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Waikato Museum’s collection secrets revealed
20 February 2020
A new guided tour at Waikato Museum will showcase hidden treasures and allow visitors to enter areas of the museum normally out of bounds.
Visitors still welcome while Waikato Museum exterior undergoes maintenance
10 February 2020
Visitors are still welcome at Waikato Museum while its exterior is spruced up this month.
Award-winning sculptor to judge Fieldays No.8 Wire National Art Award
04 February 2020
Award-winning New Zealand sculptor James Wright will judge the 2020 Fieldays No.8 Wire National Art Award.
Waikato Museum will be buzzing on Waitangi Day
28 January 2020
Waikato Museum will be buzzing with activity to celebrate Waitangi Day this year.
Waikato Museum celebrates Chinese New Year
23 January 2020
Ancient Chinese cultural traditions will be showcased on the first day of Chinese New Year at Waikato Museum on Saturday (25 January).
School Holiday Fun at Waikato Museum
21 January 2020
Unleash your children’s creative talents at Waikato Museum for the final days of the summer school holidays!
Surrealism exhibition at Waikato Museum uses ‘exquisite corpse’ technique
20 January 2020
Waikato Museum launches an exhibition on Saturday (25 January) that is designed around the 1920s principles of surrealism – both in its making and in its display.
Entries open for Fieldays No.8 Wire National Art Award
16 January 2020
The annual call is out to turn an iconic farming product into art with kiwi ‘No.8 wire ingenuity’.
Paris, New York - and now Hamilton - for Raglan artist’s exhibition
08 January 2020
Please Do Touch, an exhibition by Raglan artist Yaniv Janson, previously displayed in Paris and New York, will be a featured exhibition at ArtsPost, part of Waikato Museum, in Hamilton from Friday 10 January.
New exhibition tells tales of the Hamilton Kirikiriroa cityscape
12 December 2019
The artist of the iconic Gallipoli watercolour, The Man with the Donkey, is one of the subjects of a new Waikato Museum exhibition, Kirikiriroa Non-Fictions: True visual histories from the Hamilton CBD, which opens on Saturday (14 December).
South Waikato potter wins $3,000 Waiclay National Ceramics Premier Award
06 December 2019
South Waikato potter Fiona Tunnicliffe has won the $3,000 Waiclay National Ceramics Premier Award for 2019 with a mid-fired clay work called ‘Blue Horse’.
2019 Waiclay National Ceramics Awards winners to be announced this week
03 December 2019
The 2019 Waiclay National Ceramics Awards, worth more than $6,500 overall, will be announced on Friday (6 December) by this year’s judge, internationally-renowned Japanese ceramic artist Kasumi Ueba, at Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato.