All Welcome Free Public Lecture
Unique opportunity to hear visiting architect and academic Steve King talk about:

"The Uncomfortable Museum"
Designing better buildings to safeguard our cultural heritage

Wednesday 29 October 2003 at Auckland Art Gallery

All Welcome Free Public Lecture
Unique opportunity to hear visiting architect and academic Steve King talk about:

"The Uncomfortable Museum"
Designing better buildings to safeguard our cultural heritage

Wednesday 29 October 2003 at Auckland Art Gallery

This lecture will be of great interest to all those involved in the construction of cultural heritage buildings especially architects, project managers, conservators, students and all cultural heritage
professionals.

When: Wednesday 29 October 2003
6.00pm

Where: Auckland Art Gallery, Auditorium
cnr Kitchener and Wellesley Streets
Clocktower entrance

The conservation of objects relies above all on the environment in which they are stored and displayed. Even those architects who make a
good job of designing comfortable buildings for human beings rarely get a chance to consider whether the same principles apply to the well-being of artefacts. Not surprisingly many museums, libraries or other cultural repositories fall far short of ideal environments, and worse,
commit their institutions to unsustainable recurring expenditure on air conditioning.

This is a unique opportunity to hear Steve King, architect and academic from the Faculty of the Built Environment, The University of New South
Wales, Sydney. Steve has collaborated with museum professionals to produce guidelines for appropriate design for cultural heritage
institutions. Using a number of case studies, Steve challenges our assumptions concerning the preoccupation with air conditioning. His
talk will address the special environmental standards required for these institutions and how these standards can be partly met using passive
systems.

The lecture will be introduced by Vinod Daniel, Chairman, AusHeritage (Australia's cultural heritage export network) and Head, Australian
Museum's research centre for materials conservation and the built environment.

Organised by the:

National Preservation Office,
Te Tari Tohu Taonga
National Library of New Zealand,
Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa