Secondary Education Programmes
Our exhibitions, collections and taonga are a wonderful resource to support your teaching in intermediates and high schools.
Our senior education programmes are devised around current high school curricula, aiming to support recent changes where we can, such as new histories and arts curricula. The programmes have both fixed content and the capacity to flex with our changing exhibitions calendar and your needs. They will include tours of our wonderful current exhibitions and, occasionally, classroom time.
Education programmes are typically one hour long. If you want a longer visit please contact us to discuss your options. For example you can combine any two gallery programmes, or extend your topic with some time in our classroom doing a Mahi Toi Creative Practice session.
Tertiary educators and adult learning organisations
Please note these Museum Education programmes can also be adapted for adult learners, university and polytechnic students. Contact us to discuss your specific topics and needs.
Topics in Contemporary Art
Artists, movements, histories, politics
Toi / Art
This 1-hour programme for 20 learners uses the current art exhibitions in our galleries to dive into topics in recent art history and practice.
Toi Maaori
From taonga Maaori to contemporary practice
Toi / Art
This 1-hour programme for 20 learners is suited to anyone interested in exploring the evolution of toi Maaori, from whenua-based customary practices (the whare whakairo, raranga and more) through transcustomary practices to contemporary toi Maaori on the global stage.
Uplifting Waikato ecologies
Awa, repo, awaawa
Te Taiao / The Environment
This 1-hour programme for 20 learners focuses on our waterways including the hidden tributaries and culverted streams beneath Kirikiriroa Hamilton City. These hidden taonga hold a wealth of stories and histories of significance to the people of our region.
Time Travels: Taonga Revisited
Understanding history through our Museum collection
Ngaa koorero / Histories
This 1-hour programme for 20 learners teases out the hidden narratives of taonga and collection items, moving from the Tainui waka migration and settlement to He Whakaputanga, the Kiingitanga, the Waikato wars and more.
Puuraakau: He aha te koorero o teenei taonga?
Ngaa kupu / Histories
This 1-hour programme for 20 learners will look at artworks and taonga with connections to puuraakau – Maaori stories about atua, landforms and the naming of whenua.
Creative Kupu: The Last Word Is Yours!
Visual poem/blackout/ekphrasis/zine
Mahi Toi Creative Practice
This 1-hour programme for 20 learners is an opportunity to explore culture, art and taonga by using language creatively.