“I just think that hands on opportunity is so much more valuable. If you can pass around actual objects, natural and man-made, you have really got a special experience."
You get to understand how flawed democracy can be when only 265 people can be bothered making submissions that will impact the 50,000 people of Invercargill for years to come. And out of that only 36% agree with the direction the council is heading which must be around 95 people. That is 0.2% of the city's population.
Just talking with a group of people yesterday who were saying a generation of school kids has moved through the system knowing nothing about and museum which says a lot about how the council has dropped the ball.
Now seems they could well drop the ball again by moving to a digital experience. Someone should be showing us where this has worked in another comparable museum around the world. Lets not think we should reinvent the wheel in Invercargill.
I agree with Lloyd Esler if its digital (and it will be out of date before the museum is oppened) we only need a few screens.as a kid in the 50ts I was always intrigued by the glass cabinets full of artifacts from the past.
The Youth Council have got it right. And after all it will be that generation and the next that will be saddled those expensive upgrades.
You get to understand how flawed democracy can be when only 265 people can be bothered making submissions that will impact the 50,000 people of Invercargill for years to come. And out of that only 36% agree with the direction the council is heading which must be around 95 people. That is 0.2% of the city's population.
Just talking with a group of people yesterday who were saying a generation of school kids has moved through the system knowing nothing about and museum which says a lot about how the council has dropped the ball.
Now seems they could well drop the ball again by moving to a digital experience. Someone should be showing us where this has worked in another comparable museum around the world. Lets not think we should reinvent the wheel in Invercargill.
How about once actually listening to the youth of this city instead of vilifying them.
I agree with Lloyd Esler if its digital (and it will be out of date before the museum is oppened) we only need a few screens.as a kid in the 50ts I was always intrigued by the glass cabinets full of artifacts from the past.