If Public Libraries, Why Not Public Museums?

The rapid development of the modern arts of illustration, and the conspicuous use of these methods in books, magazines, dictionaries, and even the daily papers, attest the power of the pictorial art, barbarous as it is in many cases, in imparting information quickly and clearly. If illustrations are so important in the modern publication-and to do without them would seem well-nigh impossible-how far more important it would seem to be to provide an exhibition of the objects themselves in science, art, and history, to which the public might have free access!