The blog is where we'll post news, updates, information about objects in our collection, #betterworkstories, profiles of staff members and visitors, pictures and videos, and really anything we think you'd find interesting. We hope you enjoy.
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Striking a Balance is BACK
On New Year 2020, New Zealand woke up to an apocalyptic, mustard-coloured sky, and in the haze of bushfires, a sense of foreboding was felt by many around the country...
NOVEMBER (WHIRINGA-Ā-RANGI) SKY GUIDE
Welcome to the Sky Guide, your monthly guide to what's happening in the heavens!
World Cities Day
31 October has been designated as World Cities Day by the United Nations. The Day is expected to promote interest in urbanization.
The Travels of Tuna: New Zealand’s largest migrating fish
The story of New Zealand’s tuna actually begins and ends in the Pacific Ocean near Tonga...
Striking a Balance – Grace Johnston
The Otago Museum Blog is being taken over by the student-creators of the exhibition Climate Change – Striking a Balance!
OCTOBER (WHIRINGA-Ā-NUKU) SKY GUIDE
Welcome to the Sky Guide, your monthly guide to what's happening in the heavens!
Striking a Balance – Logan and Pagemarie Boyd
Leading up to Climate Change – Striking a Balance, Otago Museum Blog is being taken over by the student-creators of the exhibition, highlighting their passions for communicating various issues caused by the effects of climate change.
A Jacket Made in France
A new addition to the Museum’s dress collection unexpectedly involves the story of the first male staff member in the then Home Science Department, University of Otago; a dashing 24-year-old Frenchman named Monsieur Rene Thevenot. Our recently acquired garment is a stylish New Look jacket, sewn by Patricia Coleman in 1954, near the end of a year’s study in Europe. Image 1 blog2 Jacket made by Patricia Coleman in Vichy, France, in 1954. G2020.15 Gift of University of Otago; Otago Museum Collection. Photograph by Jen Copedo It has a...
Research Insights Q & A – Luna Thomas
What is your place of study? I am a PhD student at the University of Otago in the zoology department. I am studying the mating behaviour of the endemic stag beetle Geodorcus helmsi. Tell us about your visit My visit was fascinating! The University of Otago has a large number of stag beetles in their collection! I was able to get localities off of them, which will allow me to get a better picture of their range. I was also able to get a better understanding of the variation in the morphology across this...
Striking a Balance – Rose Oats
Leading up to Climate Change – Striking a Balance, Otago Museum Blog is being taken over by the student-creators of the exhibition, highlighting their passions for communicating various issues caused by the effects of climate change.
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