l62 DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



EDUCATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 



STAFF. Director, C. G. Rathmann; Curator, Amelia Meissner; 

 Assistant curator and librarian, Elyse Crecelius; Assistant, Chas. E. 

 Magoon; 3 drivers and packers. 



COLLECTIONS. The collections are principally in the form of 

 circulating exhibits which are sent to all the schools of the city by 

 the museum wagons. They include the following: Food products, 

 comprising the cereals and other food plants, and their products; 

 coffee, tea, sugar, cacao, cocoanut, the various spices, etc. Material 

 for clothing, including the various animal and vegetable fibers of the 

 world and the fabrics made from them. Other natural products, as 

 rubber, gutta-percha, camphor, cork, coal, etc., in all their various 

 stages of development. Materials for dyeing and tanning, medicinal 

 plants, woods, etc. Industrial products, showing the various processes 

 in the manufacture of glass, paper, leather, ink, pens, pencils, needles, 

 etc., besides such products as are made from the materials mentioned 

 in the former groups. Articles and models illustrating the life and occu- 

 pation of the different peoples of the world, including implements, 

 wearing apparel, models of houses, industrial products, etc. Plants, 

 and models and charts of plants. The animal world, represented by 

 mounted, dried, and alcoholic specimens. Minerals, rocks, and ores. 

 Apparatus for the illustration of physics and physical geography. 

 Charts for the illustration of astronomy, physiology, anatomy, etc. 

 Charts, maps, colored pictures, and objects illustrating history. Col- 

 lections of art objects and models for use by classes in drawing. Photo- 

 graphs, stereoscopic pictures, and lantern slides to accompany the 

 objects in the preceding groups. 



An exhibit of the collections in circulation is placed in glass 

 cases in the large museum hall of the Wyman school, as a study ex- 

 hibit to enable the teachers to become thoroughly acquainted with all 

 that the museum contains and to give them an opportunity to acquire, 

 with the help of the museum library, such information as they need in 

 order to use the material intelligently and profitably. 



Educational exhibits, representing the schools of some of the lead- 

 ing countries of the world by showing the written work, drawing, man- 

 ual training, etc., from the kindergarten to the high and normal 

 schools ; text books, courses of study, reports and statistics, and school 

 appliances; photographs, plans, and models of school buildings, etc. 



Specimens of the work of the pupils of the St. Louis schools in 

 the various branches of study are exhibited, and are replaced by new 

 work from time to time for the information of visitors. 



