LONDON’S MUSEUMS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3823, 19 October 1936, Page 7

LONDON’S MUSEUMS

VISITORS FROM EVERYWHERE. Summer is always a busy season for the famous museums of London, says the “Weekly Scotsman.” Visitors from all over the world throng their quiet corridors and explore their crowded rooms far more thoroughly than most Londoners ever do. The British Museum is still the most popular of all, though the Victoria and Albert in South Kensington, is attracting many visitors with its beautiful displays of the George Eumorfopulous collection of Chinese art treasures, The London Museum, too, with its pleasantly informal atmosphere, its unrivalled collection of picturesque costumes, ancient toys and models of old London, attracts many who, as a rule, dislike museums. With its high windows, beauful staircase, and comparatively small size, it might be an old house filled with treasures rather than a public collection. It is perhaps typical of the times that the big South Kensington Science Museum, the Imperial Institute, nearby, 'and the Imperial War Museum should now ba more popular than they have been for years. The War Museum, in its spacious new quarters, provides a grimly impressive spectacle, at once a stern reminder and a warning for the future. The Science Museum, to which interestingnew additions are constantly made, is generally crowded with students, 'and at ’ the Imperial Institute products and pictures of the Empire may be studied. At this Museum’s penny cinema short travel films may be seen in more comfort than the average cinema offers. The postcards and prints which can be bought at the Victoria and Albert' and the British Museums are becoming increasingly attractive. The colour reproduction is exceptionally good, and many of the postcards, reproducing Chinese or Persian works of art in particular, might" be their originals in miniature, so successfully are they reproducod