| Description | Correspondence, 1911-28, between the Commission and the Treasury, the Office of Works, Sir Francis Mowatt, Sir George Murray, the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, Lord Buckmaster, Sir Francis Ogilvie, Lord Stamfordham, Lord Esher and H.E. Lyons, concerning the decision to complete for war emergency use four floors at the west end of the new Science Museum building; the revision of the estimate of the total cost of the Science Museum; the Commissioners' contribution to the cost and the Treasury's proposals as to how it should be managed; Lord Esher's request that the Government release the Commissioners from their promise to pay £100,000 towards the new building; the development of communications between the Natural History, Science and Geological Museums; and the suggestion that the King should open the new Science Museum. Also, newspaper cuttings from The Times, April-May 1911, regarding the Science Museum and South Kensington site; 'Report of the Departmental Committee on the Science Museum and the Geological Museum (Part II)', 1912; Programme of the opening of the new galleries of the Science Museum by H.M. The King, Tuesday 20 March 1928. |