Abstract
THE present museums buildings were erected in 1860 by the late Sir W. Brown for the splendid natural history collections bequeathed to the City of Liverpool by the XIIIth Earl of Derby in 1851. These were so extensive that the accommodation they required necessitated the building of what was, at that time, one of the largest museums in England outside the Metropolis. Since that date the collections have been constantly added to, not so much by purchases, as by gifts —some of them of the highest value—from donors possessing an interest in natural science, and appreciating, in advance of their time, the importance of that subject as a means of education, with the result that, to day, every available foot of space in the museums has long been occupied—every cellar even being stored to its utmost capacity—so that any intelligible arrangement of their contents has now become well—nigh impossible.
Article PDF
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
The New Liverpool Museums Extension Buildings. Nature 59, 209–211 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/059209b0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/059209b0