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Traces the history of the construction of the Statue of Liberty and the evolution and meaning of the ideal of liberty which it represents. Follows sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s dream of a...
Conservationists have become a potent force in contemporary architecture, lamenting and sometimes preventing the demolition of old buildings. Equally vociferous and convinced are those who believe that...
Postle introduces the film, viewing the building from different perspectives. Includes statements by the designers Richard Rogers, Renzo Piano and Peter Rice; a critique by members of Archigram and Denis...
Architect Gordon Benson of Benson Forsyth talks about designing a museum for Edinburgh which reflects the city’s geology, topography, history, development and characteristics; has the genetic structure of...
Spencer de Grey, a partner of Sir Norman Foster, describes plans for altering the British Museum after the British Library moves out. The scheme provides a major new heart to the museum and a clear pattern...
The National Archaeological Museum, Athens displays 11,000 exhibits from 7000 BC to the Roman Conquest. This special episode of Museum Secrets takes a look at some of these objects, including a Greek...
The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, is an impressive collection of artifacts of many peoples of the world. Formed by an old-fashioned colonialist, it confirms the cultural imagination of humankind. Contributors...
The spiralling prices paid for antiquities have boosted the quantity, range and sophistication of fakes. As knowledge of the appropriate materials and techniques used to make the genuine objects become more...
In museums and universities across the USA lie the bones of tens of thousands of American Indians. For archaeologists the collections represent a unique source of knowledge, but for the Indians the bones...
In a programme made shortly before his death, Robert Motherwell, one of the chief protagonists of the New York school, this film recalls the ‘heroic age’ of American abstract expressionism, tracing the...
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