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SCATTERED throughout Great Britain and Northern Ireland there are 530 museums, all at the service, in greater or less degree, of the public. They represent a great heritage of historical, educational, and intrinsic worth, and, like any other heritage, they impose obligations upon their trustees and beneficiaries alike. That, in the main, these obligations have not been satisfactorily met, is the burden of the report of Sir Henry Miers, made at the instance of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trustees. This outstanding monograph, which bears evidence of careful investigation and constructive thought, ought to mark a stage in the development of British museums, from which definite and rational progress should be made, and for this reason it ought to be in the hands of everyone associated with the control of museums.
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The Museums of the British Isles1. Nature 122, 45–46 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122045a0
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