HC Deb 14 February 1946 vol 419 c518
37. Mr. Skeffington

asked the Minister of Education when the Science Museum at South Kensington will be reopened to the public.

Miss Wilkinson

About one-third of the museum was reopened this morning. The children's gallery and the locomotive gallery are now open and special exhibitions have been arranged on atomic energy, X-rays and their application; and the quartz crystal clock. The original Wright aeroplane will be on view and the aeronautics gallery will be reopened as soon as plate glass can be obtained to reglaze a number of damaged cases. Part of the museum has been placed at the disposal of the Ministry of Aircraft Production for a display of German aeronautical developments. The exhibits include a VI and V2, a number of types of aircraft and a piloted flying bomb. This exhibition is also opening today.

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