Cabinets of Sol

Flow Chart for Sound Lab

2006-12-14T16:59:00.000-08:00

Cynthia & Laurie:
Cynthia lives in Bed-Stuy. Her parents usually work late so she goes to the Bed-Stuy YWCA's after school program. There, Cynthia paints and learns about digital photography from her mentor Laurie.

Roy & Katie:
Roy and Katie, who are students at ITP taking the social justice and technology internship class, in affiliation with the BHS, approach the YWCA to see if they are interested in having their kids participant in Sound Lab. The YWCA administration is interested. Roy comes by the YWCA one afternoon and tells the kids about the Brooklyn Historical Society sound lab program. They describes some of the previous stories the BHS has collected and get the kids excited about learning journalism and digital media technology. 8 kids sign up for the 5 class 2 week program. Cynthia is one of them.

Charles:
Charles, the Brooklyn Historical Society's Media Coordinator, searches for a location to conduct the interviews. Charles looks for a location where the residents have lived in Brooklyn for a long time. He tries the Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Center and asks the administration if the residents are interested in participating in the Sound Labs program. They are.

Valerie:
The following week, the kids meet at the YWCA and go together to their first class at the BHS. Laurie goes with them as their supervisor. Roy & Kati waiting for them at the BHS along with Valerie, a staff historian at the BHS. Valerie proceeds to show the kids some artifacts from the BHS's collection. Some old photographs of downtown Bed-Stuy, a flint relic from the early native American Indians, a sewing machine that was used in the early garment factories and a bill of sale from when all of BedSty was farm land. Valerie tells the kids about the objects.

Theatre groups:
Charles play for the kids a reading of a love letter a settler of Brooklyn sent back to europe. The reenactment is done by drama student at the st. anne's high school across the street from the BHS.

Roy & Katie + Cynthia & Laurie
Roy and Katie proceed to explain to the kids how these historical objects can be a spring board for an interview. They also cover basic interviewing skills and show the kids how the recording equipment works. The kids are all very excited about using the cool equipment and interviewing people. They spend one more week learning about the technology, audio editing tools and interviewing skills. They do mock interviews on each other and practice making sure the audio equipment is working properly.

Cynthia & Laurie + Charles
The following class, Laurie takes the kids to the Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Center to meet with the residents. Roy & Katie on hand to help with any equipment issues. Each student is paired with a Senior center resident. Cynthia is matched to Ethel Greenbaum who has lived in Bushwick most of her life. Ethel is asked to sign a consent form so that the BHS can use her voice and stories. Cynthia sets up her equipment and shows Ethel photographs of the artifacts Vidya had shown her last week at the BHS. It turns out Ethel's mother worked in the garment factories during the depression. Ethel has many stories to tell and although Cynthia had a list of prepared questions, they aren't even necessary. The interview just develops naturally. Once the interview is over, Cynthia gives her equipment back to Charles for safe keeping.

Roy & Katie + Cynthia & Laurie
The next week, Laurie takes Cynthia and her classmates back to the BHS. There they review the recorded tapes and load them into audio editing software. Roy and Katie work with the kids to properly edit the content. Cynthia, using the software the spend the last two classes creating a succinct, curated oral history for Ethel. Roy and Katie, having sound art experience, help the kids mix the oral histories with ambient sounds of bedsty and breakbeats.

Charles
Charles tags and categorizes the non-mixed oral history and uploads it to the BHS archives. The remixed tracks are uploaded to the BHS website. Later on Ethel's oral history is played alongside an exhibit on the depression.

SoundLab

2006-12-14T09:03:00.000-08:00

Final Presentation for SoundLab Link
http://itp.nyu.edu/~sh1319/cow/

Semi presentation

2006-12-06T11:32:00.000-08:00

Link to Presentation file http://solhuh.com/itp/cow/BHSsoundlab.htm

:Link to the Map simulation http://solhuh.com/itp/cow/MapFlash.swf

Link to the BHS Project

2006-11-30T17:08:00.000-08:00

http://www.overainslie.org/rbray/itp/cow/bhs/

My Own Museum Building

2006-11-16T16:45:00.000-08:00

URL: http://itp.nyu.edu/~sh1319/cabinet.html

2006-11-16T16:42:00.000-08:00

Brooklyn History Society

On Sunday, Sep. 10th, I arrived at the museum 4:45 which was a little late due to the weekend train schedule. I had a quick tour of the museum and got lots of ideas…

The Gestalt
It’s a brand new place.
I’m like walking through the stage of Play Theater.

