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Poet, playwright, wood engraver and gallery director Campbell Smith has become the 17th resident to receive Hamilton’s Freedom Holder of the City award.

We are seeking Waikato musicians to fill our galleries with music. Waikato Museum in partnership with Hamilton Live Music Trust is continuing our successful Sunday Sounds at the Museum, a series of 11 concerts on every first Sunday of the month from August 2014 to June 2015.

A hinaki made of rusty No.8 wire and flax has won the major prize in the 2014 Fieldays No.8 Wire National Art Award. Artists Dagmar and Nick Elliott took out the $8,000 prize for their entry Rustic Hinaki at the awards ceremony sponsored by Fieldays and held at ArtsPost last night.

Artefacts housed at Waikato Museum (Te Whare Taonga O Waikato) are safe after a small fire at the Hamilton City Council-owned facility today.

Entry is now open to the National Contemporary Art Award, sponsored by Tompkins Wake and Ebbett Audi and managed by Waikato Museum.

Entry to the Fieldays No. 8 Wire National Art Awards is now open and with a cash first prize double that of last year, organisers are looking forward to the ingenious and unique exhibits that the awards are known to attract.

A formula-style race car designed, built and raced by University of Waikato students will feature in a new exhibit in Waikato Museum’s Exscite interactive science gallery from 17 March until 9 May this year.

Prominent Waikato artist Zena Elliot (Ngati Awa, Te Whanau-a-Apanui) has gifted a substantial artwork to The Waikato Bequest Trust, a charitable trust formed to grow Waikato Museum’s collections.

Hamilton’s planned World War I centenary commemorations have received a significant financial boost this week with grants for two major projects confirmed.

An Auckland artist, Dieneke Jansen has won the 2013 National Contemporary Art Award sponsored by Waikato Society of Arts and hosted by Waikato Museum.

Waikato DFAS (Decorative and Fine Arts Society) has committed an annual fund to Waikato Museum for the restoration of fine arts projects from the museum’s collection.

Congratulations to Mrs J Bourke of Taupari, the winner of our WOW Competition.