RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

THE HUMANITIES $67
museum practice are discussed. From time to
time members of the museum staff, educators,
and workers from other museums are invited to
take part in these seminars.
It is expected that these studies and demonstrations
will result in the publication of reports
on current museum practice and itsfurther development.
Appointments to the fellowships are
made by the Brooklyn Museum.
New York Museum of Science and Industry
There has been appropriated to the New York
Museum of Science and Industry the sum of
$50,000 for development of new methods of
museum exhibition during the three-year period
January 1,1936,to December 31, 1938. For several
years the city of New York has had access
to the Museum of Science and Industry,opened
under a benefaction of Mr. Henry R. Towne.
Since 1914 all the accumulated and current income
from the estate of Mr, Towne has been
given to the museum, and under the direction
of the late Mr. Charles R, Richards an excellent
beginning was made with new forms of popular
exhibit. The trustees of the Towne estate and the
trustees of the museum have now formulated a
plan which looks toward operation under more
favorable conditions. Five leaders in representative
industries have agreed to take membership
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