The diagram show a museum and its surroundings in 1990 and 2010

The map illustrates how a museum and its surroundings changed between 1990 and 2010.

Overall

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, the indoor

area

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displayed more significant improvements compared with the outdoor

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.

In addition

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, there were fewer

exhibition

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rooms in 2010 than in 1900. In 1990, there was a cottage in the bottom left-hand

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of the museum, right next to the main road but

this

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part/space was converted to a cafe in 2010. In the wider

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right above the cottage in 1990, there were 4

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rooms, a shop in the bottom right-hand

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and a store

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in the top-left-hand

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. In 2010,

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all the rooms kept the same function, the shop was expanded to the

exhibition

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room

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next door and there was a large

exhibition

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room

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in the top right-hand

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which was a

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by

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two previous small ones.

By contrast

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, the store

room

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remained the same over the studied period. In terms of the outdoor

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,

while

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the garden in the north/ at the top of the diagram remained unchanged during the time frame, in 2010, the car park in the east was enlarged, taking the place of the garden in the southeast of the museum in 1990.