Exhibition entrance, The City: Decay or Planned Growth exhibition, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1941
Creator
Baltimore Museum of Art
Subject
The Baltimore Museum of Art; Art museums--Exhibitions; Geddes, Norman Bel, 1893-1958; Baltimore (Md.); Greenbelt (Md.); City planning; Planned communities; Community development, Urban; Urban growth; Land use; Art, Municipal; Cities and towns;
Description
View of entrance to the exhibition The City: Decay or Planned Growth, held at the Baltimore Museum of Art in January- March of 1941. The exhibition was meant to be timely, in that the city of Baltimore had just voted $50,000 to it's city planning commission. The museum hoped that in presenting the exhibition they were able to step beyond the typical boundaries of a museum and better integrate their activities with the community by educating and familiarizing the Baltimore public on concepts of city planning, urban development, current problems, and possible solutions for the future. To ensure the accuracy of the exhibition, the museum collaborated with Melville C. Branch Jr., an authority on urban planning, as well as the Baltimore City Planning Commission. The exhibition included a review of cities in the past from around the world, a gallery in which the movie "The City" discussed Maryland's new model city Greenbelt, and culminated in the Futurama display by Norman Bel Geddes. The Futurama, originally designed for the General Motors Exhibit at the New York World's Fair, shows the city of St. Louis (comparable in size to Baltimore) could look 20 years in the future should good planning take place.
Publisher (Electronic Version)
Archives and Manuscripts Collections, The Baltimore Museum of Art
Holding Institution
Baltimore Museum of Art
Date Original
1941
Date Digital
2012
Type
Image;
Format
1 black and white negative, 17.5 x 12.5 cm.
Source
Photograph Collection, Exhibitions Series
Coverage (Time Period)
1941-1950;
Rights
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