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- ↑ Museums Journal , October 2009, p. 4.
- ↑ Louise Jury, Science Museum director sacked after 'judgment error' in accounts, London Evening Standard , 24 September 2009.
- ↑ Andrew Scott to be Acting Director of NMSI, Science Museum, London, 22 September 2009.
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