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WITH commendable restraint those responsible for the organization of the exhibition of museum publications of educational interest, which was held at University College, London, during June 20–July 15, made no attempt at exhaustive or elaborate display. It was a sampling, for which the material was derived from London and from certain museums of the United States of America. The English contributors included, in addition to the national collections, the London Museum and one of the museums of the London County Council—the Geffrye Museum. Modest as was this effort, it served the purpose, as no doubt was the intention, of provoking thought. The contrast here presented between the methods of the English and the American museums inevitably gave rise to reflection as to the purpose of these great collections of objects of natural, scientific and historic interest, of beauty and of rarity, and the nature of the function which they perform, or might perform, in the life of a community.
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The Museum and the School. Nature 144, 89–91 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144089a0
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