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Members' Mondays

Meet by the Atrium Information Desk at 1.50pm

From the Collections: Classic New Zealand Magazine Covers
Richard Wolfe

Monday, August 25th, 2pm
Richard Wolfe

Richard Wolfe is a freelance curator and writer with some 30 published books to date. These include five picture books for children, all illustrated by his wife, artist Pamela Wolfe. One of these, Midnight at the Museum (1998), was a finalist in the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards and drew on his years of experience working as a display artist and curator at both Canterbury and Auckland Museums. Richard will discuss his 2005 book Fronting Up: Classic New Zealand Magazine Covers, which features magazines from Auckland Museum's collections.

Auckland Museum Institute Presents

Grave Secrets of the Dinosaurs
Sunday, August 3rd, 2pm

Museum Auditorium
Non-member adults $10
School student price: $5.
Member adults at school student prices ($5)
Please note: We recommend this talk as suitable for older children from 8 years and over.

Bookings on 306 7048* or email bookings@aucklandmuseum.com
(A $3 bookings fee applies for email or phone bookings per transaction).

Tickets will be available from the Museum tills on the day if not sold-out.

Dr Phillip Lars Manning

Dr Manning is looking forward to delivering this talk during his time in New Zealand researching a future film about New Zealand dinosaurs.
He is an author and has also made documentaries with the BBC, National Geographic (Dino-Autopsy this past Christmas) and Discovery Channels. The talk will be entertaining and suitable for families (children from 8 years).

Dr Manning wrote:
"This is a detective story, a 65-million-year-old case so cold it's the hottest development in modern dinosaur-hunting. The victim, a hadrosaur, was discovered in the Hell Creek Badlands of North Dakota in 1999, by a college student and enthusiastic fossil hound named Tyler Lyson. What seemed at first glance a solid but routine find would soon reveal itself to be one of the rarest of all specimens: a dinosaur mummy and not just any mummy, but perhaps a fossil that had many unique grave secrets locked within the remains waiting to be unearthed."

Dr Phillip Lars Manning
Lecturer in Palaeontology & Research Fellow
School of Earth, Atmospheric & Environmental Sciences
The Manchester Museum
University of Manchester

The Museum Circle presents:

The Canterbury Escape

Postponed to Spring 2008
Take the chance to explore what is on your doorstep

An exclusive Museum Circle tour which includes two nights in Christchurch, two nights in Akaroa and one night at Castle Hill Station, visiting key cultural destination s and dining in the best restaurants Canterbury has to offer.

The Christchurch and Banks Peninsula itinerary, accompanied by Rodney Wilson, will include architecture, museums, art galleries, artists’ studio visits, and gardens. Visiting the historic villages of Akaroa, Little Akaloa and Okains Bay to explore the colonial architecture, historic churches, museums, craft stores, winery and cafés. Then on to Castle Hill for a high country sheep station experience. Restored to a high standard by Christine Fernyhough staying in beautifully renovated shearer’s cottages with New Zealand’s culinary personality, Jo Seagar, in attendance.

For Further information please see the full itinerary or contact Rozelle Edwards on 09 413 9212
redwards@aucklandmuseum.com

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