Professor Siren's Wish for an Art Institution: Dangers to be Avoided In an interview with a correspondent of the "North-China Daily News," Dr. Osvald Sirén, Professor of History of Art at the University of Stockholm, said last Friday that it was with great satis faction that he had noted that the discussion regarding a museum and a library for Shanghai had finally come to include an art museum Although he had not exactly received a shock at the "intellectual poverty" of Shanghai upon arriving, he never! less, struck by the fact that there was no place in the city to study Chinese art.
"Tt is quite evident," he said, "¢o anyone who is normally interested' in the artistic side of Chinese history and to those who have had some opportunity of observing the intellectual life of the city that some such place is badly wanted. There are many wealthy private collectors and' many prominent dealers in Chinese antiques, but no place where the general public may go to study their possessions and to find a standard for comparison. Considering the number of people more or less interested in art it would seem that the establishment of a museum for Chinese art objects would be an easier task to accomplish than the establishment of a museum of natural history, for instance.
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