In Love With Public Museums

We really must be in love with public museums. Check out the NZ Museums website www.nzmuseums.co.nz. In Southland alone there are 18 museums listed and I bet that's not all of them. Have you ever visited Anderson's Park Art Gallery, the Bluff Maritime Museum, Eastern Southland Art Gallery (lovingly referred to as the Goreggenheim), Fiordland Vintage Machinery Museum, Gore Airforce Museum, Gore Historical Museum, Hokonui Pioneer Park, Hospital Museum of Southland, Mataura Historical Society Inc, Otautau Museum, Rakiura Museum, Southland Fire Service Museum Society Inc, Southland Museum & Art Gallery, Te Hikoi Southern Journey, Waikaia Museum, Waikawa Museum & Information Centre, Wyndham & District Historical Museum, Wyndham Park Heritage Centre, Templeton Flax Mill Heritage Museum. There are more museums, for example, that are managed privately but are freely accessible to the public such as Gunn's Camp Museum www.gunnscamp.org.nz , and the Bill Richardson Truck Museum www.hwr.co.nz/truck-museum. I even discovered a webpage dedicated to the love of the Bill Richardson Truck Museum in which the writer says:

“Through my adolescent years, I considered museums to be a somewhat magical place. The saber-tooth tigers, Mummies and the almighty dinosaurs; these were the things that would fill any young boy with bubbling excitement and joy. After recently hitting the quarter-century mark, my passions have significantly changed, but on a recent visit to Invercargill, I became a small boy once more.” http://oldschool.co.nz/2013/10/07/the-shed-bill-richardsons-truck-museum-2/

 

 

So what do all these museums have in common...?