A LITTLE Liver Bird whispered in Mr Brocklebank’s shell-like that there is a NML moratorium on buying historic artefacts with only modern objects
considered worthy of purchase. However, when curators suggest appropriate items within these guidelines, they find – to their chagrin – that these, too, are rejected. Even a request for a light bulb is apparently subject to director Dr Fleming’s draconian cost-benefit scrutiny, murmurs a disgruntled museum insider.