Event Blog #3: The Fowler Museum
Event Blog #3: The Fowler Museum For my final event, I decided to go to the Fowler Museum on campus. I didn’t know much about the Fowler Museum, but when I brought it up to one of my friends, he said that it was actually a very interesting museum, and suggested that I go. The first area that I visited was the silver collection. This collection really emphasized the concepts that we learned in class because of the way that the goldsmiths made the silver. Since antique silver had such high demand that could not be satisfied, the goldsmiths knew that they would have to come up with another way to make silver. Therefore, they made new silver that looked old. This process of creating new silver and melting down antique silver required a knowledge of how the material melts and how it reacts with other materials, which are basic concepts of chemistry. Additionally, to create the silver pieces, the artists needed knowledge of how silver could be melted, bent, and contorted. Ther...