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Greenstone mere makes historic journey home to the north

Date: 25 January 2012

A greenstone mere once owned by Hongi Hika will be welcomed home at the 2012 Ngapuhi Festival more than 180 years after it was first gifted to the Marsden family.

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Auckland Museum turns crime scene this summer

Date: 28 November 2011

The museum’s latest exhibition The Poisoners! is a whodunit with visitors asked to figure out who killed Professor Felix Splicer and which poisonous plant or deadly animal they used to do it.

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Public to share enhanced Sir Edmund Hillary Collection

Date: 27 October 2011

From today, visitors to Auckland Museum can share in an enhanced collection of artefacts & stories relating to the life of Sir Edmund Hillary.

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Ancient taonga brought to life in Maori Television series

Date: 20 October 2011

Auckland War Memorial Museum has partnered with Maori Television to conceive and produce a brand new programme about our collections in te reo Maori (with subtitles): TAMAKI PAENGA HIRA

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Ghouls move in at Auckland Museum’s galleries for Halloween

Date: 18 October 2011

Trick-or-treating is a relatively new custom but when Auckland Museum celebrates Halloween next weekend it will explore the traditions of a festival that is hundreds of years old.

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Webb Ellis Cup moving in at Auckland Museum

Date: 15 October 2011

Eighty-one years before the first Rugby World Cup match was played, the Webb Ellis Cup was crafted by Garrard Jewellers in London – and from this Saturday [October 15] until the end of the tournament it will be on display at Auckland Museum.

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