Exhibition
Focusing on life 'at home' during the First World War, the Home Front exhibition will explore how the events half a world away shaped lives at home. This is the third in a series of WWI Centenary commemorative exhibitions.
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Museum collections contain a wide variety of object types, each requiring their own storage solution. One of the more challenging types of object is food.
Display
Ka toro haere tēnei whakaaturanga i ētahi o ngā tātai kōrero mō Te Tiriti o Waitangi me nga āhuatanga o ngā whakataunga Tiriti ki Tāmaki Makaurau nei.
This display explores some of the history surrounding the Treaty of Waitangi and Treaty settlement process here in Auckland.
WW100
Look out for our roadshow unit in your community as we come to discover, connect and share stories of those who served.
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Online Cenotaph
Lance Corporal Wiremu Paora (Ngāti Whātua) served in the First World War as part of the Pioneer Māori Battalion. He was injured in the battle of the Somme.
Explore and discover
Search more than one million catalogue records from Auckland Museum’s natural sciences, human history and documentary heritage collections.
WW100
Join experts from the New Zealand Military Historical Society and other historical societies from around Auckland as they share their war-related stories. Get up close to vehicles, models, uniforms, badges, medals, guns and favourite pieces from their personal military collections.
War Memorial
Online Cenotaph is our digital social space where enthusiasts, families, and researchers can share and contribute to the records of those who served for Aotearoa New Zealand.
Event
This programme gives students the opportunity to observe and draw items of cultural and community significance from across the Museum collection.
WW100
Join us and the Royal New Zealand Air Force Association to commemorate the Battle of Britain and all those who have fallen in the Air Forces.