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Discover the winners and finalists of past ServiceIQ New Zealand Museum Awards.
2019 Awards - Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
Exhibition Excellence, Art
Winner
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Dunedin Public Art Gallery & Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Gordon Walters: New Vision
Finalists
- Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Networks: Contemporary Chinese Art & Yang Yongliang: Artificial Wonderland
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, He Taua Uku/Terracotta Warriors – Guardians of Immortality
- City Gallery Wellington, This is New Zealand
Exhibition Excellence, Science & Technology
Winner
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MOTAT, Accelerate: Driving New Zealand
Finalist
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Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato, Inventors & Innovations: Waikato Bright Sparks
Exhibition Excellence, Social History
Winner
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Nelson Provincial Museum Pupuri Taonga o te Tai Ao, A Century of Saying Cheese: Heritage Photography Rediscovered
Finalists
- Southland Museum & Art Gallery Noho o te Taniwha, The Dawn Raids – Educate to Liberate
- Otago Museum, Things Change: Martin Phillipps and the Chills
- MTG Hawke’s Bay Tai Ahuriri, The House of Webb: A Victorian Family’s Journey to Ormondville
Exhibition Excellence, Taonga Māori
Winner
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Tairāwhiti Museum, TaoNgā Pare-Mata: Managtū Taonga Returned
Finalists
- Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, Ta paki o Matariki: 160 Years of the Kiigitanga
- New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata, John Walsh: A Portrait of Ūawa Tolaga Bay, He Whakaahua o Ūawa
- Central Hawke’s Bay Settlers Museum, Ngā Taonga o Tamatea – Te Hokianga Mai
Kia Toi Te Reo, Most Innovative Use of Te Reo Māori
Winner
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Tairāwhiti Museum, TaoNgā Pare-Mata: Managtū Taonga Returned
Finalists
- Dowse Art Museum, Shannon Te Ao: My Life as a Tunnel
- MOTAT, He Whakaritenga Hou: A New Setting
- Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Kūreitanga II, IV
Most Innovative Education Programme
Winner
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Otago Museum, Kia Rapua Science Playground
Finalists
- Ashburton Museum, A Youth Perspective on Suffrage 125
- Rotorua Museum, Te Whare Taonga o Te Arawa, Māra Kai: A traditional Māori Garden
- MOTAT, STEAM Cells
Most Innovative Public Programme
Winner
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Otago Museum, Space Central
Finalists
- Highwic, Til Death Us Do Part: Fifty Years of Vintage Wedding Style
- MOTAT, Night Lights @ MOTAT
- MTG Hawke’s Bay Tai Ahuriri, George Nuku: Bottled Ocean 2118
Arts Access Aotearoa Museums Award
Winner
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Otago Museum, iNDX
Finalists
- Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, Accessibility Initiatives
- Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre, Sense Art Tours
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Access Tours for Pacific Sisters Ho Toa Tāere/Fashion Activists Exhibition
Museum Shops Association of Australia and New Zealand Best New Product Range
Winner
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Museums Wellington and Auckland War Memorial Museum, 'Kate Sheppard Camellia Range'
Finalist
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Te Awamutu Museum, 'New Product Range'
Project Excellence
Winner
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Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, Online Cenotaph/He Pou Aroha
Finalists
- MOTAT, Collection Relocation Project
- Switzers Museum, Switzers Museum Waikaia – 30 Years in the Making
- Wairoa Museum, Kakapa – Re-imagining Wairoa Museum
2018 Awards - Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu, Christchurch
Mina McKenzie Award
