Special Museum: The United States, excellent firearms col-may be viewed at the Springfield (Mass.) Museum; West Point (N. Y.) Museum; States National Museum (Smithsonian, angton, D. C.); Winchester Gun Museum, Haven, Conn.; Connecticut State Library Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn.; J. )avis Collection, Claremore, Okla.; Metzger tion, College Station, Texas; Confederate , Richmond, Va.; Huntington (West Va.) ; Milwaukee Public Museum; Metropoli-[useum of Art, New York; and the Chicka-and Chattanooga Military Park, Fort ipe, Ga.
The Art Gallery of the Museum of New Mexico, a modern structure faithful in style to the old Spanish-pueb architecture, displays a fine permanent collectii of Southwestern art and presents a special museum e: hibition during the fiesta each year. Anothi building of the Museum of New Mexico is tl old Palace of the Governors, which houses tl School of American Research (a nonprofit coi poration devoted to the study of man on tl American continents), and the Historical Societ of New Mexico, and it exhibits a wealth c archaeological and historical materials of th Southwest.
Museums and Libraries.-The Museum of the Province of Quebec, containing the provincial archives, as well as natural history and arts sections, is located in Battlefield Park (the Plains of Abraham) in Quebec City. Nearby, in the Quebec City Citadel, there is a military museum maintained by the federal government. There are military and historical museums at Fort Chambly, at Chambly, and at Fort Lennox, on the lie aux Noix, while numerous museums, including the Chateau de Ramezay historical museum and the McGill University museum, are in Montreal. Quebec has many notable college and university libraries, including the great collections of Laval, McGill, and Montreal universities, as well as numerous special museum libraries.
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