Oral history exhibition back briefly at museum



5 August 2012

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By James Beech on Mon, 16 Jul 2012

One of the most popular exhibitions held by the Lakes District Museum is back this month, and the museum director has been invited to give heritage preservation tips to Coromandel residents.
The museum in Arrowtown had presented Speaking of Change: Memories of the Wakatipu 1900 to 1960 in the early 1990s as a major exhibition based on oral history recordings of 40 senior residents who were interviewed about their lives in the 20th century.

The show opened again last week and will run until July 29, then makes way for original artworks by Arrowtown artist Pat Jones in an exhibition titled Corridors and Passengers, from August 4 to September 16.

Gold is Where You Find It, the museum's contribution to celebrating 150 years since the discovery of gold in Central Otago, opens October on 19.

All aspects of the precious metal will be covered, with an emphasis on how it shaped Central Otago.

Lakes District Museum education officer Rachel Checketts explores the Speaking of Change: Memories of the Wakatipu 1900 to 1960 exhibition, which temporarily returns to the Arrowtown museum's gallery for the remainder of the month. Photo by James Beech. Meanwhile, museum director David Clarke will be the guest of the Coromandel Town community this month to advise it in a presentation and workshop how to leverage its pioneer-era gold-mining heritage into tourism dollars, as Arrowtown and Central Otago continued to do.

Residents and councillors want to share his knowledge and experience of public-private partnerships, namely the Arrowtown Trust, which spearheaded the rescue and restoration of Arrowtown's historic mining cottages.


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