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instance, the German Museum at Nuremberg, the Romano-German Museum at Mayence, the Museum Richartz at Cologne, the museums at Havre, Amiens, Toulouse, etc.
“ It is not necessary to enter into more particulars, to prove the great utility of these creations of modern times for the wants of our generation: the great number of visitors, the extended use made of them, and the influence they exercise upon modern industry, which is easy to remark, are matters of fact which every professional man acknowledges with pleasure. '
“ These museurps attain their purpose by different methods.
Firstly, by their collections, which are arranged with precaution and discrimination, and which procure as much to the eye of the connoisseur as to the unprofessional man, a really contemplative lesson. Only instructive and most perfect objects find room in their chests and on their walls. There, one can pursue historically gradual development and progress in the production of every sort of article, and an attentive spectator is enabled to follow the laws of industrial progress in the direction mentioned. There is no room for vain pomp in those establishments, where everything has as its aim, to show how the value of every single article can gain by a tasteful transformation, which, far from prejudicing its sale, augments it.
“ Secondly, those museums exercise a very beneficial influence on the schools of Fine Arts applied to Industry, which are combined with them. The living word is found on the inanimate object, and the explanation on the model. The teachers engaged here explain to their scholars all those important qualities which every production of industry, even that destined for every day’s use, must possess, in order to answer the exigencies of taste. The scholars learn, therefore, to appreciate the value of a certain simplicity, to understand and make use of the laws of the style of symmetry, and thus become those men who, later on, furnish the market with artistic objects, f e., with such objects as are remarkable for their utility and moderate ornamentation.
“ All the useful methods employed by the museums of Fine Arts applied to Industry to exercise their influence, are to be exhibited and demonstrated for the first time to the public in this group, and m such a manner that every museum will be allowed to organize its °wn exhibition in the manner the president of the institution may fhink best fitted to have it worthily represented, at the Universal Exhibition. Still, in order that the whole exhibition of this group ttmy be as complete and instructive as possible, it would be as much conformable to the purpose as desirable, that each single institution should previously communicate in which branch it more particu-