Museum Exhibition Just in Time to Cure What Ails You

Succinctly titled “The Potions Emporium in the Time Ma-shed” this entertaining, tongue-in-cheek exhibition explores the Victorian and Edwardian obsession with the digestive system. Curator Ian Wards says he wanted to try something a bit different. “With this exhibition I wanted to side-step the more conventional display cases and labels type exhibition. I wanted to create something that entertains as much as it educates. The idea is that this shed - a chemists shop - has been transported through time, due to some wayward experimenting, and ended up plonked in the North Otago Museum.”

The exhibition uses clever lighting and audio trickery to creating an entertaining – and slightly disturbing – visitor experience. “The Potions Emporium in the Time Ma-shed” runs until October 2009.