Excerpt from Sixty Fifth Annual Report of the Philadelphia Museum of Art: For the Year Ended May 31, 1941 With the List of Members

With due regard for the prior claims of defense, internal construction has still progressed, not only in the galleries but in the sections devoted to our public educational work. New installations and exhibitions have offered increasingly to visitors the inspiration and recreation afforded by great works of art.

The members of our governing boards, as well as other private donors, have been most generous in supporting our work, carrying a burden of contributions for current Operation beyond What is usual elsewhere. This is made necessary by our lack of large endowments, so that we must earnestly hope for the continuance of such generosity from living friend of the Museum, as well as for the increase of endowments by bequests.

The federal government has been liberal in its grants both for construction and for activities. We have done our best to deserve and justify this, both by meeting promptly our own share of the cost of such enterprises and by hastening to place these increased resources at the disposal of the public.

Appropriations Of the City carried but one-fifth of the cost of activities at the Museum in the past year. This is a lower proportion than prevails in many other cities. With the great expansion of the Museum's galleries and collections now open to the public, and With the return of the City to financial health, we trust that the Mayor and Council may grant us a corresponding increase in municipal support. Such adequate support would be a great assurance to potential donors of works Of art that their collections would be well cared for, and hence would be an inducement for increased giving.

Visitors to the number of a third of the population of Philadelphia came to our museum buildings in the past year, an increase of seventeen per cent over the previous year.

Our two schools - the School of Industrial Art and the Philadelphia d104ile School - have had excellent years. They are strengthening their teaching facilities and Winning Widespread recognition for their thorough work.

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