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Letchworth Museum and Art Gallery was a museum in Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, England. It had permanent displays dedicated to the natural history of North Hertfordshire, including the famous Black Squirrel, as well as its archaeology from remote prehistory to the turn of the twentieth century. Letchworth Museum was a key partner in developing (2feet4feet ), an educational website aimed at Year 1 children and their teachers. == History == Letchworth Museum and Art Gallery was founded in 1914 to house the collections being amassed by the Letchworth and District Naturalists’ Society.〔Miller, M 2002 ''Letchworth: the First Garden City.'' Second edition. Phillimore, p 35〕 The building was designed as a single storey structure by Barry Parker, one of the principal architects of the early Garden City movement. It was enlarged in the 1920s and extended to the rear in 1960-3 to designs by Courtenay Melville Crickmer (who had designed Letchworth Library, next door, in 1938).〔Pevsner, N & Cherry, B 1977 ''The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire.'' Penguin, p 227.〕 Its first curator, W Percival Westell (1874–1943), was a well-known author of works on natural history and archaeology. Appointed as Honorary Curator in 1914,〔Westell, W P 1933 ''Yesterdays: an autobiography.'' Letchworth Printers, p 85〕 the post became salaried in 1928 and he remained as Curator until his death. During the time spent at the museum, he wrote 84 books and gave 145 radio talks for the BBC, mostly on natural history.〔Burleigh, G R & Fitzpatrick-Matthews, K J 2010 ''Excavations at Baldock, Hertfordshire, 1978-1994 volume 1: an Iron Age and Romano-British cemetery at Wallington Road.'' North Hertfordshire District Council Museums Service & North Hertfordshire Archaeological Society, p 11〕 He established one of the country’s first museums’ loan services in the 1930s. His assistant in the early 1930s was Erik Shimon Applebaum, later professor of Archaeology at the University of Tel Aviv. Westell’s successor at the museum was Albert T Clarke,〔Burleigh, G R & Fitzpatrick-Matthews, K J 2010 ''Excavations at Baldock, Hertfordshire, 1978-1994 volume 1: an Iron Age and Romano-British cemetery at Wallington Road.'' North Hertfordshire District Council Museums Service & North Hertfordshire Archaeological Society, p 12〕 who was in post from 1944 to 1968. His assistant from 1957 was John Moss-Eccardt, who became curator in 1968. Although run initially by the Letchworth and District Naturalists’ Society, it was transferred to Letchworth Urban District Council in 1939. Since the dissolution of the Urban District Council in 1974, the Museum has been run by North Hertfordshire District Council, together with Hitchin Museum and Art Gallery and, for a few years in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Royston Museum and the First Garden City Heritage Museum. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Letchworth Museum & Art Gallery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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