Showing posts with label Museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Museum. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Museum of Schwarzenegger Officially Opens in Austria

A museum dedicated to former California governor and Hollywood movie star, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has been officially opened in his native Austria. So that was reported by NHK on Sunday (31 / 7).

This museum opened on Saturday (30 / 7), coinciding with the anniversary of the 64th Schwarzenegger, at his birthplace in Thal, Austria southern part. Terminator's main character had lived for 20 years in the city.

Among the objects and photographs in museum is a great bike that Schwarzenegger never ride in the science fiction thriller, Terminator 2, and a model of Terminator robot.

This museum also featuring a bed with a young Schwarzenegger who dreamed of success as a bodybuilder and used fax machine when he was governor of California. In a video message to the opening of the museum, Schwarzenegger said: "I` ll be back ". A famous phrase that he uses in his role as Terminator.
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Monday, July 25, 2011

Shanghai Museum of Glass, China

in May 2011, China has just had a new glass museum in the country. Named Shanghai Museum of Glass.

Although the Shanghai Museum of Glass is not the only glass museum in China, but this museum is the museum's first glass that was wrought in total. Built on an area of ​​6250 square metersmuseum earlier this glass is the first glass factory in China.

This museum has four sections all of which have been arranged to provide maximum educational side to the community regarding the development of glass in China. In the first part, the visitors will be served by a track which defines the purpose of an object called a glass. Of course the show-display display made ​​of glass, which certainly will not be boring, but fun.

In the second part, the visitors will be presented on display-a display that tells the history of glass in China, in Western countries also in developing countries. In the third section, will display the panes in the objects that we find everyday in the shelves are neatly arranged.

In the last part, or all four main buildings, featuring contemporary art glass. In it there will be works of glass artists from both the glass sculptor from China as well as international countries.
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