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News Update 22 March 2012

Published March 22, 2012 Uncategorized Leave a Comment
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Kia ora koutou,

In the office we are very busy with preparation for MA12, guest speaker tours, Awards, AGM, and the new MA Lecture. We’re also working on the National Visitor Survey, and are very pleased that more museums are taking part this year.  As the number and range of participants grows, this will become an increasingly useful resource for all.  In addition, we are developing a more comprehensive sector statistics project to provide better data about the overall size and shape of the museum and gallery sector.

We’re also busy recruiting staff.  While we know we can’t ‘replace’ Sophie, we will be appointing a new Membership Services Manager when she leaves to explore the world.  Sophie will be with us until the end of April, looking after membership and helping Rebecca and the team with MA12.

MA12 conference - EARLYBIRD REGISTRATION EXTENDED TO 23 MARCH
Make sure you register this week for ’Collaboration in Practice’ in Wellington, 18-20 April.  An invitation to the Directors and Governors’ Dinner at Parliament, hosted by Hon Chris Finlayson, has been sent to all directors – as we don’t have contact details for many board/trust members, please contact us if you would like any of your ‘governors’ to be invited. There are many other social and professional sessions, behind the scenes tours, and associated events. See our website for details or go straight to registration.

Inaugural Museums Aotearoa Lecture – Tuesday 17 April – Jock Phillips
We are very excited to be launching a new annual Museums Aotearoa Lecture series. The first lecture will be at Te Papa on the evening of Tuesday 17 April, so plan to come to Wellington the day before MA12. The inaugural speaker will be Jock Phillips, well known to many through his work with Te Papa, Te Ara and most recently for his ’Insider’ blogs during the RWC 2011 ‘Real NZ’ festival.  This public event is free to attend.

AGM – Thursday 19 April
The 2012 Annual General Meeting of Museums Aotearoa will be held at Te Papa, at 12 noon on Thursday 19 April. There will be a Board vacancy for one Individual member: Jenny Harper will complete her first term on the Board, and is standing for re-election. The notice of meeting, draft agenda and voting information are in the members area of our website here, with hard copies being posted to Individual members this week.

ATTTO – Museum Training Council
The Training Council is convened by ATTTO, our Industry Training Organisation, to provide advice and input into their support of workplace training. At its meeting last week, the Council looked at priorites for the coming year, and how they relate to other sector activities and initiatives.  We were very pleased with the work ATTTO has done over the past year in developing resources to support the Museum Practice Certificate, and a new induction package, Welcome to Museums.  By bringing relevant information together, these resources will make achieving the standards quicker and more achievable. To find out more about the qualifications and resources, contact ATTTO by email or tel 04 499 6570.  If you are an experienced museum professional, you may be interested in becoming an assessor for others working on the museum standards.

Next week we’ll be announcing the finalists in the 2012 New Zealand Museum Awards.  The winners will be anounced at a celebration dinner at City Gallery Wellington on 19 April.  We’re looking forward to seeing many of you in Wellington for MA12 and the Awards – don’t forget to register this week to get the earlybird rate.  For those who aren’t able to come to MA12, there will be reports on our website and a bumper conference/awards issue of MAQuarterly in early May.

Nga mihi,
Phillipa and Sophie

News Update 24 February 2012

Published February 24, 2012 News & Notices Leave a Comment
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This week we remembered those who were lost one year ago in the Christchurch earthquake. We particularly mihi to our Canterbury colleagues, for whom it has been a very difficult year. Among all the demolition, closures and (re)openings, we note that Christchurch Art Gallery is likely to be closed for another year and hopes to operate around the corner in CoCA before that, the Air Force Museum has been supporting local museums and is forging ahead with its new development, and Canterbury Museum has reopened and worked hard to develop a Canterbury Quakes exhibition, which opened this week.

‘Heritage’ is much in the news these days. There has been heightened interest in the preservation – and demolition – of heritage buildings since the Canterbury earthquakes. There have also been some interesting archaeological finds, some of which have held up development projects. Museum professionals and NZ Historic Places Trust archaeologists are often called in to assess and advise, and it is good to see these experts being quoted in the media. See these and other recent news stories here (you need to be a member to log in).

