MUSEUM WORK
CATERING FOR SCHOOLS
The importance of the development ■. of museum work for schools was emphasised By Dr, R. W. B. Oliver, Director of« the Dominion Museum, in an address to the Optimists' Club today. Dr. Oliver recently returned from a visit' abroad, and he spoke on his trip.
Dr, Oliver said that' there was no text-book on museum management, and befqre a text-book ■ was written; , a great deal more •■ would be necessary. -One development was the manner in which . museumsw'ere catering for the schools. Teachers demanded a variety of objects, and in America special school- departments -_, had I)een established. Children at- ' . tended lectures, and' were given ma» - terials. In Chicago,: circulating exhibits were made up. The school museum work had developed to such..; an extent in the United States that in '■ two cases the entire museum was de«-,~ voted to that work.
Dealing with display methods generally, Dr. Oliver said that the habitat group was most prominent. The di&»* - play consisted of a large glass case showing animals and the country in which' they. lived, and there* wa.s a ; realistic painted background. The paintings Were generally works of art, and the whole exhibit was very fine. The most important, advances made in the United States **?=;- Tae result of individual financial grants.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 132, 1 December 1938, Page 11
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213MUSEUM WORK Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 132, 1 December 1938, Page 11
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