Abstract
THE twelfth annual general meeting of the South African Museums Association was held in the Africana Museum (Public Library building), Johannesburg, during March 16–19. The Mayor of Johannesburg, Mr. G. B. Gordon, opened the meeting on a particularly happy note by remarking on the Johannesburg City Council‘s appreciation of the value of museums and art galleries in the preservation of objects of art, science and history, and stating that education departments in various parts of the Union had already recognized their importance in adult and juvenile education. In the course of his address, Mr. Gordon also referred to his Council‘s pledge to establish, in collaboration with the University of the Witwatersrand, a museum of science and industry, and to its promise to provide a site for the South African National War Museum (at present housed in two Bellman hangars in a portion of the Zoological Gardens). By 1952, furthermore, he hoped that a new building to house the Africana Museum would be erected. From this, therefore, it Would seem that Johannesburg can look forward to cultural developments with optimism.
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HARDING, J. South African Museums Association Annual General Meeting. Nature 161, 984–985 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161984a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161984a0