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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY TEACHERS COLLEGE. Educational 

 Museum. 



STAFF. Curator, David Eugene Smith; Assistant, Sarah Mitchell 

 Neilson. 



COLLECTIONS. These include an exhibit of school materials and 

 work, together with a large loan collection of material illustrating the 

 historical development of mathematics. The special material owned 

 by the museum relates to the teaching of classics, history, and art. 

 There is a loan collection of material used in teaching in the various 

 grades of the public schools, and a collection of about 2000 current 

 text books for elementary and secondary schools, exhibited in the col- 

 lege library. It also possesses for circulation in the college and its 

 schools, over 8000 photographs and pictures, and over 10,000 lantern 

 slides, together with a number of special collections in household arts, 

 history of education, and other branches. There is a collection of 

 the work of pupils, preserved in scrap books for future reference. The 

 scrap book collection also includes illustrations of the best known 

 schools in different parts of the world. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. The museum had its origin in the Child- 

 ren's Industrial Exposition, held in 1886. From 1886 to 1899 a mus- 

 eum room was maintained at 9 University Place. In 1899 the first 

 curator was appointed and systematic museum work commenced. 



SCOPE. The museum serves three main functions: (i) As a 

 repository of exhibits showing the work of various departments. (2) 

 As an agency to collect and circulate illustrative material for the use 

 of the college and its schools. (3) Asa place for temporary exhibits of 

 an educational nature, about 6 of these being held during the academic 

 year. 



FINANCIAL SUPPORT. From the general budget of the college. 



ATTENDANCE. Open free to the public daily, except Saturdays, 

 from 9 to 5. Saturdays from 9 to 12 excepting from the close of the 

 summer session to the opening of the academic year. 



COOPER UNION. Museum for the Arts of Decoration. 



STAFF. Directors. Mrs. Abram S. Hewitt, Mrs. J. O. Green, 

 Sarah Cooper Hewitt, Eleanor G. Hewitt; 4 custodians. 



ART. The collections include only such articles as are decorative 

 in their nature, and these are arranged to show the historical develop- 

 ment of ornament as applied to the various artistic trades. The 

 arrangement is chronological in centuries, with alphabetical sub-divi- 

 sions into countries and further alphabetical sub-divisions into artists, 

 cities, etc. The objects exhibited include sculpture, prints and 



