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Elizabeth Merritt: Museums as Keepers of the Future
Elizabeth Merritt, founding Director, Center for the Future of Museums
Keynote speech: Museums as Keepers of the Future
Museoalan Teemapäivät 4.11.2019
Museum Theme Days seminar in Helsinki City Theatre, Helsinki, Finland.
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Old Bakers Cottage - Lakes Cottage Holidays
A cosy and characterful ground floor cottage sleeping 4, ideally located in the centre of the popular village of Grasmere, making it an ideal retreat for families and couples alike.
Grasmere is internationally acclaimed not only for its Wordsworth connections but also as it sits at the northern tip of the lake with the fells towering above in the most stunning scenery imaginable. It is a walkers haven with low and high walks available in all directions.
A wide selection of tea rooms, restaurants and traditional village inns and a range of local shops including the world famous gingerbread shop and Heaton Cooper Art Gallery help to make this a popular destination at any time of the year.
Old Bakers Cottage is a cosy characterful cottage tucked away just off the centre of Grasmere. It was once a bakery serving the village, but is now an ideal honeymoon cottage. Situated on the ground floor below Bakers Rest, the cottage is ideal for families or couples looking for accommodation on one level.
University Circle: Creating a Sense of Place (1 of 2)
This comprehensive look at the history and resurgence of Cleveland's University Circle neighborhood is a legacy film on the growth, public art and architecture of the cultural and educational center. Project Director, Executive Producer and Greater Clevelander Nina Freedlander Gibans and Videographer and Director Jesse Epstein involved some 80 participants and University Circle institutions to help tell the story of this unique area.
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Saltaire World Heritage Weekend 2014
An introduction to Saltaire and then a wander around the many and varied attractions of the World Heritage Weekend event.
Produced by: Michael De Greasley
Whitby
Whitby is a seaside town, port and civil parish in the Borough of Scarborough and English county of North Yorkshire. Prior to local government reorganisations in the late 1960s, it was part of the North Riding of Yorkshire. Situated on the east coast of Yorkshire at the mouth of the River Esk, Whitby has an established maritime, mineral and tourist heritage. Its East Cliff is home to the ruins of Whitby Abbey, where Caedmon, the earliest recognised English poet, lived. The fishing port developed during the Middle Ages, supporting important herring and whaling fleets, and was (along with the nearby fishing village of Staithes) where Captain Cook learned seamanship.
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Dale and Leslie Chihuly: Garden and Glass | Talks at Google
Dale and Leslie Chihuly stop by the Googleplex for a conversation about the upcoming Seattle exhibition: Chihuly Garden and Glass. Joining the conversation is Michelle Bufano, the Chihuly Garden and Glass Executive Director. Dale will first discuss his career and inspirations for the exhibition. Following that, Leslie discusses community involvement and the Seattle culture scene. Marissa Mayer then moderates a Q&A with Dale, Leslie, and Michelle.
You can find more information about the exhibition here: chihulygardenandglass.com . It opens on May 21st, 2012.
In Love With Alma Cogan
Norman has worked at the Pavilion Theatre for forty years and is frustrated by the council’s plan to hand the place over to commercial management. They bring in Eddie Richards to ‘help’ with the winter programming. Eddie and Norman were old friends, but Norman doesn’t trust him. Sandra, Norman’s assistant becomes concerned about Norman. Eddie comes up with comically bizarre programming plans, which Norman vetoes. But Eddie is convinced that an Alma Cogan tribute artist will be a hit. Norman is appalled – he once had an embarrassingly unconsummated one night stand with Alma and it has blighted his life ever since. He eventually agrees to go along with the plan, but during the concert the lifeboat is called out and Norman volunteers. Sandra realises what her anxiety about this escapade indicates, so when Norman returns safely she is thrilled when he announces his retirement. She also resigns and they leave together.
