Otago Museum

The Otago Museum has been recognised as a category 1 historic place by the Historic Places Trust and the two organisations plan to collaborate more.

A new exhibition at the Otago Museum is raising awareness about New Zealand Muslims of Asian descent, Dr Najib Lafraie says.

The Otago Museum has attracted about 205,000 visits in the past five months, up about 13% on the corresponding period last year.

A planned major Otago Museum audit, which will be ushered in by a big pilot project next February, aims to improve the quality of data available about collection items, museum organisers say.

Concern over the lack of a specialised conservator at Otago Museum has been raised again, at the museum's governing trust board meeting.

A recent exhibition of Maori treasures from the Otago Museum in Dunedin's Chinese sister city, Shanghai, has deepened understanding of Maori culture in China, organisers say.

Dunedin is likely to gain increased Chinese tourism through the success of a major Otago Museum exhibition in Shanghai, a museum senior manager says.

A recent exhibition of Maori treasures from the Otago Museum in Shanghai proved a "staggering success", attracting more than 611,000 visitors and far exceeding the 400,000 to 500,000 attendance initially expected.

Key interactive exhibits from one of the Otago Museum's most popular free-entry shows, "Your Face Here", will reappear at the museum science centre next month.

The Otago Museum is the first major museum in New Zealand and Australia to begin installing a sophisticated new radio tracking system to monitor its artefacts.