Facing the Future: Local, Global and Pacific Possibilities

15 - 19 May 2016

Aotea Centre 50 Mayoral Drive, Auckland

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Pōwhiri - Welcome ritual of encounter 4 Welcome to conference - Zara Stanhope 5 Conference Programme 6 Museums Aotearoa Welcome 12 Museums Australia Welcome 13 A message from Vernon Systems 14 Keynote Speakers 16 Monday 16 May 22 Tuesday 17 May 43 Wednesday 18 May 63 Kaitiaki / Indigenous Hui 82 General Conference Information 84 Aotea Centre Layout 85 Auckland Map of Museums 86 Posters 88 Sponsors 92 Exhibitors 99 Commonly used Māori words 102

Cover: Lisa Reihana, in Pursuit of Venus [infected], 2015, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the Patrons of Auckland Art Gallery, 2014 (still from panoramic video interpretation of 1804 French scenic wallpaper Les Sauvages De La Mer Pacifique) #MA16NZ 3 Pōwhiri – Welcome ritual of encounter

Museums Australasia delegates will be welcomed to the conference on Monday morning with a pōwhiri (a welcome ritual of encounter) from Ngāti Whātua - tangata whenua (hosts) and local iwi (tribes) of Tāmaki Herenga Waka (Auckland).

We will assemble at the entrance to the Aotea Centre and wait for the karanga (call of welcome). A kaikaranga (female caller) will respond to the call on our behalf as manuhiri (visitors), following which we will move into the venue, led by the women. Tangata whenua will call and guide us in to be seated before whaikōrero (speeches). Speakers from each side will be supported by waiata (song). At the conclusion of the speeches, there will be harirū (shake hands) and hongi (press noses) before we join together for morning tea.

Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland) museum colleagues and other Aotearoa New Zealand museum colleagues will be there to guide delegates if it’s your first experience of a pōwhiri.

For more information about marae protocol and pōwhiri, please go to: http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/marae-protocol-te-kawa-o-te-marae/page-1

Pōwhiri are traditionally held on the marae (meeting grounds) although tangata whenua can engage all spaces for ceremonial purposes as kaitiaki (guardians) across their ancestral landscape. Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei home fires are centred around the Ōrākei Marae (10 minutes from Auckland CBD). The Kaitiaki Indigenous Hui will be held at Ōrākei Marae following the conference on Thursday 19 May 2016.

For more information about Ōrākei Marae, please go to: http://www.wakamaori.co.nz/maori-culture/marae/orakei-marae/

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The planning of this conference programming began with a provocation, Robert R Janes’ challenge to museums to address pressing societal issues and to add social and cultural value now and in the future. As a platform for dialogue and discussion between Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia this event is a unique opportunity to consider the ways that museums are aiming to be of social, cultural and ecological value from perspectives across our region.

A large interest in the themes of kaitiakitanga (custodianship), hāngaitanga (relevance), tūranga (place) and mātauranga/tikanga (knowledge/practice) was evident from the volume of speaker proposals received. These evidenced a keen interest in museums and galleries as spaces where governance and custodianship, indigenous and cultural agency, and connections with local communities are valued and being explored and re-evaluated in many ways. The final programme offers many different voices and multiple forums for discussion. We welcome all perspectives on the strategies, operations and capabilities of our institutions and the differences or shared experiences between Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.

A key aim of the conference is to create stronger professional relations as well as shared knowledge in order to begin to co-create future social museums in this region that recognise the importance of peoples, diversity, locality, histories, collections and professional disciplines.

Zara Stanhope Chair, Programming Committee

Auckland War Memorial Museum #MA16NZ 5 Conference Programme

Saturday 14 May PRE-CONFERENCE 9.00 - 5.00 Digital Academy Auckland War Memorial Museum 9.00 - 5.00 Graduate Research Symposium Fale Pasifika, University of Auckland

Sunday 15 May PRE-CONFERENCE 8.30 - 4.30 Emerging Museum Professionals Mini-conference NZ Maritime Museum 12.00 - 2.00 Museums Australia National Council Auckland Art Gallery 1.30 - 3.00 Museum Educators: Waka - Exploring Waka Kaupapa NZ Maritime Museum 1.00 - 4.00 TENNZ: Touring Exhibitions Network Cropper House, MOTAT 3.00 - 4.00 Joint Museums Aotearoa Board / Australia Council Hui Auckland Art Gallery 5.00 - 6.00 Museums Aotearoa AGM NZ Maritime Museum Evening Network Dinners - various venues

