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  • Title
    Folder entitled 'Report on Museums of the Science and Art Department'
  • Reference
    CORP/SCM/Z/188/16
  • Production date
    1897 - 1899
  • Creator
    • Education DepartmentBiography
  • Scope and Content
    Ministry of Education Sc. M. folder containing a report from the Select Committee on Museums of the Science and Art Department. Cover reads "Report on Museums of the Science and Art Department (with index). Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed July 1898". Pages 1-8 (i-viii) and 11-32 (xi-xxxii) are not present. Report contains: - List of witnesses from March to July 1897 - Proceedings of the Committee, 26 April 1898 to 29 July 1898 - Appendix 21 [Note: Appendices 1-20 are not present (pages 1-230)]: Statement by Major-General Sir John Donnelly re: Junior Assistants - Appendix 22: Extract from the "Times" 24 June 1898 - Appendix 23: Plan of the South Kensington Museum and Surrounding Neighbourhood - Index and Digest of Evidence to the Report on Museums of the Science and Art Department, 1898. Main headings are: Aberystwyth College, Administration, Art (Art Museum &c.), Bethnal Green Museum, Birmingham Museum, Buildings (South Kensington), Catalogues, Dublin Museum, Jermyn Street Museum, Loans and System of Collection, Purchases (South Kensington), Science Museum &c., Staff (South Kensington) - Minute presented to both Houses of Parliament from the Department of Science and Art of the Committee of Council on Education: consideration of the Second Report from the Select Committee of 1898 on the administration and cost of the Museums of the Science and Art Department. Whitehall, 3 February 1899, by the Right Honorable the Lords of the Committee of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council on Education. 2 copies.
  • Extent
    1 folder
  • Language
    English
  • Level of description
    FILE
  • Repository name
    Science Museum, London
  • Associated people and organisations
    • South Kensington MuseumBiography
  • Conditions governing access
    Open Access
  • Conditions governing Reproduction
    Copies may be supplied in accordance with current copyright legislation and Science Museum Group terms and conditions