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Enjoy a kaleidoscope of colours & patterns in our exhibition, Secret World of Butterflies. Packed full of family friendly interactives, unbelievable butterfly facts & more!
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Open daily from Sat 9 Jun, 10AM to 5PM.
#AMButterflies
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CONS: Assembly required. Often incomplete. Replacement parts hard to come by. No customer support as model has been discontnued. PROS: Very impressive. Much larger than appears on the box. Extremely durable. Quiet.
#rateaspecies
The Cultural Festival 2018 celebrates the vibrant art & culture of our local Asian Communities. Enjoy musical performances, martial arts showcases, arts & crafts, tea ceremonies, traditional games and more!⠀
This 25 & 26 August. Learn more:
In commemoration of Armistice Day, the Fields of Remembrance Trust has laid out a Memorial Field, with 18,277 white crosses, each bearing the name of a New Zealander who lost their life in the conflict.
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View a timelapse of the installation here:
Bainígí sult mór as Seachtain na Gaeilge 2018!
'Bailiúchán’ is the Irish word for ‘collection’, and ‘seandálaíocht’ is the Irish term for archaeology. We have a few Irish objects in our bailiúchán, like this rinn saighe (arrowhead).
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#seachtainnagaeilge2018
We’ve been advised by the Auckland Police that a mass demonstration is planned for Saturday 20 November 2021 in Auckland Domain. As a result, the Museum will not open, to ensure we keep our people, visitors, building and collections safe.
Let Me Be Myself - The Life Story of Anne Frank explores what life was like for Anne Frank and her family.
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Developed by Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, this international exhibition is on now at Auckland Museum until Mon 14 May.
#AucklandMuseum
#AnneFrank
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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
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#AnzacDay
#AucklandMuseum
We have translated our Collections Online and Online Cenotaph user interfaces into te reo Māori! 🥳 Visitors can now read about our records in te reo Pākehā and te reo Māori. This work was made possible by an
@InternetNZ
grant 🙏
#reom
āori
We will be lighting our Museum in celebration of Auckland Pride Festival over the coming weeks!
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We will be illuminated from Friday to Sunday for the next three weekends, with the exception 16 February.
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Share your awesome photos with the hashtag
#AucklandMuseum
80 years ago today, the WAAF was established in New Zealand. To mark the occasion, Stacey Fraser and Angela Wanhalla from
@HomeMaori
have written an article looking at the invisible history of Wāhine Māori serving in the RNZAF
@AFMuseumNZ
Take advantage of this rare chance to learn about one of the city’s most beloved heritage buildings and enjoy incredible panoramic views from the Museum’s rooftop.
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Booking essential, see below for more information:
We're building a beta
#CollectionsOnline
landing page, and we'd love your feedback. Explore our encyclopedic collections and the stories they tell. You can also dig into in our data, and learn about how to use our open API: 💻🏡
#MuseumFromHome
In celebration of Pride 2019 we will illuminate the Museum in the colours of the rainbow until the 13 Feb.
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We love to see your photos of the building and so please remember to tag us and share with the hashtag
#AucklandMuseum
#Pride
#Auckland
#Rainbow
#LGBT
Auckland Museum has received a
@Wikicite
grant to fund a Wikimedian in Residence to help unlock the potential knowledge held within our academic outputs and research publications! We’ll have more details how to apply soon… 📚💻
In 2020 the Museum launched te reo Māori user interfaces for both Collections Online and Online Cenotaph. In line with our commitment to open data we have released this rauemi (resource) for download. Kia kaha te reo Māori!
@reomaori
#OnlineCenotaph
has recently created more than 4,000 Women's Auxilliary Air Force (WAAFs) records. Hopefully we can gather more stories from these service women and their whanaunga
Next week, the moa at the Museum will be coming out of their cabinets to be photographed & 3D scanned in our gallery. In this piece, Matt Rayner, writes about the importance of this imaging project & describes how the moa in our collection were acquired
Tonight as part of the Suffrage 125 celebrations we will illuminate the Museum in the historical colours adopted by women's suffrage petitioners.
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The colour violet to represent dignity and self-respect & the white camellia worn by people supporting women's right to vote in NZ.
Auckland Museum will not be opening the Museum tomorrow (Wednesday 12 August) and we will remain closed until we move back to Level 2. Kia kaha, kia atawhai Tāmaki-makau-rau.
From dawn on the 25th April 2014, members of the New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography
@NZIPPhoto
set out on a project to photograph returned service personnel from across New Zealand. 1,600 photos are matched to their
#OnlineCenotaph
records.
At our last LATE Helen Clark spoke with Noelle McCarthy about women's role in politics and international affairs. Listen to the full conversation now over at
@radionz
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Join Leone Samu Tui, Associate Curator, Documentary Heritage (Pacific Collections), as she shares insights into the programme of activities working to surface and celebrate Pacific voices and experiences
@MoanaDocH
DJ and current Arts and Culture Programme Leader of Ōtara Music Arts Centre (OMAC) Gene Rivers stands beside the Atari MX5050 BII2 used at OMAC during the mid-1980s. Discover the story of South Auckland in Volume South, open daily until Friday 2 Feb at
"We still have to step up and get in there. I often say when addressing younger women don’t expect anyone to roll out the carpet or open the door for you. Often you have to lay the carpet yourself and kick down the door. "
@HelenClarkNZ
#AMLate
#AWTY
Download, colour, and share through the
#Colorourcollections
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Image caption: Hills, Harry Clifford. Illuminated address, 1920. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-1227.
Tāmaki Paenga Hira and Ngāti Kuri have been successful in establishing a joint research programme focused on Rangitāhua
@thekermadecs
!The programme has received $13.3M in research funding from
@MBIEgovtnz
's Endeavour Fund for a five-year period 🌊🐟🪝🐡🍃🌿
On this day in 1917 the lives of 843 New Zealand soldiers were lost during the Battle of Passchendaele.
Ka maumahara tonu tātou ki a rātou. We will remember them.
Sincere congratulations to Haare Williams, the Museums Amorangi, who has been made an Honorary Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit.
#AucklandMuseum
#OrderOfMerit
Entertain the kids these school holidays with 'Caterpillars' an award winning theatre show set in a magical world of flitting butterflies, jumping eggs, and giant swaying flowers!
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Book tickets and find out more via our website:
We acknowledge the passing of Merchant Navy man John Arthur Ross (1925-2021). Johnny volunteered at Auckland Museum from 1996 until his retirement in 2017. He was a stalwart of the Swanson RSA and will be sorely missed
@RSAAuckland
A pod of uniquely designed and painted whale tail sculptures have arrived in Tāmaki Makaurau, including one outside your Museum. 'From the Tiny to the Mighty', is a celebration of plankton painted by Bhakti Patel and Annika Andresen
#Whaletales
"One said that women would always vote for the handsomest candidate." In this video, share in the memories of women who were at the 1893 election which features in our exhibition - Are we there yet?
#125suffrage
#NZIFF
We're developing a new exhibition centred on emotions and connections through shared messages, and are welcoming submissions that highlight love, loss and longing.
Selected submissions will be featured in the exhibition, so we want to hear from you!
The model was created in collaboration with
@Mihi_Forbes
when she was
@radioNZ
’s Māori Issues correspondent in 2017 and made by Great Southern Television with funding from
@NZonAir
. Watch the full doco here
Enid Evans, QSM, was the first professional librarian at Auckland Museum.
Paula Legel endeavours to explore the many professional accomplishments of this extraordinary lady, in a sector that had previously been dominated by men.
Read more at