“Consider this the official PR spin from the Te Papa Museum Building at this point in time, but the concept idea of a facility in Auckland that could potentially host items in the national collection is very interesting, surely sharing the national collection, and the expertise of the people caring for and learning from the collection is a good thing huh?... The point I’m going to proffer is, that as long as a collection is accessible to as many people as possible – then where it's housed should not matter at all, right?”
Te Papa’s Communications Department on the Te Papa blog