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WHILE reconstruction in almost every direction is in the air, there is a very real danger that the needs of our national museums may escape notice. The time is, indeed, more than ripe for the State to consider with all due care whether their value to the community might not be vastly increased were there some system of coordination between them, the connecting links being of sufficient flexibility to allow each of them to perform its proper work without the irksome trammels that accompany undue centralisation. In the course of two reports issued by the late Ministry of Reconstruction, certain suggestions are made for achieving this end; to them we shall refer later. The proposal which we put forward is not very different, but we consider it to be a more complete solution. To apprehend more correctly the nature of the problem, it will be necessary first to set out briefly the origin and the present position of the principal national museums.
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The State and the National Museums. Nature 105, 29–31 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105029a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/105029a0