Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every now & then Manhattan's glassy Museum of Modern Art stages a strange but provocative show. Some visitors are impervious; others leave with their bonnets abuzz. Last week, on the somewhat dusty subject, "Are Clothes Modern?," the" Museum confronted visitors with some sharp displays and comments by Austrian-born Architect-Designer Bernard Rudofsky. On the thesis that clothes are always artificial, often absurd, sometimes harmful, the exhibition ranged from clanky chest armor to bird-cage bustles...
...famed Norden bombsight, perhaps the most closely guarded U.S. military secret of the war, last week had its first public showing. Anybody with 30? could have a look through it at Manhattan's Museum of Science and Industry (see cut), anybody at all could see it free behind a rope at a Wall Street War Bond show. But not even a spying engineer could learn much from this glimpse. The instrument, which contains some 2,000 parts and costs nearly $10,000, is so complex that, although a number of the sights have fallen into enemy hands, its inventors...
Viewed annually by nearly 200,000 visitors, Harvard's world famed, collection of glass flowers is one of the University's leading public attractions. Product of a secret process and a lifetime of work on the part of two German artists, the exhibit at the Botanical Museum harbors over 800 delicately constructed models of flowers from every region of the earth...
...history of the Blaschka models goes back to 1886 and the founding of Harvard's Botanical Museum, now a part of Agassiz, when Professor George L. Goodale was searching for a practical means of including a collection of plant life in the new museum. Dried plants were out of the question, and wax copies were too crude. At the Comparative Zoology Museum he saw several small glass reproductions of jellyfish and conceived the idea of modelling flowers in glass. The same year he hurried to Germany to present his plans to Leopold Blaschka, creator of the marine life done...
...Bischoff, curator of the Berlin University zoological museum, marched into Father Schmitz's cloister and demanded to see the collection. Father Schmitz showed him the phorid flies (the ants had been sent to Maastricht's natural history museum for safekeeping). Snapped Professor Dr. Bischoff: "From today on all this belongs to me. And I want the Wasmann ants, too." "Give Up." This was too much, even for the quisling burgomaster of Maastricht. He helped patriotic Dutch formicophiles hide the ant collection in the cellar of the Town Hall. But Professor...