![ “The [1930s] crisis kindled America’s
social imagination … asserting life-saving
grace, unity and style against the
encroaching darkness.”
– Morris Dickstein, Dancing in the Dark:
A Cultural History of the Great
Depression, 2009.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/lessonsdepression-13359985643105-phpapp02-120502174540-phpapp02/85/Lessons-from-the-Depression-39-320.jpg)
Lessons from the Depression
- 1. Lessons from the Great Depression Marjorie Schwarzer John F. Kennedy University March 4, 2010
- 2. De Young Museum, 2006
- 3. Liberace Museum, Las Vegas
- 4. Activity at Exploratorium, based on experiential ideas of John Dewey
- 7. Palace of Legion of Honor, San Francisco (1926)
- 8. Taxidermy display, 1928 Snow Museum of Natural History, Oakland
- 9. Outdoor nature lessons based on experiential ideas of John Dewey
- 10. 1920s immigrants from Greece, Italy, Eastern Europe
- 11. Between 1923 and 1930, most American families bought their first radio.
- 12. In 1929, the stockmarket crashed 150 100 50 0 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933
- 13. In a time of financial famine, the public is forced to a reappraisal of all its possessions, institutions and customs. —P. Youtz, Brooklyn Museum, 1933
- 16. Century of Progress Exposition Chicago, 1933
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- 20. From Duluth Children’s Museum’s Facebook site (2009)
- 21. Mimeographs from Mabel Wing’s oral history, Duluth Children’s Museum archives
- 22. Nelson Atkins Museum opened in 1930 in Kansas City
- 23. Interior, Oakland Public Museum
- 24. October 29, 1929
- 25. Nelson Atkins Museum opened in 1930 in Kansas City
- 27. Andrew Mellon purchased the Alba Madonna for $1.2 million from Russia in 1931
- 28. National Gallery of Art, founded during the Depression by Andrew Mellon
- 29. Museum of Science and Industry Coal Mine exhibition, 1933: an ode to technological progress
- 30. California Academy of Sciences opened its first Africa Hall in 1934
- 31. 1920s immigrants from Greece, Italy, Eastern Europe
- 32. The first visitor studies were funded by the Carnegie during the Great Depression
- 33. Visitor studies led to action Many museums stayed open until 10pm, seven days a week. They rearranged exhibits to make them more comfortable to view.
- 35. MoMA director Alfred Barr touring college students through a traveling exhibition
- 36. In 1930, AFA began to tour the nation’s first popular art shows
- 37. Museums offered classes in commercial design for the unemployed in the 1930s
- 38. Children’s games were popular in 1930s museums
- 39. “The [1930s] crisis kindled America’s social imagination … asserting life-saving grace, unity and style against the encroaching darkness.” – Morris Dickstein, Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression, 2009.