http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/02/27/doffay-donation.html British art dealer donates lots of artwork. This website was chosen because it gives reasons why an art donor is willing to give part of his collection to a museum to wanting to allow people to enjoy the art which was held within the art dealer's collection
http://picasaweb.google.com/littester/2008EnglandTwoWeekHoliday# This site was selected because it gives examples of my personal experiences looking at British art.
http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=105&sid=1468049- Duke of Sutherland selling artwork to National museum in London. This article was chosen because it gives another example of a personal art collector willing to sell pieces of his art collection to museums in order to allow the general public to enjoy the art
http://0-doi.acm.org.bianca.penlib.du.edu/10.1145/996350.996445- Article talking about creating digital copies of objects. This article was selected because it talks about the future of what museums can become through digitizing pieces of its collection and placing it online
http://www.coloradohistory.org/- Colorado Historical library website
http://www.skimuseum.net/- website to Colorado Ski Museum
http://www.stpauls.co.uk/page.aspx?theLang=001lngdef&pointerid=169345dwprEOVViTRLd8xXbHBDHGbzge- St Paul's cathedral in London This website was chosen because it is an example of a church which can be viewed as a museum because of the historical objects, statues, stain glass windows dedicated to donors
http://www2.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/page/home/home.html- St Martin in the field
http://www.stdunstaninthewest.org/homepage.htm- St Dunstan-in-the-West. This website was chosen because this building is seen to be a living history museum because it is still being used today even with what has happened in the past. Plus, much of the internal fabric pre-dates the rebuilding of the Church in the 1830s.The high altar and reredos are Flemish woodwork dating from theseventeenth century. There are also a large number of monuments from the original church. Some of the earliest are two bronze figures thought to date from 1530. These objects need to be taken care of properly so they will be around for long periods of time.
http://www.westminster-abbey.org/- Westminster Abbey- This website was chosen because of the large amount of history which has gone inside of it, plus the beautiful architecture and monuments and grave stones. Curators would have a field day with this place since it has so much going on within it and wanting to take care of what is there.
http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/ The Globe Theatre. This website was chosen because it discusses a living museum dedicated to the study of life during the time of William Shakespeare and the plays he wrote and performed in.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/palestinians-protest-at-israeli-plan-to-build-museum-on-muslim-graveyard-998227.html- this article was chosen because it shows that not all museums are wanted or needed to particular groups of people like the Palestinians.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5goUZ-3LPMpfoPhBX6-9j4i0HsOJgD9490AUG0- This article was chosen because it shows that some museums are willing to make sure that objects that came from different locations will be returned to their proper location.
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