A WAR MUSEUM

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 143, 12 March 1919, Page 8

A WAR MUSEUM

MORE ACCOMMODATION REQUIRED WELLINGTON'S WAR COLLECTION The desirability of establishing a "War Museum was mentioned at yesterdays meeting of the Board of Science and Art. Tho Director of the Dominion Museum (Dr. J. Allan Thomson) reported to tho board that owing to the arrival of many war trophies he had been compiled to remove the Maori canoes to store. Die temporary disappearance of the canoes was disappointing to many people. Ine question of accommodation had not been solved, since many additional war exhibits were coming to hand, and further space would have to bo provided. Dr. Thomson said that there was no ground for any suggestion that Wellington ha , ] been specially favoured in tho matter of war trophies. Tho articles received at the Dominion Museum had been secured by Wellington units. The Defence Department was forwarding tropbies to the districts that the capturing units represented. It was reported that a military committee in London had been ! collecting materials for a National War Museum in this country. The Government had not yet put forward any definite proposal, but a 6clieme seemed likely to be evolved. • After some discussion the board adopted the following motion: "That this board advises the Government that a War Museum would be most economica!lv established and advanced in connection with the Dominion Museum. Ihe board further recommended: "That the care of war trophies and exhibits will ue most efficiently carried out by the museum staffs, and recommends that where possiblo duplicates of. interesting exhibits should be obtained from England and placed under the care of the mu6euins of the chief centres."