SPEAKING ENQUIRIES
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PRESS RELEASES
- First Private Viewing for Dunedin's Wantok Community
- Inaugural Niue Science Festival
- Price Increase at Science Centre
- Media Release: Astronaut lands in Bluff
- Science comes alive on the Chathams
- Mighty Small, Mighty Bright Exhibition Announced
- New Gaming Exhibition – Code Breakers: Women in Games
- Never-before-recorded auroral activity observed in Dunedin
- Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Exhibition Announced
- Special Puaka Matariki event planned
- New exhibition announced – Michele Beevors: Anatomy Lessons
- Fashionable donation for Museum
- Otago Museum cements science communication leadership
- Otago Museum COVID Policy
- Time flies when you’re having fun
- Great Response to Southern STEM Nominations
- Spying for sharks, caring for kākā, and burying briefs
- Otago Museum seeking nominations for the South’s women of STEM
- Your Museum at Your Place
- Covid-19 Updates
- Otago Museum appoints new Curator Māori and Pouhere Kaupapa Māori
- Otago Wildlife Photography Competition open but change is coming
- Jim Cooper installation opens at Otago Museum
- Exploration Extended at Otago Museum
- Embroidering Culture
- A Moth Named Barbara
- Tis the season to be generous
- Dunedin schools, clubs, and associations – anyone – ahoy!
- From pockets to the Pitcairns, a research topic for everyone!
- Community groups, meet scientists – project funding and expert connections
- Museum getting in the kegs
- James Cameron in Dunedin for two public talks
- The next stage in a journey of thousands of years
- Astronomers gather to witness a sunrise transit of Mercury in Mercury Bay
- Otago Museum Collections Access Hiatus
- More than just swan plants to keep butterflies fluttering by
- Extreme Science on the Road
- Tuvalu Language Day in Oamaru
- Otago Museum Education Team Over Achieving
- Have you ever had a broken heart?
- Museum campus goes entirely smoke-free
- Times Are Changing
- A Changing Display
- Solar Eclipse Pitcairn Islands
- New flightless stonefly species discovered
- James Cameron - Challenging the Deep
- Ara-moa – an update and some FAQs
- Ara-moa – A Hidden Pathway of Lost Taoka
- Otago Museum Images to be Freely Available in Wikimedia Commons
- Zealandia, the Eighth Continent
- Several Hundred Specimens of Parasitic Worms Donated to the Otago Museum
- 20th Otago Wildlife Photography Exhibition Opening Saturday
- A Rifle with History
- Enter the Museum Collection
- Leading US Physicist to Throw Light on the 100-year Quest for Einstein’s Gravitational Waves
- Otago Museum Frogs have New Home
- Singular Opportunity to Hear Globally Important Astronomer
- A Week of Wins
- Finding the Line Between Mystery and Knowledge
- 2019 Otago Wildlife Photography Competition – 20 Years of Beautiful Amateur Imagery
- Knot Your Grandmother’s Knitting
- Inaugural H D Skinner Lecture
- Portrait Exhibition Highlights Local Women
- Anthonie Tonnon returning to the Perpetual Guardian Planetarium
- Desperately Seeking Tuhura
- Free Museum Bus Loop
- Outreach Heading Out Again
- Discoverer’s Granddaughter to View Returned Polynesian Textiles
- Ancient Weapon Surfaces on the Taieri
- Exhibition Design Garners National Acclaim
- Extreme Science Outreach
- New Species of Body Snatching Hairworm Discovered in Otago
- Memories of Otago Museum
- 40 Years of Philanthropy
- 2018 Otago Wildlife Photography Exhibition People's Choice
- Rare Discovery: New Long-legged Fly Found at Aramoana
- Things Change: Martin Phillipps and The Chills at Otago Museum
- 2018 ServiceIQ New Zealand Museum Awards
- Lab in a Box, taking science to the nation
