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XXII, 56  MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BULLETIN

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
BOSTON
INCORPORATED FEBRUARY 4, 1870

THE Museum is a permanent public exhibition of original works of art of Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Orient, and modern Europe and America, supplemented by reproductions of others. It is supported wholly by private gifts and managed by a Board of Trustees including representatives of Harvard University, the Boston Athenaeum, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the City and the State, acting through a numerous staff and with the coöperation of Visiting and Advisory Committees of citizens. Visitors, about 300,000 annually.
A public museum of art offers the whole people an unfailing source of delight and improvement. The preservation, enrichment, and interpretation of museum collections demand liberal financial support. They must be shown under secure and honorable conditions. Unless by gift, they can be increased only through the expenditure of large sums in purchase or exploration. Their care and exposition demand a staff of specialists. In the measure of its power of wise outlay a museum can both widen and deepen its beneficent influence.

The legal title is "Museum of Fine Arts." Names of givers are permanently attached to objects purchased with their gifts.

Officers and Assistants
President . . . . . . George Peabody Gardner
Treasurer . . . . . William Crowninshield Endicott
Director . . . . .  Arthur Fairbanks 
Secretary of the Museum . . . . Benjamin Ives Gilman
Associate Director . . . . . Charles Henry Hawes
Registrar . . . . . . . Hanford Lyman Story
Bursar . . . . . . Charles Edward Humphrey
Department of Prints 
Curator . . . . . . Henry Preston Rossiter
Department of Classical Art
Curator . . . . . . . Lacey Davis Caskey
Department of Chinese and Japanese Art
Curator . . . . . . . John Ellerton Lodge 
Assistant Curator . . . . . . Kojiro Tomita 
Keeper of Japanese Pottery . Edward Sylvester Morse
Keeper in the Department . Francis Stewart Kershaw 
Librarian of the Department . Miss Chie Hirano 
Section of Indian Art and Muhammadan Art
Keeper . . . . . Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
Department of Egyptian Art
Curator . . . . . . George Andrew Reisner 
Assistant Curator . . . . . Dows Dunham 
Department of Paintings
Keeper . . . . . . . John Briggs Potter 
Department of Western Art
Keeper in the Department . . . Edwin James Hipkiss
Assistant in Charge of Textiles . . Miss Gertrude Townsend  
Library and Collection of Photographs 
Librarian . . . . . . . Ashton Sanborn 
Advisor in the Photograph Collection . Miss Frances Ellis Turner 
Assistant in Charge of Photographs . Miss Gladys Wells 
Publication and Instruction 
The Secretary of the Museum in Charge
Assistant in Publication . . Mrs. A. E. Jackson 
Assistant in Instruction . Miss Margaret L. Wheeler
Superintendent of the Building . . . . . Michael Moore

Honorary Officers 
Honorary Curator of the Department of Western Art . . . Frank Gair Macomber
Honorary Keeper of Coins . . . . Malcolm Storer, M.D. 

Subscriptions to the Museum
Subscribers to the current expenses of the Museum are entitled to receive invitations to all general receptions and private views held at the Museum during the year, with copies of the Annual Report and of the bi-monthly Bulletin of the Museum; also, upon application to the Secretary of the Museum, to a copy of the Handbook of the Museum in the current edition. The subscriptions currently received vary from ten dollars to one thousand dollars. Checks should be made payable to the Museum of Fine Arts and addressed to the Museum. 

Admission 
The Museum is open free every day in the year excepting the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, and Christmas; on week days from 10 to 5 (closing during November at 4.30; during December and January at 4; during February at 4.30) ; Sundays, 1 to 5. Children under ten years of age are not admitted unless accompanied by an adult. 
Permits to copy or photograph objects in the collections may be obtained at the office of the Administration. Copying or photographing is not in general allowed on Saturdays, Sundays, or legal holidays. 

Publications and Photographs 
In the office to the right after passing the entrance turnstile the Publications of the Museum and Photographs of objects in the collections may be purchased. Postal cards of objects in the collections are sold at from 2 to 5 cents apiece. The Leaflet Guide (illustrated, price 5 cents) briefly describes the contents of all the galleries and gives directions how to reach them. Inserts issued with the Guide note changes of exhibition since its issue and contain plans of the building with the names of the galleries. 
The Handbook of the Museum (202 pp. ; many illustrations; 50 cents) is an illustrated description of the institution. The sections on "Opportunities of Instruction" and on Publications (illustrated) are printed separately and sent free. The bi-monthly Bulletin of the Museum, a chronicle of Museum affairs, is sent postpaid for 50 cents a year. Apply to the Secretary of the Museum. 
The use of a wheel-chair in the galleries may be obtained without charge on application at the office. With an attendant the charge is one dollar per hour. 
A public telephone may be found here, and the City Directory and Railway Guide may be consulted. 
Letters may be posted and stamps obtained at the branch Telephone Exchange at the end of the corridor to the left. 

Docent Service
Weekdays. A Docent of the Museum will accompany visitors in the Galleries by appointment in advance, or (if available at the time) on application at the office of the Administration. The service is free to Annual Subscribers and to school classes. To others the fee is $1.00 for each appointment of one hour, with 25 cents additional for each member in a group of over four persons. Apple to the Assistant in Instruction.
Sundays. Talks are given every Sunday afternoon from October to June. The hour, the speakers and their subjects are announced in the Saturday papers and on the bulletin board at the Huntington Avenue entrance.

Library and Photograph Collections
The Library of the Museum is on the main floor over the entrance hall. All visitors to the Museum are welcome. It contains about 50,000 books and pamphlets and about 60,000 photographs. The library is open from 10 to 4.30 (Saturdays to 1) every weekday. No books can be removed from the Library, but photographs may be borrowed for purposes of instruction on condition that they be returned within forty-eight hours.

Department Offices
Students and other interested persons desiring information about the various branches of art represented in the Museum collections, or wishing to see objects not on public exhibition, are invited to apply at the Department Offices. Inquire at the Catalogue desk for the officer in charge of the Department. 

Restaurant
The Restaurant in the basement of the Japanese wing, reached by the corridor to the left from the main entrance, is open daily, except Sundays and holidays, from 11.30 until 3. Luncheon is served from 11.30 to 2.30, table d'hote and à la carte. Arrangements made for special luncheons and teas.

School of the Museum
The School of the Museum gives instruction in drawing, painting, modelling, and design, with supplementary courses in artistic anatomy and perspective. Scholarships and prizes are awarded annually, and diplomas are given to pupils who have satisfied the necessary conditions. The pupils, about two hundred and fifty in number, include many from other States. For information regarding the Departments of Drawing, Painting, and Modelling, apply to Miss Alice F. Brooks, Manager ; for information regarding the Department of Design, to Henry Hunt Clark, Director.