RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

264 THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
presentation of museum objects. This grant,
available during the two-year period beginning
September 1,1935, enables the Brooklyn Museum
to offer fellowships to young persons with
training in museum work and to provide materials
for the experimentation which they will undertake.
In the training of museum workers there is
growing need for experience in the application of
new techniques of visual presentation. Moreover,
university training has not ordinarily provided
direct contacts with the more practical aspects
of museum administration, especially as they
relate to discovering and meeting public needs.
Provision for these special workers at the Brooklyn
Museum is due in part to the unusual opportunity
offered by the reorganization of the
museum's exhibits. In the course of this reorganization
students are able to test the possibilities
of new equipment for display, new methods of
arrangement, the use of lighting to control attention,
and various other means intended to make
evident to visitors the significance of materials
exhibited. In addition, they are given special
assignments by which they are responsible for
planning, assembling,
installing, cataloguing,
labelling, and publicizing temporary exhibitions.
In weekly seminars questions arising from the
experimental work and the theory of modern
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