Arizona republican., 1919-12-17
GREATEST MUSEUM
 IN WEST LOCATED
 AT SEAPORT CITY

Outldy OI dpprONlmately Yl,UUV,UUU or which a quarter million is in the eX- hibits. The people of Arizona and New Mexico are on record for declaring the museum to be of the most absorbing | interest to them, the oldest residents of the southwest learning more about their home histories from its exhibits by anyone.
 Taking in the entire world, but with a large section devoted to the south west, the great San Diego museum at Balboa park porIrays in drawings, statues, mummies, and other means, the descent of man from the most re- mote times down through the ages and | through the highest civilization of the American Indians to the present time, besides displaying the tools and pro- ducts of all the ages
 To the people of Arizona and New Mexico the famous museum at San Diego is a link between San Diego and the southwest of the most far reach ing importance.
 Belongs to Citv
 The board of directors of the ex- position transferred to the museum association. in trust for the people the scientific collections that were ac- quired with the assistance of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Smithsonian Institution. Of great initial value, these have now become priceless. There was also transferred
 to the museum association for per- manent preservation and use as a free
 public museum and art, gallery, the
 group of buildings situated to the west
 of the great plaza. This group in
 cludes the magnificent California
 quadrangle.
 Largest West of Chicago
 The museum of San Diego is already
 the largest west of Chicago. The
 buildings which have been granted foi
 it's use may be conservatively valued
 at s500,000; the collection on exhi.
 bition is worth s250 GOO Not less than
 s1,O00,000 were spent in the grading
 planting and other permanent develop.
 ment of this portion of Balboa park
 This is San Diego's splendid inherit ance from the exposition. The fin, arts building, now installed through ? out includes the gallery of exposition
 architecture, the mission chapel, tn woman's headquarters, the main ar , gallery, the little gallery and the ori ental gallery.
 . Some of the most noted features ar
 the collections prepared for it by tn l school of American research-the grea statues from Guatemala, the memoria tablets from Central American temp
 les, the models of Aztec and May
 architecture, the paintings of ancien A m lIif oit 1Nr
 frieze by Mrs. Jean Beman Smith. tn
 historical frieze by Mrs. Sally Jame Farnham, cases of burial pottery iron t Mexico, Yuacatan. Guatemala an O Panama, and the sacred books of tn 2 ancient Maya and Aztec people. o Features Indian Art
 T The Indian Arts building comprise c the hall of southwestern archaeology e the hall of culture history, the India . collections of the California coast an C island tribes, the Mohave, Pueblo, an S other Indians of the southwest. = The building also contains one ( Il the largest collections of ancier e Pueblo and cliff dwelling pottery 1
 existence, and s-ries of village grou
 models, illustrating houses and hous Q life in the most important cultur $ areas from Greenland and Alaska f i. Patagonia. There is in the Indian Art ~ building public lecture hall seatin r. TOO persons, class room seating 15 if and the ethnological laboratory an d employees rest room.
 e Shows First Arizonians ,l The science of man building con $ tains the famous anthropological col - lections, assembled with the assistanc if of the Smithsonian institution. unde d the direction of the ethnological div ,t sion of the exposition. It is comprise IS in five sections, illustrating the evolu a tloh or man, mans variations in raci; Y groups, present development of ma Is pathology. the anthropological labora ,f tory. The collections for this exhib n were gathered by expeditions sent a, tt to all parts of the world. much of tt # work zeing done in Arizona, IL WI m prepared and installed by the staff ,
 the United States National Museur " and undoubtedly ranks as the mo ,e important of its kind in existence.
 Dr. Edgar l.. Hewett, director of fl
 museum, has recently returned froI
 an extended stay in New Mexic
 where he was active in exploring il
 interesting prehistoric remains of u
 Painted Desert region. New installs
 tions will mark the beginning of u
 fourth season of the museums dc M veiopment, and in addition to offerir the public rare collection of educa tional archaeological exhibits. the f, ture work of Dr. Hewett will tend
 make the efforts of the museum asst
 citation felt in its application to huma Ut relations. Additional space will m provided for artists and sculptors ar le skilled craftsmen of the communit IT All creative art work will be encoul SC aged. and studio space is free. A ty ready the museum is center of a d of all kinds. - ot Aids Science Clubs
 SC Free club rooms are now utilized sd more than a dozen leading civic a r. tistic. sociological and juvenile worl
 ing clubs and societies, and this Ii, D. Of effort will be expanded.
 as The museum Is not a mere deposi p ory for collections. but an active ed, ,h catfonal institution Lecture course 70 art exhibitions, concerts, are now re, te ular museum activities. By mode m methods of circulating lectures. exb
 bitions, libraries. etc., the museu m serves clientele far beyond the lin CT it's of it's own neighborhood. Tn fat st 1t becomes nation wide in it's seryjf 1y Equipped with a staff of special m trained people in it's executive. a in ministrative, research, and education xt al departments, it becomes a great fir
 university for tho people