Sections

What are Sections?

“The Museum was a great place to have an interest in something and when a group of people formed around an interest, that became a Section,” explains John Webster, Secretary of the Auckland Marine Society and Property Supervisor of Ewelme Cottage in Parnell for the past 33 years. John remembers when the Auckland Marine Society (est 1957), operated as the Nautical Section of Auckland Museum. Members of this group helped in the establishment of the New Zealand National Maritime Museum in Auckland in 1993­. In 1956 The Astronomy Section, The Auckland Astronomical Society, reported in the Minutes of the Auckland Institute’s Annual meeting, that the search for an observatory site and one for the proposed planetarium for Auckland had been pursued with the City Council, without success. Eventually an appropriate site was proposed and the Section helped set up the Auckland Observatory.