Show A MUSEUM ON WHEE WHEELS LS A traveling museum that goes tt tc the public schools with illustrative material at the time it is needed is successfully used by the st louis mo schools ac cording to a bulletin issued by the U S bureau of education it was the exposition of 1904 ithai first gave st louis the opportunity port unity to extend to its schools the educational advantages of a great museum after the fair bad closed a number of the ex donated parts of their displays to the public schools and in this way the nucleus of an educational museum was obtained after the material for the museum had been grouped the question of using it most profitably had to be settled As it was found impracticable to supply every one of the hundred public schools of the city with a separate museum it was decided that there should be one museum for all the schools and that by means afan of an automobile truck the museum material should be sent to td the various schools the museum is arranged in close connection with tae course of study followed in the schools among the groups of exhibits are food products material for clothing mounted animals the life and occupations of different peoples of the world charts ind and colored pictures illustrating it history minerals and ores and charts illustrating geography astronomy and physiology the museum reports show that in point of popularity the pictorial charts and the display of mounted birds come first material for clothing g and the exhibit on food products come next in order of demand the traveling museum of st louis has individual and duplicate collections lantern slides stereoscopic views and 2000 colored charts and 11 I 1 nd photographs the school authorities make a point of tile fact that there is nothing in the traveling museum which can not bl used in direct connection with the work of the schools it contains no curiosities nor abnormalities mali ties no freaks of nature the main purpose of the museum is to bring facts home to the pupils as realistically as ble thus by means of the cotton exhibit the children are taken to the cotton fields where they study the plant the method of preparing the soil the harvesting to the cotton gin where the seed is separated from the li lint nt to the market to see the baling and shipping to the cotton factories where the lint is spun and woven into fabrics and to the refineries to learn how cottonseed oil oil cake cottonene cot tolene and soap are made the supply of the demands for cotton goods is is shown by a comparison of the crude implements used by the inhabitants of the philippine islands with the magnificent machinery in the large eastern factories as pictured by the tere scope and lantern slides |