discuss document export feedback print share Blog View by topic: Research All Archaeology Beyond our walls Collections Exhibitions Events Entangled Islands From the Director Geology History Learning MuseTech Taonga Māori Research Still Life War Memorial Kermadec Expedition Pou Maumahara Volume SW Pacific Expedition Show more View by date: Any Any 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 Show more Sharing in the searchBY AUCKLAND MUSEUM STAFFFRI, 28 OCT 2016Pou Maumahara will be the 'home of Online Cenotaph', offering a place for people to learn more about New Zealand's military heritage and connect with their own family's military history with the support of Museum staff and volunteers. Raoul Island whalesBY THE KERMADEC EXPEDITION TEAMTue, 25 Oct 2016Right now Raoul Island is like Grand Central Station for humpback whales. Ever since we arrived here at the Island we have been surrounded by whales. This has been great news for the Whale Team on the Tangaroa. Releasing Koha the turtle at Raoul Islandby the Kermadec expedition teamSun, 23 Oct 2016A special voyager has been onboard the RV Tanagroa – Koha the hawksbill turtle, who's been waiting patiently for our arrival at Raoul Island. Today was Koha's big day. Easing into the Kermadec Ridge expeditionby Kermadec expedition teamSat, 22 Oct 2016While the RV Tanagroa steams towards Raoul Island, the scientists prepare their laboratory spaces and Koha the rehabilitated turtle is taking things easy. Follow our new blog series for the latest news from the Kermadec Expedition. Solve a WWII mysteryMon, 18 Apr 2016100 years on from the first ANZAC Day commemorations, Auckland War Memorial Museum is working with the Israeli Ambassador Yosef Livne on a quest to find a mystery fallen New Zealand WWII Serviceman. Can you help us? The Dowager Empress Cixi's comb: A provenance treasure huntBy Jane GroufskyFRI, 12 Feb 2016The digitisation and sharing of Auckland Museum's collection initiated an international treasure hunt for the story of the Dowager Empress Cixi's comb. Caring for a collection: everyday objects from Te Aweby Awhina Rawiri-Erick and Jenna DudleyWed, 20 May 2015Te Awe is a project work space on the ground floor of the Museum just around the corner from our He Taonga Māori gallery. Through the glass doors, you can watch as staff work to care for the collections through conservation, documentation, photography and digitisation. Why the starfish is star-shapedby Wilma BlomTue, 12 May 2015Room 5 at Halsey Drive Primary School wanted to know why starfish are star-shaped and what a mussel's foot does for the mussel. Wilma Blom, Curator Marine Invertebrates, suggests some answers. Seabirds on Pokohinu: The ecosystem engineersby Matt RaynerTue 11 Nov 2014Curator of Land Vertebrates Dr Matt Rayner joined a research expedition to Pokohinu/Burgess Island. He explains the importance of seabirds in the island's wildlife recovery, and how historic specimens can help us learn about changes in the ecosystem over the last century. Researching the biology of great white sharksThursday, 21 August 2014A great white shark dissection took place at Auckland Museum led by Head of Natural Sciences Tom Trnski and Department of Conservation Technical Advisor Marine Clinton Duffy. Archaeological ‘dig’ in Pacific Ethnology collection reveals new connectionsby James Flexner - Friday, 14 March 2014Australian postdoctoral fellow James Flexner is on a global quest to tell the story of life in the colonial New Hebrides, and recently spent time examining the Museum’s ethnographic collections. The herpetological legacyof a professional clarinetistBorn 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. ... 6 Next page Previous page