The Never Gonna happen this decade Museum!

[Michael Alexander]

Yawn! Must be "min" news to report on out there..... Here's an article on the Oranjemund Shipwreck museum..... the one that we have been waiting 4 years for..... anyone out there wanna bet that in the year 2017 there still will not be a shipwreck museum in operation in this town?

LINK: http://www.republikein.com.na/politiek-en-nasionale/algemeen/museum-kom-vir-oranjemund-se-waardevolle-skeepswrak.152692.php

Here are 4 "Disney" Make Believe projects that were gonna happen... in Omund!

1) Diamond City.... remember that one....
2) Wind Farm ..... gone with the wind.....
3) Kudu Gas ...... just hot air....
4) The Shipwreck museum....... gonna be ancient by the time it happens...

Free World.....

[Andrew Darné]

A big holdback as metioned in the newspaper article is the correct preservation and preparation of some of the artefacts for open display. It was explained to me that the timber especially that has been soaked in sea water for the past 500 years can take between 10 and 20 years to be prepared for presentation. The salt water has to be carefully leached from the timber using cycled fresh water to prevent it from dissintergration.

Would be sad if all the bits fell apart, after all the hype.

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

I'm sure I'm sure....... half of us will be dead be then   

[Andrew Darné]

That's the irony... we find it now, knowing the story about it all... our children and grandchildren get to see what we were going on about but we are no longer present to explain or answer their questions...

Same thing I was thinkung about recently... ask anyone around what Club nitecall was before it became a night club and and more than 60% will respond... Huhhh... it was something else? Obviously they didn't know that Oranjemund once had a cinema.

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

So  true Andrew....." Nitecall "   Huh ...Whats that............. That building was always a "Bioscope".......there is a vast difference between the town opening (or there about) and now........no-body can relate to that unless you have lived it. Same could be said about this.. I guess. Such is life.     

[Adriaan Van Rooyen]

So true Diane, some people in this town can only think ,drink,sniff and sell booze,they can think of nothing else.... thats all life is to them..