6 #MA16NZ Monday 16 May LEADING: PURPOSE AND STRATEGY 7.30 Registration Open 8.45 Delegates assemble in Aotea Square 9.15 - 10.00 Pōwhiri / welcome 10.00 - 10.45 Morning Tea 10.45 – 11.30 KEYNOTE: Moana Jackson Context - the evolving story of Te Tiriti o Waitangi 11.30 - 12.15 KEYNOTE: David Garneau From Colonial trophy case to non-Colonial keeping-house 12.15 - 12.30 Chaired Q&A / Discussion 12.30 - 1.30 Lunch - Trade Exhibition 1.30 - 2.30 PLENARY - Provocations: Robert Janes, Elizabeth Merritt, Daryl Karp, Lisa Reihana, Peter White, Albert Refiti Future focus and sustainability for museums 2.30 - 3.15 PARALLEL SESSIONS M3-B1 M3-B2 M3-B3 M3-B4 M3-B5 M3-B6 Museums Public value Digital critique – New futures Collections Connectivities in the world – can, do and from politeness through and strategy – the porous Papers should to collegiate indigenous 1 - animating museum museums learning pathways – a collections Papers change lives? Workshop hub & spoke through digital Panel approach in discovery central Australia Papers Panel 3.15 - 3.45 Afternoon Tea 3.45 - 4.45 PARALLEL SESSIONS M4-A1 M4-A2 M4-A3 M4-A4 M4-A5 M4-A6 Cultures and Public value – Digital futures Museums of the Collections Connectivities responsibilities imagining a new Panel future –through and strategy – encountering PK + Cafe kind of museum Indigenous 2 – tackling the stories & objects Panel lenses of tangible Panel Australia and the Papers Pacific Panel 4.45 - 5.30 KEYNOTE: Dawn Casey A conversation about museums and social capital 5.45 Buses depart Aotea Centre to MOTAT 6.15 Welcome Reception - MOTAT

#MA16NZ 7 Tuesday 17 May ENACTING: COMMUNITIES AND COLLECTIONS 7.30 Registration Open 7.15 - 8.45 Emerging Museum Professionals Career Cafe (ticketed) 9.00 - 9.45 KEYNOTE: Elizabeth Merritt The Ten Thousand Year Museum

9.45 - 10.00 Chaired Q&A / Discussion 10.00 - 11.15 PARALLEL SESSIONS T1-B1 T1-B2 T1-B3 T1-B4 T1-B5 T1-B6 Story telling, Visitor insights & Toward the future The future is Mana taonga Making it narratives of analytics transculturation participatory Panel different the now Panel Panel Papers Short papers Panel 11.15 - 11.45 Morning Tea 11.45 - 1.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS T2-1 T2-2 T2-3 T2-4 T2-5 T2-6 New ways of Including Working together Networking the Ethics, What’s the story? story telling everyone Papers community research, Narrative, show, tell, PK + Cafe Papers PK + Cafe institutions argue Papers Short Papers 1.00 - 2.00 Lunch - Trade Exhibition & Posters 1.30 Buses depart Aotea Centre to offsite visits 2.00 - 5.00 ONSITE SESSIONS & OFFSITE VISITS T4-1 T3-2 T3-3 T3-4 T3-5 T3-6 Future Design thinking Strategies for Technology - EMP Stories Copyright 2.0 museum at for museums the socially does it work for & Can Workshop Auckland is fun and easy relevant art our stories? museums onsite Museum Workshop museums Panel change the Papers, onsite Panel , onsite world Auckland Auckland Art PK Museum - Gallery - offsite onsite offsite T5-3 T5-4 T5-5 T5-6 MOTAT offsite Te Toi Uku Mangere Wallace Arts storage tour (Portage Arts Centre & Trust at Pah Visit - offsite Ceramics Trust) Fresh Gallery Homestead Visit - offsite Otara Visit - offsite Visit - offsite 5.00 Buses depart offsite visits to Aotea Centre 6.30 Buses depart Aotea Centre to Auckland War Memorial Museum 7.00 Conference Dinner - Auckland War Memorial Museum

8 #MA16NZ Tuesday 17 May Wednesday 18 May ENACTING: COMMUNITIES AND COLLECTIONS ENABLING: STRUCTURES, POLICIES AND OPERATIONS 7.30 Registration Open 7.30 Registration Open 7.15 - 8.45 Emerging Museum Professionals Career Cafe (ticketed) 9.00 - 9.15 PLENARY: The Hon Maggie Barry, NZ Minister for the Arts, Culture & Heritage 9.00 - 9.45 KEYNOTE: Elizabeth Merritt 9.15 – 9.50 KEYNOTE: Boon Hui Tan The Ten Thousand Year Museum Relevance and trust - locally and globally

