By Kenneth Hudson, Ann Nicholls (eds.)
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A wide range of metalware, pottery and textiles received the accolade of 'industrial art', as a reward for being better-looking than the average. Nowadays, with most things made by machinery, the phrase is of small value, but some curators appear to need or like it. NATIONAL MUSEUM A 'national museum' is always an important museum, but after that the term ceases to have much precision. It may mean that it is financed by the state, that it is a country's main or only effort in this particular direction, or that it is the central mother-museum, controlling the activities of provincial museums in the same field.
APPLIED ART(S) CERAMICS Art put to some practical use. 'Applied art' frequently and inevitably overlaps 'decorative art' and 'industrial art'. A British advertisement of December 1972 invited applications for the post of 'Keeper of Decorative Arts' at Leicester Museums, and went on to say that 'the successful candidate will be responsible for all the important applied arts collections'. A word greatly loved by museum people. It is, except to specialists in archaeology, much more impressive than 'pottery', but beyond this we can see little difference between the two.
We take 'history' to imply that there are some written records and 'prehistory' that there are none, and we have tried to simplify the position accordingly. On one or two occasions we have, however, and for highly subjective reasons, made minor concessions to the Germanspeaking world on this point. The traditional beliefs, legends and customs of, once again, the common people. The study of these traditional beliefs, legends and customs. A museum cannot, in the strict sense, contain folklore collections, although it can find ways of illustrating and reflecting these, mainly through such artifacts as ex voto tablets, handicrafts, paintings and records of witch-burnings.