Pixie Town open two more days

The Otago Settlers Museum's Pixie Town display remains highly popular, and visitors still have two days to see the free display before it closes at 4pm tomorrow.

Pixie Town, which opened to the public early last month, is situated near the foyer of the museum's former NZR bus station building in Dunedin.

Museum organisers say 11,700 people have visited the museum since Pixie Town reopened.

The display will be open today and tomorrow, from 1pm to 4pm, and children can also take part in other free activities, including dressing up as pixies, organisers say.

Museum programmes co-ordinator Robyn Johnston said the traditional show was "an old-fashioned thing" but the latest display had lost none of its traditional appeal.

Public interest had peaked, when 900 people attended, on December 23.

The Pixie Town concept began in the 1950s, the brainchild of Nelson man Fred Jones.

Nine of the "towns" were created - all depicting mechanised pixies undertaking a number of tasks, including carrying a woman down a ladder from a blazing house.

The museum's "town" was initially displayed in Dunedin's DIC department store, until it closed in the late 1980s.

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