MA12, 18-20 April 2012 – REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
At last we have wrangled the technology, and registration for the MA12 conference in Wellington is open. Check out our website for the programme, accommodation options, associated activities, or click here to go straight to registration.

NZ Museum Awards – deadline looming
Applications for the New Zealand Museum Awards 2012 are due by 5pm, Thursday 1 March. Entries for either individual or museum categories could be exhibitions, research, public programmes, innovative projects and specific achievements. Full details and entry forms are on the Awards page of our website.

Online fundraising
We have noticed that museums are beginning to get involved in online fundraising efforts. As well as those larger organisations which have their own in-house systems, there are several web-based services for raising money. Small and large amounts of support can be encouraged through the likes of Nelson Provincial Museum’s campaign on fundraiseonline.co.nz and Raglan Museum, Kiwi North and the Air Force Museum are signed up to givealittle.co.nz. We’d be interested to hear how successful these efforts are, and whether there are others being used. Please contact us about this or any other matter of interest.

International vs Domestic tourism
The latest NZ tourism data shows an increase in international visitor arrivals for the year to December 2011, with growth of 3% on December 2010. After a downturn from March to September 2011, arrivals are now the highest ever, topping 2.6 million. Much of the increase was Australia-based New Zealanders returning to visit friends and relatives, and there was also a steady increase in numbers from China. Domestic tourism was increasing at a slightly higher rate in the year to September 2011, with figures for the year to December due out in early March. All this tourism research and data is on the Ministry for Economic Development website here.

Now we’re well into 2012, with all the usual activities and some new projects. The auditor was in our office last week making sure our 2011 accounts are in order. Applications for The Clark Collection / Creative New Zealand Scholarship and Mina McKenzie Scholarship for 2012 have closed and are under consideration. We’re in the process of mailing out the 2012 Directory. We’re about to start this year’s Visitor Research Survey, and launch into a bigger, more comprehensive sector statistics project, which will pick up from where the earlier ‘barometer’ surveys ended.

We look forward to hearing from you, seeing you at MA12 and other events, and working with you and on your behalf in 2012.

Nga mihi,
Phillipa and Sophie

News Update 24 Jan 2012

Published January 24, 2012 News & Notices Leave a Comment
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Nga mihi o te Ao Hou!

As we get back to work after the summer break, the weather settles, and we think wistfully of the beach – which was too wet and windy to be attractive when we had the time!  Looking back over January, we were relieved to hear that recently-installed sprinklers prevented a fire at the Kauri Museum from causing serious damage over the summer. You can read about that in the latest Museum News which is rounded up in the members’ area of our website here (you need to be logged in to view).

2012 is shaping up to be an invigorating and inspiring year, with lots to look forward to, as well as some big challenges. Local councils are examining their expenditure and targeting ‘nice-to-have’ budget lines including museums and galleries as they struggle to balance the books for ratepayers. And the budget squeeze is continuing in central government. This means we need to re-energise our advocacy work on a national level to help empower the sector and support the fantastic work done by individual organisations. Museums Aotearoa is about to start two vital pieces of work: the National Visitor Survey coming up next month, and a new more comprehensive Museum Sector Statistics project. This statistics work will gather essential information so we can all back up our advocacy with hard facts, both nationally and locally.

Other immediate priorities for MA are tidying up after 2011 and getting ready for our financial audit and 2012 membership administration. We also have the February 2012 issue of MAQuarterly in preparation – items, notices and advertising are welcome by 8 February.

The MA Board will meet in Wellington on the afternoon of Friday 24 February, and we are also hosting a Disaster Recovery workshop session for senior managers that morning, with presentations from Christchurch museum directors. Separate invitations are being sent about this session and numbers are very limited – if you are keen to come and have not received the notice, please contact us.

MA12, 18-20 April 2012: Keynote speakers
The other major project currently occupying our time is MA12. We’re having some issues with technology, and registrations will open as soon as we can get it set up and working. A reminder about our exciting international keynote speakers:

  • Umberto Crenca, founder and artistic director of AS220, a nonprofit centre for the arts in Providence, Rhode Island (see www.as220.org)
  • Jim Marchbank, former CEO of Science North, Sudbury, North Ontario, (see http://www.sciencenorth.ca/)

Both visitors will be spending some extra time in New Zealand and we are working on itineraries to get them out and about as much as possible. If you are particularly keen to host or meet with either Jim or Bert, please contact us.

