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Brooklyn Museum Urged to Center on Cultural Field

Brooklyn Museum Urged to Center on Cultural Field

Brooklyn Museum Urged to Center on Cultural Field

Brooklyn Museum Urged to Center OnCuIturalField Youtz Wants Duplicating of Other to Avoid Functions Institutions Increasing popularity, additional exhibits and a need for developing a museum in New Tork City along totally different lines from the other three city supported Institutions have caused the reorganization program now under way at the Brooklyn Museum, according to a report on Museums of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, issued today. Defining the future of the Brooklyn Museum, Philip N. Youtz, director, points out in his report that to avoid duplication of the functions of other city-supported museums the Brooklyn Museum should enter a distinctive field of service not covered by them. Cultural Field Suggested The museum visitor may find the fine arts at the Metropolitan, science material at the Museum of Natural History and local history at the Museum of the City of New York, Mr. Youtz reports, and recommends that the Brooklyn institution choose for its field the history of cultures and the social and industrial relations of art.

This is the first item in a five-point program defined by Mr. Youtz. The other points cover the development of the museum's collections of aboriginal American art; particular attention to the field of art and industry, since Brooklyn is an industrial center; service to a general public by arrangement of collections in educational sequence, and refusal to allow restrictions on gifts that would hamper the museum's purpose. Structural changes performed as a PWA project and scheduled for completion tomorrow make possible the reinstallation of the museum's collections in order that the reorganization plans may be carried out. In addition, fire and other hazards have been eliminated, Mr.

Youtz points out. The Brooklyn Museum's report for 1934 showed expenditures of $185.752 90 out of appropriations of $192,427, leaving a balance of $6,674.10. The Brooklyn Children's Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences spent $33,885.20 out of appropriations of $34,479, leaving a balance of $593.20. Attendance Increases Total attendance at the Central Museum during the year was at the Children's Museum, 653.389. Attendance at the Central Museum the year previous was The library of the Central Mu-tseum was visited by 40,797 persons, the Children's Museum library by 103,533.

PWA Pay Line Row Lands Two in Court Two PWA workers, standing in line for their pay at Kings County Hospital at 4 p.m. yesterday, couldn't agree over who belonged ahead of the other in line, a difference of opinion which landed them in Flatbush Magistrates Court today to answer a disorderly conduct charge, They were John Monros, 30, of 8 Fleet and Fred Andresen, 20, of 772 39th St. Patrolman Sarro of the Empire Boulevard station made the arrests..