I was kicked out of the museum before I have a moment to sit down and make notes. But I did it on the water taxi on the way back to home.

3 Perspectives…

Emotional
The museum is located in a nice area of the city. The building itself is very classic and cozy looking. Dark color of interior and deemed lighting bring quite an atmosphere that makes you calm and respectful.

Informational
From the entrance to the exit, the museum is full of text. The museum contains a lot of information about the history of Brooklyn, which is interesting and somewhat amazing, but the reading is too much through the exhibition. A lot of information is not familiar to the audience and that’s what it makes interesting.

Social
It’s a great place for any generation especially for children. For family visit, School field trip, this museum is very educational and social place to be.
(I couldn’t observe the audiences since I was there alone.)

a)
Introducing Brooklyn History Society Museum
HSM is an excellent place to visit and educate yourself about your own neighborhood. It covers

AMNH

2006-11-16T16:37:00.000-08:00

SOL HUH
American Museum of Natural History
Cabinets of wonder
Fall 2006
Instructe Nancy Hechinger

The gestalt
- Wow! I wonder the history f this museum. Huge! Rich!
- Emotional: Scary! I stepped into the African Mammal are, I was so scared of big elephants and stuff so I couldn’t walk close by.
- Informational: I definitely learned how Korea and NY used to be so close like NY & LA in 250 million years ago. I’m talking about Pangea. It’s looking at the things we’ve learned when we were young from the text book, like Hammurabi law stone thing.

a) General Paper

Natural history museum is one of the most famous museum in the world. It’s fun and it’s big. For it’s reputation, it is really great and I really liked it. But you can be really frustrated once you get in. There are dead bodies of animals everywhere. you don’t see direction. You have to pay separately for the special exhibition. It’s so big and you will get lost and go around the same spot over and over again.
Collections are fabulous. Everybody loves dinosaurs even though they are all bones. It’s a great place to fulfill your scientific interests and satisfy you kids’ weekend activities. The building is huge and you will be walking all day long . Not much interactivities.
I wish they have more real size dinosaur models than bone structures.
More interactions with moving dinosaur will be nice.

B) Parents/family
There are so many kids in the museum.
-parents, please keep your kids quietly otherwise you will be ejected(I wish)
-It’s a great place for family visit for education and just for fun.
-Be prepared for a long walk
-Animals from all over the world, dinosaurs, different cultures.

C)Art Magazine
-Good resources for scientific facts
-Theatrical exhibition that are close to realistic would.
-Not much Interaction
-You will be wondering that this is all about. Natural history?
They have all kinds of different stuff. Why Natural history?

D) Design
_It’s a very beautiful architect with gardens. It’s an interesting combination between old architect and modern architect.
Finding direction inside is very difficult, so I actually wonder if there is actual rout to go through everything.
Theatrical exhibition that are close to realistic would.

E) Education
-Be prepared before you come with students
1. Take a look at the history of dinosaur and earth.
2. Make sure keep voice down and walk slowly
3. It’s a long walk
4. Do not touch the exhibition stuff
It’s a great place to experience things that are on text book as pictures.
-Lots of different culture, animals from all over the world, dinosaurs, from different environment.
It shows how they adjusted by the environment
Lots of questions will be raised.

F) Tourist magazine
Visit the website for visitor’s information. It’s a well-navigated site with lots of cool information about exhibitions. It’s easy to get there but it’s not easy to find the way once you are in. Be prepared for a long walk. Kids will love it, and you will also love to see the stuff that you only have seen them on pictures. There are existing and distincted animals from all over the world from millions of years ago. It shows how they adjusted by the environment over the years.
Special exhibitions are available under the separate ticket purchase.

The MoMA, The Met

2006-11-16T16:32:00.000-08:00

Sol Huh
The MoMA and the Met
Sep. 27. 2006
Cabinets of Wonder

The MoMA

The Gestalt

The MoMA was a very crowded place. Also it was a very squared space. Square, square, squares everywhere. In a squared building, with squared windows, squared doors, squared displays. The museum makes art works look squared.
It was such a clean place even though there are so many people so it was cluster-phobia.