The annual New Zealand Museum Awards Dinner will be held on Thursday 19 April at the City Gallery, with some fine dining and a fantastic local band lined up for entertainment. Applications for the awards close on 1 March, with full details on our Awards web page.

There will be plenty of other social events and opportunities to catch up with colleagues, as well as visits to a range of institutions and organisations in the Wellington region. There are several all day events happening on Tuesday 17 April followed by a public lecture in the evening, Wednesday welcome function and group dinners, Awards and behind the scenes bus and walking tours. Other special group meetings will also be held during the conference. We look forward to catching up with members and colleagues in Wellington in April.

Opportunities – deadlines extended and looming
A reminder about some current opportunities:

  • The Clark Collection / Creative New Zealand Scholarship - application deadline extended, now due 5pm, Monday 30 January
  • Mina McKenzie Scholarship – applications due 5pm, Monday 13 February
  • New Zealand Museum Awards 2012 – applications due 5pm, Thursday 1 March

Further detials about all these are listed below and application information is on our website.

Post-holiday research and reading
We have found some items of interest to distract you from your day-to-day work and hopefully interest and inspire you as part of the wider museum community.

  • Videos of NDF 2011 conference presentations are now online here. They are listed in order of appearance without titles, so you may want to refer to the conference programme on the NDF website
  • The USA’s Wallace Foundation undertakes research into all sorts of aspects of the GLAMS sector. A recently released series of case studies looks at audience development, including how the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum boosted participation by young adults, here
  • Closer to home, Radio NZ’s ‘Summer Nights’ programme made 18 virtual museum visits over December/January, interviewing people from a wide range of museums including Hokonui, Waipu, Lyttelton, Chatham Is, Rotorua, Police, Albertland, Okain’s Bay and Owaka. The podcasts can be heard or downloaded from the Summer Nights summary page, use search word museum.

Directors change direction
You may have heard the news that a number of museum directors around the country are moving on. Kate Vusoniwailala has left Waikato Museum after nearly a decade to return home to the warmer climes of Fiji. Long-serving Director of the City Gallery Wellington, Paula Savage, is moving to Auckland, Te Manawa Director Steven Fox is returning to Canberra, and later in the year Colonel Raymond Seymour will be retiring from the National Army Museum, Waiouru. These are some great roles for the next generation of museum leaders, and we look forward to seeing them take on the challenge.

So get those applications in, gather your information, and make your travel plans – lets make 2012 a great year for all our museums and galleries!

Nga mihi,
Phillipa and Sophie

Upcoming Opportunities

Published January 16, 2012 Special Updates Leave a Comment
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Kia ora koutou & Happy New Year!

Museums Aotearoa has a number of upcoming scholarship and award opportunites, please pass on this information to any interested parties, and feel free to contact our office on 499 1313 or mail@museumsaotearoa.org.nz if you have any questions.

Clark Collection / Creative New Zealand Scholarship & Attingham Summer School 2012
Applications are now invited for a decorative arts and built heritage scholarship for New Zealand arts and heritage professionals in 2012. Please refer to our website for full details, and to download an application form.

Closing date is Thursday 26 January 2012

Mina McKenzie Scholarship 2012
Applications are now invited for this scholarship. This fund is in memory of the long standing and significant contribution of the late Mina McKenzie to the museum profession, particularly in enouraging Kaitiaki Maori and empowering young museum people in their work. The fund is to be used to provide assistance to enable museum workers to undertake education, training or development that will directly benefit their museum career. Please refer to our website for full details, and to download an application form.

Closing date is Monday 13 February 2012

2012 New Zealand Museum Awards
It’s that time again! Applications are now open for the New Zealand Museum Awards. These awards are for an individual or organisation for an outstanding project that contributes to best practice in the museum sector in Aotearoa New Zealand, and demonstrates excellence, relevance and vision.

Awards may be made for small museum project, use of technology, innovation and exhibition design. Please refer to our website for full details, and to download application forms.

Closing date is Thursday 1 March 2012.

You can also check out past award winners, and scholarship recipients on our website here.

News & MA12 Update 23 December 2011

Published December 23, 2011 News & Notices Leave a Comment
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This is our final update for the year, hopefully you are all getting into holiday mode now, enjoying a well deserved summer break.