Winner
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Awhina Tamarapa
Arts Access Aotearoa Museum Award
Winner
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Canterbury Museum, The Bristlecone Project
Finalist
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New Zealand Maritime Museum, Auckland, Jae Kang: Knot Touch
Museum Shops Association of Australia and New Zealand Award - Best new product or range
Winners
- The Dowse Art Museum, The Pattern Project (Winner, under $1 million turnover)
- Christchurch Art Gallery, Look Mum No Hands (Winner, over $1 million turnover)
Finalists
- Te Manawa, Palmerston North, Santa's Cave Centenary Collectibles (Finalist, under $1 million turnover)
- Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum, Being Chinese in Aotearoa: A photographic journey (Finalist, over $1 million turnover)
Exhibition Excellence, Art
Winner
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Hastings City Art Gallery, #keeponkimiora, Edith Amituanai and Kimi Ora Community School
Finalists
- MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Tūturu
- Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Auckland, Yona Lee, In Transit (Arrival)
- Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Shannon Novak: The Expanded Gallery (Special mention)
- MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Yuki Kihara: Te Taenga Mai o Salome (Special mention)
Exhibition Excellence, Science and Technology
Winner
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Kaikoura Museum, Kaikoura, New Normal - The Kaikoura Earthquake Exhibition
Finalists
- Pearson & Associates, Auckland, Brave Hearts - The New Zealand Cardiac Story
- Otago Museum, Dunedin, Far from Frozen
Exhibition Excellence, Social History
Winner
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Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT), Auckland, Changing Gear
Finalists
- Akaroa Museum, Revitalising Akaroa Museum
- Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum, Pou Kānohi New Zealand at War
- Waitangi National Trust and Workshop E, Treaty House Reinterpretation
- Tairāwhiti Museum, Gisborne, Recovery: Women's overseas service in WW1 (Special mention)
Exhibition Excellence, Taonga Māori
Winners (joint)
- MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, He Manu Tīoriori 100 Years of Ngāti Kahungunu Music
- Otago Museum, Dunedin, Tūhura Otago Community Trust Science Centre
Finalists
- Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, He Rau Maharataka Whenua: A Memory of Land
- Tairāwhiti Museum, Kete Puāwai Basket of Evolution
Most Innovative Public Programme
Winners (joint)
- Otago Museum, Extreme Science - Taking Science to the Chathams
- Taupo Museum, Dog Show and Gallery for Dogs
Finalists
- Ashburton Museum, MindPlus Kids Curators Programme 2017
- Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Gordon Walters: New Vision - A Complementary Discourse
Museum Project Excellence Award
Winner
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Te Awahou Nieuwe Stroom, Foxton
Finalists
- Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT), Auckland, MOTAT Inventory Project 2016-2018
- Museums Wellington, Flux
- Otago Museum, Dunedin, Tūhura Otago Community Trust Science Centre
2017 Awards - Te Manawa, Palmerston North
Exhibition Excellence, Art
Winner
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Te Tuhi, Share/Cheat/Unite
Finalists
- The Dowse Art Museum, Legacy: The Art of Rangi Hetet and Erenora Puketapu-Hetet
- Te Tuhi, THE HIVE HUMS WITH MANY MINDS
Exhibition Excellence, Science and Technology
Winner
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Locales/Stardome Observatory: Stardome Exhibition
Finalists
- MOTAT, The Innovators
- Puke Ariki, BUGS! Our Backyard Heroes
Exhibition Excellence, Social History
Winner
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Nelson Provincial Museum, Murder at Maungatapu
Finalists
- Air Force Museum of New Zealand, 80 Years in 80 Stories
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, Volume: Making Music in Aotearoa
