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BULLETIN 



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THE CHARLESTON MUSEUM 



Vol. 3 Charleston, S. C, March, 1907 No. 



THE RELATION OF THE MUSEUM TO THE SCHOOLS* 



Perhaps no one thing is more clearly indicative of the new 

 epoch of activity upon which the Museum entered two years 

 ago than the request which has come from your County Teach- 

 ers' Association to be told "How the Schools can use the Mu- 

 seum." 



The Museum takes especial pleasure, therefore, in outlining 

 for you its ideal of the relation of the Public Museum to the 

 public schools in a community of our size, and in announcing 

 such definite lines of helpfulness as its present resources en- 

 able it to offer. 



I believe I am right in saying that no limit to the education- 

 al possibilities inherent in the museum idea has yet occurred 

 to the mind of the modern museum worker. The museum is 

 as yet, however, an almost unrecognized factor in our educa- 

 tional system. Only the handful of men engaged in the 

 pioneer work of development realize its tremendous possibili- 

 ties. 



Most of us still cling to our old-fashioned notion of a mus- 

 eum, or, perhaps more correctly, to our notion of an old- 

 fashioned museum as a sort of "stuffed animal house". We 



*An address delivered before the Charleston County Teachers Asso- 

 ciation, by Mrs. Paul M. Rea, March 9th, 1907. 



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