Report missions were commonly sent out by the United Nations (UN) towards emerging countries in the post-war and early decolonization decades, including Singapore. In these missions, advisors engaged by the UN would make assessment and then recommendations for next steps that the country could take. This is the Raffles Museum copy of a report produced by Dr A.N.J. van de Hoop, the temporary museum-advisor to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), following his visit to the Raffles Museum between 1956 to 1957. Among the recommendations he made included the expansion of staff members (at that time only three persons - the Director and two Curators) to also include education officers, to separate the display collections from the reference collections, usage of dioramas for display methods, and to work out an arrangement with schools for museum visits to complement their curriculum.
