Other Paris Museums: The Other paris museums telephone company has recently introduced a system whereby any visitor who speaks only English may dial 12 and ask for an English-speaking operator (telephonists anglaise). Other paris museums museums close rigidly on Tuesdays.
The American Embassy (with the Consulate) is on a corner of the place de la Concorde, where the Champs-Elysees begins.
Other paris museums has two American churches, the Episcopalian Church of the Holy Trinity on ave. George-V and the union "American Church" on the quai d'Orsay. The highly respected and popular American Library was installed in new quarters at the end of 1953, the address being 129 Champs-filysees. The USIS, for United States Information Service, is next door, at Number 131. An excellent American Hospital has long operated in Neuilly, just west of the city limits.
Gruner exhibited at the Royal Academy and the New Salon in Other paris museums and was awarded the Wynne Prize, for Australian landscape painting, seven times between 1916 and 1927. The Sydney Art Gallery has a collection of his works, and he is represented also in museums in Melbourne and Brisbane. He died in Sydney on Oct. 17, 1939.
The Art Institute of Chicago (q.v.), with a collection valued at more than $250 million, is one of the four largest art museums in America. It also maintains a library with important collections in art and architecture. In terms of numbers of visitors, the most popular of Chicago's museums is the Museum of Science and Industry, where scientific and industrial exhibits often permit actual participation or manipulation by the observer.
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