29th February 2024 Kauri / MuseumsThe Matakohe Kauri Museum is encouraging visitors taking detour routes to Northland and stop by over the next few months.
30th January 2024 Museums / PeopleEloise Wallace has been welcomed as Te Unua Museum of Southland’s new museum director.
29th November 2023 Art / MuseumsA wharenui made of 5,000 balls of yarn will be on show at Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato in Hamilton from December.
3rd November 2023 MuseumsInvercargill City Council has selected the construction firm selected to build a new tuatara enclosure at Queens Park within the animal reserve.
3rd October 2023 Museums / Weta WorkshopWētā Workshop is to open its $15m World War I art and visitor experience in Le Quesnoy, France, next week.
27th September 2023 MOTAT / MuseumsTe Whai Ao Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies is investing in MOTAT’s new science and technology centre.
13th September 2023 MuseumsMarlborough Museum now has a full team on board to protect the region’s history and taonga for the future.
11th August 2023 MOTAT / MuseumsMOTAT is trialling tree-based biofuels to power one of its steam trams.
10th August 2023 MuseumsWhakamana Cannabis Museum says it has secured a site at the city’s Hopetoun Alpha building.
3rd August 2023 Funding / MuseumsRotorua Lakes Council’s infrastructure and environment committee has voted in favour of strengthening and eventually reopening the city’s iconic museum.
1st August 2023 Canterbury Museum / MuseumsToka Tū Ake EQC has renewed its sponsorship of the Quake City exhibition at Canterbury Museum for another three years.
21st July 2023 Development / MuseumsA new civic precinct in Tauranga will receive $21m in funding for facilities including a new museum, exhibition gallery, civic whare and a library and community space.
12th July 2023 MuseumsCentral Otago District Council is seeking a building contractor for its proposed new Cromwell Memorial Hall, museum and events centre, with registrations of interest open for the project.
30th June 2023 Canterbury Museum / MuseumsCanterbury Museum will open its pop-up museum in Christchurch with a free exhibition starting on the Matariki public holiday on 14 July.
19th June 2023 MuseumsInvercargill City Council has appointed architects to design a new enclosure for its tuatara as part of the city’s museum redevelopment.
24th April 2023 MuseumsSir Edmund Hillary’s 1950s Antarctic expedition tractor, a giant globe, and other large objects have been removed from Canterbury Museum before its redevelopment.
4th April 2023 MuseumsInvercargill City Council has selected the architectural firms responsible for developing the city’s new museum.
1st March 2023 MuseumsThe future of Wellington Museum could be on shaky ground after the building that houses it is set to be issued with an Earthquake-Prone Building notice.
23rd February 2023 MuseumsSouthland Museum is saying a temporary goodbye to resident tuatara Henry and his friends as they are rehomed while work gets underway on a major redevelopment project.
17th February 2023 MuseumsMarlborough District Council is dissolving the Marlborough Heritage Trust and taking over its operations from 31 March.
28th November 2022 Chatham Islands / MuseumsPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern has attended the official opening of a new museum and an important exhibit on the Chatham Islands.
20th October 2022 MuseumsA new memorial honouring the outstanding courage of Police and members of the public has opened at the Royal New Zealand Police College’s lower grounds near Porirua.
12th August 2022 Art / MuseumsWhanganui Regional Museum is partnering with the Blumhardt Foundation in an effort to support public art galleries and museums in their acquisition of work by contemporary New Zealand craft practitioners.
23rd May 2022 Museums / OmakaThe Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre will put on a show to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Cessna 180 from 27-29 May.
21st February 2022 Hundertwasser / MuseumsThe $33.2m Hundertwasser Art Centre and Wairau Māori Art Gallery opened doors in Whangarei on Sunday.
21st February 2022 MuseumsNew Zealand’s longest operating provincial movie theatre until its closure in 2012 is getting a chance at resurrection.
17th February 2022 Hundertwasser / MuseumsThe new Northland attraction will still open this weekend despite the Omicron wave.
9th February 2022 MuseumsThe Kauri Museum at Matakohe expects three out of four of the projects funded by a $3m Provincial Growth Fund grant to be complete by Labour Day.
8th December 2021 Museums / Te PapaVisits to The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa reached 894,292 in the year to June 2021, down 18.7% from 1.1 million in the previous 12 months.
23rd November 2021 Museums / Te PapaMore attractions require visitors and staff be fully vaccinated against Covid.
19th November 2021 Conservation / MuseumsKiwi North could be one of the earlier operators to see more custom in the post-lockdown era, says director Allie Fry.
18th November 2021 Awards / MuseumsAuckland War Memorial Museum has won an international award for its front-of-house visitor host uniforms.
15th November 2021 Museums / VaccinationThe museum re-opens today with Covid-19 alert level 3 step 2 and social distancing protocols in place.
8th November 2021 Auckland Zoo / Covid-19 / MuseumsAuckland Museum will join other attractions and open if the city moves to Covid-19 alert level 3 step 2.
8th October 2021 MuseumsThe low-profile ‘living history’ museum aimed to transform into an attraction that drew out-of-region visitors, and achieve endorsement as a ‘must-do’ visitor product from Auckland Unlimited by 2023.
24th September 2021 MuseumsTimaru District Council will soon take a project to restore the Theatre Royal and build a new destination museum to market for tender.
13th August 2021 MuseumsPuke Ariki Museum in New Plymouth is set to host the 2021 Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, starting on Saturday 14 August.
30th July 2021 Museums / Te PapaSwitching to a domestic audience has been challenging but positive learning curve for the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
22nd July 2021 Canterbury Museum / MuseumsRavenscar House Museum set to open to public in October.
1st July 2021 Funding / MuseumsThe New Zealand Lotteries Commission has granted $5.47m funding for a museum storage facility in Hastings.
1st July 2021 MuseumsNext phase of design to be presented to council later in year.
30th June 2021 MuseumsFunds tagged for exhibition use, as well as earthquake strengthening due to start next year.
28th June 2021 Museums / Te PapaTe Papa is expected to open following deep cleaning last week after the Australian Covid case visit.
21st June 2021 MuseumsResignation just days before annual general meeting and new board election.
31st May 2021 MuseumsRemaining areas to be free entry until reopening on 11 June.
28th May 2021 MuseumsAuckland Museum’s redeveloped South Atrium has received a Public Architecture Award and Heritage Award.
24th May 2021 Auckland Museum / MuseumsAll That Was Solid Melts exhibition open until Sunday 10 October.
17th May 2021 MuseumsA new heritage museum and an upgraded Theatre Royal is set to open its doors in 2023.
6th April 2021 MuseumsThe wreck from the 1800s will be temporarily set up next to Mangawhai Museum.
11th March 2021 MuseumsCanterbury Museum has put out a call for residents to have their say on the attraction’s redevelopment plans.
