Interesting that this should be posted on a museum list. Obviously Dennis has been doing the rounds of international Museums and reading the labels!

We MUST surely have someone who qualifies as the MILLS & BOON of Museology?  Minds you, when I come to think of it, this is a little unfair to Mills & Boon

Roger Smith

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