Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Easter gift to the Orthodox Church, the Soviet Government last fortnight announced that Russia's once-wealthiest convent, the 422-year-old Novodyevichi ("New Virgins"), which has been a Moscow museum since 1922, would be restored to the Church. It could again take in Russian girls as nuns. About 90 other convents and monasteries throughout Russia have been recently returned to the Church, making its recovery of confiscated properties exceed...
...members of the Botanical Museum were represented in the announcement, Hugh C. Cutler and Donovan S. Correll '39, both research fellows. Cutler will study the origin of the maize plant in South America, and Correll will investigate an American botanical species. Albert C. Smith, Curator of the Herbarium of the Arnold Arboretum, will engage in Botanical exploration of the Fiji Islands...
...take. The Jones men, given office space among the plaster busts in a storeroom back of a medieval gallery, set out to bombard press and public with good reasons for helping the Met build. Among the best: 1) Taylor's showmanship (no admission fees, a junior museum, subway ads, fresh paint), has boosted annual attendance from about 1,000,000 in 1939, to over 1,800,000; 2) the Met now has some 500,000 art objects-many of them gathering dust in underground storerooms-and only 325,811 sq. ft. of display space...
Taylor is no archaeologist, but his vice director, Horace Howard Furness Jayne, once did a lot of digging in China. Both got their start in the Philadelphia Museum. Taylor went on to make the Worcester (Mass.) Art Museum one of the most active small-city galleries in the country. In 1940, when he was invited to take over the Met, he became the youngest (36) director in Met history...
...Christianity should take advantage of the Oriental love of pilgrimage to holy places by setting up shrines in the countryside around populous cities, equipping them with a church, hotel (nonprofit-making), religious library, and museum of Christian relics...