For your summer reading, we have uploaded the latest batch of Museum News here, which covers lots of interesting stories from 5-22 December. Download here.

Just now we are hearing about yet another series of large quakes in Christchurch today. Our thoughts are with our friends and colleagues in Christchurch who have had an incredibly challenging year. We are sincerely hoping that papatuanuku will be calming down over the Christmas break, with aftershocks settling down. Kia kaha.

We have enjoyed working with you all in 2011, it has certainly been a very full year. We are looking forward to coming back in the new year and hopefully seeing many of you at our conference in Wellington, in April. More details below:

MA12, 18-20 April 2012: Save the date!

Registrations for the MA12 Conference will open in January. The conference is titled Collaboration in practice and will be held at Te Papa in Wellington from 18-20 April 2012. A full programme will be provided in January, but in the meantime we are excited to announce our international keynote speakers:

  • Umberto Crenca, founder and artistic director of AS220, a nonprofit centre for the arts in Providence, Rhode Island (see www.as220.org)
  • Jim Marchbank, former CEO of Science North, Sudbury, North Ontario, see http://www.sciencenorth.ca/)

The annual New Zealand Museum Awards Dinner will be held on Thursday night at the City Gallery, with some fine dining and a fantastic local band lined up for entertainment.

Further chances to catch up with colleagues will occur over welcome drinks at the Museum of City and Sea. Governors/Directors and Kaitiaki dinners will also be held on Wednesday 18th.

The conference will be preceded by the Museums Aotearoa Inaugural Public Lecture on the evening of Tuesday 17 April in Soundings Theatre, Te Papa.

Other related sector events and group meetings will also be held on Tuesday 17th April, including a Poutama 3 workshop entitled Lighting for the Future run by National Services (see http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/nationalservices/Pages/NationalServices.aspx).

A limited number of travel and accommodation scholarships (up to $300 per organisation) are available, kindly sponsored by National Services Te Paerangi. We will provide further information about these when registration opens.

A further email will be sent out once registrations open in the New Year. Looking forward to seeing you in Wellington!

On a final note, congratulations to Heather Galbraith and Justin Paton who are to have key roles in developing New Zealand’s presence for the 2013 Venice Biennale. They will join Commissioner Jenny Harper as Deputy Commissioner and Curator respectively. Full details are on the Creative New Zealand website, where you can also find information on funding available and recipients of the latest grants.

Mere Kirihimete!

Phillipa and Sophie

News Update 3 March

Published March 3, 2011 Special Updates Leave a Comment
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Kia ora

We have uploaded the latest batch of news from the print media here, you will need to be logged in the the members’ area to view.

The last week has been overshadowed by news from Christchurch. Our aroha, sympathy and very best wishes are with all our whanau, friends and colleagues who have been caught up in the earthquake and its aftermath. Museums Aotearoa and National Services Te Paerangi are compiling a register of volunteers and ideas to help the Christchurch cultural sector’s recovery. Please contact Sophie de Lautour Kelly at sophie@museumsaotearoa.org.nz (or call 04 499 1313) if you would like to volunteer or have any suggestions.

We have had messages of solidarity from all over the world, including ICOM headquarters in Paris. Click here to read the ICOM Letter from Director General Julien Anfruns . You can also read and contribute a message of support on our Facebook discussion page here, or in the comments on our previous blogpost here.

In the Christchurch area, people are already pulling together. Thérèse Angelo reports that the Air Force Museum, which suffered only minor damage, is not only providing working space for two government agencies, SPCA/emergency vets and a firm of architects, but their staff are also going out to help Lyttelton Museum volunteers retrieve collection items from their severely damaged building.

Back in the office, we are working on details of the MA11 conference. If you haven’t registered yet, the earlybird rate is available until Monday 7 March. We will extend this rate for people whose plans have been interrupted by the Christchurch earthquake. If this applies to you, please contact the office as soon as you can, so that we may secure you a place.

We have also received an exciting batch of applications for the 2011 New Zealand Museum Awards, and look forward to announcing finalists later this month ahead of the celebration dinner on 14 April.

