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Episode 66 Peter Peryer, photographer Peter Peryer has been taking photos for over 30 years What he can do with the camera is phenomenal, and the way that he talks and writes about photography is even better. Peter is the second artist to be invited to live in a Plischke-designed home in Alexandra; the previous recipient of the Henderson residency was writer Vincent O'Sullivan. This house is totally, totally fabulous (in a Frank Lloyd Wright sort of way). The view is to die for: you look over the Clutha River and onto the far- ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 65: Museums and copyrightVictoria Leachman, Rights Manager, Te Papa, guides us through patents, copyright, and intellectual property. We find out what kind of things you can copyright, why the criteria are so strict, what's so special about being dead for 50 years (or 70 years if you're from the UK), and what the deal is with Creative Commons licences.Lucy Hoffman, Web Manager, Te Papa, is our guest interviewer. Here's a pdf about Copyright, supplied by National Services Te Paerangi of Te Papa.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 60: Women, camellia's and the voteFerrymead Heritage Park is an
open-air museum that tells stories about Victorian and Edwardian
Christchurch. On Labour Weekend the Museum Detective was invited to the launch of Miss Camelia White – an advocate of the women’s suffrage movement. The Museum Detective talked with staff who were role-playing, and the MP for Christchurch East Lianne Dalziel, who was until recently Minister for Women’s Affairs. Lianne wasn’t role-playing.So let’s set the scene a little. We have some sensible women ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
58 Money and Science: The New Zealand Institute & Hector Francis Lucian Reid recently completed his PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK, in the History and Philosophy of Science. He talks about how fiscal restraint shaped the type of science the scientists involved in the New Zealand Institute (now the Royal Society) did. Predictably we moved onto a discussion about one certain gentleman who did science in the mid to late 19th century New Zealand - Sir James Hector.Francis admits that he could have written a rich and juicy biography about H ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 59: We love those little museumsRowan Carrol, Director of the North Otago Museum, takes the Museum Detective on a guided tour of the displays. But this is not your ordinary guided tour. Throughout the visit Rowan critiques the museum practice that has shaped each of the exhibits, and she shares her vision for this small town museum. Rowan is seeking iconic stories about the region, which include a collection of tools from the Waitaha (a local Maori tribe some hundreds of years ago), Temuka pottery, and mementos from a fam ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
56 The sinking of New Zealand: conversations between Hector and DarwinProfessor George Gibbs, entomologist and author of Ghosts of Gondwanda, wanted to figure out ‘what sort of science James Hector did.’ While George was impressed with the wide range of topics that Hector covered in his 35 years as editor of the Transactions the thing that really caught his eye was the correspondence between James Hector and Charles Darwin. Then as our conversation unfolded we started toying with the idea that colonial scientists were perhaps a little freer to explore new ide ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
54 Mr Science: The Life and Legacy of James HectorSimon Nathan, geologist and science writer tackles the question of what it was like being a scientist one hundred years ago. Simon organised a bunch of historians, scientists and museologists to ponder over this matter. The person at the centre of the discussion was Sir James Hector, fondly described as Mr Science of New Zealand. Simon spoke about the life and legacy of Mr Hector. Hector's influence extended to the Geological Survey, the Colonial Museum,
the New Zealand Institute, the Paten ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
55 The Colonial MuseumConal McCarthy,
Director of the Museums and Heritage Studies programme at Victoria
University in Wellington, takes us into the world of over-crowded display cases, ferocious custodians and sparse museum labels. Yes, we're playing with the idea of the Victorian Museum.Conal spent some time delving into the history of the Colonial Museum
when it was a wooden building up there on Museum Street in Thorndon. What sort of museum was it? Grandma’s attic, freak show, or a bland reference library? M ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
52 Looking Flash: examining material cultureBronwyn Labrum, Senior Lecturer in the College of Creative Arts at Massey University takes us through the steps of how to read material culture. First, what is material culture? Well, it’s that everyday stuff we have in our kitchens, the rinky dinky technology things that make our life interesting, and the clothes that we wear. But the key issue here is what happens to all this stuff once it gets into the hands of an historian. Bronwyn Labrum, Fiona McKergow and Stephanie Gibson have co-edi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
49 Repeat: Love and the PlatypusAuthor Nicholas Drayson speaks about his latest book Love and the Platypus. A story involving a young Cambridge graduate, Mr William Caldwell, competing against a German zoologist in the search for the Platypus egg. Thrown in for good measure we have the harsh Queensland landscape, some racial tension, a drover with a shady past, and two spinsters with a passion for gardening. It's quite a cocktail.In addition, Nick explains the alluring breeding and defence habits of the Platypus. We also ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
