Supporting the Arts in Our Community Since 1983
Museums
Museums (cont. . . )
Providence, RI
Art Museum, Part of Brown University; collection includes European and American paintings from the 17th through the 20th centuries and swords
Providence, RI
Art Museum, Part of Brown University; collection includes European and American paintings from the 17th through the 20th centuries and swords
Wakefield, RI
Contemporary Art
Newport, RI
American illustrative art, located at Vernon Court, a Gilded Age mansion
Newport, RI
Includes notable works from RI and New England artists, mid-19th century period rooms in the John N. A. Griswold House.
Newport, RI
Library with changing exhibitions of art and history from its collections, also sculpture, furnitur, gardens & special book collections.
Providence, RI
Collection includes art from Egypt, Asia, Africa, ancient Greece and Rome, Europe and the Americas; decorative arts, costumes and textiles.
Wickford, RI
Changing exhibits of fine art.
According to the ICOM Statutes, adopted during the 21st General Conference in Vienna, Austria, in 2007:
A museum is a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment for the purposes of education, study and enjoyment.
The International Council of Museums (ICOM) is the only international organisation representing museums and museum professionals.
Since 1946, ICOM has assisted members of the museum community in their mission to preserve, conserve and share cultural heritage. ICOM also takes advice from institutional partners to achieve its objectives.
The definition of a museum has evolved, in line with developments in society. Since its creation in 1946, ICOM updates this definition in accordance with the realities of the global museum community.
Today more than ever, museums are at the heart of cultural, social and economic issues in contemporary societies.
excerpts taken from ~ http://icom.museum/the-vision/museum-definition/
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Eakins • A May Morning in the Park
SELECT THE LINKS BELOW TO BE TAKEN TO A FAR AWAY PLACE OF WONDER AND AMAZEMENT . . .
(. . . propably not by horse drawn carriage and most likely only to another web page, but it's good to keep the imagination young and alive!)
Changing exhibits of fine and decorative art.
Warwick, RI