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Mercury Bay Museum: A Walk Down Memory Lane
Tuesday, 27 September 2022, 7:54 am | Mercury Bay Museum
The Mercury Bay Museum is excited to announce the opening of A Walk Down Memory Lane, a permanent exhibition, on September 30 2022. The new exhibit is a blast from the past and will reignite familiar memories from many locals and visitors to the ... More >>
Land Of A Thousand Sorrows Revisited
Tuesday, 31 May 2022, 5:39 am | Mercury Bay Museum
Monday 30 May 2022, Whitianga, New Zealand. The Mercury Bay Museum, Mercury Twin Cinemas and Deke Richards are proud to announce the Canadian documentary Land of a Thousand Sorrows Revisited will be making its Aotearoa New Zealand debut on ... More >>
Mercury Bay Regional Museum Development Phase
Tuesday, 18 April 2006, 10:08 am | Mercury Bay Museum
Following an earlier design team meeting, the Design team of Grant Collie (LDPS NZ LTD, Project Director) , Perry Royal (Royal Associates, Architects), Pip Prime (Urban Escape, Exhibition Designer), David Seaton (LDPS, Technical Consultant), Janet Riddell ... More >>
New Appointment - Plans On Display
Wednesday, 14 December 2005, 11:12 am | Mercury Bay Museum
In advance of our busy Xmas and New Year Holiday Period, The Coromandel Peninsula's most visited museum has a couple of exiting announcements. More >>
Environment And Heritage Education Centre
Wednesday, 23 November 2005, 1:08 pm | Mercury Bay Museum
Now that funds are in place to begin phase 1 of the redevelopment of the Mercury Bay Regional Museum, we are please to announce that the Environment and Heritage Education Centre will be in operation before Xmas. More >>
Major Initiative Between Ngati Hei And Museum
Tuesday, 5 July 2005, 9:29 am | Mercury Bay Museum
Ngati-Hei iwi, are the autochthon tangatawhenua of Whitianga, who trace their whakapapa back to Kupe and those who sailed with him, have been working closely with the MB Regional Museum project to develop the museum as a major national and international ... More >>
Heritage Hauraki Coromandel Launch A Great Success
Thursday, 23 June 2005, 5:13 pm | Mercury Bay Museum
Monday 20th and Tuesday 21st June saw the gathering of the majority of the Museum and Heritage practitioners from the Coromandel, Hauraki and neighbouring areas at the Mercury Bay Regional Museum. More >>
Coromandel Regional Museums Cluster
Monday, 14 March 2005, 4:17 pm | Mercury Bay Museum
Mercury Bay Regional Museum Project Office PRESS RELEASE ..... PRESS RELEASE ...... PRESS RELEASE Coromandel Regional Museums Cluster As the result of the discussions to develop the Mercury Bay Regional Museum, it became apparent that there was a need ... More >>
Workshed Found For Planetarium
Monday, 31 January 2005, 9:23 am | Mercury Bay Museum
The Mercury Bay Regional Museum has been given the use of a storage and work shed for the reassembling of the old Spitz planetarium which is being donated by the Auckland War Memorial Museum to the Mercury Bay Regional Museum. Anthony and Airdrie Hamilton ... More >>
Spitz Planetarium Comes to Mercury Bay
Monday, 17 January 2005, 9:49 am | Mercury Bay Museum
The Mercury Bay Regional Museum is proud to announce in this, the World Year of Physics, that it has recently acquired the Spitz Planetarium formerly located in the Auckland War Memorial Museum. This classic scientific instrument will be one of only 4 permanent ... More >>
Mercury Bay Regional Museum Project Office
Wednesday, 29 December 2004, 9:38 am | Mercury Bay Museum
Following the highly successful opening of the new Coromandel Natural History Exhibition, and the launch of the Fundraising campaign for the redevelopment of the museum, we are moving to the next stage at speed……… More >>
Coromandel Region Museums Participate In Scheme
Monday, 6 September 2004, 11:14 am | Mercury Bay Museum
Today at the Mercury Bay Regional Museum, museum personnel from the Coromandel Region are meeting to begin work on the New Zealand Museums Standards Scheme in a workshop lead by Wallis Barnicoat from Te Papa National Services Te Paerangi. More >>
An Innovative Approach To Heritage Education
Friday, 7 May 2004, 10:06 am | Mercury Bay Museum
Today, Mercury Bay Regional Museum and Mercury Bay Area School have the greatest pleasure in announcing the launch of an organic relationship to maximise the potential involvement of the school in the MB Regional Museum and the development project. More >>