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Why Auckland Museum acquired a bench from Karangahape Road

Behind the stories of the diverse and dynamic life of Karangahape Road, sits Auckland Museum’s newest acquisition: a bench. Curator, Applied Arts & Design Grace Lai explores how the stories of this bench encapsulates why public furniture is so important for supporting community spaces.

In conversation with
Mohamed Hassan

Award-winning journalist and poet Mohamed Hassan speaks to the themes of our exhibition Love & Loss in his new poem 'Dance me to the end of the world', commissioned by Auckland Museum. Curator Manuscripts, Nina Finigan spoke to Mohamed about his new poem and his perspective on the writing form.

Good on paper

In this blog, we speak to Paper Conservator Erin Walker about the ethics of conservation and how she ensured some of the letters in Love & Loss were ready for their time in the spotlight.

New approaches to old collections

Breakthrough science is taking place within Auckland Museum's natural history collection. In this blog, Natural Sciences (Land Vertebrates) Curator Matt Rayner and our latest cohort of young researchers reveals how new ideas and technologies can draw new insights from old specimens.

What we’re excited to see again

Who better to advise you on the best things to see at the Museum than the very people who put them on display? We asked our curators what Collections items they're most excited to see again when the Museum reopens to help you prepare the perfect must-see list.

Pa Atu ma Kahoa

Pa Atu ma Kahoa: The pearl-shell lures and pendants of Tokelau. As part of Tokelau Language Week, Curator Pacific Fuli Pereira discusses the importance of pearl-shell fish lures in Tokelau culture and how these are circulated in the most egalitarian of communities

Weaving the present

As part of Niue Language Week, Paulina Bentley (Tautai Intern, Pacific Collection) writes about the stroke of luck that saw her discover a family connection within the Pacific Collection of taoga Niue.

Partnership leads to
world-first for indigenous
naming of new species

A new species of pygmy pipehorse, a fish closely related to the seahorse, has been named by kaumātua (senior leaders) of Ngātiwai in a collaboration with biodiversity scientists from Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland Museum and the California Academy of Sciences.

The herpetological legacy
of a professional clarinetist

Born in New Plymouth in 1933, it seemed an unlikely scenario that Dr James Fawcett would build his research legacy at a university as far afield as Nebraska, but that’s exactly what he did.

Lost, and found,
in translation

E kōrero ana tātou ki tō mātou mātai-ako mātauranga Māori a Heidi Brickell e pā ana ki te ahurei o ngā mātauranga Māori kei te pūtake o aua hōtaka ako. In this blog, we kōrero with Learning Specialist Heidi Brickell about creating environments where te reo Māori speakers can learn in frameworks that align with their language.

A walk in the park

You may have read the names of the significant places that are inscribed on the Museum's sandstone walls, but did you know that some of the trees in Pukekawa Auckland Domain are also commemorations? In this blog, we look at some of the trees with memorial connections.

Don't judge a book by its cover

In this blog Paula Legel (Associate Curator, Heritage Publications) details her discovery of Ellen Ellis’ rare novel, and the unusual circumstances that drove her to find out more.

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