Word: museum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...felt obliged to report to the President further that in my opinion he would have no chance of acquiring a permanent Director by calling an anthropologist of position from another institution, unless the Museum had first been modernized and placed in efficient condition...
...staff have now, after long study, reported a plan for extensive rearrangement of the collection which promises to make it admirably adapted for purposes of promoting research study and teaching. This plan will be based upon a change throughout the Museum from the artistic to a scientific arrangement, and will involve the installation in an accessible manner, of material for class room, laboratory, and research specimens, together with offices in which visiting scientists may assemble specimens which cannot be submitted to student handling. It is believed, too, that the rearrangements, and the adoption of sequence in the display collections, will...
...reported, further, that the Museum was badly under-staffed, having only eight employees, while inquiry showed that museums of not more than half our size usually kept from three to four times that number of workers actively employed. Contacts with outside scientists and with other institutions and museums, which are essential to progress, have been very largely allowed to drop. The Museum has relapsed into a state of isolation which is regrettable. The reciprocal loans for purposes of study, which are universal among museums, should now be encouraged, under proper precautions, and every effort should be made to enlist...
...this time I found myself quite ready to sympathize with Dr. Lothrop in his decision that, as a man interested in research work and with another museum urging him to continue in his excellent position with them, he felt unable to devote at least several years to purely administrative work in an effort to place the Peabody in efficient condition...
...Museum Needs Modernization...