Nga mihi,

Phillipa and Sophie

Special Update 22 February 2011

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Oh no, not another one. As I put aside conference planning to write about the latest news, I felt our 8th floor office gently swaying. Little did I know that the effects in Canterbury were far worse. Unlike last September’s quake, this one struck in the middle of a busy day. It has caused even more damage in the city area, including in the Canterbury Museum and the Cathedral. However even that is overshadowed by the as yet uncounted human cost.

Like the rest of the country, we are watching and listening to news, and will bring you details about museums and galleries in Canterbury as they come to hand. We send all our aroha to friends and colleagues who have been affected.

We will distribute the last fortnight’s news stories and regular notice updates tomorrow. Meanwhile, we would like to announce an extension of the deadlines for earlybird registration for MA11, until 7 March. Application deadline for the helping hands grants to attend has also been extended until 28 February. And a reminder that New Zealand Museum Awards 2011 applications are due by 5pm this Thursday, 24 February. We will extend all these deadlines for earthquake-affected colleagues – please just let us know you are intending to apply.

 

Third Judge Announced for 2011 NZ Museum Awards

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Kia ora

We are delighted to announce that renowned architect, Ian Athfield (Ath) will join the Museums Aotearoa judging panel for the 2011 New Zealand Museum Awards.

Ath is the founding principal of Athfield Architects Limited and well-known to many in the museum and gallery sector. He is renowned for his big picture thinking and has been involved in the creation of many of New Zealand’s most successful urban spaces, landscapes, and buildings – including art galleries and museums. His work spans from domestic to civic, stretching across all scales from furniture and public sculpture to architecture, landscape, and urban design.

Ath has been involved with the annual NZ Institute of Architects’ Awards for many years – as a judge and an award winner – and he is looking forward to providing a different perspective to the museum awards. He has a long time interest in heritage and culture and is a member of the Historic Places Trust Board.

There is now one week to go until entries close on 24 February.

We have information on our website here to help you to prepare your entry. You can also contact your regional museum support people, the National Services Te Paerangi Museum Development Officers, past winners, Museums Aotearoa Board members or the Museums Aotearoa Office for help and advice on preparing your entries.

So tell us about the projects you are proud of, or the people whose outstanding achievements deserve to be recognised, and share in the celebration in Nelson on 14 April.

Please contact me if you require any further information.

Ngā mihi,

Phillipa Tocker
Executive Director
Museums Aotearoa
T (64 4) 499 1313 F (64 4) 499 6313 M (64 21) 606 135
phillipa.tocker@museumsaotearoa.org.nz

 

News Update 10 February 2011

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The latest batch of museum news is online here (you need to be logged in to the members’ area to view). We’re a couple of days late with the latest news as we’ve been away in Rotorua. The Museums Aotearoa Board met on Tuesday, hosted in fine style by Rotorua Museum. We really appreciated their cheerful hospitality as well as their air conditioning – it felt like about 30 degrees outside, especially to those of us from further south! and it was great to have an opportunity to see their re-development progress, which is on track towards a successful opening on 20 August.

Museums Aotearoa Board Members inspecting progress at Rotorua Museum

We also really enjoyed meeting with members from the area, some of whom had driven quite some distance to be there. We had afternoon tea and a good discussion of current issues and projects, including the work towards accreditation for museums and galleries in New Zealand. This is an important development in encouraging and recognising best practice standards in all museum and galleries, whatever their size. Another topic of discussion was a review of the Code of Ethics. We will have discussion papers about both these projects circulated for debate at the AGM in April.

MA11 conference planning has been taking much of our time, with details of the 3-day programme on Collecting Culture being finalised. Our hosts at Nelson Provincial Museum and the Suter are looking forward to welcoming colleagues to their place, and to their region. The first day of the conference will be held at the pan-iwi Whakatū Marae which will provide an ideal setting to explore bicultural collections. Thursday and Friday will be at various venues, including the Suter and Nelson Provincial Museum, with the Awards dinner at Nelson School of Music. The conference will be followed by a BarCamp convened by National Services Te Paerangi on Saturday 16 April. More details and registration information are on our website, make sure you register before 25 February to take advantage of the Early Bird Discount. And don’t forget, National Services have travel subsidies available, specifically to assist smaller organisations to attend MA11. These are being administered via the Helping Hand Grants, click here for application forms.

