Course notes, 1936-1937.

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Course notes, 1936-1937.

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The official review of the forty-four meetings of Prof. Paul Sachs' museum course, in the academic year 1936-1937, at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge. The course covered the philosophy, history, organization, and administration of museums, along with sections on museum architecture and display, collection formulation and cataloguing, and aspects of museum policy and ethics.

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