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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is for so many undergraduates "the place that has the glass flowers." Actually, though, the Peabody doesn't own them at all. Peabody occupies the left hand corner of the red-brick complex that forms the University Museum. The University Museum also contains...
The Museum does have new installations on the first floor and the third floor. These should serve as models for all future changes. The cases are lit from inside by good strong spotlighting; their labels are clear and consise, and informative essays are conveniently placed. They are admirably anthropological in...
The art enthusiasts were appalled to find art works from such areas as Honduras and New Ireland placed in drab cases, along with crude axes and adzes, so that the sculptures, if distinguishable at all through the ethnological confusion, still could not be seen in the round, as they should...
This leaves the Peabody free to pursue its basically educational policy as a museum of anthropology. That it is a scholars' museum becomes immediately obvious as one studies its most recent report. Almost all the space is spent in telling the research ventures of its Associates. As is usual, its...
The Museum is faced with ever growing collections which are placed either in its relatively small exhibition space or deposited in its enormous storage areas. To make stored specimens useful, exact descriptions and cataloguing are necessary. Because of the serious deficiencies of its earlier catalogues, the Museum is trying to...