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ART EDD CATION. 
at Berlin were taken by a private association, formed for tbe pnrpose, m 
1866. In tbe year following, the society was chartered, and received fifteen 
thousand thalers from the state to enable it to purchase art-industrial objects 
at the Paris Exposition. The schools of the Museum were opened on the 12th 
of January, 1868; and on the Tth of April, of the same year, the collections 
were thrown open to the public in a provisional building provided by the 
state. In 1869 a portion of the celebrated Minutoli Collection was bought for 
the Museum by the state, at an expense of flfty thousand thalers (about $37,- 
600) ; and in 1870 the city of Berlin voted a sum of one hundred thousand 
thalers, to be applied to the purposes of the Museum, and to be known as the 
“Frederic William Fund,” in honor of the late king of Prussia. Various 
other collections, donations, &c„ were added from time to time. The Museum 
is now managed conjointly by the members of the society, the state, and tho 
City of Berlin. It receives at present an annual contribution of eighteen 
thousand thalers from the State; and the latter has also agreed to provide a 
special building for the Museum and its schools, the cost of which is estimated 
at eight hundred thousand thalers ($600,000). The collections are open to the 
public daily, except Mondays, free of Charge. The schools are in a very 
flourishing condition, the number of pupils amounting to 479 in 1874, of which 
about five per cent were taught free of Charge. At the exhibition of the 
works of the pupils in 1874, thirty prizes were distributed. The Museum 
has a branch society in Magdeburg, and contemplates the arrangement of 
travelling exhibitions. Its publications, according to the catalogues of 1873, 
embrace 261 photographs and 251 casts. 
In the same year in which the Berlin Museum was estabkshed (1866), a Col 
lection of Examples for the Art Industries” was commenced at Leipsic, tlianks 
to the exertions of the late lamented Dr. A. von Zahn; and in the year 1868 
the collection was opened to the public. Tliis Collection has now been united 
witli the Art-Industrial Museum of Leipsic, which was formally opened Oet. 
25 1874 The Museum is at present hotised in rooms rented for the purpose ; 
but the City will probably provide a special building for its purposes, and aid 
has also been promised by the government of Saxony. For the present there 
are no schools connected with this Museum ; but as the Art Academy at 
Leipsic, underthe direction of Prof. Nieper, has of late years paid consider- 
able attention to art-industrial instruction, the two institutions will Supple 
ment eacli other. All the necessary funds have so far been provided by 
wealthy nianufacturers, and friends of art. 
The Bavarian Industrial Museum at Nuremburr,, which is closely connected 
with the celebrated art-industrial school at the same place, publishes an illus- 
trated weekly jourual, “ Art and Industry ” (subscription price, 5 thalers per 
annum),arranges courses of evening lectures, &c. _ 
The Museum at Weimar, opened 1869 linder the direction of Dr A von Zahn 
(whose name was before mentioned in Connection with the Collection of 
Art-Industrial Examples” at Leipsic), lays special weiglit upon the art-mdus- 
trial feature, although the flne arts are likewise embraced in its plan- 
In the year 1869 a society was formed at Dresden, whose am it is to estab- 
lish a collection of art-industrial objects, and to give support to the art-mdus- 
trial schools now existing. 
The Art-industrial Museum at Hatnbury will be found alluded to under the 
head of “ Hamburg.”