Word: museumful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art elected Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Sr., 75, widow of the art-amassing publisher, as a benefactress, announced the simultaneous receipt of donations from the Hearst Foundation: three 17th century British interiors, some old chunks of European architecture, a Roman copy in marble of a 5th century B.C. statue of Hermes...
...They Hang Everything." During World War II, while Nazi armies besieged Leningrad, Soviet technicians huddled in bomb shelters deep beneath the Hermitage, patiently picked away at the staggering task of cataloguing the museum's 2,000,000 objects. The job is still going on. Today the collection sprawls through 322 halls and galleries that stretch some 15 miles. Strangely, the museum has no Russian paintings, which are housed in other Leningrad museums. But three of its six departments display only Russian objects ranging from Stone-Age relics to 20th century silverware. Under heavy guard in a basement vault...
While visitors flowed through the new gallery. Architect Kiesler beamed: "Look, and you can see the principle everywhere, continuous flow and continuous tension. This is not a marketplace. It is not a forbidding museum. It is a place where the paintings and sculpture invite the visitors to come to see them-'At home from...
...decades art experts around the world have yearned to get through the Iron Curtain and see for themselves what is on the walls of Leningrad's famed, sprawling, be jeweled Hermitage Museum. Those who have been able to do so in the post-Stalin thaw have come away with confirmation of a long-held belief: the Hermitage is every bit as good as the Communists claim (see color pages for some of its rarely reproduced masterpieces). Sterling Callisen, the Metropolitan Museum's dean of education, who recently spent six goggle-eyed, footsore days roaming the Hermitage...
Died. Maria Pavlovna Chekhova, 93, only sister of Russian Playwright Anton Chekhov, who idolized her brother, never married, kept house for him much of the time, after his death in 1904 made a museum of his villa at Yalta; in Yalta...