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MUSEUMS AND THE VISUAL IDEA
appeal for advice and information in regard to duplicating the plan, and frequently for the privilege of one or two cases on loan in order to give those locally interested an opportunity to discuss the plan with greater intelligence as to details.
City organizations of various sorts frequently apply for specific material for some special occasion. Eecently one of Chicago's great department stores desired to exhibit in its millinery department a series of zoological cases which would furnish visual illustration of the fact that the shades and colors shown in the hats of that season were copied directly from nature. Cases of brilliant birds and butterflies were lent for a week, not only serving to put over the point that Mother Nature is the consummate original artist, but drawing many Chicagoans to the museum who never before had availed themselves of its resources.
Shortly after the close of school this summer, the principal of one of Chicago's continuation and trade schools came to the curator of the school museum with a plea for special summer service. He had seen the traveling museum functioning in the grades and understood what such visualizing of the textbook means to young students, with their keen, ever-present hunger for the concrete. He realized that the same hunger was assailing the hundreds of ex-service men whom the government had sent to his school for vocational training. When his application was received, the department gladly placed at his disposal all the exhibits he asked for and made arrangements to serve his school in September
on the same basis as the grade schools.
It was significant that practically all the cases requisitioned for the use of the ex-service men illustrated the economic side of natural science. For example, the order called particularly for exhibits telling the story of tea and coffee from plantation to table; cotton and wool from fiber to fabric : the making of silver-plated spoons, steel pens, lead pencils and china plates; the manufacture of rubber, flour, white lead, paper and the like.
This summer, when the Cleveland College of Education introduced a course of instruction in visual education for teachers, twenty cases were sent to serve for lecture material, demonstrations and lesson assignments. When, some years ago, a Brooklyn woman — Miss Anna B. Gallup of the Children's Museum — was inspired with the idea of founding a children's traveling museum as a fitting memorial to a beloved principal, the Chicago museum promptly complied with her request for a specimen case, together with a short film visualizing the inner workings of the department which had been prepared for use at the Panama-Pacific Exposition. With this specific material to arouse interest in the plan, a fund was raised sufficient to create and maintain for Brooklyn boys and girls the same kind of service that Field Museum is giving in Chicago.
At the close of the San Francisco exposition, where the N. W. Harris Public School Extension maintained a very excellent exhibit, the Japanese government applied for the loan of cases to be studied by its representatives with the idea of establishing a
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