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Lydia Fenet: The Art of Persuasion | Talks at Google
Lydia Fenet serves as the Managing Director and Global Director of Strategic Partnerships at Christie’s. In addition to her role within Christie’s, she has raised over half a billion dollars for more than 400 non-profits worldwide as the leading benefit auctioneer in the United States. She demonstrates her winning auctioneering techniques and shares her tips on how to engage and persuade any audience to take an action, by applying strategic interaction, humor and authenticity. Lydia frames her advice with relatable anecdotes from her first book, The Most Powerful Woman in the Room is You. Learn more about Lydia at
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Accra Shepp - Photographer
MFA Fine Arts presents New York-based photographer Accra Shepp discussing his work, which is centered on how the natural environment influences human interactions, and international protest movements. Shepp's work is in a variety of collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, and The Victoria and Albert Museum. He is currently at work on a survey of the more than 40 islands that make up New York City. Selections from his series “Occupying Wall Street” were included in the book The Order of Things, published in conjunction with a show at the Walther Collection, Germany.
Central Park
Central Park is an urban park in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It was initially opened in 1857, on 778 acres (315 ha) of city-owned land (it is 843 acres today). In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they titled the Greensward Plan. Construction began the same year, continued during the American Civil War, and was completed in 1873. Central Park is the most visited urban park in the United States.
Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962, the park is currently managed by the Central Park Conservancy under contract with the city government. The Conservancy is a non-profit organization that contributes 83.5% of Central Park's $37.5 million annual budget and employs 80.7% of the park's maintenance staff.
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Wilmington, Delaware | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:12 1 History
00:07:20 2 Geography
00:09:29 2.1 Surrounding municipalities
00:09:38 2.2 Climate
00:11:00 3 Demographics
00:12:54 4 Government
00:13:49 5 Neighborhoods
00:14:01 5.1 North of the Brandywine River
00:15:16 5.2 East of I-95
00:17:27 5.3 West of I-95
00:21:45 5.4 Historic districts and Conservation District
00:22:18 5.5 Gallery
00:22:26 6 Public safety
00:22:34 6.1 Crime
00:24:22 6.2 Police
00:25:26 6.3 Fire department and EMS
00:26:11 7 Economy
00:29:25 7.1 Top employers
00:30:07 8 Arts and culture
00:30:37 8.1 Ethnic festivals
00:32:07 8.2 Music festivals
00:32:57 8.3 Holiday events
00:33:19 9 Wilmington Riverfront
00:34:30 10 Media
00:34:38 10.1 Radio and television
00:36:13 10.2 Newspaper
00:36:47 10.3 Portrayal of Wilmington in popular culture
00:38:42 11 Infrastructure
00:38:51 11.1 Transportation
00:43:28 11.2 Utilities
00:44:07 11.3 Health care
00:45:01 12 Sports and recreation
00:45:10 12.1 Sports
00:46:01 12.2 Outdoor recreation
00:46:54 12.3 Running events
00:48:09 12.4 Cycling
00:48:54 12.5 Golf
00:49:07 13 Education
00:51:16 13.1 Universities and colleges
00:51:33 14 Points of interest
00:52:11 15 Sister cities
00:52:38 15.1 Partner city
00:52:49 16 See also
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Wilmington (Lenape: Paxahakink / Pakehakink) is the largest and most populous city in the U.S. state of Delaware. The city was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish settlement in North America. It is at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine River, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River. It is the county seat of New Castle County and one of the major cities in the Delaware Valley metropolitan area. Wilmington was named by Proprietor Thomas Penn after his friend Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, who was prime minister in the reign of George II of Great Britain.
As of the 2018 United States Census estimate, the city's population is 70,635. It is the fifth least populous city in the U.S. to be the most populous in its state. The Wilmington Metropolitan Division, comprising New Castle County, DE, Cecil County, MD and Salem County, NJ, had an estimated 2016 population of 719,876. The Delaware Valley metropolitan area, which includes the cities of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Camden, New Jersey, had a 2016 population of 6,070,500, and a combined statistical area of 7,179,357.