9.45 - 10.00 Chaired Q&A / Discussion 9.50 - 10.15 Chaired Q&A / Discussion 10.00 - 11.15 PARALLEL SESSIONS 10.15 - 10.45 Morning Tea T1-B1 T1-B2 T1-B3 T1-B4 T1-B5 T1-B6 10.45 -11.45 PARALLEL SESSIONS Story telling, Visitor insights & Toward the future The future is Mana taonga Making it W2-A1 W2-A2 W2-A3 W2-A4 W2-A5 W2-A6 W2-A7 narratives of analytics transculturation participatory Panel different Repatriation & Operational Rethinking Connecting & Visitor research Taking risks Q&A the now Panel Panel Papers Short papers access museum citizen science re-visioning for exhibition PK & with Panel Papers leadership – a Papers communities development Papers Robert 11.15 - 11.45 Morning Tea co-learning Panel 2hrs Janes space Panel Panel 11.45 - 1.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS Workshop 11.45 - 12.45 PARALLEL SESSIONS T2-1 T2-2 T2-3 T2-4 T2-5 T2-6 2hrs W2-B1 W2-B3 W2-B4 W2-B5 New ways of Including Working together Networking the Ethics, What’s the story? story telling everyone Papers community research, Narrative, show, tell, Repatriation & New light on Does Revitalising & PK + Cafe Papers PK + Cafe institutions argue community science consensus renewing two of Papers Short Papers Panel collections stifle NZ’s iconic Panel innovation? museums 1.00 - 2.00 Lunch - Trade Exhibition & Posters Panel Papers 1.30 Buses depart Aotea Centre to offsite visits

2.00 - 5.00 ONSITE SESSIONS & OFFSITE VISITS 12.45 - 1.45 Lunch - Trade Exhibition & Posters T4-1 T3-2 T3-3 T3-4 T3-5 T3-6 1.45 - 3.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS Future Design thinking Strategies for Technology - EMP Stories Copyright 2.0 W3-1 W3-2 W3-3 W3-4 W3-5 W3-6 museum at for museums the socially does it work for & Can Workshop Auckland is fun and easy relevant art our stories? museums onsite Facing the Excellence in Issues of disaster Strengthening our Collections Commemorations? Museum Workshop museums Panel change the future - the operations - it’s preparedness sector - leading research in Panel Papers, onsite Panel , onsite world new museum all about the and response and developing a connected Auckland Auckland Art PK educator customer in NZ & the Asia people for the world Museum - Gallery - offsite onsite Panel Panel Pacific future Panel offsite Panel Panel T5-3 T5-4 T5-5 T5-6 3.33 - 3.30 Afternoon Tea MOTAT offsite Te Toi Uku Mangere Wallace Arts 3.30 - 4.30 PLENARY - PANEL storage tour (Portage Arts Centre & Trust at Pah Future Possibilities and Leading the Journey Visit - offsite Ceramics Trust) Fresh Gallery Homestead Visit - offsite Otara Visit - offsite 4.30 - 5.00 POROAKI / CLOSE: Tangata Whenua Visit - offsite 5.15 - 8.30 Awards Ceremony - Aotea Centre 5.00 Buses depart offsite visits to Aotea Centre 6.30 Buses depart Aotea Centre to Auckland War Memorial Museum 7.00 Conference Dinner - Auckland War Memorial Museum

#MA16NZ 9 Thursday 19 May POST-CONFERENCE 9.00 - 4.00 CAMD Auckland War Memorial Museum 9.00 - 11.00 Masterclass: Award Winning Ways Auckland Art Gallery Kaitiaki/Indigenous Hui (2 days at Ōrākei Marae) OPTIONS Visits and tours to museums, galleries and places of interest - various venues

Auckland Art Gallery

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MOTAT, Get Smart Exhibition

#MA16NZ 11 Museums Aotearoa

Nau mai, haere mai – welcome!

On behalf of the members of Museums Aotearoa it is my pleasure to extend warm Pacific greetings to delegates for this, the first ever, conference of Australasian museums. On behalf of the Mayor, Councillors and peoples of the beautiful city of Tāmaki Makaurau – Auckland – I welcome in particular our colleagues from across the Tasman and those from elsewhere in Aotearoa New Zealand. I acknowledge especially the spontaneous manaakitanga – generosity – of Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei who have so kindly offered to provide their own distinctive embrace at the very outset of the conference.

Regardless of nationality, cultural identity or professional background, as museum people our aim is to collaborate to grow our capacity as individuals and organisations so we can better serve our communities and deliver public value. What better way to do this than to host an exchange of ideas and insights; and to do so in the company of our closest allies and nearest professional neighbours?

The conference theme will enable us to explore the issues that face us and to understand the contexts that we work within on both sides of the Tasman. In a constantly changing world we face a fascinating array of fresh possibilities. Our organisations are seeking to act more as ‘sharers’ than ‘keepers’; not as owners, but as a kaitiaki – a guardian – on behalf of the people. Among innovations, our digital progress is spectacularly extending our reach and influence.

Together, we are opening ways for museums to think differently, to re-imagine their influence and to relinquish conventionality. We don’t all have to agree or follow the same path. Indeed, disagreement is an important part of developing better understandings; and the conference environment enables these conversations to be respectful across professions, peoples and communities.

In hosting MA16 Museums Australasia, Museums Aotearoa has drawn on the resources of many people. We acknowledge the enormous contribution of Auckland-based museums and galleries and their teams. The reward for their efforts is the wonderful opportunity to share Auckland and our own experiences with our international visitors – and to learn from them in turn.

