MUSEUM PRAISED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 272, 16 November 1937, Page 8

MUSEUM PRAISED.

VISITOR FROM AMERICA.

NEW METHODS OF DISPLAY. A visitor to Auckland is Mr. Frank Tose. chief of the department of Exhibits of the Californian Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. He has come here under the auspices of the Carnegie Corporation of New York at the request of the Art Galleries and Museums Associations of Australia and New Zealand to demonstrate new methods of preparing and presenting museum exhibits.

Mr. Tose ha« just completed a tour of Australia, where he gave a number of lectures on museum presentation. He will give lectures at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, and then visit the Southern centres.

After visiting the Auckland War Memorial Museum yesterday Mr. Tose said it was a beautiful building on a wonderful site. It wae a fine museum, and in a very worthy manner the city had perpetuated the memory of the men who fell in the Great War.

Mr. Tose said that he had heard that the museums in the Dominion were well attended, and that reflected a fine spirit on the part of the people. He had heard of the interest shown in the Auckland institution by young people, and considered that the work of the Auckland Boys' Ethnological Club was an excellent contribution to educational work in the city. Mr. Tose expects to return to the United States early in February. His last extensive tour was to South Africa to collect data to assist in the construction of a hall of African mammal life in San Francisco. It was known as the Simpeon-African Hall of the Califoraian Academy of Sciences, and was one of tie best in the world. Natural groups were constructed to give a lifelike impression.