Word: museume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carveth Wells, famed naturalist, director of many an expedition for the American Museum of Natural History, astonished reporters by letting fall numerous lurid observations anent a tour of the Mediterranean from which he returned last week to Manhattan...
...last item implies the existence of what we should call superstition among the Mayas, their calendar, as recently explained and harmonized by Herbert J. Spinden of Harvard, is full proof of their sophistication in at least one realm of science. Dr. Spinden's researches, first announced by the Peabody Museum two years ago and new completed, seem to us quite as romantic as any ever undertaken by an archaeologist. --The Nation...
...telling exactly what it will come to, for the touch of years, lawyers and markets upon an estate in liquidation is more often than not a shriveling one. But when it was announced last week that the will of Publisher Frank Andrew Munsey designated the leading U. S. art museum, the Metropolitan in Manhattan, as his residuary beneficiary, it was apparent that art had received its greatest single gift-in dollars-of all time...
Facing a serious deficit in mere administrative expenses, the Metropolitan was unexpectedly assured of the greater portion, surely more than half, of 40 millions. It was suddenly in a position to outbid any other museum for the world's masterpieces. Never in life had Mr. Munsey evinced interest in the Metropolitan beyond a perfunctory $10-per-annum subscription such as most prominent Manhattanites instruct their secretaries to renew automatically. Few of the trustees knew him and none intimately. He did not collect works of art privately. Yet without requesting that his money be called "The Munsey Fund" or assigning...
...works now on exhibition at Fogg Museum the most important are the marble portrait statue of Mestrovic's mother and the bronzed plaster nude entitled 'Memories', said Director Forbes. "The two carven wood panels. 'The Unhappy Angel' and 'Boy' are illustrative of the type of work being done by several modernist supporters...