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Weekender, May 8, 2021 SATURDAY, 8 MAY, 2021 PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE: East Coast Museum of Technology marketing, communications and advertising manager Elise Miller (left) and Harrison Hill are among volunteers who help keep the Makaraka-based museum continuing into the future. Picture by Liam Clayton AN UNFORGOTTEN WORLD Laid out across half a dozen large sheds, the East Coast Museum of Technology is a wonderful trip into a forgotten world, commented Abhishek S of Bengaluru, India on the museum’s webpage — but the museum relies on an invaluable resource to keep going, volunteer Elise Miller explains to Mark Peters. hink analogue not digital, old-age “It is an elephants’ graveyard of from an earlier time — into the future. The museum is also working on its not space-age, enthuses a Lonely ancient bicycles, lamps, scales, telephone “We need a mix of volunteers and friends branding and focus, says Elise. Planet travel guide about the East switchboards, fridges, stoves, irons, of ECMoT and those who can dedicate time The ECMoT committee wants the huge TCoast Museum of Technology televisions, radiograms, pinball games, to restore things and curate items,” says collection curated and to have “more flow”, to (ECMoT). washing machines, vacuum cleaners and volunteer Elise Miller. create a more user-friendly environment. “About 6km west of the town centre, this irons. It is East Coast gothic,” says a 2011 “I decided to dedicate my time after I In 2011 former Gisborne man Ian Smail improbable medley of farm equipment, fire Gisborne Herald Weekender story about an moved back (from Australia) because this did just that when he transformed a section engines and sundry appliances has found an ECMoT project. place needed a revamp. of the museum into a 1950s and 1960s appropriate home in an old milking barn and “The potential for magic, even mystery, “ECMoT is under the radar at the moment domestic setting. surrounding outhouses,” says the entry in though, is all around.” but we’re working on our strategic plan. Ian faced a huge task and asked at the time, the backpacker’s bible. Run by a dedicated group of volunteers, the Without volunteers and people behind the “Where do you start? Then, where do you In some ways, though, the 52-year-old non-profit organisation needs volunteers, scenes the museum would be lost to the finish?” museum is home to the improbable medley and funding for earthquake-strengthening, public. We want to bring more volunteers on time forgot. to continue to carry its legacy — artefacts board.” Continued on page 2 Kelly & Alex Shanan & Maiko 29 May 2021 Dancing War Memorial Theatre 10 Couples for Life Dance Education Event Steve Wolter Plumbing Creative Entertaining www.dancingforlifeedgisborne.co.nz < < Book Your Tickets Now! Supporting Life Education Trust Inc. Gisborne, East Coast & Wairoa 39540-01 SATuRdAy, MAy 8, 2021 2 LEAD Visionaries needed From page 1 With more imagination than budget he created a series of thematically linked, stand-alone dioramas in which each setting was dressed to create a sense of belonging, of where the objects on display belonged, and of how they might have been used. His acquaintance with set design for film and theatre came in handy for the project. Less was more in this instance and visitors found a curated oasis called “domestic bliss” that opened a window into one aspect of the past. The linked mini-sets included a chessboard plinth that suggested a kitchen floor from the 1950s or ’60s, a laundry complete with rough-sawn noggins, and smaller, stand-alone sets that showcased single items such as old jugs and kettles from various eras. ECMoT is home to a range of collections from the domestic-bliss items and private collections of military items, to fire engines. “We have trains, we have old cars, old farming machinery, old buildings like the Ruatoria jail and the old Kia Ora Dairy factory, which is in desperate need of TINY TOWN: Turn a corner at the East Coast Museum of Technology site and find a sledge house, the Whakaangiangi post office, a restoration and earthquake strengthening,” Chaplin locomotive and an old jail. Pictures by Liam Clayton says Elise. “We get a lot of people coming through the door and that is what keeps us open, but it’s not enough to fund the upgrades on the building, nor the earthquake strengthening.” ECMoT needs more people and more visionaries to help keep the dream alive, she says. “A little or a lot goes a long way. “We need to find these passionate people and businesses who can donate their time to the museum. We need volunteers who can