MUSEUMS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 25 May 1936, Page 5

MUSEUMS

DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES CARNEGIE CORPORATION GRANT EXPENDITURE OF £IO,OOO IN NEW ZEALAND COMMITTEE’S REPORT ADOPTED (By Telegraph—Press Association) DUNEDIN, This Day. In 1935 the Carnegie Corporation invited a committee of New Zealand laymen to advise as to the most effective way to distribut a sum of £IO,OOO in New Zealand in developing educational services, museums and art galleries. Building operations or structural alterations in existing buildings were, with the exception of Napier, whose museum was destroyed in the earthquake, excluded from the scheme. Advice has been received that the committee’s report has been adopted in full by the Carnegie Corporation and that a draft to cover the cost has been received. Meantime only those institutions will participate which have a paid curator in charge where funds for maintenance of the institution are available locally and where the institution is open to the public and provided with separate accommodation. SCHOOL SERVICE A school service is to be established, involviffg the appointment to each of the metropolitan museums of an educational officer. It is hoped the Government will assist in the appointment and payment of these officers. Cases for the circulation and loan of exhibits to schools are to be provided in each centre and the circulation of exhibits will be supervised by the educational officer. A system of exchange of museum exhibits and art collections is to be established in New Zealand and be--4 tween New Zealand, Australia, United States and Great Britain. Cinematographs and a circulating library of suitable films are to be placed in the four metropolitan museums for the extension of educational work. If the experiment is successful it will be extended to smaller centres. FAMOUS PICTURES The Auckland museum is to be invited to carry out experiments in methods of display. Otago is to be asked to experiment in agricultural display and money will be provided for these experiments. The sum of £2OOO has been allocated for the purchase of a representative collection of full-size reproductions of suitable pictures illustrating various schools of painting. The collection is to be housed at the National Gallery, Wellington, and sections will be available for loan to any public gallery' which is able to display them satisfactorily.

Napier is to receive £2OOO for the museum building and £SOO for exhibition cases.