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Building, Rebuilding & Development Building, Rebuilding & Development Air Force Museum Canterbury Museum Len Lye Centre Toitu Contents Museums Aotearoa Eds Quarter 3 Te Tari o Ngã Whare Taonga o te Motu Staff Changes 3 Is New Zealand’s independent peak professional organisation for museums and those who work in, or have an interest in, museums. Members include Message from the Board 4 museums, public art galleries, historical societies, science centres, people who work within these institutions and individuals connected or associated with Canterbury Museum 6 arts, culture and heritage in New Zealand. Our vision is to raise the profile, strengthen the preformance and increase the value of museums and galleries Air Force Museum 8 to their stakeholders and the community Len Lye Centre 10 Staff Service IQ 11 Executive Director – Phillipa Tocker Membership Services Manager – Talei Langley Associate Profile: iTicket 11 Clark Collection Scholarship 12 Contact Details Level 8, 104 The Terrace, Wellington 6011 Sarjeant Gallery 14 PO Box 10-928, Wellington 6143 Tel: 04 499 1313 Policy Matters! 16 Fax: 04 499 6313 Email: [email protected] Book Reviews 18 Web: www.museumsaotearoa.org.nz Te Ara 19 Advertising Toitū 20 Enquiries about advertising in this publication, or mailing flyers, should be addressed to the Museums Aotearoa office National Library 22 Museum Profile: Disclaimer Cotter Medical History Trust 23 The opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the Editor or of Museums Aotearoa My Favourite Thing 24 Contributions We welcome article suggestions and contributions. Cover images For enquiries about contributing to MAQ please contact us at [email protected]. Main: Micheal Parekowhai, On first looking into Chapman's Homer. John Collie, Photographer, Christchurch Art Gallery Next issue May 2013: Leadership and Advocacy Lower: Toitu Otago Settlers Museum Coach & Horses ISSN 1177-7362 2 MAQ February 2013 EDs Quarter Staff Moves At the start of a new year we inevitably think back on last year and look Senior Curator Helen Kedgley has been promoted forward to what's ahead. 2012 was not an easy year for our sector, with to the new position of Director at Pataka ART increasing economic, social and political challenges, and we expect these to + Museum. Current General Manager Darcy continue in 2013. These challenges have generated an unprecedented amount Nicholas retired at the end of last year. of 'churn' in senior positions – over a quarter of our medium/large museums have had a change of director in the past year. Andrew Matheson has been appointed Director, WW1 Centenary Programme, with the Ministry This churn has a number of drivers, and has 'trickle down' consequences. for Culture and Heritage, following a diplomatic The good news is that many museums are facing these challenges proactively, career. taking the opportunity to make changes which will better equip them for the future. We have been aware of the new vision and consequent restructuring Leanne Wickham has moved from the Dowse at Te Papa, and similar exercises at other museums such as Waikato, Aratoi, Art Museum to be Director of Upper Hutt's Hawke's Bay and Wellington. Expressions Art & Entertainment Centre, replacing Stephanie Cottrill who left last year. This issue of MAQ brings you first-hand reports of some recent developments and re-developments from around the country. These are positive – and also Grant Collie has returned from Australia to be challenging. Some are complete, and others still in the early stages. There is Director of the Wanganui Riverboat Centre, taking something to be learned from all of them. over from Stuart Perry who has moved to Tasmania. One lesson is that change is inevitable. As well as 'fallout' from the Canterbury Aratoi has engaged Robin Dunlop as part time earthquakes, such as the safety of heritage buildings, changing expectations acting Director while they look at options for the of funders and the public demand new ways of working. I explored these future. Robin has a long involvement with heritage questions and challenges in a presentation at the INTERCOM 2012 and tourism in the Wairarapa. conference last November, and bring you an abridged version of that paper in Policy Matters! (p16). MOTAT has announced the appointment of Michael Frawley as CEO, replacing Jeremy The conference was titled #museumchallenges. While there are no hard and Hubbard who resigned last year. Mr Frawley was fast answers to these challenges, it is good to understand them so we are a partner an international law firm and involved better prepared to find our way through. with the National Portrait Gallery in the UK. Looking ahead for Museums Aotearoa, we have another busy year. The first Director Jeanette Richardson has joined the quarter is filled with conference, awards, visitor survey, audit and annual National Army Museum in Waiouru after several reporting. We are also working on analysis of the sector survey