MUSEUM WONDERS
A London man will sail for India shortly to finish one of the most remarkable books in the world. He is Mr S. F. Markham, Empire secretary of the Museums’ Association. For the last nine years he has been compiling a report on the museums of/the British Empire. • He has travelled all over the world and visited more than 2,000 museums. After six months in India his work will he complete. Mr Markham said to an interviewer .- “ America leads the world in methods of museum display. In one museum in a New York skyscraper the lift shaft is used to represent the depth of the sea The different fish are all displayed at their natural depth in the lift shaft, and travelling in the lift gives yon, the impression of diving into the -sea right down to the bottom, seeing the fish as you pass. “Britain has the best museums in the world so far as collections go, and the Science Museum in London lias the largest attendances in the world ”
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Evening Star, Issue 22031, 17 May 1935, Page 10
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173MUSEUM WONDERS Evening Star, Issue 22031, 17 May 1935, Page 10
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