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IN the absence of any comprehensive handbook of museum management, this book serves a useful purpose. It is by no means exhaustive, and is written. (quite naturally) from the point of. view of American museums; but it contains many hints which the directors of English museums will find helpful. The author does not appear to have paid much attention to English museums; only ten are mentioned in her list of places visited (the Fitzwilliam and all provincial museums except Liverpool are omitted), as compared with forty-one German and seventy-nine Italian; and, apart from references to the print-mounts of the British Museum and a lighting device at the Ashmolean, practically no use is made of their experience. This, however, is no disadvantage from the point of view of museum officials in this country, but rather the contrary. We know our own practice, and what is helpful is to hear the experience of others, even though it may need adaptation before it is applied here.
The Museum: A Manual of the Housing and Care of Art Collections.
By Margaret Talbot Jackson. Pp. xi + 280, (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1917.) Price 6s. 6d. net.
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KENYON, F. The Museum: A Manual of the Housing and Care of Art Collections. Nature 100, 502 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/100502a0
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