data which years as CE at the Waitangi National Trust. we gathered late last year. This will be a valuable tool for advocacy, both nationally and for individual museums. Puke Ariki, Otago Museum and the NZ Cricket Museum are yet to announce new leaders, and We look forward to bringing you these tools and opportunities, and working Auckland Art Gallery will need to replace with you over the coming year. Director Chris Saines when he leaves in March. Phillipa Tocker Executive Director 2013 February MAQ 3 Message from the Board I last wrote for MA Quarterly in November 2010. basement needs re-levelling before other repairs (primarily to the glass It’s hard now to re-imagine that time with clarity, façade, systems and fixtures in the ceilings and the ceilings themselves) are but damage to the central city and to Christchurch begun. We also propose to retro-fit base isolation to increase the building’s Art Gallery was minimal after the September seismic capability and enable us to offer an increased level of reassurance to 2010 earthquake. private and institutional lenders from elsewhere. Used then by Civil Defence for 10 days, we de- Debates continue with insurers, lawyers and engineers about methodology, installed two shows a little earlier than planned, priorities and acceptable levels of risk. Systems set up for normal decision- but evicted our unexpected guests in time for the making are not as agile as we would like. It’s time-consuming and installation of the largest exhibition ever shown demoralising to be in our building, but unable to gain daily pleasure and in Christchurch. ‘Ron Mueck’ attracted 135,400 sustenance that daily direct interactions with our collections, exhibitions and paying visitors, an astounding 66% of them local. our visitors afford us. As I said in the director’s foreword of our quarterly Mueck’s work struck a chord with Canterbury Bulletin 160, ‘C an someone please say ‘zap’ and have [these repairs] done!’ audiences. Its depictions of birth, death and its unusual cast of human characters, summarised So what are the lessons we can take from what has happened? Aotearoa New and symbolised our collective concerns at the Zealand is not known as the shaky isles for no good reason. If a build, re-build interruption to life. People struck up conversations or development is being considered for a museum or gallery, please do not be within the exhibition with unknown others; it persuaded that normal building standards are adequate for the protection of helped expose a healing process that, even then, collections and for your ability to function and provide the cultural heart a we knew would take a while. city needs when it’s ‘down’. Don’t think it’s a luxury to have the best possible systems and back-up and think about and build in precautionary measures. At an incredibly upbeat evening opening on 10 It’s not difficult to secure shelving and filing systems and to introduce regular February 2011, we confidently announced we were file back-up and a series of safety measures for staff and information. Make celebrating a new year, a major gift, one year of sure your funders, civil defence and local authorities have disaster plans which the Challenge Grant, one extraordinary bequest, take account of what support you can and cannot provide. These lessons all two new attendance records, nine newly-made seem obvious to us now. works of art, launching three new publications and opening three new exhibitions. What a triumph! But, on the positive side, a period of unplanned closure such as ours also affords an opportunity to re-think our purpose. Sadly we had to lay off some As they say, the rest is history. Christchurch Art staff, but we have managed to maintain a core team of people committed to Gallery remains closed following a more major creating a great ‘Gallery without Walls’. Surprisingly exhilarating at times, earthquake twelve days later. Used again for civil some wonderful highs have balanced the lows of existence in a pretty-well defence and as the emergency HQ, the building demolished and empty central city. was only vacated when the demolition of a next- door apartment block became urgent. Over While our collections are largely unavailable, we’ve found new ways to make time, liquefaction under the building’s basement these accessible online. Our award-winning ‘My Gallery’ function has proved car-park has caused ‘differential’ settlement. The a winner (have you tried it yet?), and it’s exceptional within our world to be 4 MAQ February 2013 Micheal Parekowhai, On first looking into Chapman's Homer able to say that 90% of our collection is now online Gallery’s ‘Angels & Aristocrats’ finishing its national tour in its own re-freshed with copyright-cleared images. Gallery staff have spaces, we’ve opened a powerful Shane Cotton exhibition in Brisbane’s IMA turned their hand to developing new skills and and will tour this, bringing it back to Christchurch for a grand finale.
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