§ Mr. Grimondasked the Minister of Education why the collection of Indian paintings and statues, lately exhibited at 196W the Victoria and Albert Museum, has been closed and dispersed.
§ Mr. VosperThe Indian Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum was closed to the public last July because the galleries in which it was housed are to be demolished in order to provide for the extension of the Imperial College of Science and Technology. My right hon. Friend hopes that the finest examples in the collection will be on view to the public next summer in two rooms in the main museum building. As soon as further alterations to the Museum have been completed, other items of the Indian Collection, together with the Study Collection of Paintings and Textiles, will be displayed. The bulk of the remainder of the collection will be housed at the Burlington Galleries, Cork Street, where it will be available to students from next April.