It is fitting to close with a Māori whakataukī– a proverb – that speaks to cooperation and the combination of resources to get ahead:

Naku te rourou nau te rourou ka ora ai te iwi With your basket and my basket the people will live

I wish everyone a stimulating, inspiring and enjoyable conference. May the positive energy that we create be almost tangible!

Ka kite anō, Roy Clare CBE Chair, Museums Aotearoa Board Director, Tāmaki Paenga Hira – Auckland War Memorial Museum

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New Zealand and Australia have so much in common in the museum, gallery and cultural collections spheres that it’s very surprising that we haven’t got together more often.

Both countries share the same heritage around the role and importance of museums and galleries. Both countries have vibrant and resilient, but very different first peoples. We have the same geo-political place in the world, with strong links through the South Pacific and Asia. We face the same ambivalence of our governments towards the cultural sector.

This joint conference gives us the opportunity to share some of that joint heritage, explore our place in the world and look at the opportunities and threats ahead of us. We have the chance to see where our industry is going, what the key influences are, and to shape that future to benefit the whole community. In particular the joint conference is a chance to learn from our three groups of first peoples, Māori, Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders, and to strengthen links between those first peoples, links that began at the earliest days of white invasion and settlement.

We will also explore the most transformative change that our sector has ever seen, the revolution that is the digital world. And we can celebrate the fact that as the world gets more virtual, it’s clear that people also want to see and touch the real. The virtual and the real are a compelling yin and yang.

A good conference is a great chance to explore influences, and influencers, from outside our sector. We also get to celebrate innovation, agility and excellence.

This conference would not have happened without the hard work of people on organising committees on both sides of the Tasman. On behalf of Museums Australia I want to thank those people. In particular I want to thank Alex Marsden of Museums Australia and Phillipa Tocker of Museums Aotearoa. Their drive, dedication, and patience, have done more to bring this conference about than anyone else.

Conferences are made up of people. Get into it and meet those people, exchange ideas, make contacts and expand networks.

But above all, enjoy yourself!

Frank Howarth National President, Museums Australia

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Moana Jackson Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Porou

Moana Jackson has spent his legal career specialising in Te Tiriti o Waitangi and indigenous rights. In 1987, he co-founded Ngā Kaiwhakamarama i Ngā Ture the Māori Legal Service for which he remains the director as well as lecturing in the Māori Laws and Philosophy degree at Te Wānanga o Raukawa.

He has also worked extensively overseas on international indigenous issues, particularly the drafting of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. He was a judge on the International Tribunal of Indigenous Rights in Hawaii in 1993 and again in Canada in 1995. He was also counsel for the Bougainville Interim Government during the Bougainville peace process.

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David Garneau Métis

David Garneau is Associate Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. His practice includes curation, critical writing, painting, performance art, and video. He is most interested in issues of nature and culture, metaphysics and materialism, contemporary Indigenous identities and display.

Garneau is currently working on curatorial and writing projects featuring contemporary Indigenous art in Canada and Australia, and is part of a five-year, SSHRC funded curatorial research project, “Creative Conciliation,” that tackles art after the Apology and the report on Indian Residential Schools.

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Elizabeth Merritt

Elizabeth Merritt is the Founding Director, Center for the Future of Museums and Vice President, Strategic Foresight, American Alliance of Museums (AAM). Before being appointed CFM’s first director, Elizabeth led the Excellence Programs at AAM—Accreditation, Museum Assessment and Peer Review—as well as the association’s research activities. Her areas of expertise include futures studies, museum standards and best practices, ethics, collections management and planning, and assessment of nonprofit performance.

Her books include National Standards and Best Practices for U.S. Museums and the AAM Guide to Collections Planning.

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Dawn Casey, PSM FAHA

Dawn Casey has previously held the positions of the Director of the National Museum of Australia and the Western Australian and Powerhouse Museums. Dr Casey’s career includes a number of key executive positions in the Public Sector in areas including Indigenous Affairs, Cultural Heritage and Overseas Aid and Development. Previous board appointments include Member of the Charles Sturt, Western Australia and Canberra University Councils, Member of the Queensland Design Council, Executive Member of the Australasian Council of Museum Directors, Chairperson of the Indigenous Business Australia and Indigenous Land Corporation, Lead Member of the Global Environment Facility (International) and Member Development Board for Commonwealth Countries (International).

Dawn Casey is a descendant of the Tagalaka clan group from around Croydon, North Queensland. Dawn Casey has been awarded three Honorary Doctorates (QLD Charles Sturt, QLD and Macquarie), Commonwealth Government’s Public Service Medal (PSM), Australian Government’s Centenary Medal, Three Australia Day Public Service Medals, The Australian Institute of Architects’ Glem Cummings Award and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

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Boon Hui Tan

Boon Hui Tan is the former Director of the Singapore Art Museum and is currently Assistant Chief Executive (Museums and Programs) of the National Heritage Board of Singapore, where he is responsible for overarching exhibitions, programs and outreach strategies and collaborations.

