DOI Heft:
Nr. 332 (January 1925)
DOI Artikel:Hackney, Louise Wallace: The Field Museum, Chicago
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19984#0061
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PARCHMENT FIGURES FROM CHINESE SHADOWPLAYS
A museum, unlike a library, cannot duplicate also a library of eighty thousand books covering
and circulate its collections of paintings, sculp- every phase of the four subjects housed in the
tures and jewels; it must persuade the public to Museum, anthropology, botany, geology and
come to it. But the Field Museum has in a cer- zoology. Formerly art, science and history were
tain sense duplicated itself and gone to the public, included in the field embraced by the museum's
It has a traveling exhibit, which will be loaned on exhibits, but such a range was found too great to
request to any school in Chicago, of eight hundred be included in one building.
cases especially arranged to suit the needs and Always and everywhere, whether it be in dis-
interests of school children. To still further popu- play of collections, beauty of surroundings, or
Iarize their subjects a theater with a seating intelligent, willing assistance from the staff, the
capacity of a thousand and a lecture hall holding ideal of the Museum is maintained—to be "the
nearly three hundred have been installed; there is people's university."
SURIMONO ILLUSTRATING PROCESS OF WOOD ENGRAVING
JANUARY 1925
three
twenty-one
PARCHMENT FIGURES FROM CHINESE SHADOWPLAYS
A museum, unlike a library, cannot duplicate also a library of eighty thousand books covering
and circulate its collections of paintings, sculp- every phase of the four subjects housed in the
tures and jewels; it must persuade the public to Museum, anthropology, botany, geology and
come to it. But the Field Museum has in a cer- zoology. Formerly art, science and history were
tain sense duplicated itself and gone to the public, included in the field embraced by the museum's
It has a traveling exhibit, which will be loaned on exhibits, but such a range was found too great to
request to any school in Chicago, of eight hundred be included in one building.
cases especially arranged to suit the needs and Always and everywhere, whether it be in dis-
interests of school children. To still further popu- play of collections, beauty of surroundings, or
Iarize their subjects a theater with a seating intelligent, willing assistance from the staff, the
capacity of a thousand and a lecture hall holding ideal of the Museum is maintained—to be "the
nearly three hundred have been installed; there is people's university."
SURIMONO ILLUSTRATING PROCESS OF WOOD ENGRAVING
JANUARY 1925
three
twenty-one