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Museum Access

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Museums are a vital part of the American landscape, showcasing the greatest achievements of the human experience, past, present and future. Visitors remember, discover and learn in these museums that present the best of our country's culture, heritage and accomplishments. Museum Access explores these museums in a way that the everyday visitor cannot. It goes behind the scenes where ordinary folks don't get a chance to go. Talking to the directors, curators and creative personnel to get an insider's view. Each Museum Access episode includes travel, history, education and most of all fun! Explore the underwater world of dolphins and whales. Then travel to outer space with Astronaut James Lovell. Take a peek into Leonardo Da Vinci's workshop in Florence, Italy. Follow the journey of China's 2, 000 year old Terracotta Warriors and step into a WWII German submarine. Join us as we celebrate the human spirit in our country's top museums on Museum Access, where Every Visit is an Adventure! Creator & Host Leslie Mueller is an award winning artist, graphic designer and producer. Working with numerous national clients she has experience in front of and behind the camera. She has produced art segments for Lifetime television on 'Our Home' and 'Handmade by Design'. She also appears as the art and style expert on local Connecticut television and radio shows. Her artwork is represented in corporate and private collections worldwide and is included in the United States 'Art in the Embassies' program. Her warm and professional style combined with the eye of an artist and a natural curiosity makes Museum Access a must see show!

Episodes:

• MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ILLUSTRATION - Golden Age of Illustration, Leyendecker, Rockwell, Wyeth Parrish, Gibson Etc.

  Join host Leslie Mueller as she explores the Golden Age of Illustration at the National Museum of American Illustration in beautiful Newport, RI. Step into the breathtaking Vernon Court, a Gilded Age mansion that houses a world class collection of American illustration. See how legendary illustrators like NC Wyeth, JC Leyendecker, Maxfield Parrish and Norman Rockwell provided a visual record of how we saw our social and cultural history at the time.

  Length:	00:27:14
  Usage rights:	3/15/2023 to 3/31/2025

• NEUE GALLERY & MUSEM - Austrian & German Art, Gustave Klimt, Christies, International Auction House - Restitution Focus

  Join host Leslie Mueller as she visits the Neue Galerie and Museum in NYC. The stunning mansion on 5th Ave.'s Museum Mile focuses on 20thC German and Austrian art. See the decorative arts gallery and learn about the world famous painting, 'Woman in Gold' by Gustave Klimt, the revolutionary technique he used to create this masterpiece and it's unusual journey from Vienna to its' permanent home in NYC. Then join Leslie at CHRISITES auction house to learn more about the world of art restitution after WWII and today.

  Length:	00:27:29
  Usage rights:	3/15/2023 to 3/31/2025

• STERLING HILL MINING MUSEUM - Fluorescent Zinc Minerals, Tunnels and Private Pit

  Join host Leslie Mueller as she visits an underground zinc mine in Ogdensburg, New Jersey at The Sterling Hill Mining Museum. A National Historic Site and considered the florescent mineral capital of the world, this mine has 35 miles of tunnels. See where workers gathered each morning in the old mill building, visit an underground lake, see tunnels that glow with florescent zinc ore and see the nearby outdoor pit where a huge slab of fluorescent zinc ore was removed for permanent display at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC.

  Length:	00:27:59
  Usage rights:	3/15/2023 to 3/31/2025

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