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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23202, 28 May 1937, Page 16

In Amiens, in the North of France, there will shortly be opened a museum which should become a pilgrimage spot for all lovers of fantastic tales. Here it was that Jules Verne lived for many years, though he was born in Nantes, and here it was that he wrote those breath-taking stories "Around the World in Eighty Days," "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" and "Michel Strogoff." The Jules Verne Museum will not only collect mementoes of the noted French writer, whose books have been translated into practically every tongue, but will endeavour to show how the fantastic things imagined by his creative mind have become the realities of modern science only 75 years later, such as his strange craft steered through the air or under the sea, motion pictures, radio and television.