Annual report, 1918 . tricity in the most modern andefficient manner, and provided the greater part of the casesfor the display of collections. They have also installed elec-tric light in the rooms occupied by the Frishmuth Collectionwhich can now be seen and studied to great advantage. Theyhave, moreover, constructed and fitted up a spacious storageroom in the basement. Our most heartfelt thanks are duethem for their generosity. A passage way has been constructed from the new Chil-drens Museum to the rooms occupied by the Frishmuth Col-lection, thereby providing better access to this most int
Annual report, 1918 . tricity in the most modern andefficient manner, and provided the greater part of the casesfor the display of collections. They have also installed elec-tric light in the rooms occupied by the Frishmuth Collectionwhich can now be seen and studied to great advantage. Theyhave, moreover, constructed and fitted up a spacious storageroom in the basement. Our most heartfelt thanks are duethem for their generosity. A passage way has been constructed from the new Chil-drens Museum to the rooms occupied by the Frishmuth Col-lection, thereby providing better access to this most interest-ing department and a perfect circulation through the base-ment museums, which will add enormously to the comfort andsafety of visitors. Owing to the difficulties in obtaining labor and materialon account of the war, this work, which was started in mid-December, has not progressed as rapidly as our natural im-patience might have desired, but we hope to be able to open itto the public before the end of the w O w S u « < . * w 19 In the meantime, Miss Reinhard, Registrar of the Museum,has visited the principal Childrens Museums in the country, ofwhich there are only three or four, and brought back a numberof notes and much information which will be of the greatest valueto our attempt to add this important department to our ownMuseum. On Mr. Warners appointment, the Director of the Museumwas also made Director of the Wilstach Collection, thus for thefirst time uniting these functions. It cannot be doubted that thiswill conduce to the prosperity and usefulness of the Museum as awhole. Under the able and vigorous direction of Mr. Joseph , Chairman of the Committee of the Wilstach Bequest,sweeping reforms have been instituted within the collection andin the part of the building which houses it. When these are completed and the pictures rehung, a workof some months, the attractiveness of the entire Museum will befound to have been greatly enhanced. ATTENDANC
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