- 2018 Otago Wildlife Photography Competition closing soon
- Kia Rapua Pop-up Science Playground Launch
- Leopard seal pup to be added to Otago Museum collection
- The opening of Tūhura Otago Community Trust Science Centre
- 2018 Otago Wildlife Photography Competition
- Egyptian mummy press release
- New science centre name – Tūhura Otago Community Trust Science Centre
- Leopard seal pup’s lungs were failing, CT scan shows
- Rare striped dolphin stranding death on Warrington Beach
- Donation of Museum’s Discovery World interactives
- 2017 Otago Wildlife Photography Competition’s People’s Choice announced
- Development of Museum’s new science centre set to begin
- Introducing Otago Museum’s jewelled gecko… ‘Manawa’
- Life before Dinosaurs: Permian Monsters to land at Otago Museum
- Hākui exhibition to open at Canterbury Museum
- Significant James Short telescope now on display at Otago Museum
- Dunedin’s first female detective’s fashion fur donated to Museum
- Otago Museum achieves CEMARS® certification
- 5,000 Kāi Tahu adzes digitised by Museum staff
- Museum’s popular Animal Attic gallery to close for preventative conservation work
- Help name Otago Museum’s treasured jewelled gecko
- Museum acknowledged for high standard of animal welfare
- Current exhibition to bring Otago Museum textiles to life
- New MoU between University and Museum
- Treasured jewelled gecko returns to Otago
- 3D launching under the Perpetual Guardian Planetarium dome
- New Zealand’s oldest telescope discovered in Otago Museum collection
- New categories in 2017 Otago Wildlife Photography Competition
- Last call for Otago Wildlife Photography favourites
- Recently acquired piupiu transferred in the name of collective conservation
- Hākui: Women of Kāi Tahu announced as Best Awards finalist
- Exciting addition to Museum’s Pacific Cultures collection
- Climate Kit exhibition nears opening
- Milestone met for moth project at Otago Museum
- Cultural Incubator to call Otago Museum Home
- Dunedin set to welcome 2018 SPNHC Conference
- Otago Museum Discovery World II a step closer
- Accolades at 2016 New Zealand Museum Awards
Corporate Information
The Otago Museum was established in 1868. It has seven permanent galleries, the H D Skinner Annex, the Tūhura Otago Community Trust Science Centre and the Perpetual Guardian Planetarium. The Otago Museum’s current director is Dr Ian Griffin. For all media-related questions, please contact our Marketing Manager.
OTAGO MUSEUM PLANS
OTAGO MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORTS
- 2022–2023 Annual Report
- 2021–2022 Annual Report
- 2020–2021 Annual Report
- 2019–2020 Annual Report
- 2018–2019 Annual Report
- 2017–2018 Annual Report
- 2016–2017 Annual Report
- 2015–2016 Annual Report
- 2014–2015 Annual Report
- 2013–2014 Annual Report
- 2012–2013 Annual Report
- 2011–2012 Annual Report
TRUST BOARD MEMBERS
- Chair: David Hutchinson
- Jeff Wilson
David Benson-Pope - Brigid Casey
- Gaynor Finch
- Christine Garey
Cherry Lucas - Nancy Longnecker
- Lisa Matisoo-Smith
- Rachel Wesley
Ex-officio
- Otago Museum Director: Dr Ian Griffin
- Treasurer/Accountant: Jamie Adamson (Deloitte)
- Deputy Treasurer/Accountant: Catherine Chisholm (Deloitte)
- Secretary: Jane Gregory
TE PAE ĀRAHI O TŪHURA (MĀORI ADVISORY COMMITTEE) MEMBERS
- Chair: Matapura Ellison – Puketeraki
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- Amber Bridgman – Hokonui
- John Broughton – Puketeraki
- Jane Graveson – Moeraki
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- Winnie Matahaere – Ōtākou
- Paulette Tamati-Elliffe – Ōtākou
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- Koa Whitau-Kean – Moeraki