Otago Museum

The Otago Settlers Museum has secured the future of its planned education outreach programme, involving some of the city's other museums, by gaining a key new Ministry of Education contract.

Otago Museum organisers are optimistic that international consultancy work and improved chances to sell interactive science exhibits overseas will result from a recent science conference.

Closer links between New Zealand's four biggest museums are starting to pay off, Otago Museum officials say.

Despite the huge power of computer search engines, internet-based learning does not threaten the future of science centres and museums, Dr Goery Delacote, one of the world's leading science centre directors, says.

The Otago Museum is moving on to the "world stage" by hosting the annual conference of an Asia Pacific science centre network, for the first time in New Zealand, organisers say.

Repeated vandalism to saplings in the Otago Museum reserve is "pretty disappointing", the Dunedin City Council says.

The resolution of a long-running dispute over Oldman collection artefacts held at the Otago Museum reflects a greatly improved relationship between the museum and Te Papa, Otago Museum officials say.

Gremlins in the Otago Museum's main entry automatic counting system may be partly to blame for an apparent big drop in museum visitors last year.

Core services at the Otago Museum will suffer if proposed cuts to funding go ahead, the organisation says.

A Charles Darwin exhibition developed at the Otago Museum has recently taken on a new life as a display at the South Australia Museum in Adelaide.