IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM.
VACATING CRYSTAL PALACE.
The "work of transferring the Imperial ,War. Museum from the Crystal Palace to the galleries formerly occupied by the Science Museum at South Kensington has ,been started. First of all the war photographs, totalling over 100,000, have to be removed; then will -follow the ships' models, and 'after that a start wiji oe made with the removal of the larger exhibits, such as tanks, 9.2 howitzers, and • field and maclune-guns. Over 200,000 exhibits, ranging from a war medal to a 6in. naval gun, weighing from 12 to 14 tons, have to be transferred, In all about fauO tons deadweight of metal has to be removed. f
Tha Imperial War . Museum is the only museum in the British Isles in which "the man in the street" has a ' direct interest, and Major Charles Soulkes, the curator, states that it is the aim of the authorities to maintain this feature in the new home at South Kensington. "Every man, from the crossing-sweeper to the field marshal," he : said, "has a hand in the col-' lection of the exhibits shown, and it is our earnest hope that the colossal effort of the nation from 1914 to 1918 will never be forgotten." '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18641, 23 February 1924, Page 10
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