Excerpt from The Museums of the FutureOur own Centennial Exhibition in 1876 was almost as great a revela tion to the people of the United States. The thoughts of the country were opened to many things before undreamed of. One thing we may regret - that we have no such wide-spread system of museums as that which has developed in the motherland, with South Kensington as its administrative center.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.