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Recent News
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Nuclear Free: Gil Hanly’s Iconic Protest Photography
Date: 19 October 2007
Gil Hanly’s photographic documentation of major social movements and public events since the early 1970s established her as a pre-eminent recorder of New Zealand’s recent history. To coincide with the 20th anniversary of New Zealand’s landmark nuclear free legation Auckland Museum has worked alongside Hanly to select some of her most iconic images of the anti-nuclear protest activities of the 1980s – a movemebt that eventually saw the enactment of New Zealand’s nuclear-free legislation and the revision of the ANZUS treaty.
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Darwin on Display
Date: 1 October 2007
Darwin offers visitors an engaging and enlightening exploration of the extraordinary life and mind of Charles Darwin (1809–1882), whose curiosity, observations, and discoveries nearly 150 years ago forever changed the perception of the origin and nature of our own species, as well as the myriad other species on this planet, and launched modern biological science.
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Loli-pop
Date: 14 August 2007
Asian popular culture and fashion has forever changed the look of downtown Auckland. Auckland Museum’s latest exhibition, Loli-Pop, explores one of the extreme edges of this culture: the Japanese Gothic Lolita phenomenon.
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