A FINE MUSEUM

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22887, 16 November 1937, Page 11

A FINE MUSEUM

AUCKLAND INSTITUTION

AMERICAN EXPERT'S PRAISE TOUR OF THE DOMINION Having travelled the greater part of the world and conducted expeditions to tho remotest jungle territories collecting data to assist in the perfect arranging of museum exhibits, Mr. Frank Tose, chief of tho Department of Exhibits of the Californian Acadeni3- of Sciences, San Francisco, arrived ill Auckland by the Mariposa yesterday. He is visiting tho Dominion under the auspices of the Carnegie Corporation of New* York, at the request of the Art Galleries and Museums Association of Australia and New Zealand, for the purpose of demonstrating new methods of preparing and presenting museum exhibits. Mr. Tose has just completed a tour of Australia, having carried out his educational work at the museums at Brisbane, Launceston, Hobart, Adelaide, Perth, Melbourne and Sydney. At Sydney be ended liis Australian tour by delivering lectures over a two-month course in museum presentation. The course was attended by people from most of the principal museums in thf> Commonwealth Plans in New Zealand Tho visitor will spend about a week in Auckland and a week each at Dunedin and Christchurch before completing his Dominion tour with a course of lectures at Wellington similar to that given at Sydney. He will also deliver lectures at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.

"I have had a wonderful time in Australia and received the best of kindness and hospitality there," said Mr. lose. "I am looking forward to an equally pleasant time in New Zealand. I have seen the Auckland War Memorial Museum to-day and consider it a beautiful building on a wonderful site. The outlook is as good as I have seen anywhere, and although I have not had time to go over it thoroughly yet, I consider it a fine museum, and a very worthy manner in which the city has perpetuated the memory of the men who fell in the Great "War." Young People's Interest

Having heard that museums in the Dominion were well attended, Mr. lose said he considered it reflected a fine spirit on the part of the people. He had learned in San Francisco of the interest shown in the Auckland institution by young people and considered the work of the Auckland Boys Fthuological Club, which is attached to the museum, to be a very fine contribution to the educational work in the city. Mr. Tose left San Francisco about the middle of last year and expects to leave New Zealand for home early next Februarv. His last major undertaking took him to Africa to collect data to assist in the construction of a hall of African mammal life in San Francisco. Known as the Simpson-African Hall of the Californian Academy of Sciences, it is one of the finest in the world. Natural habitat groups were constructed giving a lifelike impression. the work taking six years. Most of the work was done by Mr. Tose while the whole construction was supervised by him.