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The Museum Gazette 



opportunity for realising on a larger scale than has yet been 

 attempted the idea of an Educational Museum. Let the City 

 Council construct and equip a large " Museum " which should 

 contain, in the first place, all the appliances of a school — maps, 

 globes, an orrery, models, portraits, busts and diagrams. In 

 the second place, but scarcely secondary, should come collec- 

 tions well selected and well arranged, but not too extensive, 

 of typical illustrations and specimens in most branches of 

 natural history, and in some of science. Wherever suitable 

 the " Space-for-time " method of arrangement and scheduled 

 display should be adopted, since it affords to the pupil a ready 

 clue to the appreciation of facts which it is very difficult to 

 gather from books alone. 



The buildings for such a Museum should be extensive, but 

 they need not be costly. Long wooden sheds, ail-but 

 ground floor, would admirably serve the purpose, and might, 

 with a little architectural ingenuity, be made sightly if not 

 ornamental. Plenty of room is the main essential, and in 

 connection with each gallery there should be a small fecture 

 room, in order to admit of oral teaching on the spot. This 

 would prevent interference of one class with another, for a 

 main object would be that school teachers should find it 

 advantageous to take their pupils to the museum for objec- 

 tive instruction, and that a brief lecture should precede or 

 follow the inspection of specimens or maps. 



There should, of course, be a Vivarium or shed devoted to 

 the display of fresh botanical specimens and other living 

 objects. Possibly even a miniature zoo, with its aviary and 

 its rabbit hutches, might be feasible. 



Such a museum would be an epitome of all that is contained 

 in our great national collections in London and at our uni- 

 versity cities. For the teachers' purposes it would be quite 

 as good and in some respects much better than these, for by 

 the selection and effective placing of the important, and the 

 exclusion of the superfluous, it would avoid the distraction of 

 attention which is to many unavoidable in these museums. 



