Institute News
Publication of the Institute News has been suspended but back-issues may be downloaded here.
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Dr Di McCarthy, CEO, the Royal Society of New Zealand |
DECEMBER 2007
Learned Societies: Then and Now
The Auckland Museum Institute began with the New Zealand Institute Act 1867, and was then called the Auckland Institute. This Act allowed the establishment of institutes committed to providing “a public museum and laboratory and a public library”, with the purpose “by means of lectures classes and otherwise” of promoting “the general study and cultivation of the various branches and departments of art science literature and philosophy”. Read more. |
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SEPTEMBER 2007
Visiting Scholar
John Early - Curator
Auckland Museum Institute’s Visiting Scholar Fund began as an enduring gift to mark the 150th Anniversary of Auckland War Memorial Museum. In 2005 John Early, Auckland Museum Curator of Natural History, was the recipient of the Institute Visiting Scholar Award which enabled him to travel to Ottawa, Canada. Read more. |
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JUNE 2007
New Zealand Costume & Textiles Section of the Auckland Museum Institute:
Connecting Cultures through Cloth
The very successful 6th Annual Symposium of the New Zealand Costume & Textile Section of the Auckland Museum Institute (NZC&TS) was held in March this year. |
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MARCH 2007
The Library and publications:
140 years - periodically reviewed
When the Auckland Institute was established in November 1867 it set out to create a museum, library and meeting place for the promotion of art, science and literature. One of the first actions of the new Council was to instruct the Secretary, Thomas Bannatyne Gillies, to place subscriptions to a selection of periodicals.
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