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Contents: Preface. I. Exhibition and display: 1. Role of Museum Exhibition/Smita J. Baxi. 2. Using Natural light for museum exhibition/S.H. Bedekar. 3. The display of prehistoric and protohistoric materials in a museum: some suggestions/Lala Aditya Narayan. 4. Museum display of archaeological excavations/H.D. Sankalia. 5. Adaptation of old museum building for modern presentation, with special reference to the newly opened Indian pre and proto-history gallery at the Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay/Shridhar Andhare. 6. The use of dioramas and models in Indian Museums/Shashi Asthana. 7. The ethnograpical collections and their display, some practical suggestions/Jay Shree Chowdhery. II. Administration and documentation: 8. Basic needs of museum planning in India/Ajai Shankar. 9. Museum administration in India/H.S. Jassal. 10. Registration and documentation in Indian Museums/K.T. John. 11. Museum photography with special reference to natural history/P.K. Saha. 12. An ideal museum library/Balkrishan. III. Musuem storage: 13. Storage Problems of archaeological collections/B.N. Sharma. 14. Visual storage: a new approach/Chhaya Bhattacharya. 15. Need for ethnographical collections in the Indian Museums and their storage problems/Nilima Roy. 16. Storage of arms and armour with special reference to the national Museum, New Delhi/G.K. Sharotri. IV. Educational and community services: 17. The museums and the education system/N.R. Banerjee. 18. Development of an art museum-a case study/Anand Krishna. 19. Environmental education-an emerging role of natural history museum/S.M. Nair. 20. Craft demonstration as a medium of museum education/M.K. Pal. 21. Preparing children for museum visit/Bani Roy. 22. Education and children museums in India/Hena Bajapai. 23. The role of Mathura museum in community services/R.C. Sharma. V. Conservation, preservation and care of objects: 24. Conservation of cultural property in India: a survey/O.P. Agrawal. 25. Salvaging monuments at Nagarjunakonda/H. Sarkar. 26. Handling of Museum objects/A.S. Bisht. 27. Packing of art objects: some practical suggestions/V.P. Dwivedi. VI. Notes on Museums and objects: 28. Some notes on the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum, Jaipur/Asok Kumar Das. 29. The Island museum of India-archaeological museum, Nagarjunakonda/K.R. Vijayaraghvan. 30. The rail transport museum, New Delhi/S.C. Manchanda. 31. Notes on two images in the collection of S.K. Saraswati/Debala Mitra. 32. The motif on the façade of the Visvakarma temple at Ellora/R. Sengupta. VII. General Museology: 33. Galleries of contemporary arts in India/Ratan Parimoo. 34. Personalia museums in India: their origin, development and future scope/Satya Prakash. 35. Rural museums in India/S.P. Gupta. 36. Foreign collections in Indian museums: a brief survey/M.L. Nigam. 37. Specialised museums in India: a survey/D.N. Verma. 38. Blueprint of a war museum/G.N. Pant. 39. The treasure-trove act and the Government museum, Madras/H. Harinarayana. 40. The temple and the museum/R.D. Trivedi. 41. Theft and smuggling of antiquities: some preventive measures/K.N. Dikshit. 42. A new approach in organising an archaeological site museum/S.S. Biswas. 43. The problem of imitations of antiquities/M.C. Joshi and K.S. Ramachandran. 44. Converting a Palace into a museum: the Mysore Palace/M.S. Nagarajarao. VIII. Dr. Grace Morley : Personal glimpses: 45. Dr. Grace Morley: some personal glimpses/Kapila Vatsyayan. 46. Dr. (Mrs.) Grace L. McCann Morley as I know her/C. Sivaramamurti….Index.