MUSEUM SURPRISE
•’HE BRITISH ONLY THIRD IN POPULARITY. Among puiblio museums the British Museum rank* only third in popularity. Premier place for the year ended March 31st last, according to a Treasury return, was taken Try the Victoria and Albeit Museum, which had 1,108,204 visitors. The Imperial War Museum had 979,577, and the Brv tish Museum 895,631. The museum of which the greatest use was made by schools was not in T,ondorn. Tt was the Edinburgh National Gallery, which was visited bv pupils from no fewer than 10,035 schools. In London the Imperial Institute heads the list with 5156 schools.
To visit a museum, gallery, or monument is not necessarily to take «n interest in it. Here the figures of the sale of catalogues, guide books, nr picture postcards hnvo their own Interest. The Tower of London is far ahead in this respect with a sale of 65,23-1 guide books (romrhly one to every 4t visitors). Tn pietnre postcards sod photo reproductions the British Museum easily head* the list with 505,000 postcards and 25,050 photos.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11423, 20 January 1923, Page 13
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175MUSEUM SURPRISE New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11423, 20 January 1923, Page 13
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