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Korean Museum
My Impression of the Meeting of June 14

Mr. Patterson has performed a remarkable job of promoting the Korean Science Museum.  He has included in his promotion, very properly and successfully, every idea for a museum, from scholarly research and conservation in natural history to preschool training for the very young.

In response to Mr. Ripley's request that museum people plan the museum, it is suggested that in addition to the several natural history museum people who will attend the meetings in Japan and Korea, including Dr. Knez for ethnography and for cultural and national history, that Loren McKinley and Courtland Randall be included for youth and science programs, and Dixie Ray and someone from Berkley for science centers.

Before the August and September meetings there should be several papers commissioned for and against the combinations suggested which seem destined to perpetuate most of the sins of museum promotions of the past. 

For example, does our 19-century concept of a natural history museum with scholarly research and public exhibitions have any validity today?  Should not the research collections and the scientific staff constitute an institute or a department within a university?  Should not natural history exhibits be treated in the modern way in teaching centers just as the physical sciences, technology, and mathematics are being handled, and where the proper elementary and secondary level teaching techniques can be focused on them by educational professionals?

Another paper might discuss the question of whether anthropology and history should not be developed in the existing national museum of Korea.

Another would consider the relationship of the history of science and technology to either the science teaching center or the history museum.

There also should be a preparatory discussion of the possibility of accomplishing the teaching center objectives more economically by small outlying exhibition galleries serviced by traveling exhibits.

I return to my first estimate of the situation formed after listening to the discussion, June 14.