http://carolineabrown.com/2009/09/cabinets-week-3-mjh-nmai-eldridge-st/ Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:26:37 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://carolineabrown.com/2009/09/cabinets-week-3-mjh-nmai-eldridge-st/comment-page-1/#comment-54 nancy Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:45:51 +0000 http://carolineabrown.com/?p=919#comment-54 Super reviews!! You bring up a lot of provocative points in the MJH review. Many Jews are adamant that the Holocaust be set apart and no one else can even own the term. I'm interested in your feeling of the disjunction between floors...and how you can use the travel time as contemplation. The Garden of Stones is like Maya Lin's Vietnam memorial...it's a Jewish tradition to lay stones on a gravestone when you visit, as a remembrance...so that seems like it's for community memory. oh,the poor NMAI...it was such a good idea...that the exhibits be put together from the different tribes. I think what happened is that the Smithsonian got bored with the NY museum when they went for the big one in DC...as if this one were the sketchbook for that. And the customs house is a weird place for it...albeit a kind of cool museum I haven't been to the Eldridge St Museum...sounds a lot like the Tenement Museum. ...which is kind of like a mini Williamsburg(VA)..where you are in the place and you can imagine what life was like then. It's almost as if, sometimes, that it's better for a place to be 100% one way or the other. When you are being g uided, and the guides are good, you can give yourself over completely. It wouldn't be the same to walk through on your own. Super reviews!! You bring up a lot of provocative points in the MJH review. Many Jews are adamant that the Holocaust be set apart and no one else can even own the term. I’m interested in your feeling of the disjunction between floors…and how you can use the travel time as contemplation. The Garden of Stones is like Maya Lin’s Vietnam memorial…it’s a Jewish tradition to lay stones on a gravestone when you visit, as a remembrance…so that seems like it’s for community memory.
oh,the poor NMAI…it was such a good idea…that the exhibits be put together from the different tribes. I think what happened is that the Smithsonian got bored with the NY museum when they went for the big one in DC…as if this one were the sketchbook for that. And the customs house is a weird place for it…albeit a kind of cool museum
I haven’t been to the Eldridge St Museum…sounds a lot like the Tenement Museum. …which is kind of like a mini Williamsburg(VA)..where you are in the place and you can imagine what life was like then. It’s almost as if, sometimes, that it’s better for a place to be 100% one way or the other. When you are being g uided, and the guides are good, you can give yourself over completely. It wouldn’t be the same to walk through on your own.

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