Wellington Museum: The Wallace Collection, in Hertford House, Manchester Square, has priceless items of every conceivable sort and material and inspiration, yet almost nothing that the cynical critic could call "junk." In painting it has such famous small canvases as Hals's Laughing Cavalier and Fragonard's The Stving. The Wallace Collection is commonly compared to the collection assembled by the Grand Conde (Prince Louis II) in France's Chateau de Chantilly.
Among formerly private houses possessing art works is Apsley House, at Hyde Park Corner, once the residence of the Duke of Wellington and now containing the National Wellington 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 Field Museum, formerly the Chicago Natural History Museum, occupied its location in Grant Park since I1 Its exhibits embrace anthropology, geology, any, and zoology, and like the Art Institute, heavily engaged in research, publication, teaching. Near the Field Museum in Grant 1 are the John G. Shedd Aquarium and the A Planetarium and Astronomical Museum. Chicago Historical Society maintains a mus< in Lincoln Park concerned with Chicago his and the era of Abraham Lincoln.
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