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| October 2001 |
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McMurdo quilters raise cash for Gardens Museum A donation of about $2500 is to be made to Magnetic Observatory Museum that will be established in the Botanic Gardens next year. And, appropriately, it is coming all the way from the McMurdo Station in Antarctica. The museum will be established in an old workshop building that was part of the Magnetic Observatory, established for the 1901-04 Antarctic expedition to the Antarctic by Captain Robert Falcon Scott (details in the August edition of City Scene). When the museum concept was in its early planning, a message came from Caprice Stevenson to Botanic Gardens’ staff asking for a cause to donate a sum of money to be raised in a raffle at an art show at the McMurdo Station. A team of Americans made a large quilt in the secluded wintering over period and it was raffled at $US5 a ticket at the base’s art show. This raised $US1055 which the Americans have set aside for the museum. More than 200 wintered over at the US McMurdo Base and nine New Zealanders at Scott Base.
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