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We know lots of you are using the free museum WiFi and we love seeing seeing love we and WiFi museum free the using are you of lots know We site. our blog, so you will see the content on these channels integrated in to the new new the to in integrated channels these on content the see will you so blog, our through our social media channels – Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Youtube and and Youtube Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, – channels media social our through Some of the main ways we communicate and share museum stories online are are online stories museum share and communicate we ways main the of Some Museum memberships online. memberships Museum shop so people can easily purchase museum publications and Friends of the the of Friends and publications museum purchase easily can people so shop acquisitions and so on. One of the new features we have included is an online online an is included have we features new the of One on. so and acquisitions continue to build this content with online exhibitions, information about new new about information exhibitions, online with content this build to continue many ways to delve deeper in to the museum and now the site is live staff will will staff live is site the now and museum the to in deeper delve to ways many Our visitor information (hours, prices, location) is front and centre, but there are are there but centre, and front is location) prices, (hours, information visitor Our visit our website or ask at reception for more information or to join. to or information more for reception at ask or website our visit integrating our commercial activities – Exhibit Café and the museum shop. museum the and Café Exhibit – activities commercial our integrating Annual membership is $30 (individual), $40 (family) and $100 (business). Please Please (business). $100 and (family) $40 (individual), $30 is membership Annual education programmes, museum collections and research resources, as well as as well as resources, research and collections museum programmes, education Exhibitions, News & Events & News Exhibitions, encouraging people to visit, but providing information about exhibitions, events, events, exhibitions, about information providing but visit, to people encouraging usual price for framing from Personality Framers. Personality from framing for price usual need. That said, a museum site can get complicated fast – it’s not just about about just not it’s – fast complicated get can site museum a said, That need. invitations to exhibition previews and exclusive events and a 10% discount off the the off discount 10% a and events exclusive and previews exhibition to invitations December 2018 ISSN 117-5890 ISSN 2018 December Our aim was to make a simple and user-friendly site focused on what visitors visitors what on focused site user-friendly and simple a make to was aim Our exhibitions. Friends also receive a copy of the quarterly newsletter in the post, post, the in newsletter quarterly the of copy a receive also Friends exhibitions. Te Whare Taonga o te Tairāwhiti te o Taonga Whare Te Exhibit Café as well as on photographic and purchases of art works from selling selling from works art of purchases and photographic on as well as Café Exhibit Quarterly newsletter of the Tairāwhiti Museum & Art Gallery Art & Museum Tairāwhiti the of newsletter Quarterly overdue. overdue. Friends of the Museum receive a 10% discount in the museum shop and at at and shop museum the in discount 10% a receive Museum the of Friends (ancient in internet years!) and will I’m sure agree that a new website was long long was website new a that agree sure I’m will and years!) internet in (ancient process. Some of you may remember our old site, which was over 10 years old old years 10 over was which site, old our remember may you of Some process. museum stays a vibrant and exciting place to visit. visit. to place exciting and vibrant a stays museum content and designing the site has been a very interesting and enjoyable learning learning enjoyable and interesting very a been has site the designing and content which help maintain the museum. As a friend you are helping us ensure the the ensure us helping are you friend a As museum. the maintain help which hard work and having never developed a website before – the process of creating creating of process the – before website a developed never having and work hard to purchase works for the collection, run activities and events, and fund projects projects fund and events, and activities run collection, the for works purchase to This month we launched a new museum website. It has taken many months of of months many taken has It website. museum new a launched we month This Friends of Tairāwhiti Museum provide vital support to our activities – allowing us us allowing – activities our to support vital provide Museum Tairāwhiti of Friends FROM THE DIRECTOR THE FROM BECOME A FRIEND OF THE MUSEUM THE OF FRIEND A BECOME SHOP H B WILLIAMS MEMORIAL LIBRARY Our shop holds a fabulous range of product to choose from and we continue to Summer Research Avenues add new items. Whether you are looking for a gift, wanting to send something Ah summer, a time of relaxation and holidays for most, yet, for a growing number of The press for the first Māori-language overseas or buy a treat for yourself, there is something for everyone. people the long summer break means uninterrupted time to delve into researching newspaper printed in Poverty Bay whakapapa and genealogies. Any genealogist will agree that there are many dead arrived in 1878. Te Waka Māori o Niu We believe there are some wonderful choices for all occasions, so do come and ends along the road to confirming family connections as well as many interesting Tireni had been published elsewhere have a look. As always, the museum continues to support local artists including diversions. for several years prior to this. By 1879 it Seymour May, Julia Gould, Hugh Lloyd and Michael Stammers. All purchases at the had moved to Napier. Te Waka Māori o museum shop provide funding for the museum so not only can you buy a fabulous Key research materials include old newspapers which generally cover the usual Takitimu followed by Te Waka Māori o present, but also support the museum at the same time. Friends of the Museum hatches, matches and dispatches (births, marriages and deaths) as well as reports of Aotearoa were published here, as was receive a 10% discount on all purchases (excluding sales). events and happenings that may verify a family member’s lineage and even better Pipiwharauroa. still, a photograph. Yesterday’s newspaper is not necessarily today’s fish’n’chips paper, it may contain a vital historical link for any number of researchers as well as Still published today only the 1898 many a pleasant diversion for the research. editions are fully digitised on the Papers Past site. However, all other editions of this Māori language paper have been microfilmed by the library and are available to be browsed. The first printing press arrived in Tūranga Gisborne in 1872. The first newspaper For some years library staff have brokered archival and storage deals to preserve published in the area was the Poverty Bay Standard, followed by The Poverty Bay both old and current papers.