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Wake-up Call For Canterbury Museum
‘Thanks to earthquake strengthening carried out in the 1980s, Canterbury Museum has come through three major earthquakes and thousands of after shocks with its physical form largely intact. It’s been a different story inside…’ Continue reading
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Layers of History: Hope for Heritage Buildings
There is an opportunity to put the Arts Centre– and much of the city – back together again – even if it does take fifteen years.
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Earthquake Recovery – A Ngai Tahu Perspective
Ngai Tahi Kaiwhakahaere Mark Solomon: “We intend to have representatives at every level of planning going forward.”
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Art Alternatives
‘For all the fatigue, anxiety, distress and discontent you encounter among Christchurch artists, there is an excitement about the future.’ Continue reading
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Art Salvage
“This is the only metropolitan-wide disaster New Zealand has experienced during the modern age of art galleries, museums and an art scene and there’s an enormous opportunity here to learn lessons for the future,” Neil Semple.
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After Shock
‘But for all the sadness and destruction there have been dozens of positive stories. The public sculptures that stood firm while everything crashed around them; the artists who banded together to stage exhibitions and raise funds for their struggling friends; the teams who set about saving as many artworks throughout the city as possible. Those are the things I like to focus on and I’ll be visiting all of those subjects on this blog in the coming weeks.’
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Caravans & the iconic Kiwi holiday
When I stepped into Taupo Museum a few months ago, I was immediately drawn to their nostalgia-ridden caravan display – a squat little 3-berth, New Zealand-made Anglo Imp, which the museum purchased when it was discovered abandoned in someone’s garden. Continue reading
The Dress Circle
Adrienne Rewi reviews The Dress Circle, an exquisitely illustrated book co-authored by three New Zealand museum professionals: Douglas Lloyd Jenkins, Claire Regnault and Lucy Hammonds. Continue reading
Behind closed doors – packing Hawke’s Bay Museum & Art Gallery
The sign on the door of the Hawke’s Bay Museum & Art Gallery in Napier may say ‘closed,’ but inside it’s all hands on deck as the museum team prepares for the building’s $18-million redevelopment. Continue reading
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Visual excesses
The foundation stone for Otago Museum on its current Dunedin site was laid in December 1874. Two years later, ‘half a world away,’ the foundation stone for the Albert Hall Museum, in Jaipur, Rajasthan in Northern India (above), was laid by the Prince of Wales in 1876. Continue reading
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