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Te Awe – a window into our taonga Māori collection

Tuesday, 10 December 2013

Letting people see inside our Museum stores and giving others a chance to connect with and gain a better understanding of our taonga collections is all part of the thinking behind our new space Te Awe.

My favourite building

by Roy Clare - Friday, 11 October 2013

Images of the beautifully-lit exterior of Auckland’s museum have featured online and in traditional media outlets in recent months. For a select number of significant global, national or community events each year we offer up something special – to reflect the interests of Aucklanders.

Museum’s marine team called to two rare finds

Saturday, 18 May 2013

Curators and collections staff from our natural sciences team were kept busy this week with two very rare finds for New Zealand waters.

Life on a battlecruiser

Thursday, 16 May 2013

In 1913 the battlecruiser HMS New Zealand took a world cruise through the then-British Empire. On board was a very special passenger, the British Bulldog Pelorus Jack, the ship’s mascot. What was life on board HMS New Zealand like? How does this compare to life on board a battleship today?

Dead and alive: Cook’s petrels at Auckland Museum

by Jason Froggatt - Sunday, 21 April 2013

Within the last fortnight Auckland Museum has received three wayward Cook’s petrels. One unfortunate bird was found dead in a backyard in Devonport and was donated to the museum’s research collection. But two others have been found, alive and well, near the museum’s building needing the help of staff to get back on course.

International day of solidarity: Bosnia-Herzegovina cultural institutions close

by Phillipa Tocker - Monday, 4 March 2013

To support institutions in Bosnia-Herzegovina, museums all over the world are putting yellow tape across key exhibits, effectively ‘closing’ them in solidarity with the closed museums in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and bringing this to the attention of the visiting public.

Rising from the ruins

by Roy Clare - Friday, 22 February 2013

Today, 22 February, our country recalls the magnitude 6.3 earthquake in Christchurch that killed 185 people and injured several thousand two years ago. The earthquake occurred more than five months after the first in September 2010, but it is considered to be an aftershock. The pair of quakes are among the most significant natural disasters in New Zealand history.

Returning to Ahuahu Great Mercury Island

by Louise Furey - Monday, 11 February 2013

Archaeologist Louise Furey writes about the satisfaction of removing layers of soil to uncover postholes, fireplaces and stone flakes from where people hundreds of years ago decided to set up camp.

Voyages and versions: remembering the Orpheus 150 years on

by Roy Clare - Friday, 8 February 2013

Standing on Whatipu Beach yesterday with colleagues from our museum and more than a hundred others, it seemed to me that CS Lewis had it about right. Commemorating the heart-rending loss of life on Manukau Bar 150 years ago, we were reminded of the many perspectives that surround daily life.