RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

268 THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
on the board of directors under the chairmanship
of Mr. Frank B. Jewett of the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company. A new location
for the museum became available, to
which it was moved at the beginning of 1936.
The aim of the museum is to increase general
understanding of the forces which applied science
has brought into social and economic life.
Broadly speaking, the procedure by which it is
hoped to attain this result is through operating
exhibits that show simply and clearly fundamental
scientific phenomena underlying important
scientific advances. Supplementing these
primary exhibits are specific operating exhibits
of important industrial developments that are
related in practice to the principles demonstrated
in the fundamental exhibits. The purpose is to
illustrate as vividly as possible the general relation
of each particular scientific application to
the affairs of life. A small admission charge is
necessary, though provision has been made for
the free admission of school groups.
The museum is organized somewhat after the
pattern of the German Museum of Munich
and the South Kensington Science Museum of
London. In the United States there is a wide
opportunity for improved methods of exhibition
and demonstration, not only on the plans of these
established museums of science and industry
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