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A PARAGRAPH in The Times of August 20 reported an American inovement towards the establishment of an international organisation of museums. This envisages the promotion of: (1) international exchange exhibitions, (2) the exchange of museum specimens, (3) the exchange of staff, (4) the establishment of travelling scholarships, and (5) the establishment of an international school for training young men and women in museum work. Mr. Chauncey J. Hamlin, chairman of the Policy Committee of the American Association of Museums, and president of the Buffalo Museum of Science, has visited several European countries, and this has resulted in the formation of committees (which will work upon the proposals) in France, Switzerland, Holland and Belgium. It is to be noted that each of these committees is composed of leading museum officials. Mr. Hamlin has also been in touch with officials of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, and before his return to America he was in London to discuss with the Museums Association and directors of leading British museums the possibility of the formation of a British committee to work along the same lines.
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World Organisation of Museums. Nature 158, 444 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158444b0
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