TRAVELLING MUSEUM

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 739, 12 August 1929, Page 16

TRAVELLING MUSEUM

SCHEME FOR AUCKLAND SCHOOLS SYSTEM OF LOAN EXHIBITS Travelling collections of museum exhibits for the benefit of Auckland schools will be established next year if a proposal at present under consideration is adopted. Mr. Gilbert Archey, curator of the Auckland War Memorial Museum, is strongly in favour of the scheme. Headmasters have expressed their approval, but it will be necessary to call a conference for the discussion of minor details. At present it is suggested that suitable exhibits should be made available to the schools. On the receipt of an application the necessary type of display would be forwarded in a motorlorry by the museum authorities. When the school in question had made use of the collection it would pass on to another school. Among the most useful and instructive exhibits would be birds, insects, and shells, collections of Maori relics and samples of native woods. In addition to these exhibits it is proposed to have grouped for lecture purposes lantern slides and notesj As the scheme as a whole developed exhibits depicting the seasons could be arranged, and the work would be done in such a way that the teachers, as the users of the collections, would become familiar with that which the museum had to offer.