The Muscinii SiliKilidH in ('iiicnuHili .'J3 



The aims of a university iiiiisoum are two, researeh and 

 close touch with the public. Elementary teaching does not 

 now demand larjie collections; hut some lines of advanced 

 study are not otherwise |)ossible. State institutions generally 

 find that nuiseums yield large dividends in the form of ])ublic 

 interest and presumably therefore in moral and financial sup- 

 port . 



We come now to the endowed museum. This is a late 

 nineteenth century develojiment, but the proportions already 

 reached are startling. Twenty-four of our larger museums 

 average well above a million dollars each in endowment alone. 

 The same institutions hold $50,000,000 worth of property, 

 beside their collections which no man can value. Aside from 

 all administrative expenses these museums paid out in 1910 

 $17"2,000 for research alone, not counting expeditions, exjjlora- 

 tions und purchase of collections. A vast educational and scien- 

 tific machine this is, built up almost wholly within twenty-five 

 years. 



The class of endowed museums is not very distinct. Some 

 of them, like those of Harvard, receive additional support from 

 educational institutions; others are supported in part by 

 societies or from miniicipal funds. The lioston Museum of 

 Fine Arts costs more than $80,000 a year, three-fifths of it 

 yielded by endowment. The Field Museum, with more than 

 five million of endowment, is also the beneficiary of the city 

 of Chicago. Carnegie gave a six million dollar building to the 

 Carnegie Institute of Pittsburg for Natural History, Art, 

 Library and Music Hall. The Natural History Museum has 

 an annual income of $8.5,000 and the Art Museum of $60,000 

 from endowment. Stephen Salisbury's endowment yields to 

 the Art Museum of Worcester, ^Massachusetts, an annual 

 income of $14.S,000. The Layton Art Gallery of Milwaukee, 

 the Valentine Museum of Richmond, and the Wadsworth 

 Atheneum of Hartford are others of this class. 



()verlapj)ing all other methods of support, is the .state or 

 municij)al subsidy, generally the latter. In state mu.seums. 

 New York no doubt leads, but not many states are in advance 



