Cable project to help museum

THE 4,700km fibre-optic cable project will provide a platform for the National Museum and Art Gallery to reach a wider audience, Tourism, Arts and Culture Minister Emil Tammur says.
Tammur said this when launching the National Museum and Art Gallery’s corporate plan (2019 – 2023) this week.
“As our country builds its fibre-optic network and creates an accessible digital capacity, the opportunity now exists to reach a far greater audience than ever before,” he said.
“The museum must be ready for this and our museum must adopt modern technologies and embrace the digital world.
“In order to understand the value of our culture, the museum must be able to share the story of Papua New Guinea’s heritage in a modern and far reaching ways.”
He said the country was changing and the museum could play the role of reaching out to the people especially the younger generation to educate them about local cultures and traditions.
“The transitional changes and developments that are happening around PNG are having a tremendous effect on our culture and tradition,” Tammur said.
“We want our people to understand the value of heritage, to treasure the diversity and to be able to utilise their heritage and culture in delivering economic independence whether in a small scale impact business or large scale resource projects.”
The National Museum and Art Gallery has already shown signs to adapt and participate in reaching a wider audience by participating in international meetings such as last year’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting.
Director Dr Andrew Moutu said they had been able to do that by creating displays that related how some modern digital concepts may have been used by people in the past.