Hooray for Brian Johnson of Omokoroa. That's telling it like it is. Unfortunately it is also true that, when culture becomes a profession (which it has) history becomes distorted by the ashes of many fairy stories.
One of the nastiest and cleverest men of my time, Hermann Goering, summed it up: 'Whenever I hear that word (culture) I reach for my pistol.” Culture did for him and his country. Te Papa is not 'my place” but what's inside it is. Things might change; I'm not holding my breath.

Julian Dickson, Katikati.