Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conference of 115 museums from all over the country to decide how best to protect works of art in an "emergency," opens at the Fogg Art Museum this afternoon with a meeting dealing with the properties and deterioration of stone ceramics, and glass...
Baltimore's resourceful Director Leslie Cheek Jr., who has used colored lights and even smell to attract gallerygoers to his Baltimore Museum of Art, was busy last week wiring his shop for sound. Director Cheek's sound equipment will emit both lectures and soft music through the museum's ventilating system. During the local artists' show this month, the microphones will croon such apt items as Maryland! My Maryland. A subsequent exhibition of Russian icons will be set to Russian Orthodox music...
...Worcester (Mass.) Art Museum sound was most elaborate. Visitors, ushered in by an attendant, strolled through a labyrinthine gallery designed (by Lee Simonson) like a Coney Island house of mystery. As they paused before each picture, lights flashed on and a concealed sound mechanism honked a short lecture describing its notable points. No money saver, this sound-equipped tour, which ranged from Greek sculpture to Cézanne apples, cost about $14,000 ($10,000 of it a grant from the Carnegie Corp...
Fifteen art museums throughout the country, including Boston's famous Gardner Museum, and Museum, of Fine Arts, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, will take part in a conference next month on "The Emergency Protection of Art," to be held at the Fogg Museum...
Complete plans, however, have been laid in the event that it is deemed necessary to remove the museum treasures from Cambridge. Lumber for packing cases and other essential materials for an evacuation have been collected, and it has been decided just where to send everything if a mass removal of valuable exhibits becomes necessary...