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VR Journeys
Mana: Protest in Print
Collections Online. Explore over 1 million records.
The Auckland Museum Podcast
Stories. Read our special features, behind the scenes blogs and more.
AM Learn
Collections to Classrooms
Engaging programmes for all year levels from ECE to Year 12
Browse and contribute to New Zealand's Online Cenotaph
Experience life as a WWI soldier in Pou Kanohi Gallery
Honour and remember New Zealand's servicemen and women.
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Our new Natural Environment and Human Impact Gallery
Venue hire at Auckland Museum
Our People and Place Footprints in the sand.
Grand Foyer The place between the world of darkness and the world of light.
Pacific Galleries Acknowledges our connections to the sea, tides – our connections across the oceans.
Special Exhibition Space to be creative/innovative.
Māori Court Acknowledges the central space to gather, including connections to kāinga and pōwhiri.
South Atrium The world of light, enlightenment.
Stories of Auckland Acknowledges the arrival of waka – connections to many people, arriving here in Tāmaki.
Pacific Lifeways Acknowledges our connections to the cultural protocols, ways of being from the Pacific.
Pacific Masterpieces Acknowledges our connections the ancestral landscapes of the Pacific.
Kai Room Play on words: Full puku; satisfied puku, manaaki and sustenance.
Museum Store Purchase treasures to take away with you for when you return home.
Our World The natural world, light of day.
Kids Galleries Speaks to the curiosity of children, when their “eyes light up” in amazement.
Land and Origins The origins of land, the backbone of Papatuanuku.
Applied Arts & Design
Ancient Worlds
The Imaginarium Acquisition after hard work. Comes from waka navigational traditions to discover a solution to a problem: Te Rapunga, Te Kitenga, Te Whainga, Te Whiwhinga, Te Rawenga.
Weird & Wonderful Acknowledging the deity Māui who represents curiosity, mischief, exploration. The youngest child who is inquisitive.
Origins
Land Acknowledging our earth mother.
Decorative Arts
Japanese Ceramics
Arts of Asia
Volcanoes Acknowledges the Atua of volcanoes.
Māori Natural History The natural world.
War and Remembrance Speaks to the tenacity and perseverance of Tu and the steadfastness of Rongo.
Memorials & Commemoration Remembering people who have passed. The birds who have gone to the other side = people who have passed on.
War Galleries Acknowledges the presence of two Atua Tumatauenga and Rongo.
War Memorial Discovery Centre A place of remembrance.
World War I & earlier (Zero, New Zealand at War, Boer War, World War I) Remembering the blood that was spilt.
New Zealand at War Acknowledging all the faces of war.
Hall of Memories I The many faces of the lost/fallen. Connecting to the sense of sadness and loss.
Hall of Memories II The faces of the fallen/lost.
World War II onwards (Spitfire, World War II) Remembering the tears that were shed.
Holocaust Gallery
Regimental Colours
Art, Photography & Archives Gallery (Sainsbury Horrocks) Space to be creative/innovative.
Library
Auditorium A space that provides “food” for the senses. Performances to delight the senses.
Under the Dome at Auckland Museum Connection to the waiata He Aha te Hau. Acknowledging the winds, Nautilius Shell. Connection to Ngāti Whātua Orakei.