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displays in the Austrian section, if not in the whole Exhibition building.
It must also be borne in mind that the Museum of Fine Arts, as applied to industry, had been, and is still a power among the Bohemian glass-workers; local museums having been formed, whose contents are so arranged as to bear directly upon the industry of the place w T here they are established. The Viennese Museum supplied many models, w'hile the neighboring gentry and manufacturers were solicited to give or loan such objects of interest as they had and could spare, bearing upon the business sought to be improved. Lectures are also given, and books, written to teach the principles of Art Taste, as applied to Industry, circulate in the district. The schools also form a source from w r hence are drawn new supplies of Art workmen. These various means and aims of the Art Museum have certainly improved the value of this special product of Bohemia, one of the most beautiful Art-industries known.
Herr Loleymeyer has helped to advance the whole district —as oftentimes one wide-minded manufacturer will do—by his early recognition of the value of Museums of Art and Science, and his hearty practical cooperation w r ith the Museum authorities. Here, then, is one instance of the direct influence of the Gewerbe museums; and although the fact is not announced, or to be found, in the display made in Group XXII., it is none the less real.
This instance stands not alone. Any one who visited the Vienna Exhibition during the past summer or fall, will remember the large hall leading from the southern entrance to the great Rotunda, entirely occupied by one manufacturing firm—Philip Haas & Son—with specimens of the carpets, rich hangings and chamber-suites, for which the firm is rapidly becoming famous. This hall was arranged and fitted up entirely from the designs and under the direction of the professors and pupils of the School of Arts.
It is also a fact that carpet-weaving and its associated industries, at Vienna, have drawn much valuable information from the models and drawings, bearing upon this handicraft? collected within the walls of the new Museum, not to mention their influence in the improvement of the workmen.