The Birth of a Museum
The Birth of a Museum
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博物馆的诞生
DOI：
10.1080/00357529.1970.11763825
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1970
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W. E. Ellis
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W. E. Ellis
45840我们想知道你的女性读者会喜欢在沼泽里和恐龙一起生活，或者在他们的卧室里有一个真正诚实的照亮的洞穴，在他们家的四个房间里有装框的岩石和矿物陈列品？然而，这正是埃利斯夫人不得不应对的问题。由于没有地下室和车库，厨房变成了实验室，水槽和柜台变成了工作室；而客房则成为了来访“摇滚猎犬”的欢迎中心。这是《埃利索尼亚：缪斯庄园》。以古希腊九位艺术女神的名字命名。这个令我妻子困惑的奇怪困境始于大约七年前，当时我们在孟菲斯拜访的田纳西州前州长的侄女给了我们一块来自亚利桑那州的美丽的石化木头标本。接下来是阿拉巴马州冈特斯维尔向我们展示的一个罕见的洞穴结构。这一切开始了，我们成了真正的“收藏家”；我们的家迅速变成了一个“博物馆”，这是我可怜的妻子在她最疯狂的噩梦中做梦也想不到的。在经历了42年的婚姻“闪电战”后，这成了一条坎坷的退休之路。我的天啊！事实上，我是一名退休的牧师；但由于我们都是美丽的爱好者，我们现在把家里的四个房间专门用来建立一个社区矿物博物馆-在这里，童子军、学童和班级以及老年人可以随时来观看和熟悉大自然的奇妙之美。我们殷切希望，在我们死后，这座家园和博物馆将成为我们市和县的永久遗址，为我们的子孙后代服务。因为我们不是经销商，也没有。商店，这个冒险必须完全是这个社区的“爱的劳动”。这一切都是靠一小笔社会保障收入完成的，加上我们许多朋友捐赠的矿物。
315 Clinton St., Findlay, Ohio 45840 We wonder how your lady readers would enjoy living with dinosaurs in a Marsh, or having a real honest-to-goodness illuminated cavern in their bedroom; and with framed rock and mineral displays covering four rooms of their homes? Yet that is what Mrs. Ellis has to contend with. Having no basement or garage, the kitchen becomes a laboratory, the sink and counter a workshop; and the" Guest Room" a welcoming center for visiting" rock-hounds". This is" Ellisonia: Manse of the Muses"... named for the nine goddesses of the arts in ancient Greece. This strange dilemma which perplexes my wife all began about seven years ago, when the niece of a former governor of Tennessee whom we were visiting in Memphis gave us a beautiful specimen of petrified wood from Arizona. Next came a rare cave formation which was presented to us in Guntersville, Alabama. That started the whole thing, and we became confirmed" collectors"; with our home rapidly changing into a" museum't-i-the last thing of which my poor wife had ever dreamed in any of her wildest nightmares. After forty-two years of marital" blitz", this was to become the rocky road to retirement. Ah me! Actually, I am a retired minister; but since we are both lovers of beauty, we have now dedicated four rooms of our home to the establishment of a community Mineral Museum-where Scouts, school children and classes, and senior citizens may come at any time to see and acquaint themselves with the wonderful beauties of nature. It is our ardent hope that upon our death this home and museum will become a permanent site in and for our city'and county, to serve all future generations. Since we are not dealers and have no. shop, this venture must be entirely a" labor of love" for this community. This is all being accomplished on a small Social Security income; augmented by the donations of minerals from our many friends.