translated from Spanish: The Museum of the dog opens its doors in New York

Of the 19th century Victorian pictures, posters of movies featuring pets, like “Lassie”, or an interactive screen that tells you what breed of dog you look like more, are some of the surprises hidden in the Museum of the dog, which opens its doors in Nue goes York on Feb. 8.
Although in reality, explained EfE between their Leos Center cultural resources director, Alan Fausel, this is a reopening, since in fact its doors opened in Manhattan in 1982, although between 1986 and 2017 the Museum moved to the town of Saint Louis, Missouri.
Now, says Fausel, “to celebrate the art of the dog”, this museum has become to stay and get more visitors and also because the organization that maintains it, the American Kennel Club (AKC), has moved to a new building where it has two large rooms of exhibition and a library with 15,000 volumes on dogs at the Manhattan.
“We started in New York, but due to lack of space the Museum moved to Saint Louis, although it was far from the city and we didn’t have many visitors, so when we moved the AKC to new offices also we brought us back the Museum,” he explains with satisfaction.
Collection the portrait of a Saint Bernard of 1896, immortalized in a large canvas by Maud Earl (1864-1943), American British painter is one of “our favourite pieces”, highlights Fausel next to the imposing image.
Head-up and under the title “I hear a voice”, the head of the Museum explains that this work reflects the work of these dogs in the high peaks of the Alps, though, as he says with irony Fausel, the model of the sculpture, known as “Fradley Stephanie” never came from the British Isles.
Fausel highlights pictures of Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1873) British, “an incomparable painter of dogs and the favorite artist of Queen Victoria de Inglaterra (1819-1901)”, included in the pinacoteca of AKC, entity that emits its own rules for the breeding of dogs.
But also it is striking in a portrait canine of 1990 of Millie, the springer spaniel of U.S. former President George Bush and his spouse, Bárbara Bush, lying in the South garden of the White House with a red ball.
The presidential dog rose to fame in the year which was immortalized by starring in the book “Millie completo”, written by the first lady, and that deals with life in the White House. Its sales surpassed the memories of the previous occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Ronald Reagan.
Ultimately, summarizes the responsible, “most of the pictures are of the Golden dogs, between 1840 and 1940 painting, age although we also have some contemporary works”, as well as photographs, statues and posters of movies featuring dogs, as “Lassie” or “Babe”, the little pig who wanted to be a German shepherd dog.
“In addition to having one of the best collections of British painting in the world of dogs, also have six interactive digital screens, some fun and interesting on how to train your dog.” But we also have two tables on races with all the information on the 193 accepted by the ACK,”adds.
Not only art the origin, history and characteristics of all these breeds can be selected on a wide touch screen available to visitors, who can also take a picture so that a facial recognition program will tell you what your ‘ pedigree ‘, which can be a chihuahua or a russell terrier.
In addition, in another large screen, “Mollie”, a virtual dog, teaches visitors to educate a pet to make that barks, pick up a ball or feels.
Between the landscapes of the Victorian English countryside, small dog porcelain, some contemporary photographs and life-size statues, the Museum hides some other details like a necklace of the second world war with a compartment for messages from the front, or a showcase dedicated to the memory of Smoky, one tiny yorkshire terrier than the American soldier William A. Wynnese took as a company to the second world war.
The skeleton of Belgrave Joe, a fox terrier died in 1888, and considered the father of the lineage of the smooth fox terrier, is another of the secrets hidden in this small museum which, at the moment, its protagonists, the dogs are not invited.

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