Want of Space .
Lack of Accommodation in Museum.
ACCORDING to a paragraph in the “ Star ” of Monday, April 20, 1574, the Canterbury Museum was then too small to contain adequately all the exhibits then in the hands of the curator. The paragraph stated:—“Amongst the recent additions to the museum is a very fine skeleton of a female elephant obtained from India. . . . Owing to the want of space being now severely felt in the museum, the skeleton has been crowded into a corner where it is certainly not seen to advantage.” The museum was first opened to the public sixty-seven years ago, in 1867, and its formation was largely due to the efforts of Dr von Haast, afterwards knighted, and the exhibits grew in number until the museum was considered inadequate to hold them. That was over sixty years ago, and the same building to-day, without addition, endeavours to cope with the gradually increasing number of exhibits.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20283, 18 April 1934, Page 6
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