MUSEUM MOVEMENT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19140, 8 October 1936, Page 15

MUSEUM MOVEMENT

GREAT ADVANCE ABROAD LINK WITH. EDUCATION PERIOD ROOM DISPLAYS (Por Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. Tho great advance overseas in the museum movement, the development of galleries dealing with local history, and tire expansion "of the educational side to the link with primary schools, were commented on by Mr. 11. D. Skinner, assistant curator "of the Otago Museum, who returned yesterday from a tour of Britain and the. Continent. In tho 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 type being a series of period rooms. Thus at Hull, a city street of 150 years ago was reconstructed.

Mr. Skinner paid particular attention to tho closo connection developing between primary schools and public, museums. At'the Manchester Museum there was a staff of Jive teachers paid by the local educational authority, and over 90,000 children pass through its rooms and galleries annually. The finance for tin's great extension of museum activities was found through the Contributions of local municipal bodies