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President's Column

President’s Column: December 2021

01/12/2021 0

So, in so far as I can, in print, I wish you a non-virtual festive season, a real summer. May it be possible.

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President’s Column: November 2021

03/11/2021 0

Not all museums are public institutions like Te Papa. Some are private, the result of someone putting together a collection.

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President’s Column: October 2021

27/09/2021 0

Museum curators have to think carefully about items for a collection. In doing so they collect items which have ‘weight’. T

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President’s Column: September 2021

25/08/2021 0

Research is integral to the way museums operate. Each item in a collection is there with background research behind it so that the item can be a source of increased…

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President’s Column: August 2021

30/07/2021 0

What being in lockdown in whatever level has shown us is how important the arts are to us. We can do without quite a lot. A walk is important but,…

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President’s Column – July 2021

01/07/2021 0

Behind every art work hanging in a gallery or museum is a story, not just of the work’s provenance as such, but of exactly who it was that owned it…

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President’s Column – June 2021

27/05/2021 0

As a national museum can’t do everything New Zealand is lucky in having many museums. Any idea how many?

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President’s Column – May 2021

27/04/2021 0

Does Te Papa have a place in preserving the ‘how to’s’ such as waka building, traditional Maori carving, and how to play knucklebones? Should Te Papa keep such ‘how to’…

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President’s Column – April 2021

24/03/2021 0

Open-air museums - what does one do for a whole town?

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President’s Column – March 2021

25/02/2021 0

What stories should a museum tell?

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