Activities
2012 Scholarships and Awards now open
Applications are now invited for:
- The Clark Collection / Creative New Zealand Scholarship 2012
- Mina McKenzie Scholarship 2012
- New Zealand Museum Awards for 2012
Full details and application forms are on our Scholarships & Awards page.
Diversity Forum - Museums & Galleries
Diversity in practice: focus on youth
Monday 22 August 2011
11am-3pm, Waikato Museum
This year's Museums and Galleries Forum, part of the Human Rights Commission's annual Diversity Forum, focussed on youth. Presenters and participants shared ideas and experience of stimulating youth engagement in museum practice.
- What surprises and new energy can be generated through strategies such as 'community curation', where diverse groups are not merely invited to participate in a museum-generated programme, but empowered to create their own museum project?
- What happens when the institution hands over control, and how does that benefit everyone involved?
The forum was seeded by several short presentations of recent projects, and everyone had an opportunity to challenge and test ideas in an informal workshop environment.
Speakers: Moana Davey, Waikato Museum (Ngaa Pou Whenua); Sarah Morris, Te Papa (The Mixing Room); Ruth Harvey, Puke Ariki (USA case studies); Tarisi Vunidilo, Pacific Islands Museums Association (Pasifika Festival education programme).
A short summary is on our blog here, and Ruth Harvey's excellent report can be downloaded here (pdf 2.3MB).
The Museums and Galleries forum was jointly hosted by Museums Aotearoa, Waikato Museum and National Services Te Paerangi.
Ngaa Pou Whenua at Waikato Museum
Annabel Westman Public Lectures
We are delighted to advertise a series of illustrated public talks by Annabel Westman, one of our international speakers here for the MA11 conference. Annabel will share her enthusiasm and expertise in historic textiles with audiences in Auckland, Wellington and Nelson. Click here to download the flyer.
Please forward this information to your networks.
International Museum Day
Museums Aotearoa supports the International Council of Museums (ICOM) International Museum Day, and the following link to the ICOM website includes activities celebrating this event http://icom.museum/imd.html
Celebrated every year on or about 18 May, we posted this blog on the 2011 IMD theme 'Museum and Memory'.
Scholarships and Awards
We celebrate achievements in New Zealand's museums and art galleries in the annual NZ Museum Awards programme.
Museums Aotearoa facilitates scholarships and awards on behalf of the following benefactors.
Asia NZ Foundation Museums Award
An award to support collaborative New Zealand museum / art gallery projects with Asia with the objective of developing increased awareness greater understanding and professional networks between Asian and New Zealand cultural institutions.
The Clark Collection / Creative NZ Scholarship
An annual scholarship for New Zealand professionals in the built heritage and decorative arts field to expand their knowledge through attending the prestigious Attingham Trust Summer School in England. The scholarship also offers the recipients a number of short internships with organisations such as English Heritage, The National Trust, The Victoria & Albert Museum and The Royal Collection. Applications for 2008 have now closed.
The Mina McKenzie Scholarship
A fund established in memory of the late Mina Mckenzie provides assistance to enable museum workers to undertake education, training or development that will directly benefit their museum career.
Museums discussion on National Radio, November 2008
Following NZ's 2008 general election and controversy around funding cuts for Whangarei Museum, Phillipa Tocker spoke to Lynn Freeman on National Radio about issues and opportunities for public museums and art galleries.
National Radio - Arts on Sunday
Diversity Forum - 23-24 August 2009
The 2009 Human Rights Commission Diversity Forum was held at Te Papa.
On Monday 24 August, Museums Aotearoa supported a forum for museums and galleries hosted by Te Papa and Wellington Museums Trust, in which David Fleming, Director of National Museums Liverpool, spoke about the proposed Federation of International Human Rights Museums.