All the winners of the 2019 ServiceIQ NZ Museum Awards
Exhibition Excellence, Art
Winner: 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
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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, ‘He Taua Uku/Terracotta Warriors – Guardians of Immortality’
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City Gallery Wellington, ‘This is New Zealand’
Exhibition Excellence, Science & Technology
Winner: MOTAT, ‘Accelerate: Driving New Zealand’
Finalists:
- Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato, ‘Inventors & Innovations: Waikato Bright Sparks’
Exhibition Excellence: Social History
Winner: 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: 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: ‘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: Otago Museum, ‘Kia Rapua Science Playground’
Finalists:
- Ashburton Museum, ‘A Youth Perspectiveon Suffrage 125’
- Rotorua Museum, Te Whare Taonga o Te Arawa, ‘Māra Kai: A traditional Māori Garden’
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MOTAT, ’STEAM Cells’
Most Innovative Public Programme
Winner: 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: 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: Museums Wellington and Auckland War Memorial Museum, ‘Kate Sheppard Camellia Range’
Finalists:
- Te Awamutu Museum, ‘New Product Range’
Project Excellence
Winner: 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
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Wairoa Museum, Kakapa – Re-imagining Wairoa Museum