The General
As its name, the MoMA was a very modern looking space. So stylish.I was glad to be at the art museum finally. It was a whole different experience from the others since I opened my other side of brain. The exhibition was totally stimulating. The museum was a full of famous modern and contemporary art works and design stuff. Media works are very well arranged in a proper size of rooms, even though the sound proof was not so perfect, especially Nam Jun Paik’s video installation, the one in front of the elevator.
I really didn’t want to miss any room and exhibition since I paid 10 dollars, but it wasn’t easy. When I got off the elevator, I had to choose either left or right. The right side was the right answer –there was a tiny arrow on the wall, which I found when I reached 4th floor. I almost missed special exhibition. Luckily I found it on the way out. The way founding was the most difficult part, again.

Emotional

It’s metallic cold and sharp place. Titanium white color of wall, metallic decorations, and modern art mixed in together. And it makes a piece of metal cube called MoMA.

Social
It’s not a place for friendly neighborhood. It’s a tourism spot. It has nice sculpture garden and restaurant to hang out, but not a place for a family visit. Many art works are too stimulating for kids. There are people who don’t like modern art. There are people who do not understand modern art –I saw a guy who was complaining Jackson Pollok’s action painting –obviously he is a moron.

Informational
It can be very informational if you hold one of those Audio Info machine, using pod casting with full of interest. Personally, I rather not to. It’s an art museum. I could be free from little nametag next to the art works because I happen to have art major and I studied them so I know the art works or at least I can guess. But more than anything else, I would like to feel the art works with my nerves rather than focusing on information.

The Met

The Gestalt

It’s a gorgeous place with gorgeous heritages. I loved it just because it was so beautiful. The building itself is beautiful; the garden is beautiful, the halls, the park, the galleries, little downstairs, milky marble, I just loved its display. I loved their exhibition. In such a huge place, huge sizes of art works were displayed more than beautifully. But why all these things are here, not where they cam from? I hope that they didn’t steal it from all over the world thousands years ago.
The way founding was quite frustrating which I really didn’t mind.
The reason I didn’t mind was, wherever I go, it was so lovely and I fall in love with it so much. It was like finding treasure. I didn’t purposed on looking all around from the beginning. Maybe that’s why I didn’t mind so much about way finding –even though I think I looked all around. The exhibition was little too open, so people were too close to the art works. Some of them were protected by sensors and alarms, but not all of them.
I like antic. So classic. The Met was full of classics and antics.

Emotional
Oh my god, it is so nice and beautiful! Marble is everywhere. Look at the milky pink color stone with gorgeous chandeliers. Such a beauty of classic.

Social
It’s perfect place for social activities for everyone. I would like to come back with my family, boyfriend, kid –if I had one –friends.
Any kinds of social activities might be possible in this place –conference, descent party, etc.

Informational
I really liked the way they categorized the exhibition. Mostly it was divided by rooms and wings of the building so you can easily realize where you are and what you are looking at. It helped being informed.

The Comparison
They are two very different museums. One is dealing with modern stuff in the century; the other is full of ancient heritages. I personally like the Met more than the MoMA even though the MoMA was very stylish and stimulating. The MoMa was little easier for way finding, but the Met was better for it’s categorizing the information by display. On the other hand, I was very glad to be there on both museums because it was our first art museum visit that opened our right side brain and touched the bottom of the heart. If you really get to focus on exhibition plan than
the art, I really think it’s not your problem but the museum’s problem.
There must be something else that catches your eyes than Jasper Johns and Climt. That’s their fault.

Parent/Family
To let your kids expose to the art, it’s a good idea to take them to the art museum. The Met is a place to visit than the MoMA since the MoMA requires bit more understanding of the art. The Met is a huge place to go all around, so you better plan on your trip to go certain part of it, not all of it. I recommend the park side on first floor. They have Egyptian heritages including ancient corps cases and mummy, which will get attention from the kids.

Art
The MoMA has always been the hottest spot for contemporary artists. From the modern art to the contemporary art, the MoMA has been turning its face gradually. It includes more media arts and installations. The method they use for the exhibition is getting modernized too. On the other hand, the Met is always been there as a classic museum. Its atmosphere will not change, but its exhibition and display has always been gorgeous. The exhibition in the Met is more than beautiful; it scares me in some way, just like I am standing in front of huge jungle or Amazon.

