The New MuseumElm tree Press, 1917 - 52 páginas |
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... industrial collections . They have shown them- selves to be collections , and little more ; gratifying to a few , awesome to a few , tiresome to many , and helpful to almost none . THE COMING OF THE NEW MUSEUM IDEA The same open ...
... industrial collections . They have shown them- selves to be collections , and little more ; gratifying to a few , awesome to a few , tiresome to many , and helpful to almost none . THE COMING OF THE NEW MUSEUM IDEA The same open ...
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... industrial , commercial and educational ac- tivities of that community . We believe that it will pay any com- munity to add to its educational apparatus a group of persons which shall form the staff of a local institution of visual ...
... industrial , commercial and educational ac- tivities of that community . We believe that it will pay any com- munity to add to its educational apparatus a group of persons which shall form the staff of a local institution of visual ...
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... industry , ethnology and other fields , such as experience shows will attract a large number of visitors . Manage these branch institutes , when possible , as ver- itable independent teaching centers , with leaflets and cards de ...
... industry , ethnology and other fields , such as experience shows will attract a large number of visitors . Manage these branch institutes , when possible , as ver- itable independent teaching centers , with leaflets and cards de ...
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... industry exhibits . They may be so small as to show in a very easily transported case a few of the major steps in ... industry ; and so general as to give a bird's - eye view of all the industries of the whole community . These may THE ...
... industry exhibits . They may be so small as to show in a very easily transported case a few of the major steps in ... industry ; and so general as to give a bird's - eye view of all the industries of the whole community . These may THE ...
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John Cotton Dana. all the industries of the whole community . These may be planned to attract and interest the business man , or to draw to them . the women , or to arouse in young people a healthful curiosity in the activities of their ...
John Cotton Dana. all the industries of the whole community . These may be planned to attract and interest the business man , or to draw to them . the women , or to arouse in young people a healthful curiosity in the activities of their ...
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acquisitions activities administration American Museums Art Museum art school art-gallery BEGINNING A MUSEUM Brooklyn Institute Children's Museum civic collections for schools coming museum community's conventions cooperation Curator definite Director display docent easily elements of museum enterprise ethnology experience FOGG ART MUSEUM galleries gather George W give Habitat groups handling of temporary hobby-riders illustrated industry installation INSTITUTE OF VISUAL interest J. C. Dana kind of museum labels lantern slides leaflets lectures lending collections live museums Louis Public Schools marble palace material methods modern museum munity Museum Association museum field museum idea museum management Museum of Art museum workers natural history Natural Sciences needs Newark Library Newark Museum objects paintings pamphlet preparation proper properly public library Published pupils seum staff storage suggestions teachers teaching temporary exhibitions things tion town traveling exhibits tures type of museum visual instruction
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Página 18 - ... storage warehouses, or community attics, or temples of dead gods, or copies of palaces of an extinct nobility, or costly reproductions of ancient temples, or grand and elaborate structures which are of service only as evidences of conspicuous waste by the rich"—in favor of the "new museum...
Página 25 - April, 1909, to establish a museum for the reception and exhibition of articles of art, science, history, and technology, and for the encouragement of the study of the arts and sciences.
Página 15 - ... sums with which they shall acquire, label, describe, arrange for show and prepare for lending, such objects as careful study and experiment shall suggest ; in the expectation that staff and objects combined will do for the community these things at least, and, one may hope, in time many others — 1. Entertain, and be ready to try to interest and instruct, such as may have the wish and the time to visit casually the institution's headquarters.
Página 17 - This development of the collecting habit cir.cng the young, with its accompanying education of powers of observation, its training in handwork, its tendency to arouse interests theretofore unsuspected even by those who possess them, its continuous suggestions toward good taste and refinement which lie in the process of installing even the most modest of collections , and its...
Página 18 - ... 10. Keep the museum and its activities continually before the community in the daily press, and publish and distribute as many leaflets, posters, broadsides and cards descriptive of the museum's acquisitions as conditions seem to warrant.
Página 17 - ... 7. Discover collectors and specialists and experts in the community and secure their cooperation in adding to the museum's collections ; in helping...
Página 5 - The latter seemed to be quite the inevitable course ; and still further study showed that certain changes, all making for greater usefulness, were well under way throughout the whole museum world. As librarian of the Newark, NJ Free Public Library I found I was able to assist in establishing, about eight years ago, what might be called a museum of museum experiments.
Página 11 - We have felt so keenly the lack of printed information which gave clear, precise and definite answers to our many queries, that we decided several years ago that, if fortune favored us by keeping our museum alive and growing, we would, in due course, set down in print our own experiences, the results of our in quiries, studies, observations and experiments.
Página 17 - ... toward sound civic interest through doing for one's community a helpful thing, — this work of securing the cooperation of boys and girls, making them useful while they are gaining their own pleasure and carrying on their own education, is one of the coming museum's most promising fields.
Página 12 - ... general efficiency of their business and work-a-day lives, — this we thought should be slowly and carefully discovered by study, observation and trial, — and so the museum would grow. To build first an expensive home, a palace, a temple or any grandiose and permanent structure on the...