Abstract
CROYDON now has an excellent opportunity of building a museum worthy of the town. A large area of ground of several acres has lately been acquired from the Southern Railway Company, but at present the proposed lay-out of the area does not foreshadow a museum. There will be a technical college, art school, with other public buildings, and the Corporation could now very appropriately consider the establishment of a museum. The large bequest of Dr. Franklin Parsons of a good many years ago is still unexhibited, and the small museum at Grangewood Mansion has been from time to time curtailed, in order to provide schoolrooms. There is a wealth of material waiting to find a place in a public museum, and the educational facilities of the town are not complete until it possesses a well-stocked museum. The population of the borough approaches a total of a quarter of a million, and it must be difficult to find a borough of the same dimensions that has so far not seen fit to equip itself with a suitable museum. Now a site offers itself, and it is to be hoped that the Corporation will rise to the occasion.
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Suggested Museum for Croydon. Nature 137, 393 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137393a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137393a0