The Miis(iini SiliKitioii in Ciuciiinafi 35 



Oakhmd, (irand Rapids, Los Angeles and some others have 

 slriclly niunieipal nniseiinis. The list of those receiving city 

 aid would he wearisome. Even Chicago gives $()o, ()()() a year 

 to her Art Institute and has provided for giving $100, 000 a 

 year to the richly endowed Field Museum when its new build- 

 ing on the lake front is com])Ieted. 



Before taking a brief outlook over the field in Cinciniuili, 

 a distinction should be made among museums with respect to 

 their geographic scope. The great museums of London, New 

 York, Chicago, etc., take the world for their field and disregard 

 no line of interest. These may be called cosmopolitan. At 

 the other extreme are strictly local museums w^hich undertake 

 to represent their own localities adequately. A large gallery 

 of sculjiture in Copenhagen contains, beside the tomb of the 

 artist, nothing but the models and casts by Thorwaldsen. 

 Intermediate between these types is the museum which repre- 

 sents a limited region; it may be a political division or a vaguely 

 defined section. This may be called the sectional museum. 

 An example of rigid restriction is the Ohio State Museum at 

 Columl^us, which restricts itself to Ohio and aims to approach 

 comj)leteness as rapidly as possible. The Germanic National 

 Museum at Nuremberg represents only German3^ The "Nor- 

 diska Museet" at Stockholm is perhaps the most perfect 

 example. It limits itself to Sweden and includes art, history, 

 and botanical and zoological gardens. In Skansen Park it has 

 ])erhaps the most famous outdoor museum of the world; whole 

 houses and households with their occupants, occupations and 

 anuisements from all parts of Sweden and, so far as possible, 

 from all stages of her history. The Deseret Museum of Salt 

 Lake, supported by the Mormon Church, the Southwest Mu- 

 seum of Los Angeles and the Museum oi the American Institute 

 of Archeology at Santa Fe are excellent examples of the sectional 

 museum. 



For evident reasons art nmseums are rarely thus restricted. 

 Natural History Museums frequently are; Historical Museums 

 oftener still. Cincinnati could not wisely undertake a cos- 

 moj)olitan mu.seum. Her approj)riate field is the Ohio Valley. 



