4 Page 14 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 6, 1984 Museums display art, artifacts By JEFF FROOMAN This fall when you're looking for an escape from your textbooks and lec- ture notes, check out the Univesity's museums. The museums offer a wide range of exhibits to help you get your mind off your homework. All the museums are free and are open to students, faculty, and the public. The art museum Over the years the art museum has assembled large and diverse holdings which now include between 150,000 and 200,000 pieces of art. The museum directors are particularly proud of their prints and drawings, which they feel are one of the outstanding collections in the museum. The museum is continually rotating its displays from amongst the many works it owns. In addition, there is almost always a special exhibit in one of the upstairs galleries which are intended to highlight both the museum's own works and also introduce the public to art on loan from other museums. The art museum is located in the old Alumni Hall at the corner of State and S. University and is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 1 - to 4p.m. on weekends. The Clements Library Although primarily a research facility, The Clements Library also serves as a museum of early Americana. The collection includes books, pamphlets, posters, manuscrip- ts, musical scores, maps, prints, and newspapers, most of which are from the 18th and 19th centuries. Throughout the year the Clements' librarians organize special exhibits designed to show off parts of the library's extensive holdings. The librarians at Clements en- courage students to make use of the collection. They say some great fresh- man writing projects have been based' on documents in the museum. Fur- thermore, the librarians caution that .students should not be put off by the library's imposing exterior and main hall. And indeed, while the building and its holdings may be intimidating, the people who work inside are very frien- dly and helpful. The Clements Library is located at 909 S. University and is open Monday ACACIA J#a tat rtrnitg . t1115 ®xfnrb through Friday from 10:30 a.m. to noon, and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The exhibit museum The exhibit museum houses the Un- iversity's natural science collection. One enters the museum through the fir- st floor rotunda which has special displays that are changed regularly. On the second floor you'll find a survey of prehistoric life presented through dioramas, fossils, models, and pictures. One can expect to see everyting from the tiniest snail to an immense mastodon. The third floor of the Exhibit museum features plant and animal life of Michigan. Amongst the animals stuffed and preserved on this floor is a Michigan wolverine. The fourth floor has a wide variety of displays ranging from North American Indians to human physiology. This floor also has the exhibit museum gift shop and the planetarium theater. The planetarium theater uses a multi-media projection system to cast images of the night sky onto the theater's domed ceiling. Here students can experience an evening in Ann Ar- bor from sunset to sunrise in the com- fort of a theater seat in the middle of the afternoon. There are three showings in the planetarium theater on Saturdays, and two showings on Sundays. The sky shows change every few months. Tickets cost one dollar. The exhibit museum is located at the intersection of Geddes and N. Univer- sity. Its hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mon- day through Saturday and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays. The Kelsey Museum of Archeology This museum contains artifacts that have been obtained through University excavations in the Near East and Med- iterranean.fUsually two of the museum's five galleries feature the museum's strongest areas - Graeco- Roman art and Egyptian-Near Eastern art. The other three galleries are devoted to special exhibits. For this fall a show called "Napolean's Legacy: The European Exploration of Egypt" is planned. The show will include statues, glass ware, textiles, stone reliefs, jewelry, death masks, and coins from ancient Egypt. During the course of the special exhibit, talks will be given in the museum lec- ture room on Sunday afternoons at 2 4, FAT Newberry Hall, the location of the Kelsey Museum of Archeology, houses artifacts from the Near East and Mediterranean cultures. p.m. The talks will focus on various aspects of the special exhibit. The Kelsey Museum is open to all from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, and from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. Guided tours can be arranged for small groups by calling ahead. There is a fee of 50t per person for the guided tours. The museum is at 434 S. State, across from Angell Hall, The rare books exhibit room. The Exhibit Room of the Rare Books and Special Collections Department was designed to make the Graduate Library's rarest holdings more ac- cessible to the public. Amongst these rare holdings are photographs, postets, prints, letters, papyrus scrolls, musical scores, and theater promptbooks. ;. The displays in the exhibit room always follow a theme and the shows change every couple months. On per- manent display, however, is the Library's first acquisition - first edition volumes of John Audobon's1 The Birds of America,. purchased in 1839. The Exhibit Room of the Rare Books and Special Collections Department is on the seventh floor of the Hatcher Library and is open from 1 p.m. to 5, p.m. Monday through Friday, and from 10 a.m. to-noon on Saturdays. 1 Especially for the UM Professional Schools University Cellar, Main Campus 341 East Liberty, at Division St. Open 7d4ys a week. 769-7940 Calculators & Computers Second Floor Texas Instruments, Hewlett-Packard, Casio, Sharp, NEC,Sanyo and Zenith. Selected video modules and accessories, quality cassette recorders. Professional Books Second Floor Professional and technical texts, and references for law, medical, dental, art & architecture, business, chemistry, computer, earth science, economics, engineering, life science, mathe- matics, physics, psychology & sociology, statistics courses and more. Quality medical instruments and bags. Language & Writing References Third Floor English and foreign language dictionaries, flash- cards and cassettes. 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