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Museum. A building or institution for the cultiva-tion of science, favoured by the legislature in the Public Libraries Act, is in the (English) Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act, 1888, s. 6, and in the (English) Museums and Gymnasiums Act,1891. Powers were transferred to the Board of Education by 9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 21, and see the (English) Public Libraries Acts, 1892 and 1919. By the latter Act, 9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 93, museums were transferred to the library authority