Word: museumful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Emperor Hirohito, an old pro at marine biology, scientific data on Hydrozoa and the latest French research on oysters; for Crown Prince Akihito, three kinds of tropical fish; for Prince Mikasa, the Emperor's youngest brother and a history prof at Tokyo Women's Christian College, a museum catalogue on archaeology...
...miles through Brazil's back country; they studied 2,000 bat colonies, marked thousands of bats with dyes to learn their habits. They clocked the bats' flight (33 m.p.h.), and studied how bats find their victims by echolocation. Dr. Ruschi built a bat grotto at his museum to observe at close range their living, biting and eating habits. He determined that it takes 5,000 cattle to support an average colony of 50,000 vampire bats...
...people came first. Director d'Harnoncourt, who arrived as 30 children in the museum's painting classes were being led to the street, was soon leading search patrols to comb through the smoke-choked galleries. Museum Board Chairman Nelson Rockefeller donned a fireman's coat and helmet and plunged into the smoke to help. Director of Collections Alfred H. Barr Jr. led trapped museum staffers from the fifth floor to an adjacent brownstone roof. Other museum staff members led 500 visitors to the museum's rooftop restaurant or down the fire stairs. The fire...
...Harnoncourt, director of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, rounded the corner of Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street shortly after noon one day last week and saw the most horrible sight a museum man can imagine. Smoke was pouring from his museum's shattered glass façade; firemen were scrambling up ladders, axes in hand. In the distance was the wail of more fire engines bucking Manhattan traffic to answer the three alarms signaling the worst museum fire in U.S. history...
People First. The possibilities of irreplaceable loss to the art world were monstrous. On the museum's ground floor was a special on-loan show of 63 paintings by the late Cubist Painter Juan Gris. In the gallery above the fire hung more than 150 works by famed 19th century French Pointillist Painter Georges Seurat, including four of his seven major canvases, lent by U.S. and European collectors (TIME, Jan. 20). Only one closed fire door stood between the acrid smoke and scorching heat and the pick of the museum's permanent collection, richest and choicest trove...