Word: museume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Boston Museum of Fine Arts unveiled certain murals on classic subjects which he had painted to embellish its walls; opened at the same time the most comprehensive exhibition of his work which has ever been shown...
...Yucatan, Edward H. Thompson of the Peabody Museum (Boston), to whom is credited introduction* of the Mayan civilization to modern archeology, rounded out 20 years of work with an extraordinary feat and returned home. He knew that the Mayans practiced a sacrificial ceremony at their sacred wells, in their holy city, decking virgins with jade and gold and hurling them, amid clouds of incense, into great limestone sinkholes, one of which measured 168 feet across and contained 80 feet of water and mud. After digging around for years, with indifferent luck, Professor Thompson went back to Boston and acquired...
From Bolivia and Argentina, after 28 months' work, Professor Elmer S. Riggs of the Field Museum (Chicago), returned, bringing 800 fossils of 100 species of animals aged 8 to 15 million years. Most were taken from beds on the sea floor at the foot of towering cliffs, on the Santa Cruz coast. There the average tide-rise is 56 feet, and the work had to be done in dashes at the ebb. There was no evidence that the creatures found had had any communication by a land bridge with North America or any other continent. They formed a unique...
...Should any CRIMSON reporters care to interview the originator of this plan, they will most probably find him in the Semitic Museum...
...letter means of academic instruction in the history of art," wrote Dr. Bode, "could be found than such a systematic collection of casts." He deplored the indifference of most of the Berlin museum experts in this matter, and asks: "And the Government? Does it perhaps wait for Americans to show their appreciation of our help, in establishing the Germanic Museum at Harvard, by giving us a building for our collections of German casts...