DOMINION MUSEUM.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 548, 1 July 1909, Page 6

DOMINION MUSEUM.

SITE FINALLY SELECTED. | r.-j.--..:" The exact site which -the new Dominion I Museum will , oixrapy at Mount Cook was do-1 cided yesterday, as-the result of a visit paid bytthe'Hom.v James Carrollj. the Acting-Prime ; | ■ i Minister, Hons. D. Buddo, and.T.'Mackenzie, :j " and Mr.iA;'Hariulton,:onratoriof the Museum.;l • The structure, whioh will bo of:three stories,>l in brick, with stone facings; will cover the i foundations of tbo circular court whioh was ■ i>, to have formed jrartion" of the gaol v and will :i x be immediately, in front' of the: high gable I end of the existing building. This 'thre^-1 . storeyed edifice- will accommodate all ' the I ■ exhibits in' l ,the present Dominion Museum, | but it will have to be added to in the near v. ■■:■... future by extending a court on either, sido I -i;\. as,a second floor above the'present Defence | pißces'and gun room. The present, estimate I ;■■■;.: is , that the building, with those extensions, | will probably cost about' £16,000, but' the " extensions will be a later charge. . . The main building .will j be a handsome . - structure, of - a typoof architecture now fre- . quently-adopted:for educational institutions, • with gothicv windows on" the top story: and . ! square -windows rbelow.' . A <rough elevation . sketched, by the Government: Architect pro- . vides for. a "handsome portico;: with stops, nad also a >small turret/ Elans have not yet beon ' prepared .for-the new-building,; and, in view Vof, the .large programme' which -the Public Works Department- will. have in ' hand for ■ - . some months to. come, it:is'not likely that | work will .be -commenced .very-i' soon. . ■ The I , z: money, has,, however, .been, allocated for . the I building, and when t£o. post office and other largo contracts are well in hand, tho con-1 struction 'of tho Mpseum will begin. Mr. | Hamilton . has several schemes in view for j .'■■■'. exhibiting his collection' to tho boat advan-1 tage when accommodation is provided, and it i■•■■is oxpocted that whenever the Museum 'is | finished it will be a credit to tho Dominion.