Identifier: annualreportofph04phil (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Philadelphia Museum of Art Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art. Annual report Pennsylvania Museum of Art. Annual report
Subjects: Philadelphia Museum of Art Art
Publisher: Philadelphia : Philadelphia Museum of Art
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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which, sooner or later, findtheir way into public museums, and forgeries abound in furniture,glassware, textiles, classical antiquities, metalwork and otherarticles. It is the policy of this ^luseum to render every assistance pos-sible, in the detection of fraudulent reproductions, to those whocontemplate a trip abroad, in order to fortify them against impo-sition. A cordial invitation is extended to all such persons to visitthe Museum and inspect this collection of modern forgeries, whichwill be found in the office of the Director. WORK ACCOMPLISHED An additional appropriation of $2,500 was obtained this yearfrom City Councils for the completion of the large apartment inthe basement, directly beneath the South Vestibule, at the mainentrance, which is now finished and is ready for the Baird modelof the Centennial Exhibition buildings and the Pompeian views,which wi)\ be installed there at an early day. This newly preparedroom adds 4600 square feet of floor space. A stone stairway has
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2 g 15 been built in the southeastern comer of the main floor, leadingbelow. By the removal of tlie model from the East Arcade, muchadditional space will be secured there for the better installationof the furniture collections. Facing the main entrance, in the South Vestibule, the Chinesepagoda cases, from the Centennial Exhibition, have been placed,in which have been installed the collections of Oriental wood carv-ings, small Japanese shrines, idols and models of Chinese and EastIndian buildings and vehicles. This part of the building is nowoccupied exclusively by objects and collections illustrating the artsof the Orient. The Japanese shrine, whicii was some time agoremoved to Memorial Hall for safekeeping, from the Temple Gate,recently presented to Fairmount Park by Mr. John H. Converseand Mr. Samuel M. Vauclain, has been rearranged and greatly im-proved by the addition of a background of neutral gray tint, andthe elevation of the central platform. This shrine, with its at-tendant

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