Otago Museum

Marine display snapshot of ocean life

Tense final preparations are being made at the Otago Museum for the opening today of "Otago's Ocean", a display exploring stories of ocean life, from tidal zones to the deep sea.

Draft figures look better than expected

The Otago Museum has achieved a better-than-budget operating outcome seven months into the latest financial year, despite its popular tropical forest attraction generating less income than expected.

Museum takes issue with council report

Museum takes issue with council report

A Dunedin City Council report has identified potential areas for savings and belt-tightening in some Otago Museum costs but museum organisers say parts of the document are "inaccurate" and could create a "misleading impression".

Taonga show for Shanghai

Shanghai Museum vice-directors Prof Chen Kelun (left) and Prof Li Zhongmou examine a Maori...

Taonga show for Shanghai

A trail-blazing Otago Museum exhibition is likely to be viewed by up to half a million people in Shanghai, later this year, organisers say.

Two fall for museum pond's attraction

Two fall for museum pond's attraction

A fish pond at the Otago Museum's tropical forest attraction has recently become slightly too popular, with two people accidentally slipping in.

Change on museum board welcomed

Members of a group of former Otago Museum staff are welcoming the prospect of "fresh blood" at the museum's governing trust board, including in its leadership.

Bugging out at Otago Museum: grub's up

United States tourist Steve Barrish samples a huhu grub at yesterday's Kai Tahu kai cooking...

Bugging out at Otago Museum: grub's up

Steve Barrish admits his knees were knocking as he contemplated the wriggling huhu grub before him.

Maori skills with pounamu world-class

Gemmologist Russell Beck shows an audience at Otago Museum the mechanics of one of the adzes he has made in the traditional Maori style. Photo by Gerard O'Brien. Pounamu is "not just a pretty stone" gemmologist Russell Beck told more than 50 people at Otago Museum yesterday in a demonstration about the properties of the stone and traditional Maori tool-making.

Maori exhibits bound for Shanghai

Maori advisers John Broughton (left, holding a hei tiki) and Matapura Ellison surrounded by...

Maori exhibits bound for Shanghai

Planning is under way for Otago Museum's biggest overseas exhibition yet, at Shanghai Museum.

Plans made for radio tracking system

Otago Museum organisers hope to install a sophisticated $300,000 radio tracking system this year to monitor collection items at the museum.

Museum achieves most 2010 goals

Museum achieves most 2010 goals

The Otago Museum has done "extremely well" in attaining about 90% of its annual service performance goals, despite difficult economic times, museum programmes director Helen Horner says.

Every face tells a story

Visiting Auckland resident Billie Zagni looks at a computer image in the Otago Museum's "Your...

Every face tells a story

The Otago Museum is inviting visitors to face up to the future in an unusual way, through a do-it-yourself face-changing show.

Paul considers future as Collins not reappointed

Otago Museum director Shimrath Paul is contemplating his future as the winds of change blow through the boardroom of the Otago Museum.

Museum review 'positive'

A joint review of aspects of Otago Museum funding is a positive process and not intended to punish claimed deficiencies at the museum, organisers say.

Museum strength remains - Farry

Although its chairwoman and deputy chairman are changing, the Otago Museum Trust Board will maintain considerable continuity and strength, the board deputy chairman Malcolm Farry says.

Museum show benefits from grant

The Otago Museum has received a $45,000 grant from the Dr Marjorie Barclay Trust, which will be used to develop a planned Otago's Ocean exhibition.

Collins shocked to be replaced on museum board

Long-serving Otago Museum Trust Board chairwoman Margaret Collins is "shocked and disappointed" she has been replaced as Clutha District Council representative on the board.

Rare kete find new home at museum

Margot Yates and John Broughton with their grandmother's 100-year-old kete, which they have...

Rare kete find new home at museum

The Parata family has added to its taonga already housed in the Otago Museum by gifting rare flax kete dating back more than 100 years.

Exhibits bid a big welcome

Otago Museum Maori advisory committee chairman Matapura Ellison welcomes a touring Ngai Tahu...

Exhibits bid a big welcome

Mo Tatou, the biggest Maori touring exhibition to visit the Otago Museum for more than 20 years, received a stirring welcome yesterday.

Warning over future funding for museum

Questions over the use of public funds at Otago Museum - and chief executive Shimrath Paul's use of a late-model Audi - have prompted a warning future funding could be on the line.

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