10th February 2021 MuseumsEntry into Quake City at the Canterbury Museum will be free for Cantabrians to mark the 10-year anniversary of the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
9th December 2020 Museums / Te PapaVisits to Te Papa Museum reached 1.1 million in the year to June 2020, a 28% decrease on 2019.
25th November 2020 Conservation / MuseumsOtago Museum has euthanised its jewelled gecko Manawa after expert treatments could not revive him from a series of ailments.
24th November 2020 MuseumsCanterbury Museum will host the 2020 Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition.
7th October 2020 MuseumsCanterbury Museum’s annual Night at the Museum has returned to celebrate the attraction’s 150th anniversary on Rolleston Avenue.
28th September 2020 MuseumsOtago Museum has brought forward the opening of its Dinosaur REvolution exhibition.
16th September 2020 Museums / VenuesThe Government is providing $11.6m for an upgrade of Timaru’s iconic Theatre Royal and the construction of a new connected heritage museum and exhibition space.
1st September 2020 MuseumsAuckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira has opened its doors to the Auckland public.
26th August 2020 Aviation / MuseumsThe Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre will host a once-only display compilation of the John Smith Collection at the 2021 Dangerous Skies WW2 Exhibition next Easter.
12th August 2020 MuseumsThe month saw more than 3000 people use its services, mostly with on-site visits. This was 15% up against the 3-year average.
30th July 2020 Museums / Te PapaThe forecast assumed ongoing impacts related to the crisis would reduce international and domestic visitors.
15th July 2020 MuseumsMatakohe’s Kauri Museum is the latest Northland attraction to get a significant cash injection.
15th July 2020 Aviation / MuseumsThe Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre has been appointed guardian of the John Smith collection of warbirds.
2nd July 2020 Experience Wellington / MuseumsExperience Wellington is seeing visitor numbers at some key sites return to around 60% of normal, as the council-owned operator forges ahead through its Covid-19 recovery.
12th May 2020 Digital / MuseumsWaikato Museum has launched a new website experience for visitors keen to try their hand at creating an online exhibition using images of items from the Museum’s collection.
24th March 2020 Covid-19 / MuseumsOtago Museum has closed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic but it will offer some virtual experiences.
13th March 2020 MuseumsAuckland War Memorial Museum is bringing the Ancient Greeks: Athletes, Warriors and Heroes exhibition exclusively to Auckland in July 2020.
2nd March 2020 Museums / Te PapaThe first major surrealist exhibition in New Zealand in just under 50 years, Dalí and the Surrealists: Masterpieces from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen exhibit, will be held at Te Papa next summer.
13th February 2020 Funding / MuseumsApplications have opened for the $7m Regional Culture and Heritage Fund available to performing arts venues, galleries, museums and whare taonga.
11th February 2020 MuseumsVisitors are still welcome at Waikato Museum despite its exterior being spruced up this month.
5th February 2020 MuseumsThe $14.6m Māori Battalion Museum located in the Waitangi Treaty Grounds is opening today.
20th January 2020 Museums / Te PapaTe Papa has apologised to people who felt the museum had misrepresented the agriculture sector in a display showing dirty water, supposedly from a farm stream.
13th December 2019 Museums / PeopleTe Papa has appointed Courtney Johnston as its new chief executive officer.
9th December 2019 Museums / Te PapaThe Wonderland exhibition is now open for the summer season at Te Papa in Wellington.
28th November 2019 MuseumsTāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum will be the first venue in the Southern Hemisphere to host The British Museum’s Ancient Greeks: Athletes, Warriors and Heroes exhibition.
27th November 2019 MuseumsAbout 300 visitors attended opening day events for the Puhoro ō mua, Puhoro ki tua exhibition last weekend at Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato.
13th November 2019 Museums / Te PapaTours, cruise visitors and events helped boost FY19 income, says the museum.
10th September 2019 Museums / PeopleThe hunt is on for a new chief executive for the Museum of New Zealand.
13th August 2019 Funding / MuseumsThe cash will go towards the attraction’s $55m redevelopment plan.
12th August 2019 MuseumsChristchurch is set to get a “world class” cannabis museum as part of plans to create New Zealand’s first cannabis social enterprise.
6th August 2019 Museums / RailAuckland’s Museum of Transport and Technology has launched a new model railway at the historic Waitakere train station.
24th May 2019 Awards / MuseumsDunedin’s Otago Museum was the most feted attraction at the 2019 ServiceIQ Museum Awards winning three of the ten categories up for grabs including Most Innovative Education Programme, Most Innovative Public Programme and the Arts Access Aotearoa Museums Award.
24th April 2019 MuseumsTe Papa’s Terracotta Warriors attracted 198,021 visitors during its four-month exhibition.
7th February 2019 Museums / PGFThe new attraction will be built at Waitangi Treaty Grounds, Northland.
5th December 2018 MuseumsCanterbury Museum has paid $16,000 for a canvas kit bag used by Sir Edmund Hillary when he and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to summit Mt Everest.
4th December 2018 MuseumsTerracotta Warriors is the first international exhibition to be held in Te Papa’s new art gallery, Toi Art, which opened to critical acclaim earlier this year.
23rd November 2018 Museums / ScholarshipsTe Papa has teamed up with Victoria University of Wellington’s Museum and Heritage Studies department to launch two scholarships in honour of its founders.
29th October 2018 MuseumsTāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum is to expand its offer with the creation of a new permanent gallery on the back of a $4.5m cash injection from the Lottery Board.
15th October 2018 China / MuseumsTe Papa will host the official 2019 China-New Zealand Year of Tourism opening ceremony on 20 February next year.
7th August 2018 Museums / TransportAuckland Museum has won the top prize in Auckland Transport’s annual Travelwise Choices Awards 2018.
6th August 2018 MuseumsStewart Island is set to get a new multi-million dollar tourism attraction after securing $1m in government funding for the Rakiura Heritage Centre.
25th July 2018 Museums / PeopleTe Papa has announced a trio of senior appointments which it says “show the strength of talent” in the New Zealand museum and gallery sector.
23rd May 2018 MuseumsAssociate Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Carmel Sepuloni has praised the museum and gallery sector for its dedication to conserving, documenting and sharing Aotearoa’s diverse arts, cultural and heritage treasures.
21st May 2018 Awards / MuseumsThe most engaging, visionary, resourceful and innovative exhibitions, programmes and museum projects were celebrated yesterday evening with a gala at event at Christchurch Art Gallery.
20th May 2018 MuseumsRepatriation, innovation, and virtual reality will be among the issues that come up for debate at museums’ national conference in Christchurch.
11th May 2018 MuseumsEight expert judging panels have selected the 26 finalists who will contend for top honours at the 2018 ServiceIQ New Zealand Museum Awards.
5th March 2018 Canterbury Museum / MuseumsCanterbury Museum and its special exhibition Quake City (above) have had another record summer with 276,061 visitors during the last three months.
15th February 2018 Museums / Russell / Russell Museum - Te Whare Taonga o KororarekaRussell, the tiny tourist town in the Bay of Islands has always prided itself on its links with its past.
