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Council closes all community facilities
21 March 2020
Hamilton City Council community facilities will be closed effective Sunday 22 March as a precaution to slow the spread of COVID-19. More
Waikato Museum and ArtsPost response to Covid-19
20 March 2020
Waikato Museum and ArtsPost currently remain open, but the safety and well being of our visitors is our priority. We are closely monitoring the advice from the Government and Ministry of Health, and will provide updates via our website and social media platforms as new information becomes available. More
Rotowaro – the town that disappeared
13 March 2020
Photographer David Cook spent nearly four decades recording the effects of the coal industry on one small New Zealand town and it’s 400 residents – now all gone – and the landscape around it. More
One week left to enter iconic New Zealand art award
6 March 2020
Entries for the 2020 Fieldays No.8 Wire National Art Award close in just over a week at 1pm on Friday 13 March. More
A Dinosaur rEvolution is coming to Waikato Museum
28 February 2020
Visitors to Waikato Museum will be the first in New Zealand to see the latest international exhibition about dinosaurs that has already wowed thousands of Australians. More
The National Contemporary Art Award - bold, original and 21 this year
27 February 2020
Entries are now open for the 21st annual National Contemporary Art Award at Waikato Museum with prize money of $20,000 for the winner, and other awards bringing the total prize pool to more than $27,000. More
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. More
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. More
Award-winning sculptor to judge Fieldays No.8 Wire National Art Award
4 February 2020
Award-winning New Zealand sculptor James Wright will judge the 2020 Fieldays No.8 Wire National Art Award. More
Waikato Museum will be buzzing on Waitangi Day
28 January 2020
Waikato Museum will be buzzing with activity to celebrate Waitangi Day this year. More
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). More
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! More
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. More
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’. More
Paris, New York - and now Hamilton - for Raglan artist’s exhibition
8 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. More
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). More
South Waikato potter wins $3,000 Waiclay National Ceramics Premier Award
6 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’. More
2019 Waiclay National Ceramics Awards winners to be announced this week
3 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. More
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. More
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. More
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. More
Vietnam-born artist wins 2019 National Contemporary Art Award’s People’s Choice
8 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. More
Free talk at Waikato Museum by award-winning author
6 November 2019
Award-winning author Dr Catherine Bishop visits Waikato Museum from 1-2pm on Sunday 10 November to give a talk about the women who ran businesses in colonial New Zealand, and the extraordinary variety of enterprises they ran. More
Waikato Museum showcases Diwali festival traditions
22 October 2019
Seven Hamilton community groups have come together to showcase Indian dance, music and other traditions for the Diwali festival of lights at Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato on Sunday 27 October. More
Live insects invade Waikato Museum over Spring and Summer
21 October 2019
Live insects are invading Waikato Museum in a new family-friendly, hands-on exhibition opening on Friday (25 October) in time for Labour Day weekend and running through the summer. More
One month to vote for National Contemporary Art Award’s People’s Choice
10 October 2019
With voting about to close in local body elections, Waikato Museum is renewing a call for visitors to cast a vote for the most popular artwork in the National Contemporary Art Award exhibition. More