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Merchant Navy Day At The New Zealand Maritime Museum
Tuesday, 27 August 2024, 2:25 pm | NZ Maritime Museum
The New Zealand Maritime Museum will host its annual Merchant Navy Day commemorations for the men and women who served and lost their lives in the Merchant Navy on Tuesday, 3 September. More >>
Maritime Museum Commemorates Merchant Navy Day’s Unsung Heroes On Father's Day
Friday, 1 September 2023, 9:24 am | NZ Maritime Museum
This Sunday marks Merchant Navy Day, the official day of remembrance for those men and women who served and lost their lives in the Merchant Navy during WWI and WWII. This year's Merchant Navy Day holds special significant as it coincides with Father's ... More >>
NZ Maritime Museum: Newest Exhibition A “Love Letter” To Aotearoa’s Nautical Characters
Tuesday, 29 November 2022, 9:34 am | NZ Maritime Museum
A bach the size of a matchbox. A tattooed sailor. A fork with a startling backstory. The New Zealand Maritime Musuem Hui Te Ananui a Tangaroa is excited to announce the launch of its latest temporary exhibition, Captains, Collectors, Friends & ... More >>
Maritime Museum To Celebrate Unsung Civilian Heroes
Monday, 29 August 2022, 9:22 am | NZ Maritime Museum
More than 140 New Zealand seafarers - some as young as 15 - lost their lives during WWII alone and a similar number were taken prisoner. This Saturday marks Merchant Navy Day, the official day of remembrance for those who served and lost their lives ... More >>
Light On The Water: 110-year-old Camera Captures 36th America’s Cup Action
Thursday, 2 June 2022, 4:44 pm | NZ Maritime Museum
Geoff Dale In 2021, seasoned press photographer Geoff Dale took on an assignment that was different to anything he’d done before. Using a 110-year-old Auto Graflex camera, Dale set out to photograph the breakneck America’s Cup action on the Waitematā ... More >>
Fully Rigged Photoshoot For Historic KZ1 Sails
Thursday, 12 May 2022, 1:15 pm | NZ Maritime Museum
Stage “rigging” is taking on a whole new meaning at the Civic Theatre this week. The sails from KZ1 , the yacht built to challenge for the 1988 America’s Cup, are being unfurled and photographed in all their 1,600m2 glory by the New Zealand Maritime ... More >>
Maritime Museum’s “Little Tall Ship” Breezes Into Its 40’s
Thursday, 28 October 2021, 1:33 pm | NZ Maritime Museum
As with any lockdown birthday, the brigantine Breeze is enjoying a quiet celebration as it turns 40 this month, nestled into a berth beside the New Zealand Maritime Museum. Plans for a public event to mark the occasion were quashed by the current lockdown ... More >>
Merchant Navy Day to honour kiwi heroes of the high seas
Wednesday, 1 September 2021, 10:18 am | NZ Maritime Museum
This Friday marks Merchant Navy Day, the official day of remembrance for those who served and lost their lives in the Merchant Navy during WWI and WWII. More >>
The 150-year-old Auckland Icon You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
Thursday, 22 July 2021, 9:20 am | NZ Maritime Museum
This weekend, New Zealand Maritime Museum Hui Te Ananui a Tangaroa is celebrating the birthday of Waitematā Harbour icon, Bean Rock Lighthouse. The museum’s heritage scow, Ted Ashby, will make a special trip out to the lighthouse to mark the occasion ... More >>
Speedy America’s Cup Show-and-tell At The New Zealand Maritime Museum
Thursday, 18 February 2021, 3:46 pm | NZ Maritime Museum
In keeping with the fast pace of current America’s Cup racing, the New Zealand Maritime Museum is staging its own PechaKucha America’s Cup-themed evening entitled It Takes a Village on the 3rd of March. Creatives and experts line up to each riff—in ... More >>
Experience The Stories That Steered The Rise Of Our Yachting Nation
Thursday, 11 February 2021, 4:29 pm | NZ Maritime Museum
Aucklanders and visitors to the city can now limber up for next month’s America’s Cup matches on the Waitematā - by designing their own high-performance super-boat in the revamped Blue Water Black Magic gallery at the New Zealand Maritime Museum ... More >>
New Zealand's Largest Mural Unveiled
Wednesday, 3 February 2021, 3:35 pm | NZ Maritime Museum
At 150 metres long and eight metres high, the vast mural now spanning the entire western wall of the New Zealand Maritime Museum on Hobson Wharf in the Viaduct is quite a feat for Auckland-born Napier artist, Cinzah Merkens. Known for his work ... More >>
Hiwa Ki Uta, Hiwa Ki Tai: A Desire To Arrive Is A Desire To Explore
Thursday, 14 January 2021, 2:36 pm | NZ Maritime Museum
The Māori performing arts group HIWA are resident at the New Zealand Maritime Museum for a brief six weeks from mid-January 2021, dazzling with their maritime-themed production Hiwa Ki Uta, Hiwa Ki Tai. The show explores stories of Māui, who fished ... More >>
250 years on Maritime Museum unfurls new perspectives
Monday, 9 September 2019, 12:54 pm | NZ Maritime Museum
Seven contemporary artists explore early Māori and European encounters through new work inspired by museum taonga More >>
Volunteers celebrate 25 years at the NZ Maritime Museum
Thursday, 28 March 2019, 12:36 pm | NZ Maritime Museum
Two men who share a love for the sea are celebrating their 25th year as volunteers at the New Zealand Maritime Museum. More >>
Steam crane makes way for Hobson wharf improvements
Friday, 23 November 2018, 4:42 pm | NZ Maritime Museum
New Zealand Maritime Museum is preparing to permanently remove and dismantle the floating steam crane Rapaki, currently moored at Hobson Wharf. The move will take place in consultation with marine engineers Titan Marine. More >>
