Great museums should instill a sense of wonder. And, great works of art can transport and transform us. When that…
New Exhibition – What Brings You Here? A Tales of Two Towns
What Brings You Here? is a new exhibition examining both the positive and negative changes in rural New Zealand. Why…
Weaving narratives in museum galleries: Thomas P. Campbell TED Talk
As the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Thomas P. Campbell thinks deeply about curating—not just…
Tales & Taonga – Update for August
Over the past few months the museum team has been hard working on collating the stories, objects, photographs, and captions…
National Geography exhibition ‘Rarely Seen’ – Closing soon!
Rarely Seen: Photographs of the Extraordinary is set to close on August 31st 2019. If you haven’t visited Patea yet to…
Capturing Taonga Maori with photographer Norm Heke
Today we had Taonga Maori photographer Norm Heke take some images of the waka haumi (bow cover) which dates from…
Port of Pātea
For many years the Pātea River managed to provide port facilities despite wild weather, rough seas, shifting sands and difficult…
Museums should honour the everyday, not just the extraordinary – TED Talk with Ariana Curtis
Who deserves to be in a museum? For too long, the answer has been “the extraordinary” – those aspirational history-makers…
Life on Mars? Ventifacts and South Taranaki
“When is a stone not a stone?” Apparently not when it lies at the Waitōtara River Mouth! Waitōtara is just one of…
Request a Back-of-House Tour
Do you know you can request a back-of-house tour of our collections and archives storerooms? Witness the magic which happens…
