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Research

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The up-to-date museum is the highest possible type of an educational institution; it supplies the text accompanied by the object. (Object teaching.) All museums should be, in a manner, provincial, i.e., organized to cover a certain territory as a specialty, whether this territory be a single state, several states, the United States, or the whole world. In this connection it should be remembered that almost any single state will produce a much more varied and larger amount of museum material than is commonly supposed. The geology, flora, fauna, prehistoric and civil history of a state, will, in many instances, nearly duplicate its border states, and very well represent the United States.

Publication Date

1911

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

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155

Last Page

159

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Van Hyning, T. (1911) "Building a Museum," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 18(1), 155-159.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol18/iss1/33

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