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Central Park
Central Park is an urban park in Manhattan in New York City. The park was initially opened in 1857, on 778 acres of city-owned land . In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they entitled the Greensward Plan. Construction began the same year, continued during the American Civil War, and was completed in 1873. Central Park is the most visited urban park in the United States.
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New Haven, Connecticut | Wikipedia audio article
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New Haven, Connecticut
00:01:56 1 History
00:02:05 1.1 Pre-colonial foundation as an independent colony
00:04:37 1.2 As part of the Connecticut Colony
00:07:16 1.3 Post-colonial period and industrialization
00:10:08 1.4 Post-industrial era and urban redevelopment
00:15:32 1.5 Timeline of notable firsts
00:18:05 2 Geography
00:19:48 2.1 Climate
00:21:15 2.2 Streetscape
00:22:39 2.3 Neighborhoods
00:23:34 3 Economy
00:25:13 3.1 Headquarters
00:26:57 4 Demographics
00:27:06 4.1 Census data
00:30:31 4.2 Other data
00:31:46 5 Law and Government
00:31:55 5.1 Political structure
00:34:18 5.2 Political history
00:39:29 5.3 Crime
00:41:08 6 Education
00:41:17 6.1 Colleges and universities
00:42:17 6.2 Primary and secondary schools
00:43:28 6.3 New Haven Promise
00:44:12 7 Culture
00:44:21 7.1 Cuisine
00:48:38 7.2 Theatre and film
00:50:12 7.3 Museums
00:52:03 7.4 Music
00:53:47 7.5 Festivals
00:55:01 7.6 Nightlife
00:55:37 7.7 Newspapers and media
00:56:47 7.8 Sports and athletics
01:00:00 8 Structures
01:00:09 8.1 Architecture
01:02:26 8.2 Historic points of interest
01:07:20 9 Transportation
01:07:29 9.1 Rail
01:09:16 9.2 Bus
01:10:58 9.3 Bicycle
01:11:07 9.3.1 Bikeshare
01:11:46 9.3.2 Bike lanes
01:12:48 9.3.3 Farmington Canal Greenway
01:13:35 9.4 Roads
01:16:27 9.5 Airport
01:17:07 9.6 Seaport
01:18:12 10 Infrastructure
01:18:21 10.1 Hospitals and medicine
01:20:32 10.2 Power supply facilities
01:22:26 11 In popular culture
01:23:53 12 Notable people
01:24:02 13 Sister cities
01:24:51 14 See also
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New Haven is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound in New Haven County, Connecticut, and is part of the New York metropolitan area. With a population of 129,779 as determined by the 2010 United States Census, it is the second-largest city in Connecticut after Bridgeport. New Haven is the principal municipality of Greater New Haven, which had a total population of 862,477 in 2010.New Haven was the first planned city in America. Founded in 1638 by English Puritans, a year later eight streets were laid out in a four-by-four grid, creating what is commonly known as the Nine Square Plan. The central common block is the New Haven Green, a 16-acre (6 ha) square, and the center of Downtown New Haven. The Green is now a National Historic Landmark and the Nine Square Plan is recognized by the American Planning Association as a National Planning Landmark.New Haven is the home of Yale University. As New Haven's biggest taxpayer and employer, Yale serves as an integral part of the city's economy. Health care (hospitals and biotechnology), professional services (legal, architectural, marketing, and engineering), financial services, and retail trade also contribute to the city's economic activity.
The city served as co-capital of Connecticut from 1701 until 1873, when sole governance was transferred to the more centrally located city of Hartford. New Haven has since billed itself as the Cultural Capital of Connecticut for its supply of established theaters, museums, and music venues. New Haven had the first public tree planting program in America, producing a canopy of mature trees (including some large elms) that gave New Haven the nickname The Elm City.