In December 2015 he will take up the position of Vice-President, Global Arts and Cultural Programs and Director of the Asian Society Museum in New York. There he will lead the Asia Society’s global arts and cultural activities, including cinema, performing arts and literature, as well as oversee the museum’s acclaimed art collections, exhibitions and programs.

Boon Hui will draw on Asia/Pacific perspectives to discuss the importance of championing local cultures in museums, along with participating in panels on exploring global trends and challenges.

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Robert R. Janes

Robert R. Janes is an independent scholar and served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship from 2003 to 2014. He is also a visiting research fellow at the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester (United Kingdom).

Janes has devoted his career to championing museums as important social institutions that are capable of making a difference in the lives of individuals and their communities. He began his career as an archaeologist in Canada’s remote Northwest Territories and continues to work with Canada’s indigenous peoples.

His latest book is Museums without Borders (2016) – a collection of nearly 40 years of his writing.

#MA16NZ 21 Monday 16 May Leading: Purpose & Strategy

7.30 Registration Opens 8.45 Delegates assemble in Aotea Square 9.15 Pōwhiri / welcome 10.00 Morning Tea 10.45 Keynote: Moana Jackson 11.30 Keynote: David Garneau 12.15 Chaired Q&A / Discussion 12.30 Lunch - Trade Exhibition 1.30 Plenary: Provocations 2.30 Parallel Sessions - M3 3.15 Afternoon Tea 3.45 Parallel Sessions - M4 4.45 Keynote: Dawn Casey 5.45 Buses depart Aotea Centre to MOTAT 6.15 Welcome Reception - MOTAT

Auckland War Memorial Museum - Taku Tāmaki Auckland Stories - Collect and Connect

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Moana Jackson Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Porou

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David Garneau Métis University of Regina Sponsored by Gordon Darling Foundation

From Colonial Trophy Case to Non-Colonial Keeping House

Increasingly, we Indigenous people are taking control of our cultural belongings, keeping them in sovereign display territories, remembering and expanding our understanding of what and how these things mean. Even so, not everything will be returned to us, and some things may be better off where they are—if not how they are. This paper considers the heritage museum as it transitions from colonial trophy case to non-colonial keeping house through the process called Indigenization.

In the land now known as Canada, First Nations people signed treaties with the Settlers with the understanding that they were not ceding territory but sharing it. While the Treaties have been incompletely honoured by the state, their conciliatory intent guides us still. Settlers are awakening to the idea that country is more than property, and that treating it as commodity is edging us all toward environmental calamity. Just as territory is not reducible to property, not all things are things alone. This paper describes how the collection and display of Indigenous belongings depend upon cultural narratives, and how those stories are shifting. The Indigenous turn features the decline of ‘humanist’ and ‘anthropological’ narratives and the return of Indigenous ones, but also the emergence of the Indigenous as a new category of being Aboriginal.

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Provocations – Future focus and sustainability for museums

Each presenter will offer a perspective on future possibilities for museums and galleries from their own experience and thinking, for delegates to consider over the course of the conference.

Robert Janes, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, Museum Management and Curatorship Journal Daryl Karp, Director, Museum of Australian Democracy Elizabeth Merritt, Founding Director, Center for the Future of Museums and Vice President, Strategic Foresight, American Alliance of Museums Albert Refiti, Senior Lecturer, Spatial Design, AUT University Lisa Reihana, Ngāpuhi, Ngati Hine, Ngāi Tu, Artist Peter White, Aboriginal Arts And Cultural Development Consultant

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#MA16NZ 31 Parallel Sessions - M3

M3-B1 Museums in the world - PAPERS Chair: Boon Hui Tan Building connections through collections - potential futures for the cultural collections held by performing arts centre in the Asia-Pacific region Dr Steven Tonkin, Curator (Contemporary & Live Art), Arts Centre Melbourne International relations & arts management - does recent foreign policy in arts & culture align domestically Kerri Dickfos, Visitor Experience Manager, Art Gallery of Western Australia The museum at the lowest Place on earth - the little museum with a big mission Penelope Edwell, Masters Research Student/Museum Consultant, Australian Defence Force Academy/ Hellenic Society for Near Eastern Studies

M3-B2 Public value: can, do and should museums change lives? - PANEL Chair: Ken Gorbey Museums change lives - can they, do they, should they - and what happens if they do? Alec Coles, CEO, Western Australian Museum Daryl Karp, Director, Museum of Australian Democracy Old Parliament House Dr Mathew Trinca, Director, Western Australian Museum

M3-B3 Digital critique: from politeness to collegiate learning - WORKSHOP SPONSOR: Australian War Memorial Chair: Michael Parry Digital Critique Room Michael Parry, Director Programs and Engagement, Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Sydney Francesca Ford, Manager Digital Content, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney Simon Sherrin, Senior Developer, Digital Products, Museum Victoria Glenn Barnes, CEO/Founder, MyTours, Auckland Gabby Shaw, Digital Media Manager, MCA Sydney