Design
The MoMA’s style of museums is increasing its number. It’s convenient to change the exhibition and easy to display. Plain white wall goes well with any modern art works. The building is very neat; so many people like to take photos of squared window and stairs just because they look so cool. If you are sick of cool stylish metallic modern stuff, the Met will be the right place to be. Classic antic atmosphere totally rocks. Art works gives you the different kinds of impression.

Niche Media
If you are visiting NY and don’t have much time to spend, the Met is not a right place to go since it’s huge and you will spend lot of time just to find the way out. It’s a very nice place to be around for couple of times a year especially when the weather is nice and thinking of going to park. Gorgeous ancient heritages will fascinate you. On the other hand, the MoMA is must go place for visitor even you are not staying in NY for long. Spending good couple of hours and educating yourself to the modern art is a good way to start.

NY Hall of Science & CMA

2006-11-16T16:29:00.000-08:00

Sol Huh
Oct. 9th 2006
NY Hall of Science & SoHo Children’s Museum of the Arts
Cabinets of wonder

NY hall of Science & Children’s museum of the Arts ( Soho)

Gestalt
HoS : It is so far! The neighborhood is kinna crazy. Too much family oriented, too many kids around. Museum itself was kinna fun to play around.
CMA: It’s like an after school institute for children. I got freaked out of babies crying.
It’s more like a small kindergarten rather than a museum.

Emotional
HoS: I thought that it is pretty cool. I was a kid all again for a moment while I was playing around the museum exhibition and the playground.
CMA: I don’t have a kid and I don’t wanna have a kid. CMA reminded me that.
Even though little chairs and little desks are awfully cute. This place is so small.

Social
HoS: I think it’s a great place to socialize for kids. They have much stuff that helps socializing. Arm wrestling exhibition was a great method to interact with others in the museum and people in the other museum. Also in the playground, you can physically interact with others. Lots of family and some tourists were there having fun together. I had a lot fun with my BF too.
CMA: It might be a good place for kids to socialize. It might be a good place for the parents to socialize with other parents. I’m not exactly sure that people who are like me—have no kids and no intention to have one—can be socialize there.

Informational
HoS: They have many science exhibitions that carry many information using physical interactions. It was easy and interesting enough to catch kid’s attention. But it didn’t have depth in the information. I guess kids need that much about information.
CMA: There was not much about exhibition in the museum that was carrying information. Informational stuff only runs by class that kids register for.

General

HoS. It’s really far from the city, took me an hour of not very pleasant subway trip to the edge of Queens. In the middle of residential area, HoS was placed as a part of the park, which was quite nice. I visited HoS on Sunday Oct.1st, in the late afternoon. I liked the fact that it wasn’t too crowded since it was almost closing time.
I got couple of positive reactions to this museum. HoS was a nice size of Museum to play around. It’s not a gigantic one, so you don’t really get exhausted. There are many interactive stuff that kids and parents can play together. It had simple categories of exhibition based on scientific facts that kids might be interested in. There were many exhibition stuff that are using different kinds of physical interactions such as smelling, throwing, pulling, pushing, watching, riding, jumping and etc. The best part of it was the playground. It was a playground that you can actually learn physics behind the principle. The web thing with spiders on the second floor was kind of poor exhibition since the spiders were not moving at all and they are actually the kinds that are not making web.
I really thought that they were not the real.
HoS was kinna old fashion Science museum for kids. Even though it has lots of interactive exhibition in it, I’m not sure they can impress kids from 21 century who are highly exposed to the new media and technology such as Play Station and Internet.

CMA was more like an after school activity class or a kindergarten rather than a museum. From the title, “Children’s Museum of the Arts”, I expected more like either a museum that shows children’s art, or a museum that children can experience art exhibition. But it turns out to a museum that children create arts in it. But I wonder what’s the point if the kids create arts under the curriculums that adults made. I could see that from the stuff on the wall that they probably made in one of those classes that museum offered. Quilted ice cream, Pop art -- campbell soup, very realistic drawings of figure. Were they great? I really don’t think so. Where’s the real kids’ stuff?
Downstairs, I met a couple of toddlers crying out so bad. They scared me. Those babies were so young and I worried what if they swallow one of that crayon or something. The place wasn’t really clean enough for babies. When you think about an art studio, it’s hard to be clean anyway. There were blue screens, ball-playing room, costumes, and a projector that are playing some bizarre animation. But none of them looked like available at that moment just like it’s only for some kinna special registered class occasion.
It was such a small place with lots of stuff so it kinna gives you cluster phobic. Maybe it doesn’t to kids since they are small anyway.

