Word: museum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...painting, which was in an almost ruined condition, has been repaired by experts at the Fogg Art Museum, and now hangs in Room 3 of Lawrence Hall...
This will be the first showing in America of this play which was translated from the Gaelic by Katherine Tynan Hinkson and it will be produced, as have the miracle plays in previous years, against the cathedral background in the Germanic Museum. The play has received the more specific title of "Our Lord's Coming and Childhood", and the translation has robbed it of none of the native beauty of rhyme and action that characterizes the original classic of Gaelic literature...
...date of the American Museum's opening of its Hall of Fishes was a sad mischance. Guest of honor was to have been Dr. Bashford Dean, retired and honorary curator of ichthyology, who had planned the fish collection. An astonishingly different interest of his was in arms & armor. He knew more about arms & armor than any man in this country and aimed to make the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art rank next after those in Paris, Madrid and Denver. Rarely has a man held active curatorship in two great museums, and of such separated fields...
Creating such realistic scenes is the new aim of natural history museums. The American Museum has several groups of wild animals in natural surroundings. Last week it received seven lion skins, brought back from Tanganyika district of East Africa by its Carlisle-Clark African expedition. The lions will be posed at the edge of a thicket near one of the great granite boulders that stick up out of the African plains. In the distance will be herds of game (painted on a back drop). It will be sunset, the lions wakening up, stretching themselves. One lioness, with a few bristles...
...Proud though the American Museum is of its fish and animal collections, it is prouder of (and more famed for) its bird and dinosaur collections. Pride of other U. S. museums: Chicago's Field, botanical material; Washington's National, technical progress; San Francisco's Golden Gate, habitat groups of North American animals; Denver's Colorado, arrow heads and prehistoric bison: Washington's Red Cross, war material: Yale, fossil vertebrates; Harvard, birds and glass flowers...