Patrick Watt
THE manager of Beechworth’s Burke Museum has won an individual award for increasing visitor numbers 32 per cent in one year.
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Patrick Watt took home the Victorian Museum Award in Melbourne last night.
Mr Watt described the Beechworth facility as a “museum of a museum”.
It has a collection of stuffed animals from a time when curators were trying to explain Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory to the public.
Earlier this year, Mr Watt travelled to Naracoorte to receive a knife linked to explorer Robert O’Hara Burke’s fatal expedition.
In April, the museum took possession of Burke’s very own pistol, shipping it all the way from Dublin.
