Modern Exhibition Site At Peabody Museum

As the result of seven months' planning, labor, and experimentation, the Peabody Museum opened its streamlined, modern show room, designed to present dramatically to student and layman alike the life and history of the exhibits.

Ranging from a model of several Eskimos doing a dance in a steam sweat bath to priceless Chinese pottery dug up in the Philippines, the exhibition is arranged in such a way that the visitor follows a definite series of displays. To make sure that the spectator follows the correct order, Frederick Pleasants, who directed the construction of the room, placed show cases, and the large boards on which-the exhibits are arranged, in various positions around the room, and sent students wandering through the maze.

When he found that they were following the desired path, he set up his exhibits, not in the old museum style, but with plenty of light, and space between them. He was successful in his planning for attendants specified that no one took the wrong route yesterday.