MUSEUM METHODS
DR. OLIVER TO STUDY ABROAD By telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON. February 22. To visit the world's principal museums under the auspices of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Dr. W. R. B. Oliver, director of the Dominion Museum, will leave Wellington at the end of next week. He will sail from Auckland by thfe Mariposa on March 7 for San Francisco. Dr. Oliver expects to be absent about eight months, and will travel extensively in America and in Europe. In ah interview he stated that he hoped to visit the great museums at Chicago and New York, which were the biggest oi their kind in the world, and also the very fine European museums of Norway, Sweden and Germany. Dr. Oliver said there were many new features of museum work which he would be able to study. The last 20 years had brought a revolution in museum administration. Not only were the scope of such institutions and their value to the community far wider to-day than formerly, but manymodern museums specialised tremendously. Also travelling by Mariposa to America will be Mr E. O. Gi Scott, of the Launceston Museum. Tasmania. He, too, is the recipient of a Carnegie Corporation grant. While Dr. Oliver is absent the work of the Dominion museum will be superintended by Mr W. J. Phillips.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 20969, 23 February 1938, Page 8
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220MUSEUM METHODS Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 20969, 23 February 1938, Page 8
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