Toitu Otago Settlers Museum

One of the seminal composers of the Dunedin Sound has praised the Toitu Otago Settlers Museum for capturing a generation of Kiwi music in danger of becoming a distant memory.

Ironic Cafe and Bar owners Steve Wilson and Sue Moller will open a second cafe in December, having taken the lease to run the cafe being built as part of the Toitu Otago Settlers Museum redevelopment. It will be known as Ironic @ Toitu.

For those who want to see something that moves with the times, is informative and beautiful, there will soon be a new museum in town.

When the Toitu Otago Settlers Museum reopens to the public on December 8, visitors will be able to sit inside the museum's distinctive Tiger Tea bus exhibit and watch a short film showing a re-enactment of people using the bus in the mid-1970s.

Museum organisers do not want to "overwhelm the visitor with lots of text" when the Toitu Otago Settlers Museum reopens to the public after its $40 million redevelopment.

Toitu Otago Settlers Museum has unveiled its new logo.

It was developed by Dunedin company BrandAid and will be used in all branding for the redeveloped museum.

Corporate sponsorship holds the key to completing community fundraising for the $40 million redevelopment of the Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, museum organisers say.

An interim "plain text" logo for the redeveloped Toitu Otago Settlers Museum is likely to appear in a cruise ship brochure later this year in lieu of a decision on a final design.

The design of a logo for the redeveloped Toitu Otago Settlers Museum is yet to be settled, despite a final decision having to be made by tomorrow.

A reminder of what life in Dunedin was like in the 19th century is taking shape with the construction of a replica wattle and daub cottage at the Toitu Otago Settlers Museum.