 tairawhiti museum
Dr. Richards is an active supporter of the Tairawhiti Museum in Gisborne, and gives funds to support different aspects of the museum and its activities.
A major category of sponsorship involves funds to purchase examples of contemporary Maori art. These funds allow the museum to purchase one work every year from the annual exhibition of works by students in the Toihokura program at the Gisborne polytechnic.
Dr Richards also donates other works to add to the museum’s permanent collection. Recent donations include works by Sandy Adsett, Bay Riddell, Steve Gibbs, and Rongo Tuhura. Recently, he has made a substantial grant towards the cost of redesigning the entrance to the Tairawhit Museum. A ceremony was held on 12 February 2010 to dedicate the new entrance.
power dressing
Power Dressing is an exhibition of Chinese and Korean robes from Dr Jack Richards' private collection on display at the Tairawhiti Museum in Gisborne until 11 July 2010.
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 journals of captain cook
Right: Dr. Richards discussing the journals with the previous director of the Tairawhiti Museum, Dr. Monty Soutar.
Jack Richards has presented to the Tairawhiti Museum in Gisborne New Zealand, a complete set of the first edition of the journals of Captain James Cook, which were purchased at auction in London in 2006.
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The nine volumes plus maps were published between 1773 and 1779 and give a detailed account of Cook’s voyages. Gisborne was the first landing place in New Zealand of James Cook in 1769 and there is a great deal of interest in Gisborne in Cook and contacts between Cook and New Zealand Maori during this period.
Jack Richards has also given a grant to the museum in his hometown, to establish a storage room for the museum’s permanent collection of paintings. The room will be designated as the Professor Jack Richards Fine Arts Room.
Left: Dame Anne Salmond, a leading Cook scholar
and pro-vice
chancellor of Auckland University, who also grew up in Gisborne,
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