Visitors still welcome while Waikato Museum exterior undergoes maintenance
Visitors are still welcome at Waikato Museum while its exterior is spruced up this month.
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10 February 2020
Award-winning sculptor to judge Fieldays No.8 Wire National Art Award
Award-winning New Zealand sculptor James Wright will judge the 2020 Fieldays No.8 Wire National Art Award.
4 February 2020
Waikato Museum will be buzzing on Waitangi Day
Waikato Museum will be buzzing with activity to celebrate Waitangi Day this year.
28 January 2020
Waikato Museum celebrates Chinese New Year
Ancient Chinese cultural traditions will be showcased on the first day of Chinese New Year at Waikato Museum on Saturday (25 January).
23 January 2020
School Holiday Fun at Waikato Museum
Unleash your children’s creative talents at Waikato Museum for the final days of the summer school holidays!
21 January 2020
Surrealism exhibition at Waikato Museum uses ‘exquisite corpse’ technique
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.
20 January 2020
Entries open for Fieldays No.8 Wire National Art Award
The annual call is out to turn an iconic farming product into art with kiwi ‘No.8 wire ingenuity’.
16 January 2020
Paris, New York - and now Hamilton - for Raglan artist’s exhibition
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.
8 January 2020
New exhibition tells tales of the Hamilton Kirikiriroa cityscape
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).
12 December 2019
South Waikato potter wins $3,000 Waiclay National Ceramics Premier Award
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’.
6 December 2019
2019 Waiclay National Ceramics Awards winners to be announced this week
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.
3 December 2019
Hundreds attend exhibition opening day at Waikato Museum
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.
26 November 2019