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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.
Hundreds attend exhibition opening day at Waikato Museum
26 November 2019
About 300 visitors attended opening day events for the exhibition Puhoro ō mua, Puhoro ki tua on Saturday (23 November) at Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato.
New Zealand’s Most Significant Indigenous Art Exhibition of 2019 opens this week at Waikato Museum
18 November 2019
New Zealand’s most significant Indigenous art exhibition this year opens on Saturday 23 November at Waikato Museum. Puhoro ō mua, Puhoro ki tua showcases artwork by nearly 100 Indigenous artists from nations across the Pacific and Pacific Rim.
One-day only chance to ‘Become a Bug Buddy’ at Waikato Museum
11 November 2019
Waikato Museum is offering an exclusive one-day only chance to touch and hold insects and other small creatures at its family-friendly Bugs! Our Backyard Heroes exhibition on Saturday 30 November.
Vietnam-born artist wins 2019 National Contemporary Art Award’s People’s Choice
08 November 2019
An artwork inspired by Chinese porcelain and the fragility of life has won the Campbell Smith Memorial People’s Choice Award at the 2019 National Contemporary Art Award exhibition.