National Services Te Paerangi

Little glimpses of personal history can be found in collection items held in New Zealand collections, like this vitamin bottle containing baby teeth collected by the Stace family tooth fairy from the Auckland Museum collection - https://www.kotuia.org.nz/collection-item/48631315/

There's over 1.4 million collection items on our collection sharing portal Kōtuia ngā Kete - www.kotuia.org.nz

During we'd love to here what you've found that has a connection to your family on the site!

Image: Baby teeth in plastic container as collected by the Stace family tooth fairy, 1980s. Shared by Auckland War Memorial Museum CC BY

**Conference alert**
Amazing two day conference hosted by Interpretation Network of New Zealand (INNZ), 17-18 October, Tamaki Makaurau Auckland. Details below:

Registration for 2024 is open! Join us for Waha Korero Sharing Stories, a two-day conference 17-18 October 2024 in Tamaki Makaurau Auckland.

This is our first conference since 2019, renewing our kaupapa to support interpretation and visitor engagement professionals around the motu. Enjoy inspiring talks from featured speakers and immersive field trips showcasing local interpretation.

Full programme: https://bit.ly/3A2xWa9

Register at Humanitrix ticketing platform: https://events.humanitix.com/waha-k-rero-sharing-stories-conference-registration

Join Tairāwhiti Museum next Thursday (1 August), 5:30pm for this panel discussion to reflect on 40 years since the groundbreaking Te Māori exhibition. This event will also be streamed live for those unable to attend in person.

Next week: Re-Imagining Museums, a panel discussion.
Thursday 1 August at 5.30pm
This event will be streamed live.
See you there.

**Upcoming Conference**

Join Interpretation Network of New Zealand (INNZ), 17 - 18 October in Tāmaki Makaurau for the Waha Kōrero: Sharing Stories conference.

At Waha Kōrero: Sharing Stories you will hear from a wide range of story sharers who use different mediums to communicate to the public and explore what sharing stories means in Aotearoa today.

The ingoa Waha Kōrero refers to us using our voices to share our own kōrero, and being voices for others and their stories. We aspire to share stories with mana and to be vessels for knowledge sharing with our communities.

This two-day conference will be hosted in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland on the 17th and 18th of October, 2024. The conference will blend uplifting kōrero from featured speakers with practical and immersive field trips to see examples of local interpretation in action. Details and registration below:

Waha Kōrero: Sharing Stories - Conference Registration | Humanitix Waha Kōrero: Sharing Stories Conference

Unpacking Cultural Appropriation in Art

This National Services Te Paerangi workshop is delivered in collaboration with Arts Murihiku for those working or volunteering in galleries who are interested in unpacking cultural appropriation in art.

🎨 Thursday, 1 August 2024, 10am to 3pm
🎨 Arts Murihiku 34 Forth Street, Invercargill
🎨 Koha to be paid on the day

Through presentation by Victoria Leachman, Head of Collection Access at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, and a guided group discussion, the workshop will discuss Copyright law and ethics of cultural appropriation in art, develop your thinking on the best approach to set expectations as an organisation showcasing works, and ways to communicate your organisations values and expectations with practitioners and the community.

Register for this workshop as soon as possible because spaces are limited:

Registration - Unpacking Cultural Appropriation in Art - Southland Where: Arts Murihiku, 34 Forth Street, Invercargill When: Thu 1 Aug 2024, 10am to 3pm Cost: Koha to be paid on the day* *Your koha will help Arts Murihiku cover the cost of your morning and afternoon tea.

This vibrant orange blazer was worn by diver Robin Hood, who wore it poolside as an Olympic Judge at 1984 Games.

Waikato Museum | Te Whare Taonga o Waikato has shared this korero | story from their collections on Kōtuia ngā Kete in the lead up to .

Robin Hood: New Zealand’s first Olympic judge Robin Hood: New Zealand’s first Olympic judge

Congratulations to Clare Butler on taking up the position of Director at Wairoa Museum. We look forward to supporting you in your mahi!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/clare-butler-a09659154/?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ebing%2Ecom%2F&originalSubdomain=nz

Excited to see these two new roles advertised for Okains Bay Maori and Colonial Museum !

