Research and Education
in the National Parks

National Park Service Research and Education in the National Parks

PART I
THE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM IN THE NATIONAL PARKS

NATIONAL MONUMENTS

Several of the national monuments have museum collections which are inadequately housed in temporary buildings. This situation occurs at Aztec Ruins, Gran Quivira, Montezuma Castle, and Tumacacori. Other monuments have recently acquired museum space. At Petrified Forest National Monument a combined museum and administration building was completed in 1931. Exhibits explaining the geology of the region are being installed. At Casa Grande National Monument one wing of the new administration building has been made available for museum purposes.

Museum development throughout the park system is moving ahead steadily, and plans are under way for the installation of exhibits in several of the parks where new buildings are now being constructed. It is essential, however, that this phase of the educational work move cautiously. The Service is feeling its way toward an ideal relationship between field and museum activities in the national parks. There is a place for both in the educational program.

FIGURE 27.—One of the cliff dwellings at Montezuma Castle National Monument, Ariz. Archeological and historic record found here indicate that an advanced civilization existed in this region in prehistoric times.

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