32 #MA16NZ M3-B4 New futures through indigenous pathways - a hub spoke approach in central Australia – PANEL Chair: Dawn Casey Nganampa Anwernekenhe - yours, ours – a national indigenous art & culture centre in Australia Philip Watkins, CEO, DesArt Incorporated and Nganampa Anwernekenhe Steering Group Member Harold Furber, Chair, Nganampa Anwernekenhe Steering Group Member Victoria Grieves, ARC Indigenous Research Fellow, University of Sydney

M3-B5 Collections and strategy 1 - animating collections through digital discovery – PAPERS Chair: David Reeves Self-discovery through collections online Hugh Lilly, Assistant Librarian, Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira Adam Moriarty, Digital Collections Information Manager, Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira We’ve digitised it… now what? How Dutch museums unlocked their collections and brought them to life. Madeline Borthwick, Design Manager, Kiss the Frog

M3-B6 Connectivities – the porous museum – PAPERS Chair: Karen Mason The cultural narrative project Alison Page, Zakpage Nik Ladigczak, Zakpage …We’re all in this together Steven Alderton, Director: Programs, Exhibitions and Cultural Collections, Australian Museum

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#MA16NZ 35 Parallel Sessions - M4

M4-A1 Cultures and responsibilities - PITOPITO KŌRERO + CAFE Chair: Jennifer Storer Facing an uncertain future together - museums, galleries and climate change, what are our local, global and pacific responsibilities? Stephanie Chinneck, Alumni, Macquarie University Chantelle Dollimore, Student, Macquarie University The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize - providing access to nature through creative expression Dr Sara King, Curator, National Archives of Australia Tim Gilchrist, Manager, Temporary Exhibitions & Special Projects, South Australian Museum ATUA Dr Michael Gunn, Senior Curator Pacific Arts, National Gallery of Australia

M4-A2 Public value – imagining a new kind of museum - PANEL Chair: Alec Coles

Starting the journey - Museum of Applied Arts and Science at Parramatta Michael Parry, Director Programs & Engagement, Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences Dolla Merrillees, Newly appointed Director, Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences

M4-A3 Digital futures - PANEL Chair: Andy Neale Digital futures Tim Hart, Director, Public Engagement at Museum Victoria. Deb Verhoeven, Professor of Media and Communication, Deakin University Seb Chan, CXO/Chief Experience Officer, Australian Centre for the Moving Image

M4-A4 Museums of the future – through indigenous Australia & the Pacific -PANEL Chair: Peter White Charting the new future of museums through an Indigenous lens Jilda Andrews, Access and Outreach Programs Coordinator, National Museum of Australia and Australian National University

36 #MA16NZ Kimberley Moulton, Senior Curator, South-eastern Australia Aboriginal Collections at the Melbourne Museum Peter White, Aboriginal Arts and Cultural Consultant Edwina Merito, Manager, Maori Development, Auckland Museum The future of museums in the Pacific - our vision, our stories Tarisi Vunidilo, Secretary-General, Pacific Islands Museums Association, and Pacific colleagues

M4-A5 Collections and strategy 2 – tackling the tangible - PAPERS Chair: David Reeves Slaying the dragon - tackling museum documentation backlogs Amy Dale, Curator, Migration Museum Rethinking assumed understandings of collections through scientific enquiry - the QVMAG Sydney Cove Collection Katrina Ross, Head Technical Officer, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery John Addison, History Curator, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery David Thurrowgood, Conservator, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery University of Melbourne Museums and Collections - staying relevant into the future Jason Benjamin, Conservation Programs Co-ordinator, Cultural Collections Unit, University of Melbourne

M4-A6 Connectivities – encountering stories and objects - PANEL Chair: Louise Douglas Encounters - revealing stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander objects from the British Museum Ian Coates, Lead Curator, Encounters project, National Museum of Australia (NMA) Jay Arthur, Senior Curator, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Program, NMA Barbara Paulson, Curator, NMA Janey Wood, Project Manager, NMA Caolán Mitchell, Exhibition Designer, Thylacine

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Dawn Casey, PSM FAHA Sponsored by Australian High Commission

A Conversation About Museums and Social Capital

The last twenty years has seen transformative change in museum practices to create an overall visitor experience rich in material culture and story telling. Life long learning opportunities have been introduced and extended beyond the walls of museums incorporating the latest in digital technologies. Let’s explore whether the development of social capital has enjoyed the same focus and whether museum professionals need take responsibility for building social capital and if so why?