Nau mai, tauti mai! Come and work with us in beautiful Kawatea Okains Bay!
We are currently seeking a Manager/Business Builder to lead the Okains Bay Museum’s efforts to achieve financial sustainability and unlock the full potential of the Museum and its collections. For further details and to apply see here: https://museumsaotearoa.org.nz/careers/vacancy/manager-business-builder

We are also very excited to be recruiting for the first time an Associate Curator Taonga Māori to join our team to undertake dedicated work on our nationally significant taonga Māori collection for a fixed term of one year. For further details and to apply see here:
https://museumsaotearoa.org.nz/careers/vacancy/associate-curator-taonga-maori

**Webinar alert**
Next week's Interpretation Network of New Zealand (INNZ) webinar looks at how to tell sensitive stories, focusing on the New Zealand Police Museum Mt Erebus disaster exhibition.

Wednesday 10 July
12-1pm, free for INNZ members, $20 non-member. Details and registration below:

Join INNZ members for the next lunchtime webinar of the 2024 season, Telling Sensitive Stories – Next Wednesday 10 July 12-1pm!

At the 40th anniversary of the Erebus disaster in 2019, the New Zealand Police Museum opened Operation Overdue: The New Zealand Police Story. Find out how an exhibition was brought together on the worst civil disaster in Aotearoa's history.

Registration is free for INNZ members, $20 for non-members. Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/telling-sensitive-stories-interpreting-traumatic-stories-from-aotearoa-s-past-mt-erebus-disaster-the-police-story

Because Matariki is hard to see in certain regions, iwi around Whanganui, Taranaki, the Far North and parts of the South Island primarily recognise Puanga. Puanga, also known as Rigel, holds the distinction of being the brightest star in the Orion constellation.

Its appearance is eagerly awaited as it signals the start of a new cycle and brings a sense of renewal and hope. In the piece, Puanga kai rau our Iwi Development Adviser | Kaiwhanake a-Iwi, Ahi Marino-Dawson who is based in Whanganui reflects on some of her practises around this time.

The abundant harvest of Puanga The abundant harvest of Puanga

On 17 July, NDF will be hosting a webinar featuring researcher, educator, and writer Kara Kennedy, PhD on Generative AI.

Kara will cover the basics of Generative AI tools: how they work, what concerns and ethical issues they raise, and where to get started using them at home and work. The session is designed to demystify Generative AI in an accessible way.

Demystifying Generative AI
Wednesday, 17 July 2024
12:15 - 1:00 pm

DEMYSTIFYING GENERATIVE AI — National Digital Forum Learn about the basics of Generative AI tools: how they work, what concerns and ethical issues they raise, and where to get started using them at home and work.

In 1992, 20-year-old New Zealander Annelise Coberger won a silver medal for slalom skiing at the Winter Olympics in France. Two years later, the Reserve Bank issued a collectors’ $5 coin to mark the 1994 Winter Olympics which featured a slalom skier.

There were great hopes for the 1994 team which included Colberger and the ice racing team who were the current world champions. However there were no podium finishers that year or for many years afterwards.

This spotlight on Kōtuia ngā Kete highlights a piece of memorabilia in the Reserve Bank of New Zealand museum collection.

Spotlight: A noteworthy event Spotlight: A noteworthy event

Empowering iwi and hapū key to conserving at-risk taonga Supporting iwi, hapū, whānau, and Māori communities to safeguard their at-risk mātauranga and taonga will be key themes at hui in Christchurch and Hawke’s Bay this month.

In the lead up to Matariki we're stoked to share a beautiful essay from Hone Winder-Murray (Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Kahungunu, and Te Rarawa), Western Bay Museum's Pou Mātauranga Māori, on our collection-sharing portal Kōtuia ngā Kete.

Hone weaves taonga from the Western Bay Museum collection into a kōrero which shares his personal connection to kete, piupiu and poi raupō.

Read Matariki tui taonga | Threading Taonga for Matariki: https://www.kotuia.org.nz/korero-stories/matariki-essay-2024-threading-taonga/

Mānawatia a Matariki!

Threading taonga for Matariki Hone Winder-Murray (Ngāi Te Rangi, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa, Kāi Tahu) shares reflections for Matariki through the woven taonga in the Western Bay Museum collection.

On inspecting the new Pukeora Sanatorium buildings, the Waipawa Mail questioned whether there was “an abundance of Nature’s tonic” due to the lack of shelter, thereby exposing the sanatorium “to the biting winds which sweep across the plains from the mountains”.

