 | John Cotton Dana - 1917 - 56 pages
...museums in this democratic land should be adapted to the needs of the mechanic, clerk and salesman, as much as to those of the professional man and the man of leisure. Smithsonian Institution, 1897, Pt. 2. The new museum. John Cotton Dana. Describes the very radical... | |
 | John Cotton Dana - 1917 - 56 pages
...museums in this democratic land should be adapted to the needs / ; of the mechanic, clerk and salesman, as much as to those of the / / professional man and the man of leisure. Smithsonian Institu-i tion, 1897, Pt. 2. The new museum. John Cotton Dana. Describes the very radical... | |
 | Robert W. Rydell - 1987 - 339 pages
...principal agencies for the enlightenment of the people." Above all, Goode stressed, future museums "in this democratic land should be adapted to the...those of the professional man and the man of leisure." They should give adults the opportunity to continue the learning process begun in the schools. "[T]he... | |
 | Robert W. Rydell - 1987 - 339 pages
...democratic land should he adapted to the needs of the mechanic, the factory operator. the day lahorer. the salesman, and the clerk, as much as to those of the professional man and the man of leisure," They should give adults the opportunity to continue the learning process hegun in the schools. "[T]he... | |
 | Bryant Franklin Tolles - 1991 - 212 pages
...nursery of living thoughts ... as one of the principal agencies for the enlightenment of the people." The museum of the future in this democratic land,...those of the professional man and the man of leisure. In short, the public museum is first of all, for the benefit of the public."5 In 1909, twenty years... | |
 | Jessica Evans, David Boswell - 1999 - 486 pages
...principal agencies for the enlightenment of the people." Above all, Goode stressed, future museums "in this democratic land should be adapted to the...those of the professional man and the man of leisure". They should give adults the opportunity to continue the learning process begun in the schools. "|T]he... | |
 | Moira McLoughlin - 1999 - 318 pages
...argued that the museum must serve "the needs of the mechanic, the factory operator, the day-laborer, the salesman, and the clerk, as much as to those of the professional man and the man of leisure" (cited in Hinsley, Jr., 1981, p. 92). Again, as had been the case in Britain, American anthropologists... | |
 | Alison Griffiths - 2002 - 508 pages
...culture, arguing that the museum of the future should be adapted to the needs of all classes, including "the factory operator, the day laborer, the salesman,...clerk, as much as to those of the professional man and man of leisure." George Browne Goode, "The Museum of the Future" (lecture delivered before the Brooklyn... | |
 | Cynthia C. Yao, Lynn Diane Dierking - 2006 - 340 pages
...noted zoologist and first head of the United States National Museum, declared in 1889: The museums of the future in this democratic land should be adapted...those of the professional man and the man of leisure In short, the public museum is, first of all, for the benefit of the public. John Cotton Dana, an early... | |
 | 1907 - 1326 pages
...with the public library as one of the principal agencies for the enlightenment of the people. . . . The museum of the future in this democratic land should...the professional man and the man of leisure. ... It should be a house full of ideas, arranged with the strictest attention to system. . . . An efficient... | |
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The museums of the future in this democratic land should be adapted / to the needs of the mechanic, the factory operator, the day laborer, the salesman, and the clerk, as much as to those of the professional man and the man of leisure. 