Design

CMA is quite missing the sense of design. In terms of special design, the place itself is tiny. The maintenance looks difficult since there are too many stuff and things going on. Inner ware for the sectional divider looks cheap. Show-window is covered by children’s art works, which are faded by sun. Eventually, it causes darkness in the museum. CMA is not an exhibition-purposed place. It’s more like an activity space for children. Therefore, big portion of interior is lower leveled and small sized. Also, it’s specially cared for toddlers such as safety door. That means, if you are not a kid or not small as them you will be uncomfortable and can’t fit yourself in there.
HoS’s highlight it not in the exhibition. It’s in the out of the museum. It is the large outdoor space that children can run around, at the same time, they can experience the principle of physics. What a playful design it is. On the other hand, the exhibition itself is somewhat poorly old fashion. The contents of the exhibition are interactive, but it’s not something new anymore. It seems like it’s been there for the last decade. It can be difficult to get interest from children since it is nothing better than 80’s computer game.

Art

HoS is not really an artistic place, and not a right museum to issue about art. I just can’t really relate them.
CMA is art museums that you were supposed see the arts of children. In fact, it’s not. It’s an art studio for kids. Kids can play and work with various methods to draw, paint, make sculpting, and see how to make animation.
You can see some stuff that kids worked on under the supervision and some help of adult instructor, which are not that cool. The instructor makes a model one and everybody follows. I don’t know. I wasn’t that impressed by quilted Campbell soup.

Parents/Education
I guess for CMA, Parents, register the class for the kids.
HoS is a nice place to be around, if you live near by there. I rather say, under 10 is fine.

Tourism
HoS is bit more than far from the center of the city. It can be little far from the center of the century, too. If you have kids, this place is somewhat recommendable, only if you are near by and have lots of time to kill. It’s safe, quite energetic, but little old fashion. It won’t be a proper place if your kid is over 10.

Design Manifesto

2006-11-16T16:26:00.000-08:00

Cabinets of Wonder 2006
Project title: Cabinets of Wonder
Gallery 2D

Sol Huh

2D Gallery is located right on Saint Marks and 3rd Ave, the center of
the east village in New York City. As all the other common apartments in
the east village, 2D gallery is a small tiny apartment where there are a
couple and a puppy live in. It has beautiful exposed brick wall and a
not working marble fireplace, but the building itself is over 100 years
old, and has crappy neighbors who smokes pot 24/7.
The reason of this place has to be the one is, this is what east village
is. Everyday, there are thousands of tourists poured on St Marks. What
they want is to see how people live in the east village.
Due to the small gallery space, I had to come up with showcase ideas,
which were the Cabinets of wonder. Literally, I’m going to make cabinets
that have wonders in it.
15 cabinets are the stage of the art works. It’s good for the video
screening in it. Each Cabinet is possible to install the computer from
the back of the cabinet. It you are having hard time to visualize what
that is, just look at the lockers in ITP.
Each cabinets charges 25 cents per view. Yes, 4 dollars admission. I’m
going to design the Exhibition invitations and pamphlets. I’ll also
provide drawings of gallery plan, and a demo locker with video
installation in it.

Brooklyn History Society

2006-09-12T20:20:00.000-07:00

Visiting
Brooklyn History Society
09/12/2006
Sol Huh

http://solhuh6.blogspot.com/
solhuh@nyu.edu

Brooklyn History Society

On Sunday, Sep. 10th, I arrived at the museum 4:45 which was a little late due to the weekend train schedule. I had a quick tour of the museum and got lots of ideas…

The Gestalt
It’s a brand new place.
I’m like walking through the stage of Play Theater.

I was kicked out of the museum before I have a moment to sit down and make notes. But I did it on the water taxi on the way back to home.

3 Perspectives…

Emotional
The museum is located in a nice area of the city. The building itself is very classic and cozy looking. Dark color of interior and deemed lighting bring quite an atmosphere that makes you calm and respectful.

