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BONES, LUNAR SURFACES, ARTIFACTS:
Museums Lure
100,000
Visitors a
Year
Nearly 100,000 persons visited
University museums last year to
see exhibits ranging from ancient
bones to a model of a large part
of the moon's surface.
For those who have never look-
ed into the threatening Jaws of a
mastodon or a water shrew, the
University Museum is the place
to go.
Occupying two floors and a
balcony, the museum contains a
variety of displays.
The "Hall of Evolution," situ-
ated on the second floor, presents
the plants and animals of past
geological eras.
A skeleton of a "Duckbilled"
dinosaur has a skull weighing
250 pounds and attracts quite a
bit of attention.
Preserved Mastodon
A mastodon, the best preserved
and most complete ever found in
Michigan, sits wearily on its
haunches waiting for visitors to
come up to it on the second
floor. Mounted proudly on the
right wall is a pterodactyl, an
extinct flying reptile, with a wing
span of almost 14 feet.
On the balcony, there is a syn-
optic series of Michigan plants and
animals.
Environmental influences af-
fecting the life and growth of
plants and animals are shown in
the fourth floor displays. There
are also displays on anthropology,
geology and astronomy along with
a planetarium.
New minerology displays have
been set up this year. The museum
has also done much work on a
new ecology exhibit.
Other Museums
The University Museum is not
the only one on campus which has
public displays.
The Kelsey Museum of Archae-
ology contains an extensive col-
lection from the Mediterranean
world and from the Near East.
Most of the relics on display are
from expeditions run by the Uni-
versity. Seven expeditions were
sponsored by the University in
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the first quarter of this century.
Between 1925 and 1936 two major
expeditions worked at Karanis in
Egypt and Seleucia in Iraq.
The exhibit shows artifacts,
photographs and models of these
expeditions.
'U' Expedition
Since the end of the war, an
expedition from the museum has
been working at St. Catherine's
Monastery at Mt. Sinai in Egypt.
The monastery, built around 550
A.D. by the Emperor Justinian, is
of particular importance because
it houses the only known icons
that survived the eighth and ninth
century iconoclast heresy. The ex-
pedition is involved in photo-
graphic work which when develop-
ed will be put on exhibition in
Ann Arbor.
During the past year, an ex-
pedition from the University has
been working in Egypt at Karanis.
These expeditions supply the
Kelsey Museum with its extensive
displays. Jewelry, artwork, food-
stuffs, coins, glass, pottery and
writing materials can be found
throughout the two floors of the
museum.
Art
The University also has many
displays of art which will greet
new and returning students this
fall.
A large variety of periods and
styles in art has been featured in
both special displays and the
permanent collection at the Uni-
versity art museum.
Its permanent collection con-
tains samples from Byzantine
bronzework to the rich and de-
tailed works of the Flemish mas-
ters. Modern pieces such, as Pi-
casso's "Horse" and sculptures by
Jean Arp are also a part of the
collection.
The University art collections
began with former acting Presi-
dent Harry S. Frieze, who served
as curator of the collections until
his death in 1889. On a European
trip he purchased a collection of'
'U' Rents Prints
For Room Use
Prints of well-known paintings;
are available for student rooms.
These prints are rented for from1
25 cents to $1.25 each in the Stu-
dent Activities Bldg.
Prints range from renaissancel
to abstract works. The service is
maintained by the University. Its
original prints were donated to it,
GRADUATE STUDENT LOUIS MICHEL works on a scale model of the surface of the moon.
The model is part of the University Museum's permanent collection.
engravings and photographs and The collection, housed on the strings that vibrate when other
copies of classical sculpture to illu- second floor of Hill Aud., shows strings are played.
strate his lectures on the Arts ofi
Classical Antiquity. instruments of Renaissance Eu- Also shown are several tiny
First Donation rope and the Far East when they violins used by dancing; masters
had more than just a functional in the 17th Century. The master
The first important original would take the tiny violin out of
work was donated to, the Univer- use. his pocket and use it in conducting
sity by alumni in 1862. It was a The collection includes colorful an orchestra.
sculpture entitled "Nydia," by the ancestors of guitars with many
American sculptor Randolph Rog- layers of woodcarvings, highly dec- In former centuries, there were
ers, who had spent his youth in orated and ornate instruments of: many freak instruments, Hettrick
America and who later became 17th and 18th century France and remarked. One such instrument on
one of the leading figures in the Italy and strange instruments of display is a 19th Century cane
Classical Revival. h Eslarinet. The idea was that a man
The University collections movedt Eat Ftaking a walk might get an urge
from one building on campus to to play a tune. If he had his cane
another, until they were finally "Some instruments in the col- clarinet, he could stop and play.
established in Alumni Memorial lection are hard to find in their A French violin on display has
Hall on its completion in 1910. native countries today," collection the carved head of a man with a
Lewis Bequest Icurator Prof. Robert Warner of handsome beard. Some of the in-
In the meantime, almost 500 the music school noted. struments have had painting and
paintings by European artists of many have intricate design work.
the 19th century had been request- "We use some of the instruments Tuba Ancestor
ed by the University by Henry in our consorts," William Hettrick, Among the instruments is a
C. Lewis of Coldwater. assistant curator, addd. The con- rench musical serpent an an-
Collections of Egyptian anti- sorts, directed by Prof. Warner. ,estor of the tuba, used first in
quties of the first to third cen.- are presented by faculty and stu- churches. An ophicheide from
turies after Christ were expanded dents who play medieval and Ren- Spain is serpent-headed and was
by archaeological expeditions of aissance melodies. Their composi-usdfristrfynefc.
ro.FacsW KesyThytions use viols and voice, the viols usdfristrfynefc.
were the beginnings of the Kelsey being six- and seven-stringed in- han aoldaFrehthpo isplay
Museum of Archaeology. struments shaped like violins, but hsamvbemuhic.B
In 1946, the Museum of Art not closely related to them.. changing the location of the,
became an administrative unit, mouthpiece, the musician could
and the University embarked on An 18th century Italian viol - get different effects.
an acciusition program. The Mar- the Viola d'Amore-is on display. Beetle-shaped lutes. of great
garet Watson Parker bequest pro- Hettrick noted its "tremendous craftsmanship as the terobo of
vided for over 600 items to be resonance" made possible by 1'7th Century Italy are on display.
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"the most important single col-
lection of works of art acquired j
byteUnritytote" Pof Make WAH R'S your,
Charles H. Sawyer, director of the
art museum, said.
Recently, the museum's acquisi-
tion program was extended to in-er
lude early Western art since the for all f
Sixth Century A.D., Near and Far y u
Eastern art including India, but
with emphasis on Japan and
China. and college supplies
China.COe u S
The Stearns Collection of Musi-
cal Instruments shows musical in- SERVING U OF M STUDENTS SINCE 188A
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