Word: museume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experiment adopted by the directors of the Fogg Museum in loaning pictures to students who wish to use them in decorating their rooms is in the nature of an attempt to popularize fine arts. Coming as it does close on the heels of the opening of the first exhibit of the Harvard Society for Contemporaneous Art, it is an encouraging sign to those who hope for more knowledge of the beauties of art among students...
...opportunity to procure pictures to hang on his wall than to make regular excursions to Fogg. A better sense of value for pictures will also come from seeing them in one's own room in surroundings of comparative comfort rather than in the more severe background of a museum...
Another feature of Mr. Edison's birthday was a gesture of generosity by Mr. Ford. At Dearborn, Mich., Ford's factory town, stands the Edison Institute of Technology and the Museum of American Industries, dedicated to Mr. Edison. Mr. Ford last week endowed institute and museum with $5,000,000. The museum contains all Mr. Edison's tools and contrivances, in working order...
...face, then stubbornness. He plodded ahead leaving a string of footprints behind. Mr. Ford was delighted and said something flattering about "the sands of time." He gave orders that the footprints be allowed to harden, furthermore, he made Mr. Edison take off his shoes and leave them in the museum...
Recently the Metropolitan Museum announced an auction sale of paintings no longer deemed worthy of wall space. Last week the euphemistically-termed "surplus" art was sold. The highest price was $3,500, paid by Circusman John Ringling for Hans Makart's Diana's Hunting Party, a giant canvas (15 by 32 feet), garish and breezy as a circus poster. This will hang in Mr. Ringling's sunny, spacious museum at Sarasota, Fla. For more than 100 pieces the museum received $53,442. Meticulous connoisseurs called it sheer profit, good riddance...