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The Museums Committee of the City Council has just issued a report covering ten years’ development (1929–1938) in the museums of Norwich. It has been a period of noteworthy progress, partly on account of the value and number of gifts and bequests made to the museums, but mainly on account of the advances made in museum arrangement and appeal. The exterior and amenities of the Castle Museum, with its Norman keep and magnificent Norman doorway, have been attended to following the advice of H.M. Office of Works, and great reorganization has taken place in the collections exhibited within. It was a wise move to reduce the exceasivo space formerly given to exhibits, often reduplicated, of British birds, in order to allow a more balanced representation of the animal kingdom; and the creation of dioramas of representative stretches of Norfolk scenery with the appropriate flora and fauna adds greatly to the instructiveness and attraction of the collections. In the Art Galleries the valuablo paintings of the Cotman period aro undergoing restoration where this has been found to be desirable, and a scheme of redecoration has been followed by successful experiments in the rearranging of the pictures themselves. In other directions the museums show that they are keeping in pace with modern developments, and none of these is more gratifying than the success of the collaboration with the Education Authority for regular visits of school classes to the various museums.
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Museums of Norwich. Nature 144, 281 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144281b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144281b0