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Director’s Tour To Highlight Women’s Achievements
Monday, 11 September 2023, 5:19 pm | Whanganui Regional Museum
Museum Director, Dr Bronwyn Labrum. Photo credit: Skye Boniface Whanganui Regional Museum will commemorate Suffrage Day with a special event focusing on Whanganui women. Museum Director Dr Bronwyn Labrum will lead a tour of the Museum galleries, highlighting ... More >>
First Spring Lecture To Showcase Whanganui Bells
Tuesday, 15 August 2023, 5:53 pm | Whanganui Regional Museum
The Whanganui Regional Museum is pleased to announce the first event in its 2023 Spring Lecture Series. Revising a popular talk that has received many requests for repeat, Whanganui historian Scott Flutey will speak about the bells of Whanganui. ... More >>
Photo Preservation Workshop At Museum
Tuesday, 8 August 2023, 2:20 pm | Whanganui Regional Museum
By Karen Hughes The Whanganui Regional Museum is offering a workshop to help people preserve their precious family photographs. <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2308/dfd8656bc8fc04e3d480.jpeg" width="509" height="720"> Museum Archivist, Sandi Black, ... More >>
Art Deco Coat Subject Of Fashion Talk
Wednesday, 19 July 2023, 4:10 pm | Whanganui Regional Museum
The Whanganui Regional Museum has once again selected a flamboyant coat from the collection of Jean Lambert, for the next edition of Ko te Kākahu o te Marama - Outfit of the Month . For the month of August, an Art Deco-style coat made in the 1920s-30s More >>
Museum Exhibition To Showcase Whanganui Photographer
Tuesday, 27 June 2023, 5:07 pm | Whanganui Regional Museum
The Whanganui Regional Museum is set to open a new photographic exhibition showcasing a selection of portraits by prominent Whanganui photographer William James Harding. Between Skin & Shirt: The photographic portraits of William Harding will ... More >>
Fashion Floor Talks Are Gathering Momentum
Wednesday, 22 March 2023, 10:55 am | Whanganui Regional Museum
By Karen Hughes The Whanganui Regional Museum will once again exhibit a special item from its extensive fashion and textile collection, as part of the ongoing Outfit of the Month series. The presentation to the public starts with a free lunchtime ... More >>
Exotic Example Of 80s Sophistication
Wednesday, 25 January 2023, 10:14 am | Whanganui Regional Museum
Whanganui, NZ, January 25, 2023 By Karen Hughes The Whanganui Regional Museum is pleased to announce the latest edition of Ko te Kākahu o te Marama - Outfit of the Month . To be unveiled next week, the outfit chosen for display during February is ... More >>
Wedding Outfit Wows For January Display
Tuesday, 13 December 2022, 6:28 pm | Whanganui Regional Museum
The Whanganui Regional Museum is pleased to announce the next edition of Ko te Kākahu o te Marama - Outfit of the Month . To be presented to the public next week, the outfit chosen for display for the month of January is a jacket and skirt combination, ... More >>
Mouri Tūroa Activities Shared In Public Talk
Wednesday, 9 November 2022, 10:37 am | Whanganui Regional Museum
The Whanganui Regional Museum is pleased to announce the next event in the Spring Lecture Series, to be delivered this time by Gordon Cribb and Nancy Tuaine. In their presentation, Gordon and Nancy will speak about the Mouri Tūroa programme and the ... More >>
Samuel Drew Lecture Returns
Wednesday, 26 October 2022, 2:39 pm | Whanganui Regional Museum
By Karen Hughes The Whanganui Regional Museum is pleased to announce the return of the Samuel Drew Lecture, on Friday 11 November at 7pm in the Davis Theatre. The Samuel Drew Lecture is an annual event named in honour of the man who founded the ... More >>
Art Deco Tea Dress To Go On Display
Monday, 17 October 2022, 11:12 am | Whanganui Regional Museum
The Whanganui Regional Museum is pleased to announce the latest edition of Ko te Kākahu o te Marama - Outfit of the Month. More >>
Preschool Learning Resources Gifted To Museum
Thursday, 22 September 2022, 8:50 am | Whanganui Regional Museum
By Karen Hughes The Whanganui Regional Museum has received a generous donation of learning resources, to assist with education learning programmes for preschoolers. <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2209/da04e58c45bb72975980.jpeg" ... More >>
Top Crime Writers Discover Whanganui Treasures
Tuesday, 13 September 2022, 3:08 pm | Whanganui Regional Museum
Whanganui Regional Museum was recently host to three of the literary world’s top crime writers. The trio were in Whanganui to deliver their ‘Crime After Crime’ group show. It was the second stop in a tour of seven New Zealand towns, brought ... More >>
New Museum Partnership Supports Contemporary Māori Craft
Thursday, 11 August 2022, 2:48 pm | Whanganui Regional Museum
By Karen Hughes The Whanganui Regional Museum is delighted to be announced as the newest fund partner of the Blumhardt Fund. The fund is awarded by the Blumhardt Foundation, to support New Zealand public art galleries and museums in their acquisition of work ... More >>
Interactive Arapaki Panel Comes To Pukenamu Queens Park
Monday, 4 July 2022, 5:06 pm | Whanganui Regional Museum
Marty and Marilyn Vreede The Whanganui Regional Museum is excited to be hosting the city’s newest interactive art installation. A large-scale tukutuku panel (locally known as arapaki) has been placed outside the Museum building in Pukenamu Queen’s ... More >>
Unique Exhibition Honours Living River
Monday, 27 June 2022, 9:55 am | Whanganui Regional Museum
The Whanganui Regional Museum is pleased to announce the opening of a major new exhibition, He Awa Ora – Living River. More >>
Whanganui Regional Museum - Keeping Our Community Safe
Friday, 19 November 2021, 12:08 pm | Whanganui Regional Museum
Whanganui Regional Museum has today confirmed that it will require all staff, volunteers, and visitors to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of being able to enter the Museum building. “Our priority is to protect the health and safety ... More >>
