it has been a fabulous week weatherwise - calm, clear and cold with heavy frosts since Sunday......the most delicious aspect of winter. Te maunga, Taranaki has been looking absolutely majestic and the frost has frozen the plants around the Aotea Memorial in Patea. These pictures were taken on Tuesday, July 13, about 7.45am - brrrr!
What's happening at the museum this week? Well, today is judging for the Building of the Year Awards so we have been cleaning and polishing in order for the building to look its shining and beautiful best. Right now there is a faint scent of furniture polish and glass cleaner pervading the otherwise empty galleries. Exhibition development is proceeding and, although it can seem agonisingly slow, it takes time to create stunning exhibitions, particularly when your collection is a range of the gloriously random and the outright eclectic!
The other component of exhibition development that we are sorely missing is funds. Marie, the secretary of the Museum Trust Board is a whizz at writing funding applications but so far we have come up with - nothing. There are more applications out there that we have not had a response on yet, but we are in dire need of money if we are to get the exhibitions on the floor by the end of November. All donations gratefully received!
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Kristelle
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