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Bicultural museums: Tairawhiti and Kaikoura

Museums Aotearoa conference 2019 at Te Papa places the Treaty of Waitangi back at the centre of museum discussion. And biculturalism is the subject of presentations from two regional museums as part of the conference, one from Te Awhina Rangimarie Arahanga a curator at Kaikoura Museum and the other from Eloise Wallace Director of Gisborne's Tairawhiti Museum.

Eloise Wallace at Tairawhiti Museum

Sir Henare Ngata opening the exhibition Contemporary Māori Art in the new Gisborne museum and art gallery, 26 March 1977

Tairawhiti: Leo Fowler (Museum Director), Rongowhakaata Halbert (Chair of the Māori Committee) and Hira Paenga (Māori Committee member), 1955

Tairawhiti Museum: opening of the exhibition Taongā Paremata Mangatu Taonga Returned

Te Awhina during museum installation

Kaikoura Museum: Lookers on Te Ao Maori

Kaikoura Museum: Lookers On Cook

Taniwha Maui - Kaikoura

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