COTMA Conference 1978 Christchurch

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List of Papers

1. “Historical Flashback – Trams in the Streets – how far can our Museums go in Recreating History” – Dave Hinman

2. “The Crich Experience – Analysis of a Successful Museum” – Geoffrey Claydon

3. “The Pros and Cons of a Composite Museum” – Simon Wood

4. “Design and Maintenance of Compressed Air Systems” – R. J. Scott

5. “The ‘new’ Museums and the ‘Tourist’” – Peter Rendall

Workshops

1a Progress in Archival Storage, Recovery and Display of Tramway Era Relics

1b Lessons of Crich for COTMA Members

1c New Projects – Recent Experience in Designing, Funding and Implementation

2a Can you Involve other groups on your site? What are suitable and How to go about it.

2b Site Planning and Co-ordination if Various Groups are involved.

2c Why a Composite Museum – Funding: Who gets What and Why – Sharing of the Cake.

3a Museum Compressed Air use – Standards, Parts Availability, Maintenance etc.

3b Progress – Upgrading Safety Programmes

3c Track Work Engineering – A comparison of Techniques and Skills being developed by Museums.

4a Enticing People to Your Museum – the Public

4b Enticing People to Your Museum – Work Parties

4c Auckland Trolley Bus Spare Parts

5a Financial – Subscriptions, Systems, Sales and Fund Raising

5c Restoration, Methods, Parts, Liaison etc.

5e Archives and Libraries

Panel Discussion – Volunteers v. Paid Staff: Preserving and Promoting Harmony and Productivity

Open Forum – Observations at Ferrymead – A Critical Analysis

Reports

Individual Presentations – Progress of Each Museum over the past twelve months.