CARNEGIE FUND GRANT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19023, 25 May 1936, Page 13

CARNEGIE FUND GRANT

AID TO DOMINION EDUCATIONAL SERVICES MUSEUM & ART EXHIBITS (Per Tress Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. In 1235, the Carnegie Corporation invited a committee ol New Zealand laymen to advise as to the most effective way of distributing the sum of in New Zealand in developing tlie educational services, and museums and art galleries. Building operations, or _ structural alteration.-, in existing buildings were, with the exception of Napier, whose museum was destroyed in the earthquake of 1931, excluded from the scheme.

Advice has now been received lliat the committee's report has been adopted ill 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 and where funds for the maintenance of the institution art available locally, and where the institution is open to the public and is provided with separate accommodation. A school service is to be established involving the appointment, to each of the metropolitan museums, of educational officers. It is hoped that the Government will assist in the appointment and payment of these officers. CIRCULATION TO SCHOOLS Cases for fchfe circulation of loan ex hibits in schools are to be provided foi each centre, and the circulation of the exhibits will be supervised by an educational officer. The system of an exchange of museum exhibits' and art collections is to be established in New Zealand, and between New Zealand, Australia, the United States and Ureal Britain. Cinematographs and circulating library material and 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 the smaller centres. 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 the monev will be provided for the?e experiments. The sum of £2OOO has beer allocated for the purchase of n representative collection of full-size reproductions of suitable pictures in painting illustrating the various schools. Thr collection is to be housed at the National Art Gallery, Wellington, and sections will be available for loan to any public rallery which is able to display il satisfactorily. Napier is to receive £2OOO for ; museum building and £SOO for exhibition eases.