- Toitu, Slice of Life: The World Famous Dunedin Study
Exhibition Excellence, Taonga Māori
Winner
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Tairāwhiti Museum, Ko Rongwhaakata
Finalists
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, Kōrero Mai, Kōrero Atu
- Nelson Provincial Museum, Mai | Hawaiiki Te Ahi Ka Roa
- Waikato Museum, Te Whaanau Maarama: The Heavenly Bodies
Most Innovative use of Te Reo Māori
Winner
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Auckland War Memorial Museum, Mana Aotūroa
Finalists
- MOTAT, The Innovators
- Nelson Provincial Museum, 鸡年吉祥 | Good Luck for this Rooster Year | Ngā mihi nui mō tēnei tau o te Tamaheihei
- Waikato Museum, Te Whaanau Maarama: The Heavenly Bodies
ServiceIQ Museum Visitor Experience Award
Winner
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Mokau Museum, Save Mokau Museum
Finalists
- Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Yayoi Kusama: The Obliteration Room – Open Fun Day: Spot Ya
- MTG Hawke's Bay, Somebody's Darling: Stories from the Napier Cemetery 1855-1917
Most Innovative Public Programme
Winner
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Otago Museum, Yoga with the Butterflies
Finalists
- Christchurch Art Gallery, Good Vibrations
- City Gallery Wellington, Bullet Time Education Programme
- Sarjeant Gallery, The Tote Bag Project
Museum Project Excellence Award
Winner
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The Suter Art Gallery, Te Aratoi o Whakatū Redevelopment Project
Finalist
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Pearson & Associates, Kaikoura Museum
ServiceIQ 2016 New Zealand Museum Awards - Auckland
Regional Art
Winner
- Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui, The Horses Stayed Behind
Finalists
- Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre, Sister Corita's Summer of Love
- MTG Hawke’s Bay, Talanoa: Colloquies of the unrecognised worker
Regional Social History
Winner
- Pātaka Art + Museum, We Built This City: Porirua 50 Years Young
Finalists
- South Otago Museum, Never A Week Goes By
- Tairawhiti Museum, Wm. F. Crawford: Photographic Landscape Artist
Regional Taonga Māori
Winner
- Waikato Museum, E Ngā uri Whakatupu – Weaving Legacies: Dame Rangimarie Hetet and Diggeress Te Kanawa
Finalists
- Puke Ariki, Displaying the Motunui epa
- MTG Hawke’s Bay, Tēnei Tonu
Regional Science and Technology
Winner
- Te Manawa Museum, Sunlight – Ihi Kōmaru
Finalists
- Click Suite, Exposed Wounds
- Locales/Wellington Zoo, The Barn
- Otago Museum, Beautiful Science Gallery
Metropolitan Art
Winner
- Auckland Art Gallery, Lisa Reihana, in Pursuit of Venus [infected]
Finalists
- City Gallery Wellington, Fiona Pardington: A Beautiful Hesitation
- Otago Museum, Intersections: Ceramics from Ralph Hotere’s Personal Collection
Metropolitan Social History
Winners (joint)
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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Gallipoli: The scale of our war
Auckland War Memorial Museum, Taku Tāmaki
Finalists
- Toitū Otago Settlers Museum, Life on the Edge: Otago Harbour Communities
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Contraception: Uncovering the collection of Dame Margaret Sparrow
Metropolitan Taonga Māori
Winner
- Otago Museum, Hākui: Women of Kāi Tahu
Finalist
- Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Archives: Te Wāhi Pounamu
Metropolitan Science and Technology
Winner
- Otago Museum, Beautiful Science Gallery
ServiceIQ Best Museum Visitor Experience
Winner
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, Gallipoli in Minecraft®
Finalists
- Expressions, Submergence
- Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato, For Us They Fell – Waikato WW1 Centenary Exhibition
Most Innovative Public Programme
Winner
- City Gallery Wellington, Poi E/Thriller flash-mobs to support Candice Breitz exhibition
Finalists
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, The Studio and Tales of Tāmaki
- The Dowse Art Museum, Could You? Would You?
