EDUCATION EXHIBITIONS / DISPLAYS • Many more exhibits than I expected and excellently displayed. School and Community Group Visits • To be able to show an overseas visitor one of our cricket ‘Power Play’ Multi-Media Touch-Screen Interactive NEW ZEALAND A total of 37 school and community group visits took place treasures. This innovative project was completed and installed in late March in time for in 2011/12. The total number of groups visiting the museum • Fantastic display of cricket memorabilia, persons, and statistics the New Zealand v South Africa Test Match at the Basin Reserve. The interactive equalled the previous record of 37 groups established in relating to the game of cricket. and accompanying wall-mounted murals were installed in a specially designed CRICKET MUSEUM 2009/10 and 2010/11. The reference to visitation figures • DVD’s for some displays portrayed a lot of information quickly. kiosk immediately adjacent to the Oakley Gallery. The second phase of the project noted in the Annual Survey which showed that there was a • Learnt a lot about cricket history. was completed in April when the interactive became ‘live’ on the New Zealand substantial increase in local and regional visitors from 7% to • Well laid out displays. Cricket/New Zealand Cricket Museum website. The ‘Power Play’ full web-based 26% in 2011/12 was not reflected in school and/or community • The vast amount of memorabilia on show. interactive project development adds a new dimension to the museums profile, group visitations for 2011/12. and considerably advances the ‘museum without walls’ concept being developed • I got engrossed in some of the commentaries. I spent more time for the museum in a wider public engagement arena. However, the most significant feature was the visit of 416 here than expected. Loved hearing about great NZ cricketers of Vintage Cricket Carnival participants and their partners in the past. The interactive has been designed to be very ‘user-friendly’ and in that regard 12 groups to the museum in March. This co-jointly planned • Really good layout and a really nice museum. is operating very well with users across all age groups enjoying the ease and activity contributed $2,000 to the museums income streams. • The videos of historical matches was hugely interesting and flexibility of navigating and guiding themselves through the players, broadcasters/ The museums Annual Survey results also revealed that 95% of informative. commentators, music, comedy, and poetry sections of the interactive without any visitors viewed the educational/research value of exhibitions • Spacious layout of the museum and it was a good size. instructions from museum staff or volunteers. The final tranche of 13 Radio NZ as either excellent (65%) or good (30%). Staff knowledge was • Found everything to be very interesting/fascinating. Only regret Sound Archives recordings that has been delayed because of the Christchurch rated as excellent by 75% of visitors, and 19% as good, with was I wish I had more time!! earthquake in February 2011 will become available at the end of July for inclusion 6% indicating they didn’t know, or didn’t use, the staff service • Great photographs and statistics of leading players. in the interactive. offered to them. • The friendly approach from the staff. What Visitors Like About the Museum • Being welcomed. Having some details pointed out. Being able to look round at my own pace. The comprehensiveness of the 74 of 100 visitors responded to the question ‘What, if exhibits. anything, did you like about your visit to this museum today’ in the museums Annual Survey. Here is a selection of their Also, under the question ‘Is there anything you would like to add?’ responses. • The dedication and attention to detail were excellent and I would • The large amount of items and information about all things put the museum on a par with the Lord’s museum. cricket. • A real gem. • Very thorough and imaginative presentation. Easy to move • I only came along because my husband wanted to come but was around. pleasantly surprised to find that I enjoyed my visit. • Recent/New Exhibitions/Facts on History/Origins of Cricket. VISITS TO THE MUSEUM Phone: 04 385 6602 Email: [email protected] The Old Grandstand, Basin Reserve, Wellington Website: www.nzcmuseum.co.nz Power Play Interactive – Players Swipe Screen 2012 Swipe Screen – Players Interactive Play Power Photographer: Mark Coote NZCM Archives Public Hours Basin Reserve Tours Summer Season: 10.30 – 3.30pm Monday to Sunday and all match Tours can be organised to the New Zealand Cricket Museum, the days i.e. 01 November to 30 April. R.A. Vance Stand, the Groundsmen’s Shed and the perimeter of the Winter Season: 10.30 – 3.30pm Weekends only i.e. 01 May to 31 ground to view famous historical cricket plaques. October or by