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EXPOSITION AT VIENNA.
MUSEUMS OF AFT AND INDUSTRY .-THEIR INFLUENCE AND ORGANIZATION.
By LOUIS J. HINTON.
Group XXII.
Baron Schwarz-Senborn, the conceiving as well as the directing mind of the Vienna Exhibition, announced, early in the progress of preparing for that enterprise, that one of the most important, if not the chief, feature of the undertaking, would be the illustrating of the progress of education the world over;—the various methods and appliances for teaching in use in the different countries of the civilized world. Museums of Art and Science were, of course, to find a place in this display. Their value as educational agencies has been too clearly demonstrated in states where they have been established to admit of leaving them out of the Exhibition. It was thought advisable to form a separate group of their exhibit. This action was not, perhaps, the best that could have been taken, if the object was to show the means by which the public taste is elevated, and how such institutions are enabled to bring a practical influence to bear upon industry. The Museums are only a part of a system or systems that have their root in the common schools; hence, to gather a clear idea of their work, it is necessary to go behind or below them, into the schools where drawing is taught, and other technical knowledge imparted, in order to make a thorough study from the beginning, and so on up to the Museums themselves, before a clear idea can be gained lioW the known results, existing to-day in industrial art-training, are reached. By this arrangement of one-half of the subject- matter in one group and the other half in another, it was made a difficult undertaking to describe exactly what was shown at Vienna. It is impossible to confine the delineation to either group without marring the usefulness of what information could be collected. To simplify the complex, however desirable, is