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REPORT OF THE CONFERENCE
TO INITIATE PLANNING FOR THE DEVELOPMENT
OF THE KOREAN NATIONAL SCIENCE MUSEUM CENTER

The Korean-American planning meeting for the development and support of a Korean National Science Museum Center had its origins in a visit of Dr. Harold J. Coolidge to Korea on November 5, 1965. Dr Coolege's immediate interests were focused on problems of conservation in Korea.

In March of 1966 Mr. Joseph Patterson of the American Association of Museums (while conducting a survey of museums in the Near East, Southeast Asia, and the Far East for the Smithsonian Institution) held expanded discussions with officials of the present National Science Museum together with other interest Korean scientists at a series of meetings in Seoul.

Out of these meetings came the recommendation from Mr. Patterson that a joint Korean-American working group convene at Seoul September 11 - 16, 1966.  These dates were selected to permit participation of a small group of appropriate United States scientists attending the 11th Pacific Science Congress in Tokyo in August.  Concurrence in Mr. Patterson's recommendation subsequently came from Korean scientists, from the Director of Korean

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