Exhibitions: Brooklyn Museum School Service

October 18, 1936: On Friday, September 18th, the Brooklyn Museum will open its first exhibition of the season, comprising objects from the Eugene Schaefer collection recently given to the Museum and shown in the new accessions room, and a comprehensive showing of the Brooklyn Museum School Service and related objects shown in the special exhibition galleries.

The Brooklyn Museum School Service consists of fourteen acts of from ten to thirty charts each. The charts, in poster form, are illustrated with reproductions of drawings and photographs chiefly in black and white accompanied by descriptive texts. They are intended for classroom use by teachers of geography, history, etc., and provide supplementary and collateral material for visual education. A complete set of charts for each school district in New York City has boon tendered by the Brooklyn Museum to the Board of Education. The first four sets completed were accepted for use some months ago. The Museum is reserving a few additional sets for direct loan by the Museum to private schools, parochial schools and others.

Together with the charts are shown some of the original drawings reproduced and many of the Museum objects from which drawings were made. Though American Indian arts and primitive cultures provide a large part of the substance of the exhibition, Roman Britain, the development of New York City and other subjects of geographical, sociological and historical interest are included, making the exhibition as a whole a most unusual showing of objects having ethnological and ethnographical value, and demonstrating an unusual view of the history of cultures and a practical technique in education which is itself novel. Both the philosophy and the practical teach ing method involved have been developed by Dr. Herbert J, Spinden, Curator of American Indian Arts and Primitive Cultures. The production of the Brooklyn Museum School Service was made possible by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Tho nucleus of the Eugene Schaefer Collection Is an important group of objects from pro-Columbian burials in Peru, including pottery, textiles, sculpture, tools, implements, and various other objects. Sculpture, pottery, weapons and miscellaneous objects from other American countries are also included.

Those exhibitions are scheduled to run from September 18 through

Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1931 - 1936. 07-09_1936, 127. View Original