Informational
From the entrance to the exit, the museum is full of text. The museum contains a lot of information about the history of Brooklyn, which is interesting and somewhat amazing, but the reading is too much through the exhibition. A lot of information is not familiar to the audience and that’s what it makes interesting.

Social
It’s a great place for any generation especially for children. For family visit, School field trip, this museum is very educational and social place to be.
(I couldn’t observe the audiences since I was there alone.)

a) Brooklyn History Society
BHS is a theatre like museum that contains the development and its process of our neighborhood categorized by interesting issues. BHS is located in one of the busiest spot, it’s easy to access than any other part of Brooklyn. Also, the environment around is excellent. There are park and a square area near by.
The interactive movie in the exhibition brings interests on the historical fact that could be boring. The interactivities are nothing much but pushing the buttons, touching the old objects, and opening the lid, but those are interesting enough without technology.
It shows ourselves who live in Brooklyn; also it recreates what happened in here, the story of the real people who lived here. It brings nostalgia from the old generation who remembers old times. For young generation, it provides an opportunity to show how today’s Brooklyn was made. The size of the museum is just about proper, so you can finish the tour of enjoyable history in an hour or so.

b) Parent/Family
If you want to take a deep breathe from the city life but your reality does not allow you to get out of the city, it’s a good idea to stop by the museum of Brooklyn History society.
BHS is a great place to visit with children. It’s located in nice area in Brooklyn. It’s quiet and clean near the park.
The exhibition presents the history of Brooklyn and the feature of today with various painting, pictures, and installations. Also for children, there are many interactive installations that bring interests. It will be a good opportunity to experience the interactivity. The size of the museum is just about right, so al family members can visit the museum without exhausting. It will be a great chance to answer how the Brooklyn has formed to the children and also let them know the history of neighborhood and experience the various worlds of professions.

C) Art Magazine
If you want to find new inspiration near by, BHS would be the right place to go. Recently renovated brand new museum reminds theatrical design so you would fill like you are standing on the stage.
The exhibition doesn’t have a topic that is related to the art, but the old paintings, drawings, letters that are showing old Brooklyn and industrial products that are like pop art contains the various form of the art.
Especially. The theatrical exhibition has sensitivity of lighting and design, so you can feel the early Brooklyn society with your skin. Also, the show mirrors today’s Brooklyn and our neighborhood, so you can have a unfamiliar point of view. High sealing and classing Brooklyn building still has its own scent and it matches the installations. Many interesting antic collections are the precious stuff that contains artistic values.

D) Design Magazine.
Newly renovated BHS is designed to transfer lots of information in interesting ways.
Once you walk in the building, you see the reception space with deemed lighting and dark colored interior, which is very modern. The space has not very big space, high sealing with classical looking. Small sections divide it. Each section is like a Play theatre stage so you can experience old Brooklyn society. Lots of information was transferred by interactivity such as touching, pushing buttons, opening the lid. It gathers attention from people especially children. They tried too much to contain huge contents, it has tendency to have too much text on the wall. Films are big part of the exhibition and its editing and contents are very interesting. It contains normal but not just normal, special features of people.
The exhibition does not have many new technologies but traditional recreation brings old Brooklyn to the present.

E) School/Education magazine
To know the history of our neighborhood is an important element to realizing today.
Newly renovated BHS museum offers to experience the process of development of Brooklyn in a theatrical environment.
By touching the real object, pushing buttons, and opening the lids, kids can expose to the historical information with fun. The size of the exhibition is not gigantic, so it’s a proper size for a class field trip. It takes an hour or so for tour.

F) Niche Media
A tour guide for Korean study abroad students
If you become a new neighbor or if you are a visitor in Brooklyn, it’s always good idea to know the history of society and how it affects today. BHS is located in one of the busiest spot, it’s easy to access than any other part of Brooklyn. Also, the environment around is excellent. There are park and a square area near by. It’s just very nice area.
By touching the real object, pushing buttons, and opening the lids, the exhibition brings more interests. It has old paintings, drawings, letters that are showing old Brooklyn. Also they present antic industrial products that are like pop art stuff. The theatrical interior shows how the people from different culture and race got together and how they have been living together. It offers great opportunity to your family visiting tour and let them understand what’s your neighborhood like.
( I wish there’s something like this kind of museum in East Village so I can explain better to my mom when she visits me.)