Photos tagged as museum and art

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Stairs in front of Philadelphia Museum of Art

Date: 5 July 2008
Photographer: UGa: gallery
Location: Philadelphia, USA: gallery
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A pottery model of a "pig toilet". There are stairs on the backside for climbing up into the little building. I saw things like this in museums four years ago. But no one knows enough to confirm the obvious conclusion: an elevated outhouse that dumps into a pig pen? And then you eat the pigs?

Date: 25 May 2008
Photographer: myrrhlin: gallery
Location: Wuhan, China: gallery
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Art - Metal Man

Museo de Banco Nacional

Date: 4 March 2008
Photographer: jtlande: gallery
Location: Quito, Ecuador: gallery
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Art - Meathead

Museo de Banco Nacional

Date: 4 March 2008
Photographer: jtlande: gallery
Location: Quito, Ecuador: gallery
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City of arts and Science, Valencia

Ciudad de las Artes y de las Ciencias The Science museum in Valencia - buildings designed by Santiago Calatrava

Date: 16 August 2007
Photographer: Carolyn89: gallery
Location: Spain: gallery
Tags: art buildings museum building santiago valencia science calatrava
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Cuba/Camague

Date: July 2007
Photographer: marlis: gallery
Location: Cuba: gallery
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Borg mothership?

Date: 5 June 2007
Photographer: NomadicOne: gallery
Location: Hamburg, Germany: gallery
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Conch Shells

at the National Museum in Lima/Peru

Date: March 2007
Photographer: marlis: gallery
Location: Peru: gallery
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National Museum,Lima/Peru

Date: March 2007
Photographer: marlis: gallery
Location: Peru: gallery
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Bath House

Kashan is a city in the province of Isfahan, Iran. It had an estimated population of 272,359 in 2005. The etymology of the city name comes from the Persian word Kashi, which translates into the English word tile. Kashan is the first of the large oases along the Qom-Kerman road which runs along the edge of the central deserts of Iran. Its charm is thus mainly due to the contrast between the parched immensities of the deserts and the greenery of the well-tended oasis. Archeological discoveries in the Sialk Hillocks which lie 2.5 miles (4 km) west of Kashan reveal that this region was one of the primary centers of civilization in pre-historic ages. Hence Kashan dates back to the Elamite period of Iran. The Sialk ziggurat still stands today in the suburbs of Kashan after 7000 years. The three wise men who followed the star that guided them to Bethlehem to witness the nativity of Jesus, as recounted in the Bible, reportedly came from Kashan. The artifacts uncovered at Sialk reside in the Louvre in Paris and the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Iran's National Museum. Sultan Malik Shah I of the Seljukian dynasty ordered the building of a fortress in the middle of Kashan in the 11th century. The fortress walls, called Ghal'eh Jalali still stand today in central Kashan. Kashan was also a leisure vacation spot for Safavi Kings. Bagh-e Fin (Fin Garden), specifically, is one of the most famous gardens of Iran. This beautiful garden with its pool and orchards was designed for Shah Abbas I as a classical Persian vision of paradise. The original Safavid buildings have been substantially replaced and rebuilt by the Qajar dynasty although the layout of trees and marble basins is close to the original. The garden itself however, was first founded 7000 years ago alongside the Cheshmeh-ye-Soleiman. The garden is also notorious as the sight of the murder of Mirza Taghi Khan known as Amir Kabir, chancellor of Nasser-al-Din Shah, Iran's King in 1852. The earthquake of 1778 leveled the city of Kashan and all the edifices of Shah Abbas Safavi, leaving 8000 casualties. But the city started afresh however, and has today become a focal tourist attraction via the numerous large houses from the 18th and 19th centuries, illustrating the finest examples of Qajari aesthetics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashan