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The Museum Gazette 



MUSEUM STATISTICS. 



The Museums Association has, in the Museums Journal, 

 under the able editorship of Mr. E. Howarth, recently com- 

 pleted a " Directory of Museums and Art Galleries in the 

 United Kingdom." From it we glean the following items : — 



In the first place we may note that the following have not 

 been included : — 



The Charterhouse Museum at Godalming. 



The Booth Museum near Brighton. 



Queen's College Museum, Belfast. 



Municipal Technical Instruction Museum, Belfast. 



The Guildhall Museum, Londonderry. 



Archaeology Museum, Shepton Mallett, Somerset. 



The Museum at Wells, Somerset. 



The Museum of the Carmelite Monastery, Wincanton. 



The Museums at Peterhead, Radcliffe and Whittingham. 



Having supplied the above-mentioned omissions, there are 

 330 museums and art galleries in Great Britain and Ireland 

 situated in 225 cities, towns or villages. Forty-six (more 

 than one-seventh) are in the Metropolis. 



Edinburgh and Cambridge each have seven, Oxford six, 

 and Belfast, Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield and Dublin 

 each possess four museums and art galleries. These statistics 

 include the pathological museums in various hospitals. 



There are only eighteen museums exclusively devoted 

 to art. 



Twenty-one museums have an income of less than £50. 



The following towns (twenty-four) possess but the nucleus 

 of a museum, one or two small rooms with few exhibits : 

 Croydon, Dunstable, Chelmsford, Eastbourne, Grimsby, Har- 

 rogate, Hertford, Hove, King's Lynn, Kingston-upon-Thames, 

 Kinross, Louth, Lincoln, Llanidloes, Llandudno, Luton, 

 Merthyr, Monmouth, Tunbridge Wells, Ripon, Ryde, Shipley, 

 Stroud and Worthing. 



