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Mysteries of the long-tailed cuckoo
Tuesday, 28 May 2019
Dissecting and investigating the innards of the long-tailed cuckoo, a mysterious New Zealand native bird, has lead to some surprising finds, Associate Emeritus Dr Brian Gill has discovered.
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Improving Our Galleries
Friday, 10 May 2019
In 2014-15 the Collection Care department conducted a survey of all light sensitive objects in our exhibitions and displays.
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Manava Toa: the Cook Islands in WWI
Tuesday, 23 April 2019
More than 500 Cook Islanders fought for New Zealand in the WWI. They served with distinction but suffered great loss. Find out more about these courageous servicemen.
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Good Vibrations
Tuesday, 16 April 2019
There is no such thing as good vibrations within a museum. While we're doing major works here, we have installed a vibration monitor within the museum walls to make our team aware if any vibrations are too vigorous.
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Moa than expected
Tuesday, 19 March 2019
In 2018, several Moa display skeletons were sent to the conservation team to be cleaned. Our team found the bones were not just dirty but very brittle in places due to previous attempts at preparing the bones for display. Our conservator Valerie Tomlinson tells of the meticulous work done to make these special bones useful as scientific specimens again.
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Keep calm and Barry on
Tuesday, 19 March 2019
If not stored correctly, negatives of photos are prone to developing 'vinegar syndrome' - an irrevocable syndrome that causes warping, embrittlement and shrinkage. To combat this problem our conservation team came up with a storage solution to re-house 80,000 photographic negatives from the Barry Mckay collection.
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Color our Collections
Tuesday, 29 January 2019
Auckland Museum is proud to once again join the New York Academy of Medicine's #ColorOurCollections, in which libraries, archives, and museums create free colouring books based on objects in their collections.
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The history of Rajah
Monday, 21 January 2019
In 1924 a young Indian elephant appeared in the British Empire Exhibition held at Wembley in London. This was the elephant’s first stop in a journey that would finish at Auckland Museum, where he’d become one of the Museum’s most-loved exhibits
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Wild Child
Monday, 21 January 2019
In 1924 a young Indian elephant appeared in the British Empire Exhibition held at Wembley in London. This was the elephant’s first stop in a journey that would finish at Auckland Museum, where he’d become one of the Museum’s most-loved exhibits
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Aqua bats
Wednesday, 24 October 2018
Resembling ‘squashed kiwifruit’, wet bats aren’t the prettiest creatures, so the photography team trialed some hair-raising tactics to get realistic shots of these rare, endangered creatures.
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