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The New Museum Selected Writings by John Cotton Dana

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Preface	p. 9
Introduction	p. 13
The New Museum
The New Museum	p. 21
The Gloom of the Museum	p. 44
A Plan for a New Museum: The Kind of Museum It Will Profit a City to Maintain	p. 62
Museums and Community
Increasing the Usefulness of Museums	p. 99
The New Relations of Museums and Industries: The Story of the First Ten Years of a Group of Experimental Museums	p. 107
Libraries and Museums	p. 118
In a Changing World, Should Museums Change?	p. 128
Should Museums Be Useful?	p. 133
The Experiment of The Newark Museum
The Newark Science Museum in the Free Public Library	p. 149
An Industrial Exhibit in a Municipal Museum	p. 153
A Small American Museum: Its Efforts Toward Public Utility	p. 156
A Museum of Service	p. 165
A Museum Of, For, and By Newark	p. 173
The New Museum Opens Its Doors: It Aims to Enrich the Life of the Community By Stimulating an Interest in Creative Design	p. 179
Museums and Education
How Museum and Schools May Aid Good Workmanship	p. 187
Schools and Museums	p. 190
What Can Be Said of a Museum's "Educational" Work?	p. 195
Museums and Art
Relation of Art to American Life	p. 201
American Art: How It Can Be Made to Flourish	p. 210
The Use of Museums	p. 220
The Museum as an Art Patron	p. 226
Bibliography
John Cotton Dana, Museum Master: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Museum Writings.	p. 235
Index	p. 256
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