film and video. The name of this museum is: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and I seriously recommend that you take a moment or two out of your busy vacation time be devoted to taking a look around this great center for visual and performing arts.
Art comes in many shapes and sizes and few places showcase it as well as the de Young Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. From painting to sculptures to quilts this museum offers some fantastic collections of art as well as offering excellent exhibitions that rotate throughout the year. Give your senses a feast of color, light, and texture by visiting the de Young.
If you have the time, you really should check out The Diego Rivera Mural Project. This project is about the necessity of blending all of the cultures and histories that make Americans American into one unified work of art. By using the historical artistic styles of the Indian, the Eskimo, and the Mexican and blending them a style will emerge that is Pan American Unity. While some may find the ideals behind it a bit lofty (I find them applaudable), it is impossible to deny that the mural itself is an impressive work of art. While this is not a museum, I really feel that this is an important work of art that is definitely worth mentioning.
Whether you have a deep and abiding passion for art or not, it’s hard to deny the power that art has to move and inspire people. For that reason alone I think it is important that we try to cultivate a love of art or at the very least an education about art within our children, museum exhibits are an excellent method of achieving that goal.
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By James Rick
The historical passion play has attracted people for several decades. This play is staged once in every ten years from the year 1634. In the year 1634 people of Oberammergau had staged the play for the first time. First time the play was performed to save people from disease like plague. People living in Oberammergau German Village had pledged to enact a play that would portray Christs suffering or passion. They decided to enact the play once in a decade so that there were no more deaths in the town. The chronicle of the town recorded that from that day no one in the town had become a victim of plague. This play is enacted till the present days and has gone under several modifications.
In the year 1680, the passion play was enacted in the starting year of a decade. Later in the first half of the eighteenth century, music was added to the play to make it more appealing. With time several changes have been made to make the play more attractive. The passion play tours of these days have orchestra and choir for enhancing the performance of the actors. Local people from the town have always enacted the plays. They start to rehearse the play and modify themselves according to the demand of the role so that their characters look realistic. Actors also grow their hairs depending on the character that they would play. It is recorded that more than five hundred children and fifteen hundred adults are involved in the play.
People have been waiting for passion play 2010. In the year 2010, the passion play would be staged for the forty first time. This shows the appeal of the drama to the common men. Everyone who is involved with the play perform their jobs carefully so that they can entertain the viewers. They are also careful about their responsibilities for the play as they want to save the people of the town from fatal disease like plague.
People have started to search the Internet so that they can know about the Oberammergau passion play tours. On the first day of the tour, the cast and crew will depart from United States. Then they will take overnight flight and reach Europe. On the second day, they would reach Amsterdam Airport. They would stay there for two days and on the fourth day, they would reach Belgium. The crew would visit the Antwerp, the city which has a lot of historical importance. On day five they would be at Germany and visit different places of Germany for few days.
The passion play travels will move to Italy on the ninth day. They would visit Verona, Venice, Regello, Rome, and the Tyrrhenian coast in Italy. The troop would move from there to reach Switzerland on the fourteenth day. In Switzerland the troop would remain for two days and then visit France. They would visit France on the nineteenth day and stay there for a day. Then the troop would finally move to London. On the 22nd day, the troop will flight for USA. All the information about the tour is available on the Internet.
Mike is author of this article on passion play travel.
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