Archaeologist and renowned artist George Simon is urging government to reconsider plans to relocate the Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology, highlighting a number of concerns such a move would entail and pointing out that at the moment, there is no suitable facility for the museum’s collection.
His advice, he told Stabroek News in an interview on Monday, is “to hold it, to just wait and let’s take a careful look at what we have there and look at how we’re gonna house, if its gonna move, let’s know where it’s gonna be moved to. It can’t go to the top of the Post Office building. For what? Who’s gonna go there? What is it gonna be sitting there doing?”
Simon said the museum should be there for