A GREAT MARINE MUSEUM 



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Fig. 5. Model of North Sea Trawler at work on Fishing Grounds. 



stages in their manufacture into the finished products of art or industry. 



The fisheries section is rich in well-displayed exhibits of most of 

 devices known to man from the earliest times to the present, for the 

 winning from the sea its rich booty; examples of gear and tackle, pho- 

 tographs, transparencies and oil paintings of their use, models showing 

 boats and fishery gear in action, and the homes of fisher folk. 



The wonderfully rich and exceedingly varied exhibits of this 

 museum, centered as they are around the idea of the utilization of the 

 sea, that least-known and last-to-be-conquered part of the globe, give 

 even to the museum-weary traveler a new and inspiring conception of 

 the magnitude and diversity of the resources of the sea and the com- 

 plexity and attractiveness of the national, commercial, industrial and 

 scientific problems connected therewith. 



That the museum has accomplished its purpose in stimulating pop- 

 ular interest and enthusiasm in marine matters is attested not only by 

 recent German political history but also by the 100,000 persons who 

 thronged its rooms in the first year it was opened to the public and in 

 the interested groups of visitors who still frequent its halls. The 

 exhibits are free to the public, special days are reserved for classes, 

 photographing and sketching are encouraged, and popular lectures are 

 given on subjects allied to the purposes of the museum, for which a very 

 extensive collection of lantern slides has been made. 



The publications of the museum include, in addition to the illus- 

 trated guides, a popular series of " Meereskunde, Sammlung volkstiim- 

 licher Vortrage zum Verstandnis der nationalen Bedeutung von Meer 

 und Seewesen," twelve parts yearly from 1897 and a more formally 

 scientific series " Veroffentlichungen des Instituts fiir Meereskunde 

 und des Geographischen Instituts an der TJniversitat Berlin." 