special arrangement. Facilities Schools & Group Hours Museum toilet including disabled toilet. Summer Season: Open Monday to Friday 10.30 – 3.30pm by prior Bus & car parking adjacent to the museum. arrangement (not match days). Museum shop stocks a variety of books, postcards, miniature cricket Winter Season: As above but by special arrangement. bats, balls etc. Admission Charges Lending Library $7 adults; $3 students/children. Children (12 years & under) free The library is available for lending, research and study purposes. if accompanied by an adult. Hours by arrangement. A cornucopia of cricket history. School groups $2 per student and $4 per adult. Guided tours $5 per How To Find Us student and $10 per adult. Other group visits by arrangement. By Car: Drive in/enter by the southern (J.R. Reid) Gate at the Basin Bookings Reserve. The museum welcomes school/group visits by prior arrangement. By Bus: Stagecoach Wellington. Buses 1, 42, 43, 44 travel to/from Power Play Interactive Kiosk (detail) 2012 Photographer: Mark Coote NZCM Archives We appreciate at least two weeks notice to enable successful liaison Kent and Cambridge Terrace to the Central Railway Station. time with the Host/Guide and to ensure that you are able to book the By Rail: NZ Tranz Metro units depart from the Central Railway Station. 2012 – Music Swipe Screen Interactive Play Power Photographer: Mark Coote NZCM Archives most suitable times. By Foot: Enter the Basin by the northern or southern Gates and proceed to museum. Note: The museum can comfortably accommodate 25 students and The museum is very grateful for the funding support from New Zealand Community Winter/Spring Newsletter 2012 accompanying teachers and adults, split into two groups, at one General Trust and the Wellington Cricket Trust for assisting the museum with this project time. Smoking, food or drink are not permitted. and helping to turn the vision into a reality. COLLECTION MANAGEMENT NEW ZEALAND CRICKET HISTORY BRIEFLY Cricket Bats Project – Equipment & Clothing Collection New Zealand v South Africa (Third Test) Mon 1st Jan Annual Survey Results A major project has commenced to fully document the museums cricket bats (Equipment & Clothing Collection) by further New Years Day, and a lot of handshaking amongst the team. A fine day The museums Annual Survey results for Newlands, Cape Town, 1, 2, 3, 4 January 1962 2011/12 completed in May were again very researching and updating the museums early records of cricket bats, and along with more detailed records of the last nine years, with a fair amount of wind. John [Reid] won the toss in this game on a pleasing in terms of visitor’s appraisal of transferring this information to the museums Vernon Collection database. This process also involved Mike Lewis photographing New Zealand’s First Victory in 31 Tests perfect batting track. Noel (McGregor) made a good 68, John R. 92 unlucky the museum. There was a 100% visitor every bat in the collection – front and back – to provide a visual, as well as a textual record, of each and every bat. Played Overseas not to get a century. This sure is John’s batting track, and at stumps we are satisfaction rating (36% excellent, 48% 337 for 4 wckts. Zin [Zinzan Harris] 91 n.o. and Chaps [Murray Chapple] very good, 16% good) for the seventh year 2012 is the 50th Anniversary of this historic New Zealand victory, in a row, and the Overall Quality ‘excellent’ Bat presented by George Carr The museum has a wide and diverse range of cricket bats, with a significant on 58 n.o. We are all looking forward to Zin making a most popular century and only the second in its test history. A reunion of the players rating figure was 71%. Also, 67% of visitors to John Kissling 1864 number of aged and modern bats either signed by the great and good, tomorrow, altogether a good day for NZ. Tonight there’s nothing arranged rated the way objects and exhibits are All England XI v Otago XXII who toured Australia, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and South national and international teams, or associated with epic individual and team for us. [signed ‘F.J.C’. – Frank Cameron] displayed as excellent, with 29% rating Photographer: Mike Lewis Africa in 1961-62 was held during the New Zealand v South them as good (100% in total). Equipment & Clothing achievements and events. The most notable bat in the collection is the repaired, Africa 3rd Test Match at the Basin Reserve, Wellington on the nd Collection, NZCM strengthened and wormed bat, inscribed “Addington XI 1743” (and weighing Tuesday 2 January Digital Newsletter 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 March 2012. It was decided at this function Accession No 2012.102.1 a mere 2lb. 7oz.,) that was purchased by a museum benefactor at a Christie’s Today, a day of mixed fortunes for the N.Z.