50 Astrophysics: watching for near earth asteroidsAlan Gilmore, Mt John Obersvatory, University of Canterbury.
We encounter a spectograph, which is basically a Thomas the Tank Engine looking sort of machine for measuring things such as the speed and temperature of stars, and then we probe into those pesky near earth asteroids: this is something that deeply concerns my 7 1/2 year old daughter (think dinosaurs). Thankfully our astronomers are also concerned and they've devised tug boats, paint guns and laser beams (nothing out on the market ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
4:2 Palaeontology Part IIWe're back at the Palaeontology Collection at the University of Auckland. Collection Manager, Neville Hudson, whisks us away into the world of shellfish from Gondwanaland, DNA analysis of moa bones and ancient grasshoppers. We've have the excitement of dinosaur dung, fossilised footprints and researchers from overseas interested in conducting research on the Jurassic relatives of our very own tuatara.
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3:10 Fishy TalesThis week the Museum Detective visits the New Zealand Marine Studies Centre and Aquarium nested on the shores of Otago Peninsula. This Aquarium was once a government-owned fish hatchery designed to breed fish from the Northern oceans for the palates of the recent European migrants - apparently the hatcher had limited success. Eventually the hatchery was bought by the University of Otago and they had to good sense to focus their attention on what lies beneath our Southern Seas.
Curator Ade ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
3:09 Lice, those six-legged beautiesIn this episode we talk about lice. Our guest is Ricardo Palma, an entomologist from Te Papa. He tells us how these six-legged beauties have kept him busy for over 40 years. Ricardo has worked in Argentina, Chile, New Zealand and the Galapagos Islands, the latter being a once in a life time opportunity.
Ricardo's area is taxonomy, he explains the various tricks of the trade from how to prepare a louse to peer under the microscope and he shares some anecdotes about how lice have speciated b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
3:03 The Police MuseumWe continue with the crime theme and visit the Police Museum in Porirua. Rumour has it that most of us learn about police through popular culture, think Hawaii Five 0, Water Rats or NYPD Blue. But there's more to policing than the drama of high-speed car chases or the dread of speaking into the breathalyser at Christmas time. Telling the real story about the history of New Zealand police and the role of the Police Museum is the task of Kamaya Yates and Emma Godwin. Kamaya is the Manager of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
3:02 More of around the world in 30 lounges
This is the version you want. Apologies for the sound problems if you downloaded the first and second versions!
We continue with our behind the scenes tour of the exhibition Around the World in 30 lounges at Canterbury Museum. We talk with members from the Afghanistan and Egyptian community, a museum staff member who hails from Morocco gets caught up in all the excitement, the music is installed and then the great moment we've all been waiting for finally arrives - opening night. This mea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2:12 Flesh-eating bug. The Zoology Collection at the University of CanterburyToday we're talking bones, lots of bones - this is a the place where elephants lurk in cupboards and crocodiles line the corridors, there is also a rumour about an academic with a hippopotamus in his office (that's one heavy paperweight mulls the Museum Detective).Joanne Burke is the technician and caretaker of a vast Zoology Collection in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Canterbury. This collection houses vertebrates (mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish and birds) and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2:9 EducationThis week the Museum Detective talks about education with Cynthia McCaughan of the South Canterbury Museum. Cynthiaâ??s position is funded by the Ministry of Education under the Learning Experiences Outside the Classroom (LEOTC) scheme.Cynthia offers over 30 hands-on minds-on programmes. Students explore the world of social history, such as Edwardian-style education and the impact of Timaru's 1868 fire. Natural history, technology and archaeology are also on the books. Cynthia tells us that ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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