Word: museumful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Though we are concerned with both these types of exhibits, the small rooms are always the ones which we are most careful about. The other aspect of the Peabody as a scholar's museum is this--our stored collection is of absolutely top importance to the graduate student. He must be ablt to get these specimens quickly and be able to inspect them himself, without having to peer through a glass case. The storage of our potsherds, say, is equally as important as the exhibition of a Mayan sculpture...
This forthright discussion of the primary educational objectives of the Museum might have been the last word about the Museum's obligation to the community had it not been for the recent revival of interest in the works of primitive cultures...
...Director Brew was well aware that the Museum's magnificent collection of primitive art involved a responsibility to the art world. In connection with Perry Rathbone, director of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, he has found what may well prove to be the ideal solution. The Peabody will lend about three hundred examples of primitive art for exhibit in a gallery permanently set aside for it in the Museum of Fine Arts. The primitive works will be shown in a manner befitting any more recent work...
This leaves the Peabody free to pursue its basically educational policy as a museum of anthropology. That it is a scholars' museum becomes immediately obvious as one studies its most recent report. Almost all the space is spent in telling the research ventures of its Associates. As is usual, its collections have increased by well over ten thousand specimens and, as always, the Museum is in a restricted financial position...
...Museum is faced with ever growing collections which are placed either in its relatively small exhibition space or deposited in its enormous storage areas. To make stored specimens useful, exact descriptions and cataloguing are necessary. Because of the serious deficiencies of its earlier catalogues, the Museum is trying to catch up with the recording of its over one million objects. For this, as well as all its other special functions--publications, expeditions, research, much new equipment--the Museum has an annual budget of $85,000. As a money-saving device, it asks professors who visit the Museum to study parts...