The Southland Museum and Art Gallery Trust own a collection of some 2 million objects, but its board is unsure how many are duplicates.
The board has its museum and heritage services manager Wayne Marriott for a database of items in the collection, so it could identify duplicates and irrelevant items, and get a sense of what it can use to best tell Southland’s story.
Board chair Darren Ludlow said the process of digitising catalogues could also throw up the opportunity to identify gaps in the…
