Bulletin
Museum Purpose, Children, Community
An booklet containing an article from Trevor Thomas talking about the problems related to Leicester museums currently and what they are aiming to do. Describes what a museum 'could be' . Talks about children's clubs and how museum should be part of the community.
Trevor Thomas
Cover, pages 3 - 10
Leicester Museum
1944
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Booklet, PDF.
English
Booklet
1944, United Kingdom, England, Leicester
Bulletin
Community, War, Museum Purpose, Exhibition, Information, Education
An article talking about how museums need to keep up with the pace of the world. Discusses how the museum, during the war, put on exhibitions about digging and growing to help those people in the community know what to do. The idea of the museum trying to be informative and useful to the community, changing its purpose according to external events in order to remain relevant is shown throughout.
Leicester Museum
Cover, page 12 and 13
Leicester Museum
July, 1942
This source is copyright of Leicester Art and Museum Service and is digitised and published under the Creative Commons License : https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Booklet
English
Booklet, PDF.
1942, United Kingdom, England, Leicester
Philip French Oral History Interview - Museum Purpose
Community, Exhibition, Collections, Purpose of Museums
An oral history interview from Philip French, Curator of Leicester History in Leicester Museums.He talks about how museums need to 'educate and entertain' and how although certain aspects have developed and changed (such as interpretation), the museum's purpose has remained the same.
Philip French
The University of Leicester Special Collections, East Midlands Oral History Archive.
29th August 2017
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.WAV
English
Oral History Interview