STUDIES ON MUSEUMS AND KINDRED INSTITUTIONS. 545 

 24. VARIOUS ART MUSKUMS. 



WIIITWOKTII INSTITUTE. 



Tho Whitworth Institute is a luuseum of art and industry in Whit- 

 worth Park. It contains a picture gaUery, a commercial museum, and 

 the like. It is insufficiently lighted, but is not unattractive in its 

 interior decorations. In the basement, engravinos, drawings, etc., are 

 exhibited with excellent results by means of Lu.xfer ])risni window 

 panes, the room l)eing lighted by a single row of windows. I have 

 discussed this under New York (see p. 387), and have made an experi- 

 ment with them in the Dresden Ethnographic Museum. This arrange- 

 ment is also utilized to advantage in the Royal Armory in Berlin. 



MUNICIPAL SCHOOL OF ARTS. 

 [Cavendish street. 1 



The Municipal School of Arts, established in 1842, has a small but 

 verj^ tastefully arranged art collection, brought together in 1898 in a 

 building erected by J. G. Sankey. The illumination from above is 

 not, however, satisfactory. There are 1,300 pupils. 



CITY ART (iALLERY AND MANCHESTER ART MUSEUM. 



The City Art Gallery and the Manchester Art Museum, in Ancoats 

 (a suburb), 1 could not visit. The museum lends framed pictures to 

 elementary schools, generally in lots of 12 at a time, in every ca.se for 

 ii half year. It possesses over 3,000 pictures for this purpose and sup- 

 plies 92 schools, but is endeavoring to till also the wants of the remain- 

 ing 215 elementary schools of Manchester. This nuiseum, under the 

 direction of its founder, T. C. Horsfall, has a very far-reaching use- 

 fulness. (See also T. C. Horsfall: The Use of Pictures in Education. 

 Manchester, 1902. 13 pp.)" 



25. MANCHESTER MUNICIPAL TECHNICAL SCHOOL. ?> 



The Manchester T(M'hnical School is a very large and high structure, 

 recently completed, of brick and terra cotta, with tasteful exterior, 

 the main entrance in gra}' granite, designed by Messrs. Spalding and 

 Cross, in free French renaissance st3ie of the time of Francis 1. It 

 was erected at a cost of $750,0<l(», exclusive of the groiuid and furnish- 

 ing. The building was begun in 1895. There are 5,500 evening 

 pupils, 150 instructors, and 150 persons eniplo3^ed in other capacities. 

 As a building it is very noteworthy. All of the rooms face the street, 



"And Handbook to the Manchester Art Museum, SI pp., one penny, as well as What 

 to Look for in Pictures, 1887. 24 pp. 



''See also a description of the Municipal School of Technolo^'y, Manchesti'r. The 

 School Press, 1902. 27 pp. (.Quarto, illustrated. 



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