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THE Museums Journal of May shows in what way many museums in Great Britain are endeavouring to stimulate interest by supplying information bearing upon warfare or upon the needs which it has created. In the former group is the special war-time exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, described by Sir Geoffrey Callender. Two contrasting sets of medals are shown, one German and one wrongly described as “English”, for the only representative mentioned is “the General Service Medal conferred on British officers and men” during the Napoleonic wars. Lightship and lifeboat models, models showing the story of the development of the torpedo-boat, and of the evolution of anchors from their simple beginnings as heavy stones, are arranged with larger exhibits such as that illustrating the evolution of naval ordnance, to make a varied show which as a whole illustrates “the age-long character of our sea-experience and the continuity of our maritime prestige”. The second type of exhibit has been created in several museums “to show how the various kinds of foods,, essential to man's existence, may be provided by vegetables and grown on a small allotment or in a garden”. Several illustrations indicate how, by models of garden plots and cropping plans, this good work may be pursued.
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War-Time Museum Exhibitions. Nature 145, 929 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145929a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/145929a0