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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"maritime museum"”.
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The Maritime Museum of Baltimore
The Maritime Museum finds its home in a corner of the Baltimore harbor near the intersection of Boston Street and Clinton Street in Canton. As an institution focusing on the historical context of Baltimore, I chose to align the building with Fort McHenry; a National Monument and Historic Shrine as …
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Material Fluidity: Sense - Will - Form, Alexandria, Virginia Maritime Museum
… the environment around it. Similar to water, the maritime museum adapts its form to external forces while borrowing and redistributing energy throughout an internal cohesive structure. The building serves as an instrument of measurement, etching the pattern of the tides in the night sky and …
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A presence of the past: a maritime museum and visitor center in historic Annapolis
The place where the sea and the sky meet is a definition unknown on any map. Only the fisherman and his boat experience this unity. The mast as the symbol of the tree was the reminder of the land Just as the soil was the sign of man's position, his distance from land. The enormous material …
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Annapolis City Dock: A Sensory Exploration
… by sculpting the city's edge and designing a maritime museum and boat building workshop. Sculptural elements of the building produce energy while mapping the movement of wind, and ideas from sailing inspire adaptable building elements which can be tuned to different wind conditions. The site …
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The Apologetics of Thomas Chalmers: The influences, methods, and effects of chalmers’ rebuttals to objections to christianity
Scholarly investigations of the works of Dr. Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847) primarily focus on his pastoral ministry and role in the formation of the Free Church of Scotland, passing over his apologetic and theological endeavours. Consequently, the contents and methodologies of Chalmers’ arguments …
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Serving the empire: P&O, design, identity and representation (1837-1969)
… everyday corporate art and design in Victorian maritime empire, the persistence of maritime empire in twentieth century art and design, or the impact of decolonisation on Britain’s maritime identity and culture after 1949. Drawing on P&O’s business archive held at the National Maritime Museum, …
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The interactive museum experience: investigating experiential tendencies and audience focus in the Galleries of Modern London and the High Arctic exhibition
… there are many studies on interactivity in museums in terms of enhancing learning, achieving educational objectives, structuring and orchestrating visitor engagement, democratising knowledge, exploring social interaction and bringing more audiences in to the museum space, they often do not …
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Rekindling histories : families and British polar exploration
… associated with making histories, such as museums, are similarly imbued with familial relations, yet this has rarely been acknowledged. A focus on the National Maritime Museum demonstrates how family memory becomes national history, and what this move means. It illustrates the ways in which …
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The future of the past: inherent atmospheres
… through into the design of the Iziko Cape Town Maritime Museum to accurately represent the project's development from its theoretical founding to its speculative architectural resolution. Overall, this dissertation is focused on pushing the boundaries of spatial experience through the adaptation …
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Alexandria Waterfront Threshold: A Place for Learning and Community
My thesis is a space to display the parts of a ship hull excavated from the ground along the waterfront in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia. My thesis is about finding a way to display these ship hull parts in a way that not only contextualizes and informs the public about them, but also respects …