News and updates
There is plenty happening at Te Unua Museum of Southland.
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Get an up-close and personal look for yourself, as we bring Te Unua Museum of Southland to life.
Please note: images update every 15 minutes during daylight hours.
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Councillors to consider museum admission options
Date:Categories:NewsInvercargill City Councillors are set to consider entry fee options for Te Unua Museum of Southland, as a clearer picture of a project completion timeline for the new regional museum emerges.
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Upskilling to safeguard at-risk taoka and mātauraka Māori
Date:Categories:Regional museum collectionsNewsA wānanga to give kaimahi practical skills and knowledge in collection care has given the team at Te Unua Museum of Southland valuable insight into the safe-guarding of at-risk mātauraka and taoka.
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Education outreach continues
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Work to craft the perfect fit for artefacts taking shape
Date:Categories:NewsThe painstaking process to develop bespoke mounts for the treasured artefacts on display at Southland’s new regional museum has begun.
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Landscaping works under way
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Museum experience designers collaborate with Southland creatives
Date:Categories:ExhibitionsNewsThe experience development team at Te Unua Museum of Southland has partnered with local creatives, to bring the stories of the region to the world.
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Highly-regarded curator and author rounds out recent appointments
Date:Categories:Te Pataka Taoka - Southern Regional Collections FacilityNewsThe lure of Murihiku Southland’s new regional museum has drawn one of the country’s leading experts in taoka Māori home.
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Accessibility built in from the ground up at Te Unua
Date:Categories:NewsAccessibility and inclusivity has been embedded into the heart of Te Unua Museum of Southland, with the new regional museum in Invercargill designed to ensure it had every visitor in mind.
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Casting for storytelling content now open
Date:Categories:ExhibitionsNewsCasting for characters set to be immortalised within Te Unua Museum of Southland has begun.
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Chance to develop Southland’s food stories at new museum now open
Date:Categories:NewsSouthland is blessed with an abundance of world-renowned ingredients. Now, the hospitality industry is being called upon to share their vision for an on-site café at Te Unua.
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Te Unua enriches local learning
Date:Categories:NewsA ‘soft launch’ of the educational programmes set to be explored at Southland’s new regional museum is underway.
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Work to share region's stories happening behind-the-scenes at Te Unua
Date:Categories:NewsWork to share the stories of Southland’s past, present, and future is progressing rapidly behind-the-scenes, as the development of Te Unua Museum of Southland continues.
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Local businesses play critical role in delivering new regional museum
Date:Categories:NewsDozens of Southland businesses are playing a key role in delivering the build of Te Unua Museum of Southland.
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Museum tracking on time and within budget
Date:Categories:NewsThe build of Te Unua Museum of Southland is continuing to track on time and within budget, with the next phase of work set to focus on integrating the facility with Queens Park’s famed rose gardens.
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Collaboration the key to experience development
Date:Categories:NewsWork to bring Southland’s stories to life is continuing at Te Unua Museum of Southland, with the project now officially in the production and build phase of the museum experience fit-out.
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Museum to become first in country with sustainability accolade
Date:Categories:NewsEfforts to embed sustainability from the ground up at Te Unua Museum of Southland have been recognised, with the project awarded provisional certification from Green Star.
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Building Te Unua: one year on
Date:Categories:NewsWhen it comes to a huge build like Te Unua Museum of Southland, the milestones come thick and fast.
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Te Unua crew joins industry-wide support of mental health wellbeing
Date:Categories:NewsThe crew behind Te Unua Museum of Southland have made a significant step in workplace wellbeing, with the site officially gaining accreditation with MATES in Construction.
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Identity gives community a taste of what's to come
Date:Categories:NewsThe rapidly-changing city skyline isn’t the only sneak-peek Invercargill residents have of their new museum.
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Digitisation project at Bluff Maritime Museum brings greater access
Date:Categories:Regional museum collectionsNewsWork to digitise a museum collection, which celebrates the stories of one of New Zealand’s oldest settlements, will give greater accessibility to an audience around the world.
