VIRTUAL METROPOLITAN MUSEUM SCRIPT

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Welcome to The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City.

Today, we are going to have a discussion about The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York
City with our 3 invited panels.

For your information, The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City is the largest art museum in
the United States. This museum was the fourth most visited art museum in the world with 6,479,548
visitors. Besides, the museum is also home to encyclopedic collections of musical instruments,
costumes, and accessories, and antique weapons and armour from around the world. And the most
amazing part, it's also home to the world's oldest surviving piano which is known as The
Metropolitan's Cristofori. 

Currently, Metropolitan University offers The Met 360° Project in our virtual museum. This is one of
the initiatives to create new ways for public to experience arts and collections virtually. It is such a
great idea. Viewers around the world can experience architecture and arts in a fresh, immersive way.
Since we always want to provide high quality exhibition to the visitors, this project will focus more on
giving satisfactory to them. The use of 360° technology allows viewers to explore some of Museum’s
iconic spaces as never before. It will be really great.

There are interesting exhibitions can be viewed by public for free during range of time. Visitors may
perceive new knowledge regarding arts and history by joining this. Attractive objects with great
explanation for each collection will amaze viewers. However, if they love to see it in 3D view, reserve
ticket for The Met 360° Project is encouraged.

Here, I will share about one of our latest exhibitions which is Jacob Lawrence: The American
Struggle. It features the little-seen series of paintings—"Struggle: From the History of the American
People" (1954–56)—by the iconic American modernist. The exhibition reunites the multi-panelled
work for the first time in more than half century. So, this will open your mind about the history of
American People. In addition, there will be a lot of great exhibitions are coming soon. Stay tune and
keep discovering new experience and knowledge.
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2020/jacob-lawrence-american-struggle

We would like to share with you a masterpiece from one the artists, Kent Monkman.
 mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People): Welcoming the Newcomers

This is one of the many masterpieces that we have truly admired and liked. It is a modern and
contemporary art that very much reminded me of the nineteenth century style of paintings with its
grand scale. It’s a clever representation of the resiliency of Indigenous and the appreciation of it. The
composition might strike you in awe as it is acrylic on a very vast canvas and how amazing it is to be
able to see it no matter where you are. Just a simple click would transport you to the gallery of MET
museum. Take a tour virtually and see many more great arts that encapsulate the amazing ideas of
the artists behind them.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/830024?
searchField=AccessionNum&sortBy=DateDesc&ao=on&ft=2020.*&offset=0&am
p;rpp=20&pos=5

We firmly believe that arts can give such a huge impact on today’s society no matter when the arts
are actually produced. In fact, it is even more mind-blowing when you realise that centuries old arts
speak a lot about today’s society. We believe that arts have been a way for artists to share their
views of the world. Take the above painting for example. It shows not only the struggle of the
Indegenous but also the beauty in their strength. It takes us back to the time of colonialization, of
hardships and of arduous pain. It gives us the tastes of agony. For me, it teaches us to be grateful for
our blissful life. The contentment we felt today are the fruits of blood, sweat and tears of our
ancestors. We are given this lesson and many more from a glance at this masterpiece. Indeed, as
long as we open our eyes and see with our heads and hearts, we surely will be able to immerse
ourselves in experiences that can teach us unforgettable messages.

However, certainly, there are many differences from virtual museum compared to real life visit. If we
visit physically, visitors have to take turn to read the facts and information below the artefact, take
pictures and maybe we have return to the section again if we miss something. We have to rush by
walking faster to make sure we’ve visited every section, and need to scramble in crowd if there are so
many visitors at the same place. Through online, we can simply go back and forth throughout the
exhibition. Online visit isn’t tiring at all, that’s the best thing for me. We don’t have to go anywhere.
Just sit and dive into the 360 panorama. Next, in terms of fee, online visit have more advantage. It’s
because, we still have to pay the same price as physical visit to enjoy full tour of an exhibition.
However, for other unpaid exhibitions, we can have the sneak-peek of them through its free preview.
Plus, for every exhibition, there will be an introduction which present the overview of the event. We
think, the manager is doing this to promote the virtual tour so that visitors will be attracted to pay when
they want to watch more. We won’t get this privilege in physical visit as it will give loss to the
organizer. There’s also time limit during the exhibition. For all my paid visit, we can enjoy the tour as
long as the museum’s operating hour. This means, we can enjoy the virtual visit longer than physical
visit because we don’t have to anywhere. These are major differences that we can see by virtual
museum visit.