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Museums in a Changing World

On May 18th, the International Council of Museums will celebrate International Museums Day 2012. The theme this year is Museums in a Changing World: New Challenges, New Inspiration. For those of us in ICOM NATHIST who proposed the theme, it was a huge coup, giving another avenue to museums – not just natural history museums [...]

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Museum Leadership: Thoughts after the 2013 Museums Aotearoa conference

Last week, Museums Aotearoa held its 2013 conference on the theme of leadership. It was hosted by Waikato Museum. Following [...]

Bridling the Dinosaur – Form and Function in the Modern Museum

The Museum Sector is constantly evolving. Institutions that began as little more than storage spaces for works of art, archaeological [...]

The Halloween Effect

Last week, we just had the highest visitation in our Museum’s more than hundred year history, up by 880% on [...]

Intangible Natural Heritage – I don’t know much about nature, but I know what I like

Last week, I gave a talk at the Govett-Brewster Contemporary Art Museum in New Plymouth about my recent book Intangible [...]

Let’s Be Friends – Building Museum Membership

The other day I hosted an afternoon tea and a lecture for our Friends group at Whanganui Regional Museum . [...]

Contextualising Worth

The newest in-house exhibition to open at the Whanganui Regional Museum is Your Treasures – New Acquisitions 2011. The concept [...]