Folder entitled 'South Kensington Site'

Director's Copy of "South Kensington Site: Set of papers on this question, as far as Science Museum is concerned: distributed to all Officers, November 1937". List of enclosed documents:

- memo re: confidentiality of the documents

- Principle papers relating to the future of the Science Museum, in connection with the South Kensington site project, October 1937

- A: Memoradum by Colonel E. E. B. Mackintosh, Director of the Science Museum, to Standing Commission on Museums and Galleries in amplification of the Director's verbal evidence regarding the South Kensington Site. Dated 8 April 1937.

- B: Spatial analysis of Existing Collections for the Science Museum, June 1937.

- C: Science Museum Library Accommodation 1937-1987, dated March 1937. Outlines present accommodation and forecasts requirements by 1987.

- D: Science Museum Final Development: Proposed ancillary accommodation (i.e. other than exhibition galleries and library), dated June 1937.

- E: Proposed New Sections, dated June 1937. Lists potential new subject areas and amount of space required for each.

- F: Report of the Advisory Council, 29 September 1937, sent to the President of the Board of Education and transmitted by him to the Standing Commission on Mueums & Galleries. Includes list of Advisory Council Members and their Nominating Bodies. Report discusses the spacial needs of the Science Museum.

- Second Interim Report on the Question of Building Priority, from the Standing Commission on Museums & Galleries Sub-Committee on Museum Building Priorities, dated November 30, 1937. Handwritten covering note dated 12/1/1942 from W. Chesterman, addressee illegible but possibly Shaw. This document has also been labelled (by hand) A.