Show fHE ALT bALT Ll L A I NE JEW MUSEUM MUSEU 1 MO MOVE YE IS BEGUN NEW EW YORK YORK April 3 The The launching of ot a a. national museum I movement mo which which for fOl the first t time Ume I will enable the art history r science commerce and Industry museums I of or the country to attack Jointly their common problems has b been en announced by Laurence Vail Coleman Coleman Coleman Cole- Cole man secretary of ot the American Association of or Museums At the same Iamo time me Mr Coleman made public public pub pub- lic the fact tact that a grant of ot has been made to the association b by one of ot tho the big educational I foundations Klat on c condition n Wion that an I additional be raised from museums and their supporters Encouraging progress already has haR been made toward securing this amount and the completion of ot the fund Is In sight the secretary said I Tho plan of ot the new museum movement is described In the call can cantor for tor the eighteenth annual meeting of ot the association Issued by Frederick FrederIck Frederick Fred Fred- erick Allen Whiting Whiling director of the Cleveland Museum of or Art and and I president of ot the association This Thi meeting will celebrate the one hundred l and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of ot Americas America's first museum and will be held April 4 to 6 at Charleston S. 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It is expected that the will furnish the nucleus of ot support support support sup sup- port for tor the work for three t ree years e rs but the project looks far tar Into the future and plans are being l laid ld for tor Its continued support and growth It calls for the establishment establishment establishment establish establish- ment of ot permanent headquarters for tor the association probably at Washington The Smithsonian institution In Institution Institution In- In has offered a suite of ot offices office's for the use of ot the association asso asso- cia In commenting upon the project Secretary Coleman says In tho the past museums have sprung up larg largely ly by chance and have lived as best they could but now the time has come for tor concerted action which will enable museums more effectively to carry on their work ork The public generally does not appreciate appreciate appreciate ap ap- what museums are doing for tor education from the kindergarten ten to the university uni Already the demands upon their resources far tar exceed their ability to deliver andin an and andin 1 in order to meet this situation the I P resent o national effort nt rg h has b been en I Instituted i tt-d tt The first step toward the improvement Improvement Improvement Im Im- provement of ot this condition and andone andone andone one which Is supported most en enthusiastically enthusiastically en- en by the leading museums museums mu mu- of ot the country is the plan I for tor extensive publications which will broadcast the results of ot dozens dozI dozens doz doz- I ens of or special experiments being i J I carried on under the auspices of ot otI I various institutions The publications j I Hons will report also the general generali i I studies to be made by the staff start of or orthe the association Another purpose of ot this national movement mo is 18 the aim to dissipate tho popular misconception of ot mu mu- The museum of ot the past has left lett in the minds of ot a majority majority majority ma ma- of ot persons the notion that museums are storehouses of or curious curious curious curi curi- ous dead things Interesting chiefly I Ito to specialists and having little I relation to modern life lire The as association association association as- as plans through the printed word motion pictures and the help helpt II of ot a corps of ot lecturers to bring t I home to the public an i tion of ot the tho fact tact that the museum of today is truly the peoples university uni uni- Another development which the I future Is expected to effect is the training of ot a n. new generation of ot museum executives and workers i I In cooperation with universities I Ithe the association hopes hope to bring I Ii i about the study of ot museum administration administration ad- ad ministration by graduate students In order by degrees to prepare forthe for tor forthe the demand for trained personnel i which will be necessary to man manthe manthe manthe the museums of or th the l future The program was formulated bythe by bythe the he following museum authorities authorities- Frederic Allen Whiting president of the association and director of or orthe the Cleveland Museum of ot Art I Chauncey J J. J Hamlin president of ot the he Buffalo Society of ot Natural Sciences Delia Della I. I Griffin director of the Childrens Children's museum of ot Boston Boston Boston Bos Bos- ton Edmund Otis Hovey curator of ot the American Museum of ot Natural Natural Natural Nat Nat- ural History Harold L. L Madison curator of ot education of or the Cleveland Cleveland Cleveland Cleve Cleve- land Museum of ot Natural History Henry Fairfield Osborn president of or the American Museum of ot Natural Natural Natural Nat Nat- ural History Paul Marshall Rea flea director of ot the Cleveland Museum I I of ot Natural History L L. Earle Rowe director of ot t tine the e Rhode Island School I of ot Design n Langdon Warner Varner di director director director di- di rector of or the Pennsylvania Museum and School of ot Industrial Art and Laurence Laurnce Vail Van Coleman oleman director of ot the American Museum of ot Safety |