The article in the August 28 edition on Graeme Purches (‘Museum getting nowhere fast') is absolutely correct.

According to the NZ Museums website there are 407 museums in New Zealand. We get four mentions with The Elms, Brain Watkins House, Classic Flyers and the Tauranga Historic Village. But we don't have museum to show our amazing history and other towns and cities do. Dargaville and Cromwell are small, but they have museums that explain their rich history. We have the goods to show but nowhere to put them.

The Cliff Road site is perfect.

I was on the board of Tourism BOP for several years and it was suggested that we look at the New Plymouth museum as an example of how we could put something together.

We went to look at this museum and it is perfect in explaining what has happened there over the last few centuries. In Tauranga we have so much history to tell and we are doing nothing about it.

We are the third or fourth biggest city in New Zealand and the fastest growing. For goodness sake, let's have a museum!

D Parrott, Tauranga