Word: carnavalet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Famed civic museums are the Museo Correr of Venice, the London Museum, the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna, the Provincial Museum of Berlin, the Musee Carnavalet of Paris,&3134; oldest of them all. la imitation of these, the Museum of the City of New York was organized in 1923 under the leadership of Harry Collins Brown, longtime editor of Valentine's Manual, with the enthusiastic support of Banker James Speyer, Supreme Court Justice Phoenix Ingraham. For several years it occupied the old wooden Gracie Mansion on the East River, between 88th & 89th Streets, onetime country place of Clipper...
...Founded in 1888 by Jules Cousin, librarian of the arsenal of Paris. He gave the city his own immensely valuable collection of books and prints relating to Paris, which were housed in the palace where once lived that greatest ot letter writers, Mine de Sevigne. The Carnavalet gained world fame under the late great Georges Cain, who knew more about Paris than any man who ever lived, originated the plan, later adopted by museums of all sorts all over the world, of humanizing his exhibits by taking them out of show cases, placing them in completely furnished rooms...
Mario Roustan, Minister of Public Instruction and Art in the Laval Cabinet, rose early in Paris last week and walked to work. On the way he passed the open gate of the Carnavalet Museum, once the home of letter-writing Mme de Sevigne, now the Historical Museum of the City. There was no one in sight. He walked in. He walked through the court and up the stairs, sauntered through the deserted galleries...