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Muzeo
The Muzeo is the newest Southern
California museum that houses many various types of exhibits and
displays, special events, classes and weekend festivals born to
celebrate and understand the world class traveling exhibits that
come here to delight and enthrall the community of Anaheim and its
millions of visitors. It is located in Anaheim, California and was
started to invite the community to come and explore the diverse
culture, arts and heritage by showcasing innovative programming. The
museum hosts three traveling exhibitions each year that would be
shown in the region unless invited by the museum. Each of these
special traveling exhibits are improved by activities, special
programs and events that bring the utmost information about the
displays. Current exhibitions include the "State of the Blues: the
living legend of the delta"; and it runs through to August, 2010.
This wonderful exhibit honors the living legends of the Mississippi
Delta blues shown through many intimate portraits. These
illuminating photos of Jeff Dunas, has been hailed as an important
display that honors the women and men who have exemplified the art
into the powerful venue that it has become today. The spectacular
and inspirational music of the delta, an African-American legacy,
has been, continues to be and will always be, an important influence
in all the contemporary music and other venues that has been saved
in our generations by such special and talented people as B.B. King,
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Charlie Musselwhite and John Lee Hooker.
Using world wide vibrations, the blues have created poetry of
sorrow, and discovers humor and irony in the many hardships that
face us all in life; but more specifically, the black men that faced
the bitter hatred of racism in the south and many other places in
the world. The songs speak of love lost and found, the tireless
struggle to feed our families and the endless fight for dignity in a
world that have always judged people by their differences, be it
color, religion or appearance. This has always been an unfortunate
byproduct of humanity, or more appropriately, inhumanity, that many
people have had to degrade others so that they themselves can feel
better about themselves; although in the end, nothing will change a
person, except that they learn that we are all different in
marvelous ways that make this world a better and more interesting
place. We all have something to offer each other, if nothing else
than the mere support to help each other through a difficult time.
Mr. Dunas has elevated the blues and the people that brought them to
us to a lofty position that is envied by many. He had documented the
landmark juke joints and blues hideouts that created a magical
highway traveled along the routes to New Orleans, through the delta
and into the many cities of this nation. A splendid exhibit that
will make us think a moment about the world we live in and the music
we grew up on. Another excellent exhibit is the Frogs: A chorus of
colors, runs until September 2010 and introduces us to the
incredible world of anurans or frogs. These unique amphibians are
unbelievably one of the most visually spectacular, audible pleasing
and adaptive life forms in the world. The display contains more than
100 live frogs, where you can learn about their expansive and
diverse realm, discover their evolution and biological prominence to
the ecosystems in our world, and the increasing threats that face
them in the growing environment today.
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