Talk:Ipswich Museum

Beetle tax

Can anyone provide information about the beetle tax, if there is or was such a tax. Snowman 11:50, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

• I believe 'Beetle Tax' was a popular nickname given to a new tax made permissible under the Public Libraries Act of 1850 for the maintenance of public museums. I have amended the Ipswich Museum article to avoid the term. Dr Steven Plunkett 20:20, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Was once a perfectly preserved Victorian museum

About 30 or more years ago the museum was much more interesting and entertaining than currently due to being a Victorian museum that had been preserved in aspic unchanged until that time, with lots of stuffed animals etc. So it was a museum of a museum. Unfortunately the well-intended partial modernisation has lost the charm and curio value of the original. It was like someone deciding to modernise the Sir John Soane's Museum for educational purposes. Perhaps one day it will be put back how it was. 2.97.221.246 (talk) 10:12, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

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