Word: museumful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cranes. The crowd broke up, some to file through the Peace Memorial Data Hall, a chamber-of-horrors museum containing mementos of the day Hiroshima died. Others congregated around the 10-ft. statue of Schoolgirl Sadako Sasaki. Sadako was two years old when the bomb exploded, and only half a mile from the explosion's center of impact. Yet she was apparently unharmed, and grew into a lively, likable child. In 1955, one month before graduating from grammar school, she developed the extreme lethargy that is the forerunner of "atom sickness." Hospitalized, Sadako began folding scraps of paper into...
...pack swank souvenir shops; they fill the galleries, buy works of art. A town that has attracted art devotees for more than half a century, Provincetown has in 1958 become the U.S.'s undisputed summer art capital. The reasons: a new arts festival and a new art museum-both resulting from the aurous determination of Multi-millionaire Walter P. Chrysler...
Masters in a Church. "I used to come to the Cape as a kid," says Chrysler, and I always think of the Cape when I think of vacation." Last April he bought the former Provincetown Methodist Church for $40,000, had it remodeled into a fine small museum, installed a small part of his 4,000-work collection of masters. Then he startled easygoing Cape Codders by decreeing black tie the style at his lavish parties.* He sparked the move to stage a nationwide art festival, smooth-talked some 300 year-round residents into contributing their time and effort free...
Well lit and well designed, the new Chrysler Art Museum features 76 oils and 12 sculptures, ranging from Hieronymus Bosch to Picasso. Valued at $1,700,000, the exhibition is but a fraction of Chrysler's total collection ("I began buying at 14, out of my allowance"), includes some topnotch masterpieces (Tintoretto's Flora, Titian's Portrait of the Admiral Vincenzo Capello, Soutine's Valet de Chambre), as well as some not-so-great works by great masters (Renoir's Pheasant, Derain's Renaissance-style Portrait of Lady Adby), which have good names...
...hung alphabetically, a few inches apart. Badly lit, they nevertheless attract some 500 viewers a day, including a fair number of collectors who have already bought 53. The 400 were culled from 10,000 entries submitted to eight regional centers across the nation, then assembled at the Chrysler Museum for a final, prize-awarding judgment...