In our latest kōrero | story on Kōtuia ngā Kete, MTG Hawke's Bay Social History Curator, Gail Pope details the growing need for convalescent spaces following WWI, and explores the daily life of patients at Pukeora.

https://www.kotuia.org.nz/korero-stories/pukeora-a-sanatorium-for-long-term-casualties-of-the-great-war/

Image: A photographic postcard of the Pukeora Sanatorium, Waipukurau. From the MTG Hawkes Bay collection.

Some beautiful textiles covers showcased by Auckland Museum's collection care team!

Our collection sharing portal, Kōtuia ngā Kete will be a focus for a seminar on bilingual approaches to website design and development taking place tomorrow.

This cross-disciplinary seminar hosted by web design agency Springload will consider how research, content, design, and development weave together to create bilingual websites.

Free to attend - find out more here: https://techweek.co.nz/whats-on/programme/view/bilingual-approaches-to-website-design-and-development-82/

Hundreds of thousands of people around the country take to the sports field, court, pool, velodrome, and many other arenas every week to participate in their chosen sport. However, these spaces were not always welcoming to women.

In this kete | set for Kōtuia ngā Kete, Our Health Journeys Aotearoa curator Caitlin Timmer-Arends highlights a history of women participating in sport through photographs in our collections.

Featuring collection items from Coromandel School Of Mines & Historical Museum, MTG Hawke's Bay, Tairāwhiti Museum, Archives New Zealand, South Canterbury Museum, Our Health Journeys Aotearoa, Waitaki Museum & Archive and Hocken Collections



Image: Kim Robertson at NZ AAA Championships at QE2 Park, Christchurch, March 1979. Image courtesy of Archives NZ, CC BY 2.0)

Due to a significant amount of work in loaning collection items to iwi and other meaningful projects, Te Papa is changing the timeframes for loaning items.

From January 1st 2025 applicants will be required to submit loan requests twelve months ahead of their exhibition opening, and earlier if the request is complex or for a large number of items.

If Te Papa works are integral to your exhibition, we encourage you to connect with the Loans team so they can provide initial feedback ahead of the submission of your formal loan request: [email protected]

As part of Techweek 2024, NDF and Chris Cormack (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe) will be hosting a couple of data sovereignty workshops in Auckland and Wellington.

These half-day workshops are open to anyone in any sector who is dealing with Māori data. Discounts apply for all NDF members.

21 May Mus
• 9:30 am - 2:00 pm

26 May War Memorial Museum
• 1:00 pm - 5:30 pm

WGTN WORKSHOP: register here > https://www.ndf.org.nz/upcoming-events/an-introduction-to-data-sovereignty

AKLD WORKSHOP: register here>
https://www.ndf.org.nz/upcoming-events/an-introduction-to-data-sovereignty-fmb8x

AN INTRODUCTION TO DATA SOVEREIGNTY - TECHWEEK — National Digital Forum As part of Techweek 2024 NDF will be offering our introduction to Data Sovereignty workshop. Get an introductory overview of this important topic, essential for everyone working with data and data governance in Aotearoa New Zealand.

There’s something quite wonderful about a ship in a bottle. It fits the large and complex into something small and examinable. And that's not to mention the baffling logistics of fitting a model ship through the mouth of the bottle.

In this article, Maritime Museum writer Frances Walsh looks at the craft phenomenon which has been around since the mid-1800s.

Featured organisations: New Zealand Maritime Museum, Te Ūaka The Lyttelton Museum, Te Hikoi

Impossible Bottle Impossible Bottle

Ngā mihi nui to our colleagues John Coster and Susan Abasa who have been awarded Lifetime Honorary Museums Aotearoa memberships for their significant contributions to the sector over their careers.

John Coster has extensively shared his broad perspective on the management of cultural heritage, compiling more than 50 feasibility studies for the sector over the last 30 years.

Susan Abasa continues to be a sounding board for musuem directors, staff, and past students, following her long involvement in the Massey University Museum Studies programme.

Both have been ongoing advocates, supporters and contributors to our mahi at National Services Te Paerangi.

We would like to tautoko this well deserved acknowledgement of contribution to the sector.

📷: Cup - hearts. From the Te Toi Uku Collection (CC BY NC)

How are Anzac commemorations documented in New Zealand collections?

