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illustration of popular lectures, but to enable the visitor , by 

 himself to inspect the specimens intelligently, and without 

 further assistance to learn some of their lessons. Such 

 museums should always have, in addition to their permanent 

 display of objects, temporary collections of things of the 

 season. For the most part such museums avoid all expensive 

 objects, and do not seek after rarities. Objects which can 

 be handled without damage and replaced without much cost 

 are preferred. For such museums plenty of space is most 

 desirable, but magnificent buildings and architectural display 

 are to be avoided. They are museums intended to attract 

 schoolmasters and their scholars, as also all ages and all 

 classes of the public. Re-arrangement and frequent change 

 bf exhibits are to be recommended in these museums, whilst 

 they are, as a rule, to be deprecated in most others. 



A School Museum is a museum of any kind formed in connec- 

 tion with a school. Such collections are usually intended to 

 encourage natural history observation amongst the pupils, 

 and are small and local. Some School Museums are, however, 

 collections formed for the teachers' use in class work. These 

 contain, usually, only type specimens, and but very few of 

 these. They are meritorious and good as far as they go, but 

 it is, but too often, only a very little way. When Educational 

 Museums become common it is to be hoped that they will 

 either greatly strengthen the school collections or render them 

 wholly unnecessary. In an Educational Museum several 

 or many schools might join, and well-skilled teachers might 

 be employed, such as a private school could hardly afford. 



A Folk Museum is a collection of objects designed to illus- 

 trate progress in the arts of social life, more especially those 

 of domestic employment. These are of much interest and 

 always attractive to visitors, and are very useful in stimu- 

 lating the historic sense. They are perhaps, however, 

 less definitely instructive than some others. We are not 

 acquainted with any special Folk Museum in England, but 

 most of our large museums have sections of this character. 



