Museums
Bowls Museum a treasure trove of trinkets
Its time for another in our series about New Zealand's lesser know museums. Audio
NZ's first dedicated hop and beer museum opens
Nelson is fast carving itself out a reputation as the craft brewing capital of New Zealand, vying for the title with its neighbour across Cook Strait, Wellington. Audio
Moving ceremony & celebration greets ancestral remains
The largest ever repatriation of ancestral Maori and Moriori remains have been welcomed back with a moving ceremony at Te Papa Tongarewa. Audio
Tipuna welcomed home
Over a hundred Maori and Moriori ancestral remains will be formally welcomed home at Te Papa in just over an hour's time more than a century after they left New Zealand. Audio
Repatriation of ancestral remains in NZ history announced
The largest collection of Māori and Moriori ancestral remains to be returned to New Zealand has been handed over to a Te Papa delegation in New York overnight. Audio
One of the largest repatriation of Maori remains to occur
A museum in New York is returning more than 100 Maori and Morori ancestral remains in the largest such repatriation in New Zealand's history. The remains from the American Museum of Natural History… Audio
Eric Dorfman: museum and migration
Dr Eric Dorfman is the director of the Whanganui Regional Museum. Audio
Govett Brewster Gallery
How New Plymouth's Govett Brewster Gallery is getting tips from an art gallery that's become one of Tasmania's biggest attractions, the privately owned and run MONA museum. Mona curator Jarrod Rawlins… Audio
World War One - A contemporary conversation
A new exhibition called World War One - A contemporary conversation, the National Library of New Zealand is reflecting on the history and repercussions of war and conflict. As well as displaying some… Audio
Chromatic Investigations
Masterton's Aratoi: Wairarapa Museum of Art and History has pulled off a coup that will make it the envy of galleries around the country. The gallery's director, Alice Hutchison, has spent the past… Audio
Illegal art trafficking
A specialist in helping to protect museum and art gallery treasures from natural disasters and illegal art trafficking, Dr Hans-Martin Hinz, has some cautionary tales and lots of good advice for our… Audio
Treasuring our artifacts
Museum curator Alice Hutchison has spent the last fifteen years working in the United States and now she's back to keep a watchful eye on our national treasures at Aratoi Museum of Art and History in… Audio
Dunedin's Great War
A new exhibition at Toitu-Otago Settlers Museum looks at the effect of World War One on Dunedin and its people. Curator Sean Brosnahan and Exhibiton Developer Will McKee talk about the research that's… Audio
Spectrum for 25 May 2014
Caesar Roose was born in 1886 on an island in the Waikato River, opposite the railway town of Mercer. At the age of eighteen, he launched his first commercial boat and for the next 60-years Roose… Audio
Te Papa chief executive quits
The national museum, Te Papa, is about to begin an international hunt for a new chief executive after confirming yesterday current CEO, Mike Houlihan, is leaving to take up a special advisory role in… Audio
Moa bones
A few years ago Mike Dickison went back to university and did a PhD on giant flightless birds. A couple of months ago he was employed by the Whanganui Regional Museum to curate its huge, and largely… Audio