Yale University | Wikipedia audio article
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Yale University
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- Socrates
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Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine Colonial Colleges chartered before the American Revolution.Chartered by Connecticut Colony, the Collegiate School was established by clergy to educate Congregational ministers. It moved to New Haven in 1716 and shortly after was renamed Yale College in recognition of a gift from British East India Company governor Elihu Yale. Originally restricted to theology and sacred languages, the curriculum began to incorporate humanities and sciences by the time of the American Revolution. In the 19th century, the college expanded into graduate and professional instruction, awarding the first Ph.D. in the United States in 1861 and organizing as a university in 1887. Its faculty and student populations grew after 1890 with rapid expansion of the physical campus and scientific research.
Yale is organized into fourteen constituent schools: the original undergraduate college, the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and twelve professional schools. While the university is governed by the Yale Corporation, each school's faculty oversees its curriculum and degree programs. In addition to a central campus in downtown New Haven, the University owns athletic facilities in western New Haven, a campus in West Haven, Connecticut and forest and nature preserves throughout New England. The university's assets include an endowment valued at $29.4 billion as of October 2018, the second largest endowment of any educational institution in the world. The Yale University Library, serving all constituent schools, holds more than 15 million volumes and is the third-largest academic library in the United States.Yale College undergraduates follow a liberal arts curriculum with departmental majors and are organized into a social system of residential colleges. Almost all faculty teach undergraduate courses, more than 2,000 of which are offered annually. Students compete intercollegiately as the Yale Bulldogs in the NCAA Division I – Ivy League.
As of October 2018, 61 Nobel laureates, 5 Fields Medalists and 3 Turing award winners have been affiliated with Yale University. In addition, Yale has graduated many notable alumni, including five U.S. Presidents, 19 U.S. Supreme Court Justices, 20 living billionaires and many heads of state. Hundreds of members of Congress and many U.S. diplomats, 78 MacArthur Fellows, 247 Rhodes Scholars and 119 Marshall Scholars have been affiliated with the university.
Yale | Wikipedia audio article
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Yale
00:02:46 1 History
00:02:55 1.1 Early history of Yale College
00:03:05 1.1.1 Origins
00:04:42 1.1.2 Naming and development
00:06:29 1.1.3 Curriculum
00:08:13 1.1.4 Students
00:09:04 1.2 19th century
00:11:10 1.2.1 Sports and debate
00:14:00 1.2.2 Expansion
00:15:58 1.3 20th century
00:16:07 1.3.1 Behavioral sciences
00:17:17 1.3.2 Biology
00:18:29 1.3.3 Medicine
00:19:26 1.3.4 Faculty
00:19:52 1.3.5 History and American studies
00:20:48 1.3.6 Women
00:22:41 1.3.7 Class
00:23:07 1.3.8 Town–gown relations
00:23:51 1.4 21st century
00:30:58 2 Administration and organization
00:31:09 2.1 Leadership
00:32:52 2.2 Staff and labor unions
00:34:37 3 Campus
00:40:29 3.1 Notable nonresidential campus buildings
00:42:29 3.2 Relationship with New Haven
00:43:00 3.2.1 Campus safety
00:44:20 4 Academics
00:44:29 4.1 Admissions
00:46:12 4.2 Collections
00:48:23 4.3 Rankings
00:49:04 4.4 Faculty, research, and intellectual traditions
00:51:35 5 Campus life
00:52:08 5.1 Residential colleges
00:53:56 5.1.1 Calhoun College
00:57:07 5.2 Student organizations
01:00:01 5.3 Traditions
01:01:02 5.4 Athletics
01:04:13 5.4.1 Song
01:05:01 5.4.2 Mascot
01:05:33 6 Notable people
01:05:42 6.1 Benefactors
01:06:51 6.2 Notable alumni and faculty
01:11:37 7 In fiction and popular culture
01:12:38 8 Notes and references
01:12:48 9 Further reading
01:12:57 9.1 Secret societies
01:13:26 10 External links
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine Colonial Colleges chartered before the American Revolution.Chartered by Connecticut Colony, the Collegiate School was established by clergy to educate Congregational ministers. It moved to New Haven in 1716 and shortly after was renamed Yale College in recognition of a gift from British East India Company governor Elihu Yale. Originally restricted to theology and sacred languages, the curriculum began to incorporate humanities and sciences by the time of the American Revolution. In the 19th century, the college expanded into graduate and professional instruction, awarding the first Ph.D. in the United States in 1861 and organizing as a university in 1887. Its faculty and student populations grew after 1890 with rapid expansion of the physical campus and scientific research.
