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OF the departmental reports in the forty-first annual repo (April 1, 1944-March 31, 1945) recently issued byi)helLeicester City Museum and Art Gallery, that fijf|$he Schools Service is of particular and gerfinfi interest. During the period under review, clashes were instructed in the main museum as well as in the branch museums; special visits were arranged for blind and deaf children, and the loan collections (which include museum specimens, models, dioramas, charts, etc., covering most school subjects) were extended to evacuated schools. Army units in the area made use of the same collections in the development of Forces educational schemes, and a collection of picture reproductions was extensively used in courses on the appreciation of art. In conjunction with Dr. Boley, of the Psychology Department of the Leicester Education Committee, two members of the staff instructed special classes in the use and construction of puppets for puppet shows. The children themselves took part in these proceedings, but the exact intent of, or the conclusions drawn from, the results of these activities are not reported. The Museum school service at Leicester has been active and progressive for many years and most, if not all, subsequent and similar schemes elsewhere have been based upon it. That the Leicester methods and results are of interest to outside educational institutions and other bodies is shown by the reference to visitors from London, Nottingham, Glasgow, and the research department of the National Association of Local Government Officers. Further, inspectors from the Board of Education went to observe them, and this fact, especially, points to the possibility of future developments in this work, not only in Leicester, but also wherever suitable museum collections exist.
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Leicester Museum's Schools Service. Nature 158, 374 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158374d0
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