specimen with a scientific label was considered all sufficient. 

 And so it may have been for the scientific but not for the modern 

 educator. Writing ssveral years before the transfer of the Char- 

 leston Museum from the College of Charleston to its spacious 

 new home on Rutledge Avenue, Mrs. Rea says: 



No museum in the country will ever dare to announce that its exhibition col- 

 lections realize their educational ideal. Therefore, when our new building is 

 opened to the public, let it not be understood that the collections are at once in 

 a condition to meet the needs of the public and the schools. It is hoped, how- 

 ever, that a start will have been made in that direction to be prosecuted as far 

 and as fast as the funds of the Museum and the size of the staff will allow. 



Today we can say that a start has indeed been made and, 

 though hampered by a lack of funds which will necessarily render 

 the ideal installation of even the present collections a matter of 

 years, nevertheless, the Museum collections now on exhibit 

 afford greater facility for educational work with the schools than 

 ever before in the one hundred and thirty-nine years of the Mu- 

 seum 's history. 



Turning from the general subject of Museum exhibits which 

 are only indirectly prepared for the benefit of the schools, Mrs. 

 Rea enumerates various ways in which the Museum should strive 

 directly to assist the schools; namely, by furnishing: 



1. A guide to the Museum collections. 



2. A demonstrator or lecturer for classes visiting the Mu- 

 seum. 



3. Free lecture courses, illustrative of studies pursued in 

 the schools. 



4. The use of a lecture room and specimens for teachers 

 visiting the Museum with classes. 



5. Special exhibits at the Museum. 



6. A Museum library with books helpful to both teachers 

 and children. 



7. Field trips conducted by a member of the Museum staff. 



8. A series of small loan exhibits. 



9. A special instructor in charge of the loan exhibits who 



shall conduct classes for either teachers or children. 



10. Publication of Bulletins announcing matters of in- 

 terest to the schools. 



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