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Rowan 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 famous author who had frizzy red hair, Janet Frame.
Rowan is also looking to make sure that she has enough staff to manage the ever-growing archive collection (from which the local council supplies at least a hundred meters worth of paper each year) and then she can focus on revitalising the museum's exhibitions. In summary, this is a story about an urbanartqueen sort of girl who becomes the director of a small town museum, and her challenge is to bring the fusty, dusty display cases into the 21st century. We wish Rowan the best of luck!
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