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to set forth the social life in all its aspects, housing, clothing, 
occupation of a nation or class of people from its earliest times. 
It should illustrate the different aspects of a nation's life. The 
pictures which followed were chosen to illustrate different types 
of folk museums. The first was the National Museum of Bavaria 
at Munich, with its 100 exhibition rooms designed and decorated 
to illustrate the different periods to which their contents respec- 
tively belong. New York has a Children's Museum of objects of 
nature and art in which children are interested arranged for their 
instruction, together with a reference library relating thereto. At 
Copenhagen is the Danish Folk Museum, illustrating the domestic 
life of the nation, and especially of the peasantry. It includes 
peasants' houses and farm buildings which have been removed 
from other sites. Stockholm possesses a folk museum on the 
grandest scale, with peasants' houses in which the museum atten- 
dants live wearing different types of native costume. In conclu- 
sion Dr. Hoyle urged the importance of collecting articles of all 
kinds which are now rapidly passing out of use, and keeping 
records of the way in which they were used. He considered the 
Crystal Palace an ideal site for an English Folk Museum worthy of 
our past and a stimulus for the future. 
"A vote of thanks to Dr. Hoyle was proposed by Dr. Munro 
Smith and seconded by Professor Leonard, who expressed the 
wish that an old English village could be acquired and preserved 
in its entirety, with its church, and also chapel ; also its stocks, in 
which visitors who littered paper about might be confined, while a 
pillory might be erected for those who leave broken bottles. Dr. 
Rudge mentioned ancient houses at Conway and Norwich in 
which beginnings had been made of folk museums." 
