Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-19

projects after the Munich Museum. In the
latter permanent exhibits touching these
industrial and peaceful artS-electricity, steam,
astronomy, navigation, safety appliances.
aviation, mechanical arts, agriculture, mining,
labor, health and hygiene, textiles ceramics
and clay, architecture, scenic establishment,
gardening, roads and road building materials,
printing and books, commerce and trade.
Imagine a plant covering 10 acres, divided
into 81 sections having go 600 separate exhibits
stretched over miles Of aisles and you have
a pen picture of the Munich Museum. Visiting
the Kensington Museum London, in 1900, and
after studying the Watt engine, Dr. Won Miller
believed he could improve upon the idea. Only
a dream in the beginning, but today he is
heralded the founder of the worlds greatest
museum.
Laughingly he refers to himself as 1.-The
worlds champion beggar" in telling how he
built it. He begged an island from the City of
Munich in the Isar River. He begged stone
from quarries, steel from the steel corporations,
building materials from those who sold lime,
wood, plaster and paint and then persuaded
the working people of the town to make free
contribution of their labor on evenings and
week ends until the museum was fmshed job.
And then he begged the exhibits from all
the great technical plants of Germany, and
when he was ready to reveal his grandiose
project to the public he had something new
in the world-a museum of $4,000 exhibits,
alive with machinery, in which the people
touch, handle and move the exhibits, and which
shows, step by step. how the brains of men,
beginning with the wheel the floating log, the
stone AK, have achieved the modern wonders
of science
With a population under 1000 900, the
Munich Museum is visited by an average of
5000 persons day. The idea is to show the
ascent of man from Savagery to modern
science and engineering, lay bare all the mys-
teries of the industrial processes and let the
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hand just how scientists made their discoveries
of the forces of nature and how these forces
were harnessed in inventions to create civiliza-
ton.
FOR instance. the American museums expect
to include planetarium, structure domed
like the heavens with the planets and thou
sands of stars. BY proper manipulation of
machinery one sees in is minutes the motions
which the universe performs in the course Of q
year. And in that quarter of an hour adults
as well as children can learn more about
astronomy than they could learn in a year of
hard reading of books.
The museum, DR.. Won Miller conceives It.
is more than storehouse showing different
models of machinery; it is a dynamic picture
in which even youngsters and laymen can
understand the workings of the brains of genius
and talent.
Chicago, for instance, expects to include in
its museum laboratory which may be a
reproduction of that in which Faraday worked.
Apparatus will be there similar to that of the
great experimenter. The visitor win be per-
mitted to repeat Faradays experiments and
learn just how Faraday discovered electro
magnetic induction. From ELECTROMAGNETIC
induction to the dynamo and the central power
station, superpower linkages and the whole
network of modern distribution of electricity
are but a few steps. The visitor can grasp
the whole evolution Of the electrical age.
Dr. Won Miller believes that these dynamic
museums besides being a great force in the
education of the people to understand the
world in which they hve will also increase q
respect for the achievements of scientists.
While the Deutsches Museum has more than
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