Universities And Museum: Everywhere progress is being made in the acceptance of photography as a valid and needful art form. The formation of a Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art in 1940; the founding of the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House in Rochester in 1949; the scheduling of major photographic exhibitions by leading art museums in Europe and America; the growing interest in photography on the part of individuals as well as institutions; the inclusion of courses in the photographic arts by Universities and museum and art schools are all steps toward the ultimate unquestioned acceptance of the potentials of the camera.
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 and museum, as well as numerous special libraries.
The existing Universities and museum in Quebec are private, but a public University of Quebec was expected to be created in 1968. A total of 1,756,307 pupils were enrolled in the various schools of the province in 1964-1965, including 86,430 students in the three French-speaking Universities and museum-Laval in Quebec City, Montreal, and Sherbrooke; and in the three English-speaking Universities and museum-McGill and Sir George Williams in Montreal and Bishop's University College in Lennoxville.
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