Word: museumed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London Westminster Abbey's caretakers crated the 600-year-old Coronation Chair in which George VI was crowned, and trundled it away. The British Museum closed; so did the National Gallery; and motor lorries filled with books and paintings rumbled out of London. Canterbury Cathedral's stained glass was buried in the surrounding countryside...
...Zoologist Gladwyn Kingsley Noble of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, fish are not gawping, cold-eyed nonentities, but personalities as ambitious and sociable as human beings...
While dapper, prolific Biographer Emil Ludwig was poking among historic relics in a Corsican museum, a bronze statue of Jerome Bonaparte, youngest of Napoleon's four brothers, toppled, cracked him smartly on the pate. Moaned Emil Ludwig: "I had too many things to say about Jerome ... in my book [Napoleon']. He has his vengeance...
...young auctioneer named Thomas E. Kirby and partners founded the American Art Association in 1883, were soon holding sales that ran into the millions. Auctioneer Kirby sold such famous Victorian paintings as Rosa Bonheur's The Horse Fair, which Commodore Vanderbilt bought and gave to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1922, with borrowed money, Kirby put up the Madison Avenue building. Next year he sold the American Art Association to rich, eccentric Cortlandt Field Bishop for $500,000 and retired, having auctioned $60,000,000 worth of art in 40 years. Founder Kirby died a year later...
...days in a room on the second floor of the Louvre Museum in Paris a young Russian artist named Serge Bogousslavsky sketched industriously while guards wandered about the halls. Each day, unnoticed, he frayed and broke one strand of the wire upholding a tiny masterpiece-valued from $80,000 up-by Antoine Watteau: L' Indifférent. On the 18th day after lunch a guard walked into the room and stared (TIME, June 26). L'Indifférent and Russian were both gone...