ON MUSEUMS IN RELATION TO EDUCATION. 



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Museums in Relation to Education. — Final Report of Committee (Pro- 

 fessor J. A. Green, Chairman; Mr. H. Bolton and Dr. J. A. 

 Clubb, Secretaries; Dr. F. A. Bather, Eev. H. Browne, Mr. 

 C. A. Buckmaster, Professor E. J. Garwood, Dr. A. C. Haddon, 

 Dr. H. S. Harrison, Mr. M. D. Hill, Dr. W. E. Hoyle, Sir H. 

 MiERS, Professor P. Newberry, Mr. H. E. Eathbone, Dr. W. M. 

 Tattersall, Sir Eichard Temple, Mr. H. Hamshaw Thomas, 

 Professor P. E. Weiss, and Dr. Jessie White). 



Thk Committee was formed at the Birmingham Meeting of the British 

 Association in 1913, with the following terms of reference: ' To examine, inquire 

 into, and report on the character, work, and maintenance of Museums, with a 

 view to their organisation and development as institutions for Education and 

 Research; and especially to inquire into the requirements of schools.' 



The work was carried on enere;etically for four years, and numerous subsidiary 

 reports drawn up by sub-committees were considered. The increaeing gravity 

 of war conditions and the absence of members upon various war activities 

 suspended further work. 



Recent Legislation. 



The Functions of Museums. 



Museums in 1914. 



Museums in Relation to the General 



Public. 

 Museums and Schools. 



Museums and Advanced Students. 

 Museums and Classical Education 



the Humanities. 

 Staffing of Museums. 

 Overseas Museums. 

 Manchester Scheme. 



and 



Recent Legislation. 



The Education Act passed in 1918. and the more recent Libraries Act of 

 1919, have profoundly modified the position of Museums in relation to Education, 

 and definite lines of development have been foreshadowed by the Reports of 

 the Committee on Adult Education of the Ministry of Reconstruction, and by 

 the issue of 'Draft Suggestions for the Arrangement of Schemes under the 

 Edurntion Act of 1918,' by the Board of Education. 



These changes have been taken into account in the present Report, and 

 have rendered necessary a revision of some parts of the work previoiisly 

 done. 



1. The Education Act of 1918 made it possible for local Education Committees 

 to seek the assistance of Museums in the furtherance of local schemes of 

 educational development. 



This was emphasised in 1919 by the ' Draft Suggestions for the Arrangement 

 of Schemes under the Education Act of 1918,' issued by the Board of Education. 

 These Suggestions indicate the desirability of arrangements for ' securing and 

 developing the educational uses of Museums and Libraries,' and for ' developing 

 the educational activities of local Literarv, Historical, Archseological, Scientific, 

 Musical. Artistic, and Dramatic Associations.' 



In 1918 the Ministry of Reconstruction presented to Parliament an ' Interim 

 Report of the Committee on Adult Education upon the Industrial and Social 

 Conditions in Relation tri Education.' The questions raised in that Report 

 were more fully reported upon in a 'Third Interim Report ' presented to 

 Parliament in 1919. 



In a still later Report the C nmittee on Adult Education considered the 

 conditions and work of Museums, and advanced the suggestion that these 



