CARNEGIE GRANT.

Wairarapa Age, 26 May 1936, Page 5

CARNEGIE GRANT.

DISTRIBUTION OF £lO,OOO IN NEW ZEALAND. DEVELOPING EDUCATIONAL, SEE VICES. DUNEDIN, May 22. In 1935 the Carnegie Corporation invited a committee of New Zealand laymen to advise as to the most effective way to distribute the sum of £lO,OOO in New Zealand in developing educational services, museums, and art galleries. Building operations or structural alterations in existing buildings were, with the exception of Napier, whose museum was destroyed in the earthquake, excluded from the scheme. Advice has been received that the committee's report has been adopted in full by the Carnegie Corporation and that a draft to cover the cost has been received.

In the meantime, only those institutions will participate which have a paid curator in charge, where funds for the maintenance of the institution are available locally, and where the institution is open to the public and provided with separate accommodation. A school service is to be established involving the appointment to eaeh of the metropolitan museums of an educational officer. It is hoped that the Government will assist in the appointment and payment of these officers. Cases for the circulation of loan exhibits in schools are to be provided ’"J/ centre and th® circulation of exhibits will be supervised by the educational officer.

A system of exchange of museum exhibits and art collections is to be established in New Zealand and between New Zealand, Australia, the United States, and Great Britain. Cinematographs and a circulating library of suitable films are to be placed in the four metropolitan museums for extensiqp of the 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, and Otago is to be asked to experiment in agricultural displav, and money will be provided for these experiments.

The snm of £2OOO has been allocated tor the purchase of a representative collection of full-sized reproductions of suitable pictures illustrating the various schools of painting. The collecL I ° n . >S housed the National Gallery Wellington, and sections will be available, for loan to any public ga]*ery which is able to display it satisfactorily. Napier is to receive £2OOO ’ ora . rauBe ™ building and £5OO for exhibition eases.—(P.A.)~