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    Three more reasons to visit Te Ao Mārama

    Architecture admirers take note: There are now three more reasons to visit Auckland Museum's revitalised South Atrium entry precinct, with the space taking out three categories at the New Zealand Architecture Awards.

    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.

    Haeata: a kōrero with artist Ngataiharuru Taepa

    In this blog, we kōrero with Prof Ngataiharuru Taepa about growing up amongst artists, kōwhaiwhai as language, and having work on the walls of a space filled with the incredible work of ancestors.

    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.