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42 #MA16NZ Tuesday 17 May Enacting: Communities & Collections

7.30 Registration Opens 7.15 Emerging Museum Professionals Career Cafe (ticketed) 9.00 Keynote: Elizabeth Merritt 9.45 Chaired Q&A / Discussion 10.00 Parallel Sessions - T1 11.15 Morning Tea 11.45 Parallel Sessions - T2 1.00 Lunch - Trade Exhibition & Posters 1.30 Buses depart Aotea Centre to offsite visits 2.00 Onsite Sessions & Offsite Visits 5.00 Buses depart offsite visits to Aotea Centre 6.30 Buses depart to Auckland War Memorial Museum 7.00 Conference Dinner - Auckland War Memorial Museum

Kaiapoi Museum, photo by Rick Pearson

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Elizabeth Merritt American Alliance of Museums

The Ten Thousand Year Museum

Museums, collectively, have three core responsibilities: to collect, preserve and interpret the world. But there is a profound imbalance in our performance of these functions. We collect more material than we preserve, and preserve far more than we interpret. Can museums guarantee that the vast collections we compile will, in time, deliver on their promise? If not, museums risk being seen as hoarders rather than guardians. Most museums present only a tiny fraction of their collections to the public at any given time. Even research collections, amassed with the understanding that we don’t know how they will be used in the future, are often neglected, abandoned, lost before their potential is realized. We promise to hold our collections in trust for the public, but how long is that covenant is supposed to last? What time frame should a museum set for its guardianship? A hundred years? A thousand years? Ten thousand years is roughly the span of human civilization— can museums aspire to preserve human heritage for the next ten millennia? And if so, what mechanisms—cultural, technical, procedural—would we need to create in order to fulfil that promise?

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46 #MA16NZ Parallel Sessions - T1

T1-B1Story telling, narratives of the now - PANEL Chair: Rachael Davies What do you see? – making the ordinary extraordinary Simon Gould, Content & Interpretation Developer, Auckland War Memorial Museum Expanded narratives - beyond a beginning, middle and end Dr Anna Jackson, Creative Producer and Lecturer at Colab, Auckland University of Technology Luisa will speak about veiqia.com, as a result of her involvement in The Veiqia Project, as well as her wider practice as an artist Luisa Tora, multidisciplinary artist

T1-B2 Visitor insights & analytics - PANEL Chair: Emily Loughnan Getting past the data Emily Loughnan, Chair, Click Suite The digital frontier - analytics in arts Angie Judge, Director, Dexibit Limited A never-ending story – what we know and should know about visitors to our museums Carolyn Meehan, Manager Audience Insights, Museum Victoria When members become good friends - museum members as an underutilised community resource Dr Lynda Kelly, Head of Learning, Australian National Maritime Museum Deanna Varga, Assistant Director, Commercial and Visitor Services, Australian National Maritime Museum

T1-B3 Toward the future – trans culturation - PANEL Chair: Greg Lehman Hot zones of contact - transculturation in Indigenous art and cultural production Margo Neale, Senior Indigenous Curator and Indigenous Advisor to the Director of the National Museum of Australia Ian McLean, Senior Research Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Wollongong Kim Mahood is a nationally awarded freelance writer and artist Paul Tapsell, Professor of Māori Studies at the University of Otago

#MA16NZ 47 T1-B4 The furture is participatory - PAPERS Chair: Lucinda Blackley-Jimson He toa taumata rau - Online Cenotaph and He Pou Aroha - Cenotaph Community - effectively engaging with communities Victoria Passau, Online Cenotaph Coordinator, Auckland War Memorial Museum Claire Lanyon, Project Manager Community Cenotaph, Auckland War Memorial Museum Democratising the museum - an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the politics of participation Rachael Coghlan, PhD Candidate, Australian National University Co-creative communities - participatory programs for innovative libraries of the future Naomi Takeifanga, Exhibitions Curator/ Co-Creative Programmer, State Library of Queensland

T1-B5 Mana taonga - PANEL Chair: Tryphena Cracknell Mana taonga - aspects and practice Tryphena Cracknell, Curator, MTG Hawke’s Bay Learning culture, shaping identities - connecting with shared histories of First Peoples Dr Liz Suda, Program Co-ordinator, Humanities Education, Museum Victoria Navigating image permissions and best practice for cultural collections held at the Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira Zoe Richardson, Assistant Librarian, Image Orders, Auckland War Memorial Museum Hikitia Harawira, Collection Manager Māori, Auckland War Memorial Museum Indigenous custodianship and country - reflections on being the conduit Jilda Andrews, Access and Outreach Programs Coordinator, National Museum of Australia and Australian National University Future collecting for Māori collections in museums - thoughts on contemporary collecting at Te Papa Puawai Cairns, Senior Curator (Acting), Te Papa Tongarewa The power of mana taonga in museum education Tereora Crane, Educator, Te Awamutu Museum Uenuku – the personification of a god Henriata Nicholas, Exhibitions Coordinator, Te Awamutu Museum

48 #MA16NZ T1-B6 Making it different - SHORT PAPERS Chair: Toni MacKinnon Curatorial strategies for the fashion future - mediating fashion knowledges, place and material identities Tanya Zoe Robinson, PhD Candidate, Deakin University and Director, Ashburton Museum Seen and heard - music in museums Siobhan Motherway, PhD candidate, Melbourne University, and Information Officer, Museum Victoria Victorian taxidermy – is it time to make peace with our living dead? Emma Burns, Curator, Natural Science, Otago Museum

