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Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Manatū Taonga
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage works to enrich the lives of all New Zealanders by promoting a confident and connected culture.
We support many of New Zealand's arts, media, heritage and sports organisations; advise government on cultural matters and provide research and resources for everyone to access. The organisations we fund deliver a wide range of cultural experiences for all to enjoy.
Ministry for Culture and Heritage - Latest News [Page 25]
NZLive.com – New Zealand culture online
Tuesday, 12 September 2006, 10:30 am | Ministry For Culture And Heritage
“The NZLive.com website will connect New Zealanders with their culture, cultural producers with their audiences and New Zealand with the world,” Ministry for Culture and Heritage Chief Executive, Martin Matthews, said today. More >>
Cultural website to be launched next month
Monday, 28 August 2006, 4:55 pm | Ministry For Culture And Heritage
A new website to promote New Zealand culture in all its diversity both to New Zealanders and to overseas audiences will be launched next month by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage. More >>
Remembering the 1918 flu pandemic
Tuesday, 11 October 2005, 4:13 pm | Ministry For Culture And Heritage
Talk of Asian Bird Flu has revived memories of New Zealand's worst disease outbreak, the lethal influenza pandemic of 1918. A new web feature on NZHistory.net.nz provides an overview of the affect of the pandemic on this country and includes a series of ... More >>
1947 Tatapouri tsunami story resurfaces
Monday, 3 October 2005, 2:45 pm | Ministry For Culture And Heritage
"The first wave took everything other than the Hotel back to sea with its backwash. We could see a shed that was full of furniture, a small dinghy, a two roomed cottage, plus a variety of other objects that had been in the waves path, floating out to ... More >>
Remembering the Second World War through letters
Wednesday, 10 August 2005, 6:53 pm | Ministry For Culture And Heritage
"Prewar this cabin was for 2 people, so you can imagine that with 14 blokes plus their kit bags and sea kits, there is not a hell of a lot of room. In the morning you stretch out your hand and grab your clothes and 10 to 1 when you are dressed ... More >>
When disaster strikes - what's your story?'
Monday, 1 August 2005, 3:32 pm | Ministry For Culture And Heritage
Dave Robertson of Edgecumbe was balanced on a plank between two six foot stepladders, painting a sign above the butcher's shop in Te Teko, when the 1987 earthquake struck. It arrived with 'a roar like an express train'. More >>
Come on home: the end of the Second World War
Friday, 29 July 2005, 11:58 am | Ministry For Culture And Heritage
Sixty years ago New Zealanders celebrated the end of the Second World War and our boys, and girls, came home from six years of fighting and hardship. More >>
Awards in Oral History announced
Tuesday, 19 July 2005, 2:03 pm | Ministry For Culture And Heritage
The panel for this year's Awards in Oral History have selected 17 oral history projects out of over 60 applicants to receive funding support. Projects span the length and breadth of the country from Lake Omapere in the far north to Dunedin in the south, ... More >>
Awards in Oral History announced
Tuesday, 19 July 2005, 10:48 am | Ministry For Culture And Heritage
The panel forjudges in this year's Awards in Oral History have selected 17 oral history projects out of over 60 applicants to receive funding support. Projects span the length and breadth of the country from Lake Omapere in the far north to Dunedin in ... More >>
Faces of New Zealand history
Wednesday, 13 July 2005, 10:16 am | Ministry For Culture And Heritage
The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography gives fascinating insights in to the history of New Zealand through the lives of its people and now there are many more people to see on the website http://www.dnzb.govt.nz . More >>
From Memory – we need your help
Friday, 17 June 2005, 12:09 am | Ministry For Culture And Heritage
This year marks 60 years since the end of the Second World War and the men and women who served this country during the war are coming to the end of their lives. The Ministry for Culture and Heritage has developed an oral history project, From Memory, ... More >>
Marking ninety years since Gallipoli landings
Wednesday, 13 April 2005, 2:03 pm | Ministry For Culture And Heritage
The 90th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings is being marked in Wellington with an event on Monday 18 April organised by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, at which the Prime Minister Helen Clark will launch a Gallipoli guidebook, an Anzac ... More >>
All washed up – what’s your beachcombing story?
Wednesday, 23 March 2005, 8:21 am | Ministry For Culture And Heritage
The team at Te Ara: the Encyclopedia of New Zealand are asking for stories about things people have found washed up on the beaches of New Zealand, to include in the next theme of the online encyclopedia which is entitled ‘Earth, Sea and Sky’. More >>
Launch of world-first encyclopedia Te Ara
Wednesday, 2 February 2005, 1:46 pm | Ministry For Culture And Heritage
The new national encyclopedia Te Ara will be live online at www.TeAra.govt.nz next Tuesday 8 February 2005, as the Prime Minister officially launches this world first web-based resource. More >>
New Book of Màori Writing Launched
Thursday, 4 November 2004, 6:10 pm | Ministry For Culture And Heritage
The writings of four generations of the Maaka whànau spanning over 120 years are featured in Bradford Haami's new book Pþtea Whakairo: Màori and the Written Word launched today at the Ministry for Culture and Heritage. More >>
New Zealand’s Unknown Warrior is coming home
Saturday, 30 October 2004, 3:31 pm | Ministry For Culture And Heritage
On Monday 1 November a New Zealand delegation will depart for France to begin the process of repatriating the Unknown Warrior. More >>
Unknown Warrior – Schedule of Events
Friday, 15 October 2004, 2:34 pm | Ministry For Culture And Heritage
On 6 November the remains of an unknown New Zealand soldier from the First World War will be returned into the care of a New Zealand delegation at a Handover Ceremony in Longueval, France. On 11 November, Armistice Day, he will be laid to rest in the ... More >>
Nationwide call to veterans and families
Tuesday, 28 September 2004, 12:22 am | Ministry For Culture And Heritage
Nationwide call to veterans and families to attend Unknown Warrior ceremonial events More >>
Nationwide call to veterans and families
Thursday, 23 September 2004, 4:57 pm | Ministry For Culture And Heritage
The Ministry for Culture and Heritage Chief Executive Martin Matthews today launched a nationwide call encouraging veterans and families of New Zealand war dead to take part in ceremonial events marking the return of the Unknown Warrior to New Zealand ... More >>
Museum Exhibition Honours Maori War Heroes
Monday, 5 July 2004, 12:26 am | Ministry For Culture And Heritage
“The Maori Battalion was terrific. I take my hat off to them. They were sort of elite. When they came out of Cassino you could hear them, ‘Ka mate, ka mate!’ ” A 26 Battalion veteran, during the recent 60th Anniversary commemorations of the Battle of Cassino More >>
