Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, the Metropolitan Museum wound up a mammoth moving job. Safely stowed in a secret steel and concrete country house 100 miles from New York are 10,000 art treasures-enough to be the nucleus of another great museum. The Metropolitan has been laying evacuation plans for two years: it fears friendly ack-ack shells more than enemy bombs. Gold and silver, ivory, jades and jewelry have gone into bank vaults. A carefully chosen 2% of the museum's remaining 500,000 treasures have been trucked to the country hideaway. Gone are the Altman and most of the Morgan...
...protect what remains, the museum has boarded up its three big domes and the large outside windows, will replace some of the skylights with wood and put chicken wire under the rest. Led by Fireman Thomas Hughes, a retired New York Battalion Chief, 125 museum attendants practice regularly, dashing about the halls with twelve baby-buggy-like fire trucks. The museum has its drills so pat that public and staff can clear out in three minutes...
...Sunday, Dec. 7, six employes reached the museum, lugged its finest items to previously chosen safety spots Next day they reinforced the basement sandbagged the building, installed new "secondary" shows. Tuesday they opened on schedule...
Additional features of the building include the Print Room under Curator Jakob Rosenburg, specialist on Rembrandt, who has accumulated the most widely representative collection of modern prints to date. Drawings are under the care of Agnes Mongan, who with Professor Sachs wrote "Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum," a Fine Arts best seller...
...unique performance scheduled for this Friday and Saturday the Germanic Museum will present Huge von Hofmannstahl's play "Jedermann", which used to be given annually, under such eminent directors as Reinhardt, in front of the Salzburg Cathedral in Germany...