As the year draws to a close, and taking with it we hope the close of several of its less than affirmative developments, it can now be revealed that plans have begun for the Museum's next physical incarnation. Plans both concrete, as in lines on peper, and abstract as in visions.
On the concrete front - well not so much a front as a concrete base with a front more likely of wood - a plan of sorts has been submitted to our glorious local authorities for their approval. It is envisaged that this site will before too long be the Museum's first regional campus, its principal research facility where ideas can flourish and focus, can foment and ferment, and freely fertilized by salt air and the call of the cockatoo, find fruition.
Admittedly at the moment all we have what is what is known in the development world as a greenfields site. Which, thanks to all the rain we've had in recent months, is actually green, except for the small brown mounds that are ant nests. It is hoped that Al will be able to begin construction early in 2011.
In more abstract developments, it is intended that in addition to the regional R&D facility there will be a new display facility at an inner-urban location to replace in some way our former and lamented presence at the Nicholas Building. Details yet to be resolved will be communicated here in due course.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
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