2020

Museum Membership
Next weeks, on Tuesday 3 November 2020, Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum will launch an exciting three-tier Museum Membership benefits programme, as well as a relaunch of the free MyMuseum card.
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Ocean Sunfish Larval
Australian and New Zealand scientists have, for the first time, successfully identified the tiny larva of the giant Bump-head Sunfish (Mola alexandrini).
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Squid Dissection for Research
Auckland War Memorial Museum’s Natural Sciences team will be dissecting a large squid at Massey University in Albany in conjunction with Waikato University, Massey University and Auckland University of Technology.
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Anzac Day 2020
Auckland War Memorial Museum will continue to commemorate Anzac Day, albeit in a different way in 2020.
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Auckland Museum releases Te Awe, a mini documentary series about the Museum’s taonga Māori
Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum has produced a four-part mini documentary series focussing on the mahi behind its ground-breaking, multi-year Te Awe project.
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Auckland Museum and Ngāti Kuri receive $13.3M Iwi-led collaborative research grant
Monday 14 September 2020
Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland Museum and Ngāti Kuri have been successful in establishing a joint research programme focused on Rangitāhua / Kermadec Islands.
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Phase One of visitor transformation revealed
Since 2013, Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum has been working on a series of visitor transformation projects to ensure the Museum is a place fit for an evolving city and its people. The end of the seven-year journey is in sight, and by its conclusion in 2021, 35% of the museum floor will have been transformed.
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Brickman Awesome: Epic LEGO® Creations exhibition comes exclusively to Auckland
Auckland Museum is set to host the tallest LEGO® brick model in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Love, Loss And Longing – Your letters, diaries, emails and direct messages
TUE 25 AUGUST 2020
Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland Museum is calling for submissions of personal communication in the form of letters, emails or messages which express feelings about love, loss and longing. Selected submissions will be included in some way in an upcoming exhibition, centred on love and loss in the written word, at Auckland Museum in mid-2021.
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Call for poems of Tāmaki-Makau-Rau
FRI 21 AUGUST 2020
To celebrate National Poetry Day 2020 on Friday 21 August, Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum is calling for poetry submissions for Tāmaki Poems, a community-generated, online poetry project inspired by a map of Auckland drawn up by Leslie Kelly in 1940.
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The Museum welcomes visitors back from Monday 31 August
FRI 28 AUGUST 2020
Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira will re-open its doors to the Auckland public on Monday 31 August.
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New tertiary student opportunities at Auckland Museum
Monday 21 September 2020
Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland Museum has launched a range of new initiatives aimed at building on the Museum’s contribution to the tertiary research, teaching and training.
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Museum Medals 2019
Wednesday, 26 February 2020
Our annual Museum Medals awards honour individuals who have given exceptional service to the Museum and made outstanding contributions to the generation of new knowledge drawing on the Museum’s collections and research resources.
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