ABSTRACT

In a decade at Conference, the Association has not directly addressed itself once to the central concern of museums, the curatorial care of the specimens they hold. The outside world has looked on in benign satisfaction, sympathising with the latest art appeal but accepting, because the institutions concerned appear to, that generally the world of museums is basically sound, the garden is lovely. But, as more dedicated curators meet and compare notes, there is a rising voice of concern, a realization that all in the garden is far from satisfactory.