Michael Houlihan, Te Papa’s newly appointed CEO, is currently Director General of Amgueddfa Cymru National Museum Wales.
http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/
In a recent post on the Amgueddfa blog Michael talks about his decision to make the big move from Wales to New Zealand:
http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/blog/?cat=409
I was checking out pictures on the Amgueddfa blog of the wildlife and woodlands in the snow at St Fagans the National History Museum.This open-air museum is one of the seven museums that make up Amgueddfa Cymru National Museum Wales.
http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/blog/?entry=236
http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/stfagans/
It might not be very warm or summery here in Wellington right now but spare a thought for everyone over in Britain where the winter conditions have been described as ”glacial”. A note on the St Fagans home page tells visitors that the museum is closed “due to snow and ice”.
Brrrrr…. summer in Wellington not so bad after all?
14 January 2010 – 11.41am
Michael Houlihan, Te Papa's new CEO
Te Papa has a new CEO – Michael Houlihan.
Yesterday the Chairman and Board of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa confirmed the appointment of Michael Houlihan as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the museum.
Michael Houlihan was interviewed yesterday morning, shortly after the announcement, by Simon Morton on Radio NZ National’s Summer Report.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/summerreport/20100113
Listen to the interview here:
http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/srpt/srpt-20100113-0911-New_Te_Papa_CEOs_plans_for_the_museum-048.mp3
Incidentally, Simon Morton is no stranger to Te Papa – he’s been going ‘behind the scenes’ getting to know the collections and the staff as one of the presenters of “Tales from Te Papa”. You can explore them here:
http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/theme.aspx?irn=2074
And so a new tale from Te Papa begins.
