Show keeping keening V U up P wi C ien n i e 1 SC 17 ser e rr v e s 0 science service bughouse lab built by children now a real museum ity BY DR FRANK now new york unique among museums in the united states is one in washington N C which has been developed lind and is operated in regular full scale museum style by the young folks of the town I 1 mostly those of high school ago age the washington field museum as it Is called Is a full hedged fledged member of the american association of mu bums and its youthful curators have been visiting its larger sister establishments conducted by grownups to learn some new tricks of the craft for their own use it started back in 1023 when a low few high school students pooled their amateur collections of butterflies snakes etc in a tent made of 0 sacking they named their embryo institution the bushouse laboratory 11 instead of dying out presently as such ventures aro are apt to do the bughouse laboratory survived it moved into a backyard kitchen then into an empty store building tho the bughouse laboratory become became socially the thing membership on its staff was more desirable than a bid to a fraternity grows into genuine museum successive school generations graduated and grow grew up and their younger brothers and sisters took their places the founding fathers still young folks began to have influence in the community they secured a plot of land which has been developed into a neat lintio p park ark A lumber company donated building materials labor was secured and presently tho the bughouse laboratory moved into its now new quarters and added to its title tho the more formal style of washington field museum there Is a full time director miss mary Shel bume md but tho the rest of the curators aro are still boys and girls from school they pursue all br branches of research and collecting with special emphasis on natural history and early americana A number of live animals have been donated bothe so the museum Is in now in the process of developing a zoo |