Here in Wellington, talk is focussed on politics. Controversy within the Māori Party is hotly debated, as well as the second reading of the new Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Bill. This Bill is being brought to the House by Hon Christopher Finlayson, as Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations. Being Attorney General as well as the Arts, Culture & Heritage portfolio, our Minister is a very busy man. Currently before the parliament he also has the Cultural Property (Protection in Armed Conflict) Bill (to enable NZ to ratify an international convention), the Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa Bill (which re-jigs the Arts Council and its committees), the Ngā Wai o Maniapoto (Waipa River) Bill, Ngā Rohe Moana o Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Porou Bill, a Legislation Bill and a Whanganui Iwi Bill.

On top of all this, the General Election has been set for 26 November this year. So it is even more vital that issues for the museum and gallery sector are well-understood by politicians on all sides of the debate. Museums Aotearoa keeps in contact with various ministers and MPs, in government and in opposition. Next week we have another meeting with Hon Christopher Finlayson, and we’re delighted that he will address the MA11 conference at the closing session on Friday 15 April.

This month deadlines are looming for conference registration and awards entries. More details are on our website, or contact us at the Museums Aotearoa office in Wellington.

Ka kite,

Phillipa and Sophie

News Update 26 Jan 2011

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Welcome to 2011! We hope you’ve all had a happy time with friends and family over the festive season. Latest museum news is online here (you need to be logged in to the members’ area to view).

Over the break, the NZ print media seem to have been having a bit of a holiday too, with lots of listings and information about happenings and summer attractions, but not much hard news about museums during the ‘silly season’. However, it is good to see that the former Te Awamutu Museum director convicted of stealing medals from the museum has now been named, and sentenced to nine months detention, 350 hours community service and ordered to pay reparation of $19,138. While the damage to reputations – which extends to the whole museum sector in such cases – still lingers, at least the message has been reinforced that thieves get caught and held accountable. And it also reinforces our need, as volunteers and professionals, to heed our own Code of Ethics. There will be a discussion paper to be circulated prior, and more opportunity to engage with these issues at the MA11 confernce in April.

In the wintery northern hemisphere, museum news continues throughout the holiday season. The big freeze has not only brought snow, but more cuts and budget challenges in the UK, Europe and the USA. You can read another chapter in the continuing debate about the sale of collection items to raise funds in this article from the New York Times.

Over the last fortnight, major news stories seem to have been crime and natural disasters. Luckily the crime hasn’t been in museums, and while we hope that the recent flooding in the north island hasn’t affected members, it seems minor in comparison to the devastating floods in Australia. We send our aroha and special thoughts to friends and colleagues as they begin the long task of cleaning up.

Recovery is still going on in Canterbury since the September 2010 earthquake. I was in Christchurch last week, where a small working group is scoping development of a museum accreditation scheme as mooted at the 2010 AGM. There will be more work on this over the next couple of months to bring an options paper to the 2011 AGM. While in Canterbury, I experienced first-hand the continuing aftershocks, being woken up both nights I was there. I must say that Cantabrians seem to be a very resourceful bunch as they get on with their work and their lives despite the persistent tremors. And I noticed that the earthquake display at Canterbury Museum was very well-attended!

And following its star turn as civil defence centre last September, Christchurch Art Gallery has been scooping the audiences with its Ron Mueck show. With queues out the door and opening until midnight on the final Saturday, they finished the 4-month run with 135,140 visitors, including nearly 10,000 over the last weekend. It has been touted as the most popular paid-entry exhibition in NZ by a living artist. Who says blockbusters are passé?

Please see our website to find out about the important activities coming up for Museums Aotearoa:

  • MA11 conference registration – earlybird registration open until 25 February
  • 2011 NZ Museum Awards applications – due on 24 February
  • Attingham Summer School 2011 – expressions of interest due on 1 February
  • National Visitor Research project – throughout January-February

We are also offering a joint MA-ICOM membership this year. Details are on our new membership brochure/application form, which can be downloaded from our website here, or contact the office if you would like us to send you some hard copies.

Many museums and galleries are launching new shows over the next few weeks, and we wish you all the best with them. In the MA office we are busy with membership and getting details sorted for the MA11 conference, as well as this year’s Awards. Don’t forget to register/enter, more details about both are on our website.

Nga mihi,

Phillipa & Sophie

 

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