In this kete | set from National Army Museum, Waiouru New Zealand we explore New Zealanders commemorating Anzac day through collections shared on Kōtuia ngā Kete.

Featuring collection items from: Auckland Museum , National Army Museum, Waiouru New Zealand , Tairāwhiti Museum , South Canterbury Museum , Howick Historical Village, Waitaki Museum & Archive, MTG Hawke's Bay , Waimate Museum & Archives and Te Awamutu Museum - Education & Research Centre

Anzac: Remembrance What do people do on Anzac day in New Zealand? Check out this kete | set of commemoration images from our collections.

In the lead up to Anzac day, we're exploring remembrance poppies on Kōtuia ngā Kete.

This international symbol is pinned to the lapels of New Zealanders on Anzac day each year. It is worn to remember fallen soldiers.

Explore some of the poppies that have been shared on Kōtuia in this kete | set contributed by the National Army Museum, Waiouru New Zealand.

Featuring collection items from Auckland-Museum , Puke Ariki , Wyndham and Districts Historical Society , Cromwell Museum , Canterbury Museum , Te Papa and Paekakariki Station Museum

Poppies and Anzac day This kete | set highlights some of the poppies that have been shared on Kōtuia from collections across Aotearoa

Workshop: Wāhine Wisdom – Māori Women in Leadership Webinar
May 1, 2 pm - 3pm

Bringing together three wāhine Māori in leadership roles in the culture and heritage sector and beyond, this webinar looks at how Māori women can lead their organisations in a conscious way that draws on the power of culture, language and storytelling .

Te Pakinga o te Ngutu: Wāhine Wisdom - Māori Women in Leadership Webinar - Updraft Join Reremoana from Updraft for an empowering webinar celebrating Māori Women in Leadership, Wednesday 1 May 2-3pm. Joining Reremoana on this journey are Tui Te Hau and Vanessa Eldridge. Discover […]

**Symposium alert**

The New Zealand Art Crime Research Trust invites you to attend their 2024 symposium. This year’s theme is Art Crime Research Today.

The exciting line up of speakers includes Detective Inspector Scott Beard presenting about the theft and recovery of two Gottfried Lindauer portraits from Auckland’s International Art Centre in 2017, Judge Arthur Tompkins’ ‘A hard conversation looms about New Zealand's Benin Bronzes’, Professor Simon Mackenzie’s research into the science of deterrence and art crime trafficking, Andrew Brookes from the Ministry for Culture and Heritage presenting about the Artist Resale Royalty Scheme and lawyer Rita Shasha presenting her paper, “Creative expression or criminal confession: using art as evidence”.

When: Saturday 18 May 2024
Where: Rutherford House, Pipitea Campus, Victoria University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka
Cost: $87 to $117

More details and to register on the Art Crime website here: https://artcrime.nz/

📷 Te Papa art store. Photo by Mark Tantrum Photography, July 2019. Te Papa (145272)

**Friendly Reminder**

Fi****ms Safety Authority NZ are holding an online discussion to inform the development of fi****ms safety guidance for museum this Thursday, 11 April, 1pm.

*Register to attend by emailing [email protected]*

Call for papers for ICOM Voices

Call for papers : ICOM Voices: Human rights, social issues and ethics - International Council of Museums A global organisation of museums & museum professionals committed to the promotion and protection of cultural heritage

When some 1950s negatives of glamorous Chinese community members from Timaru came across his desk, NZMS Digitisation Technician Micheal Kingsley jumped at the chance to enrich these records.

"As I’ve gotten older, I’ve become incredibly interested in the stories of Chinese families who have lived in South Canterbury for generations; stories of hardship, determination, and most importantly, family. The impact of Chinese immigrants on the development of South Canterbury has been evident since the early European history of the region, but to me it seems historically under-acknowledged in the South Island’s major institutions."

Read more about his story here: https://www.kotuia.org.nz/korero-stories/remembering-timarus-chinese-history/

From left to right: Helen Yee, Dr Jimmy Yee, Ron Yee, Janet Yee, Sue Lowe. Photo courtesy of South Canterbury Museum

**Resource highlight**

CommunityNet Aotearoa has a wealth of resources designed to strengthen organisations and communities on their online hub, from bringing onboard virtual volunteers, hot tips for fundraising and more.

Check out their latest resources on the CommunityNet Aotearoa website:

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