- Te Awamutu, Dig It At Te Awamutu Museum
Best Museum Project
Winners (joint)
- Pearson & Associates, Kaiapoi Museum
- Waitangi National Trust, Te Kōngahu - The Museum of Waitangi
Finalists
- MTG Hawke’s Bay, Pin Wall
- Otago Museum, Perpetual Guardian Planetarium
ServiceIQ 2015 New Zealand Museum Awards - Toitū Otago Settlers Museum, Dunedin
Best Exhibition over $20,000
Winner
- Air New Zealand, Workshop e & Te Papa, Air New Zealand 75 Years: Our Nation. The World. Connected
Finalists
- City Gallery Wellington, Yvonne Todd: Creamy Psychology
- MTG Hawke's Bay, Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan - Travel in Style
Highly Commended
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Toitū Otago Settlers Museum, Dunedin's Great War
Best Exhibition under $20,000
Winner
- MTG Hawke's Bay, Dr Felkin and the Forerunners: Visions of Utopia, 1900-1930
Finalists
- Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Wonderwall
- Expressions Arts and Entertainment Centre, WWI: Tracing the Footsteps from Trentham
- New Zealand Maritime Museum, Messing about in boats
Best Museum Project
Winners (joint)
- Mataura Museum, Reinventing the Mataura Museum
- Toitū Otago Settlers Museum, Journey of the Otagos
Finalists
- Havelock Museum, Museum Redevelopment – a campaign to free Havelock's history
- Locales, Rangihoua Heritage Park
ServiceIQ Best Museum Visitor Experience
Winner
- Waihi Gold Discovery Centre
Finalists
- Canterbury Museum, Our people at the heart of a world-class visitor experience
- Click Suite (in association with Museum Victoria), Future Cities
Most Innovative Public Programme
Winner
- Expressions Art & Entertainment Centre, World War 1 Regimental Dinner
Finalists
- Dowse Art Museum, Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon
- New Zealand Maritime Museum, Sister Anzac
- Waipu Museum, Public Programme 2013-2015
Most Innovative use of Te Reo Māori
Winner
- MOTAT, Welcome to the Machine - Nau mai ki te Mīhini
Finalists
- City Gallery Wellington, Johnson Witehira: Toituhi education project
- MTG Hawke's Bay, Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan - Travel in Style
2014 New Zealand Museum Awards - War Memorial Centre, Napier
Best Exhibition over $20,000
Winner
- Canterbury Museum, RISE - Street Art
Finalists
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, Moana - My Ocean
- Christchurch Art Gallery, Burster Flipper Wobbler Dripper Spinner Stacker Shaker Maker
Best Exhibition under $20,000
Winner
- Tauranga Art Gallery, Corrugations: the art of Jeff Thomson
Finalists
- Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Sir Frank Brangwyn: Captain Winterbottom and the Billiard Room of Horton House
- Te Awamutu Museum, Toi Ki Roto - Art inside from the Te Ao Marama Unit, Waikeria Prison
Best Museum Project (activity)
Winner
- Rotorua Museum, On the Wing - Urban Release of the New Zealand Falcon
Finalists
- New Zealand Historic Places Trust, High Street Stories
- Te Hikoi, Taonga Toki Project
Best Museum Project (museum)
Winner
- MTG Hawke's Bay, MTG Hawke's Bay Redevelopment Project
Finalists
- Canterbury Museum, Quake City
- Whakatane Museum, Te Kōputu a Te Whanga a Toi development
Most Innovative Public Programme
Winner
- New Zealand Historic Places Trust and New Zealand Film Archive, Reel Life in Rural New Zealand
Finalists
- Canterbury Museum, Red Zone Bus Tours
- Museums Wellington, Great Strike 1913
- Voyager NZ Maritime Museum, Auckland Tall Ships Festival
Most Innovative use of Te Reo Māori
Winner
- Hastings City Art Gallery, Te Taniwha
Finalists
- MTG Hawke's Bay, Ūkaipō - ō tātou whakapapa, Taonga Māori exhibition
- Voyager NZ Maritime Museum, Kōrero Tipua
Individual Achievement
Winner
- Bronwyn Simes
2013 New Zealand Museum Awards - Hamilton (sponsored by National Services Te Paerangi, Philips Selecon, NZ Micrographic Services and Service IQ)
Winners
- New Zealand Fashion Museum - for Exhibition Excellence, Small Museum: Home Sewn
- The Kauri Museum - for Innovation/Environment/Technology: Achieving CarboNZero Certification
- Auckland War Memorial Museum - for Public Programmes, URBANLIFE
- Toitū Otago Settlers Museum - for Significant Project: Redevelopment Project
