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There are also departments of Egyptian art, art of the near and far East, a department of laces and textiles, and a collection of Colonial china, pewter, silver and furniture.

EDUCATIONAL SERVICE

Aside from the exhibition of its collections, the Institute conducts:

AN EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT which co-operates with the Public Schools by sending out groups of paintings from its permanent collection for exhibition in the schools; supplying supplementary leaflets to accompany these exhibitions; giving art talks to classes in the schools, to teachers' training classes, and to groups of students in the galleries of the Institute. This department also conducts a series of free Sunday afternoon lectures on art and related topics for the general public, and provides talks for clubs, churches, etc.

A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM whose loan department sends out to city schools, clubs, and other educational organizations, more than 500 circulating collections each month on such topics as applied arts, biology, civics, history, etc., and prepares special exhibitions of educational character at the Institute, to which the public is invited.

AN ART LIBRARY specializing in technical works on fine and applied arts, which are consulted by the art student, decorator, designer, artisan, and manufacturer; a collection of photographs of famous art objects for circulation among schools and clubs; and 10,000 lantern slides covering art and travel subjects, which are in constant use.

GOVERNMENT: The charter of the City of Detroit, adopted in 1919, provides for an Arts Commission consisting of four members appointed by the Mayor for a term of four years, the term of one commissioner expiring each year. The object of the Commision is to acquire, operate and maintain in the name of the city, suitable art buildings and collections of art. The Commission consists of Ralph H Booth, President; William J. Gray, Albert Kahn and Henry G. Stevens, Commissioners; and Clyde H Burroughs, Secretary and Curator.

NEW BUILDING: Work has been begun on a new building for the Detroit Institute of Arts, after plans by Paul P. Cret, Architect. The site, occupying two blocks of land on Woodward Avenue, between Farnsworth Street and Kirby Avenue, was contributed by Detroit citizens in 1910. The Library Commission purchased the property on the opposite side of Woodward Avenue and erected a new Library, after plans by Cass Gilbert, and these two buildings will form a Center of Arts and Letters occuping [[occupying]] twenty-nine acres at about the population center of the city.

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