M shed celebrates its first birthday

“Hi thanks for your comment. I can assure you I spent yesterday morning at the M Shed filming the interview with Julie Finch and talking to a cross section of visitors - families, pensioners and teachers and the quotes I chose to use in the article are a fair representation of the people I talked to. Not one person had anything negative to say about the M Shed. If they did I would have included it in the copy. Of course this does not mean that there are differences of opinion about the museum but out of the random selection of people I spoke to no one voiced any reservations. I appreciate your opinion and simply want to assure you that this was an independent and accurate representation of the opinions of people at the museum yesterday morning. All the best Pamela”

“Is this another press release that the Post gratefully incorporates into its output?

I ask because there is no balance in the comments of visitors who all enthuse about the museum.

Having visited it three times I'm disappointed in it. It's sterile, politically correct and lacking in any sort of 'wow factor' - apart perhaps from the view of the harbour from the outside viewing gallery.

I much preferred the Industrial Museum whose only fault was lack of space in which to display all those exhibits stored behind the scenes. Having seen many of them some years ago on an Open Doors Day when the public could go behind the scenes of the Industrial Museum I wonder why some of the fascinating objects I saw are not on display at M Shed. It's not too late to make changes.

Incidentally, others have mentioned their disappointment of M Shed in the Post 'comment' section in the past which is why I believe that such a one-sided selection of visitor comments means this is a press release from M Shed and not an independent journalistic piece.”