Word: museume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contents of the Museum are both originals and reproductions in plaster ("costs"). Some of the groups may be named...
...Bilbilcal Museum...
...nature of the case, nearly all the material in the Museum has relations, more or less direct, to the Bible or to the islands of the Bible. To such degree is this true that at its inception, Professor J. Henry Thayer, of the Harvard Divinity School, proposed that it be named "Biblical Museum...
...Palestinian Room of the Museum may be seen such objects as blocks of rock salt from the mountain at the southern end of the Dead Sea, the region of the story of Lot's wife; specimens of fine, bright-colored stone, such as Solomon may have used in building the Temple; models giving reproductions of the Tabennacle, of the Temple of Solemon, and of the Temple of Herod; tiles from the Tenth Roman Legion stationed at Jerusalem in the first century; hand mills, such as were used by the women of old and are used by the women...
...emphasis laid on the Biblical feature of the Museum must not be allowed to make the impression that this is the only interest of the collections. Far from it. To thoughtful minds the historical appeal is equally strong...