donate their time or funds behind the scenes, and to the place, when and where they see fit — for the youth of today and tomorrow. “It’s about the past, present and future, and a way of giving back. “It’s for our people, it’s for all. “I’ve been around the world and a lot of it is on our back doorstep — and we don’t realise it.” The East Coast Museum of Technology was conceived during the James Cook bicentennial celebrations in 1969. A group of transport and technology enthusiasts mounted a display of items as part of the event, which became part of the Gisborne Museum and Arts Centre and was housed in a barn at the back of the museum’s Stout Street premises. When the group relocated to leased MACHINE AGE: It could almost be a snapshot of a work-in-progress by Alien designer Hans Ruedi Giger but the Mirrlees Engine, now land at the back of the A&P Showgrounds housed at the East Coast Museum of Technology, that used to power Gisborne is actually a submarine motor. they took the barn with them, added another one and put up other buildings to Makaraka railway goods shed, and the accommodate the expanding collection, King Road railway station. writes Sheridan Gundry in A Splendid The Gisborne railway station telephone Isolation. exchange and two rural exchanges “In 1984 the transport and technology are also part of the expansive, and section became an incorporated society in expanding, ECMoT collection. its own right, and was renamed as the East On site too are the Amateur Radio Coast Museum of Technology. Club and the Model Railway Club who WHEELS: “The chance to own its own property operate from their clubrooms on the Among the East came in 1988 when the museum purchased museum grounds on Saturdays. Coast Museum the former Kia Ora Dairy Factory premises The museum is happy to accommodate of Technology’s collections is at Makaraka. The original barn and the new clubs with similar interests and goals, this fleet of one were dismantled and moved to the new says Elise. motorbikes. site, and since that time two more barns As a non-profit organisation, ECMoT and two large sheds have been added to welcomes volunteers and urges anyone greatly expand the display areas.” interested in the work to get in touch. ECMoT also bought the adjacent “I first came out here a year-and-a-half Makaraka railway station site. This is in to two years ago when I moved back,” development as a vintage railway that says Elise. includes the Matawhero railway station, the “Before that I used to drive past it.” Saturday, May 8, 2021 3 PROFILE After a lifetime noticing the quirks and strangeness embedded in the DNA of the homosapien, artist Brian Campbell has his paintings on gallery walls once again. The Herald’s Jack Marshall spoke with Brian about his latest works and his thoughts on humanity. rian Campbell has been thinking about the ills of the world. Then he put them on to canvas, into the Bboot of his car and drove them to Hastings for his exhibition, Head Above the Water, opening this week. He has an eye for humanity’s hypocritical, absent-minded and harmful natures. With a monkey never far from his paintings, they query whether humankind is devolving, or perhaps never really evolved that much in the first place — noting our addiction to planet-destroying fossil fuels and cancer-causing cigarettes. Brian’s art hangs on walls around Gisborne like a badge of awareness when you walk into a friend’s house. HEAD ABOVE THE WATER: Although he is a long-time East Coast With a keen eye for the resident he was first a South Island import, hypocritical, Brian Campbell having grown up in Invercargill. is off to Hawke’s Bay with his “It wasn’t the worst place in the world, not art for an exhibition. that I’d go back and live there,” says Brian. Picture by Liam Clayton “I was there all my school days. I thought at Monkey man the time it wasn’t a great place but when you look back you had a lot of freedom. It was a which was not his cup of tea. “Because of global warming, people are not try to be. good place to be a kid.” Instead he barrelled into years of surfing gonna have to move or they’re gonna get “I’m not very disciplined, you know? If I His mother was an early artistic influence and “tonnes of shit jobs”, to pay the swamped. wanna slack off I’ll go surfing or go to town and taught him how to draw as soon as he mortgage and keep the bank off his back. “When I was young people didn’t think or something, I’m not glued to it. I just keep could hold a pencil. Although painting on canvas is his passion, too much about the fact that humans might chipping away and things get finished.
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