News and updates
There is plenty happening at Te Unua Museum of Southland.
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Please note: images update every 15 minutes during daylight hours.
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Museum team works alongside Southland artist
Date:Categories:Regional museum collectionsTe Pataka Taoka - Southern Regional Collections FacilityNewsOur team has worked alongside a local artist to preserve the stories of the Southlanders depicted in her work – ensuring future generations would come to know the narratives of the region’s past.
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Southland materials take centre stage within Te Unua build
Date:Categories:NewsTimber highly sought-after for its beauty – harvested sustainably in western Southland – will play a starring role in the build of the region’s new museum.
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Ministers visit Te Unua Museum of Southland
Date:Categories:NewsThe national significance of Southland’s new regional museum, under development in Invercargill, has been recognised in a ministerial visit.
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Council confirms free exhibition admissions
Date:Categories:NewsInvercargill’s new regional museum will include free entry to its exhibitions for all visitors.
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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.
