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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo15amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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TO DRAMATIZE CONSERVATION STAGE AND MUSEUM TO JOIN HANDS IN A NEW OPPORTUNITY By Winthrop Packard The Journal publishes the present sketch by iSIr. Packard concerning museum work as viewed by poet and dramatist, for its suggestiveness. In respect to it relative to the American Museimi, we would say that this institution holds the belief that an educational institution of the organization of a musciun should employ all the cooperation possible and use all the methods feasible at any given period in the history of civilization, in order to make its service reach the minds and imaginations of the people who come to learn from it. Tlie American Museum in New York is at present liroadening its relations with the public schools of the city and employs moving pictures in much of its educational work. That it should at some time in the future use some form of the drama as one of its methods of education, does not seem an impossible step.— Editor. THE poet's vision has done much for the world, and the dramatist vis- uaHzing the poet's thought, has done much. Often the two ha^'e worked
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together for the world's welfare and now the poet comes forward with a new ^•ision. The stage is to visualize conservation and make its needs felt h,y the public. " Drama and conser- vation," says Percy Mackaye to whom we owe the new idea, "is a new coupling of the words, but the present age is restive of tradition and for the first time in history the naturalist and the artist of the theatre have come to- gether to consider how they can serve the public. The nature student never goes to the drama except For the child the museum must put more beauty and dramatic truth into its exhibits of animals. Arvia, the poet's little daughter who, wandering in the woods and listening to the hermit thrush, sees and hears as in a dream the story of the play. Sanctuary. Through her vision we see the dancing of the dryad in the realm of fantasy, hear the pleading voice of the bird spirit — and come to feel the cruelty that it is to take the life of a wild bird for its plumage 2L

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