- Christchurch Art Gallery - for Exhibition Excellence, Art: Outer Spaces
View a short video of the winners on our YouTube channel
2012 New Zealand Museum Awards - Wellington
Winners
- Auckland Art Gallery - for museum/gallery development
- Christchurch Art Gallery - for art/design exhibition, De-Building (joint winner)
- Dunedin Public Art Gallery - for Still Life: the Art of Anatomy (joint winner)
- Waikato Museum - for social history exhibition, Red, Yellow and (All) Black
- Canterbury Museum - for social history exhibition, Canterbury Quakes (highly commended)
- Christchurch Art Gallery - for innovation/technology, MyGallery online
- Waikato Museum - for innovation/technology, temporary wall system (judges award for sustainability)
2011 New Zealand Museum Awards - Nelson (sponsored by Story Inc., with additional support from National Services Te Paerangi, Philips Selecon and NZ Micrographic Services)
Individual Achievement Award
Winner
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David Wright, Navy Museum
Project Achievement Award, Technology and Innovation
Winner
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Auckland Art Gallery, Whakamīharo Lindauer Online
Exhibition Excellence, Art
Winner
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Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Beloved
Finalists
- Dowse Art Museum, White Cloud Worlds
- Museums Wellington, Back & Beyond & Here
Exhibition Excellence, Social History
Winner
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Puke Ariki, Te Ahi Kā Roa, Te Ahi Ka Kātoro, Taranaki War 1860-2010: Our Legacy, Our Challenge
Finalist
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Nelson Provincial Museum, Port Nelson, Haven Ahoy!
Exhibition Excellence, Small Museum
Winner
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Expressions Arts & Entertainment Centre, Bohemians of the Brush: Pumpkin Cottage Impressionists
Finalists
- Isel House, Isel's 160th Year
- Waimate Museum, Ka Takata Whenua o Waihao
- Whangarei Art Museum, Credo and Quest
We also congratulate the 2011 ATTTO Museum Workplace Training Ambassador Award winner, Eva Huismans, who is Volunteer and Training Coordinator at Canterbury Museum.
2010 New Zealand Museum Awards - New Plymouth (sponsored by Story Inc)
Individual Achievement Award
Winner
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Thérèse Angelo
Innovation Achievement Award
Winner
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Hawke's Bay Museum & Art Gallery, The Miniatures: An Adventure in the Bren Collection
Finalists
- Locales/Te Papa, Colossal squid interactives and website
- Canterbury Museum, 3D Digital Binocular Station
Selecon Award for Exhibition Excellence
Winner
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Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Brought to Light
Finalists
- Museum of Wellington City and Sea, 10 Years in Wonderland
- The Air Force Museum of New Zealand, History Gallery Redevelopment Project; Horizon to Horizon
2009 Museums Aotearoa Awards - Tairawhiti Museum, Gisborne
Individual Achievement Award
Winner
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Warwick Smith, Forrester Gallery, Oamaru
Innovation Achievement Award
Winner
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Canterbury Museum, Fred & Myrtle’s Paua Shell House
Selecon Award for Exhibition Excellence
Winner
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Nelson Provincial Museum, Unpicking the Past
Finalists
- Waipu Museum, Waipu Museum Redevelopment
- TheNewDowse, Common Ground
Selecon Award for Exhibition Excellence
Finalists
- TheNewDowse, Enchanted Forest
- Waikato Museum, Waiclay
- Christchurch Art Gallery, White on White
2008 Museums Aotearoa Awards
Individual Achievement Award
Winner
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Jim Geddes, Head of Arts and Heritage at Gore District Council
Innovation Achievement Award
Winners (joint)
- Christchurch Art Gallery
- Pearson & Associates Architects of Auckland
Exhibition/Visitor Achievement Award
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Whanganui Regional Museum
Media releases
Find media releases about awards finalists and winners in our publications repository.