Museums in Education: The Changing Role of Education Services in British Museums

Abstract

ON A WARM September day a force of Confederate infantry was making its way uphill toward a Union artillery battery. Explosions shook the ground as the troops slowly advanced, using whatever cover the trees afforded. Eventually they scrambled up the final slope with a roar and amid the thunder and smoke of combat overran the Union position. Two or three Confederate troops then returned to help a fallen companion. Fortunately his injuries were slight-bruised ribs caused by a heavy fall on to his water bottle. But the episode would undoubtedly horrify many museum curators, not least because the water bottle was an original relic, more than a hundred years old, and the battlefield was the grounds of a museum in Somerset, England. Such are the hazards ofliving history, as this increasingly popular activity would be termed in the United States. Purists would say there are many others, though they would probably be impressed by

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