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local community and a world-class visitor attraction. The redevelopment also addressed collection storage, which now reflects international best practice. Under Paul's leadership, the museum's
Tropical Forest, a three-level indoor butterfly rainforest experience, was also completed in 2007. During Paul's tenure, visitor numbers increased from around 250,000 per annum, peaking an over 600,000. In 2012, Paul resigned after ongoing controversy over his level of pay and staff morale.
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major addition to the science centre in 2007. Discovery World
Tropical Forest has become an important visitor attraction in its own right. A planetarium was a further addition to the science centre in 2015. Over the course of 2017, Discovery World was further redeveloped, and opened in December of that year as the 'Tūhura Otago Community Trust Science Centre'.
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Thousands of school students visit the Otago Museum every year for curriculum-based programmes relating to galleries or exhibitions. The museum also offers a popular ‘sleepover’ programme to school groups. A portable planetarium (‘Starlab’) provides astronomy experiences both onsite or at schools in
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Pacific area, as well as a representative collection of arachnids from around the world. Marine invertebrate specimens number
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had an especially long and impactful relationship with the museum. Fels contributed many items personally, as well as establishing a purchasing fund, facilitating acquisitions made by others, and encouraging others to pass on valuable items to the museum. He also coordinated the fundraising efforts
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became the first new director appointed under the Otago Museum Trust Board Act. Forster ushered in a period of intense research in the biological sciences at the museum. Becoming a world authority on the biology and classification of spiders, Forster brought together a significant arachnid
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tablets and inscriptions in its collection, the largest known collection of its type in the southern hemisphere. Wide-ranging collections of pottery, jewellery, costume, glassware, clocks, furniture, stamps, guns, cameras, and stone tools are also held.
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267:, held in Dunedin. Some of these collections were the nucleus of the Otago Museum, which first opened to the public on 12 September 1868. The museum was originally located in the Dunedin Exchange building on
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to Otago Museum in 2008; with dragon motifs as its theme, the exhibition included ancient artefacts never previously seen outside of China. As an exchange exhibition, Otago Museum sent
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