Yale is organized into fourteen constituent schools: the original undergraduate college, the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and twelve professional schools. While the university is governed by the Yale Corporation, each school's faculty oversees its curriculum and degree programs. In addition to a central campus in downtown New Haven, the University owns athletic facilities in western New Haven, a campus in West Haven, Connecticut and forest and nature preserves throughout New England. The university's assets include an endowment valued at $29.4 billion as of October 2018, the second largest endowment of any educational institution in the world. The Yale University Library, serving all constituent schools, holds more than 15 million volumes and is the third-largest academic library in the United States.Yale College undergraduates follow a liberal arts curriculum with departmental majors and are organized into a social system of residential colleges. Almost all faculty teach undergraduate courses, more than 2,000 of which are offered annually. Students compete intercollegiately as the Yale Bulldogs in the NCAA Division I – Ivy League.
As of October 2018, 61 Nobel laureates, 5 Fields Medalists and 3 Turing award winners have been affiliated with Yale University. In addition, Yale has graduated many notable alumni, including five U.S. Presidents, 19 U.S. Supreme Court Justices, 20 living billionaires and many heads of state. Hundreds of members of Congress and many U.S. diplomats, 78 MacArthur Fellows, 247 Rhodes ...
Brown University | Wikipedia audio article
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Brown University
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Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, it is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the U.S. and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution.At its foundation, Brown was the first college in the U.S. to accept students regardless of their religious affiliation. Its engineering program was established in 1847. It was one of the early doctoral-granting U.S. institutions in the late 19th century, adding masters and doctoral studies in 1887. In 1969, Brown adopted a New Curriculum sometimes referred to as the Brown Curriculum after a period of student lobbying. The New Curriculum eliminated mandatory general education distribution requirements, made students the architects of their own syllabus and allowed them to take any course for a grade of satisfactory or unrecorded no-credit. In 1971, Brown's coordinate women's institution, Pembroke College, was fully merged into the university; Pembroke Campus now includes dormitories and classrooms used by all of Brown.
Undergraduate admissions is highly selective, with an acceptance rate of 7.2% for the class of 2022. The university comprises the College, the Graduate School, Alpert Medical School, the School of Engineering, the School of Public Health and the School of Professional Studies (which includes the IE Brown Executive MBA program). Brown's international programs are organized through the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, and the university is academically affiliated with the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Rhode Island School of Design. The Brown/RISD Dual Degree Program, offered in conjunction with the Rhode Island School of Design, is a five-year course that awards degrees from both institutions.
Brown's main campus is located in the College Hill Historic District in the city of Providence, Rhode Island. The University's neighborhood is a federally listed architectural district with a dense concentration of Colonial-era buildings. Benefit Street, on the western edge of the campus, contains one of the finest cohesive collections of restored seventeenth- and eighteenth-century architecture in the United States.As of August 2018, 8 Nobel Prize winners have been affiliated with Brown University as alumni, faculty members or researchers. In addition, Brown's faculty and alumni include five National Humanities Medalists and ten National Medal of Science laureates. Other notable alumni include eight billionaire graduates, a U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, four U.S. Secretaries of State and other Cabinet officials, 54 members of the United States Congress, 56 Rhodes Scholars, 52 Gates Cambridge Scholars 49 Marshall Scholars, 14 MacArthur Genius Fellows, 21 Pulitzer Prize winners, various royals and nobles, as well as leaders and founders of Fortune 500 companies.