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Show Museum Plans Service For Lame, Injured r Plans for Inauguration of a wheelchair service for lame and aged visitors to New York's Metropolitan Met-ropolitan Museum of Art highlighted high-lighted the week's news in the art world as reports from other sources accented a growing interest inter-est in ar t among the nation's youngsters ranging from day nursery nur-sery to college age. Wheel chair tours to the Metropolitan Metro-politan Museum will be included in a general improvement program pro-gram which will give the museum new escalators, new elevator and storage facilities and a street-level street-level entrance with roadway approaches. ap-proaches. Officials of the museum were unable to determine whether the wheelchair service was something new in the nation, but according to the National Society for Crip-V pled Children in Chicago, the alterations al-terations will make New York's museum "an outstanding example of such alterations." |