Museum and Art Gallery
Sir, — The suggestion to link the Canterbury Museum and the McDougall Art Gallery was made through your letter column as long ago as 1969, during the'term of Mr A. R. Guthrey’s Mayoralty. There was talk of a new art gallery for which he suggested the Town Hall site among others. The McDougall Art Gallery was to be incorporated with the museum as a whole because they were not incompatible. Subsequently, Mr Robin Wade, a- British consultant, made out a report affecting the whole question, with his recommendations, and, the link to the two institutions was taken up by Dr Rodney Wilson and now Mr Coley the new director. I envisaged originally, in 1969, a ground-level covered walkway between the two buildings and whatever was needed in. the Way of security doors. Certain other ideas for extending _ the art gallery by. extra buildings on to existing structures have been outlined by me and- others, not the. least being Dir Wilson himself. — Yours, etc., t WILLIAM EAMON. t March 20, 1981. • 4
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