Swimming for Sprinklers, Museum of Musings, 29 January 2026

Why a museum chair swam the Cook Strait to help fund basic fire protection.

Twenty-odd kilometres of cold, tide-ripped water between the North and South Islands, raising money so the museum can install a sprinkler system.

Not a planetarium. Not a glamorous new gallery. Sprinklers.

The sort of thing most public buildings quietly assume — like toilets or electricity.

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