MUSEUMS OVERSEAS
GREAT ADVANCES MADE CLOSE CONNECTION WITH PRIMARY SCHOOLS (By Telegraph—Press Association) DUNEDIN, This Day. The great advances overseas in the museum movement and the development of galleries dealing with local history and expansion of the educational side to link with the primary schools, were commented on by Mr H. D. Skinner, assistant curator at the Otago Museum, who returned yesterday from a tour of Britain and the Continent. In the local museum movement, the history, geology, flora and fauna of local districts were treated exclusively. Such museums were springing up everywhere in England, the commonest being a series of period rooms. Thus at Hull City, a street of 150 years ago was reconstructed.
Mr Skinner paid particular attention to the close connection developing between primary schools and public museums. At the Manchester Museum there was a staff of five teachers paid by the local educational authority and over 90,000 children pass through its rooms and galleries annually. Finance for this great extension in museum [activities was found through the contributions of local municipal bodies.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 7 October 1936, Page 7
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