Contemporary-Māori-art curating makes a difference - City Gallery Wellington Chief Curator Robert Leonard Spruiks an upcoming symposium Robert Leonard, Chief Curator, City Gallery Wellington

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#MA16NZ 51 Parallel Sessions - T2

T2-1 New ways of story telling - PITOPITO KŌRERO + CAFE Chair: Alex Marsden Aboriginal history at Sovereign Hill Alice Barnes, Education Officer, Sovereign Hill Museums Association Te Curio Cabinet o Te Waka Huia o Ngā Taonga Tuku Iho - digital curation or glorified blog? Dr Tina Makereti, Curator Māori, Museums Wellington Mapping Memory - an online exhibition Wendy Lugg, Museum Volunteer & Hon. Artist in Residence, RWAHS; and Convenor, Red Cross Flag Working Group, Museums Australia WA Where contemporary art and local history meet Natasha Lewis Honeyman is an artist, designer and cultural worker The meming of life Wendy Pryor, Head, Digital and Emerging Technologies, Museum Victoria

T2-2 Including everyone - PAPERS Chair: Richard Benge Autism friendly museums Adrienne Leith, Senior Programs Officer, Museum Victoria Welcome to the museum - do we really mean it? Laura Miles, Executive Director, Museums Australia (Victoria) PLAY UP - the relevance of children’s voices and democracy Nanette Louchart-Fletcher, Community Learning Officer, Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House Edwina Jans, Head, Heritage, Exhibitions

T2-3 Working together - PAPERS Chair: Boon Hui Tan Seeking Discomfort - the practice and experience of cross-cultural exhibitions Dr Gabriella Haynes, Community Heritage Officer, Yarra Ranges Council Exhibiting Difference - interrupting dominant narratives of multiculturalism through an affective museum exhibition experience

52 #MA16NZ Dr Moya McFadzean, Senior Curator Migration & Cultural Diversity, Museum Victoria Dr Jessica Walton, Research Fellow, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University The influence of Aboriginal Art on an Australian ontology of painting Hayley Megan French is a Sydney-based emerging artist and academic Makarrata - museums and Yolngu working together. Can this cultural legacy be used for reconciliation between parties? Dr Louise Hamby, Research Fellow, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University

T2-4 Networking the community - PITOPITO KŌRERO + CAFE Chair: David Garneau Pushing the program - challenging perceptions of past, present and place through innovative exhibition programming Sarah Gurich, Curator, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Volunteers and custodianship Alison Waterhouse, Audience Development Officer, Sydney Living Museums Make/use at objectspace - active engagement in zero-waste fashion design Naiomi Murgatroyd, Programme Manager, Objectspace CultureSpace - connecting with diverse communities Craig Middleton, Public Programs Officer, History SA Allison Russell, Senior Curator, Community Engagement, Migration Museum PIMA - working together, preserving, celebrating and nurturing the heritage of the people of the Pacific Tarisi Vunidilo, Secretary General, Pacific Islands Museums Association

T2-5 Ethics, research, institutions - PAPERS Chair: David Butts Engagement with communities - shared knowledge during cultural exchanges with First Nation communities in Flinders Island and New Zealand Jodie Dowd, Step-Up Participant/Library Technician, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Working together on working objects - partnering with teaching institutions for conservation Mick Bolognese, Curator, History SA/ National Motor Museum

#MA16NZ 53 Whakamana te Tiriti - embedding Te Tiriti o Waitangi in a museum environment Kate Timms-Dean, Education Officer, Otago Museum

T2-6 What’s the story? Narrative, show, tell, argue - SHORT PAPERS Chair: Patrick Greene Creating space to share the intangible cultural experience Barbara Paulson, Curator, National Museum of Australia Ships, stories and spectacle - creating a new visitor centre at the Australian National Maritime Museum Michael Harvey, Assistant Director, Public Engagement and Research, Australian National Maritime Museum Road trip USA - findings on digital and bilingual storytelling from a four-month, Fulbright-funded journey across the US Frith Williams, Head of Writing, Museum Renewal, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Offerings - managing personal commemoration at the Australian War Memorial David Gist, Reference Officer, Australian War Memorial Six museum words to make you vomit Jim Fishwick, Program Producer, Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences Tilly Boleyn, Curator, Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences

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56 #MA16NZ Onsite Sessions & Offsite Visits

T4-1 Future museum at Auckland Museum - PAPERS OFFSITE AUCKLAND MUSEUM Beginning with presentations in the auditorium, including an overview of the Museum’s strategic direction guided by Future Museum, followed by papers by Lucy McIntosh and Nils Pokel. Following afternoon tea, tours of the Pacific Collection Access Project and Collection Imaging project, the B2 collection store, and the co-developed conservation work on the meeting house Hotunui will be available. Case study - Wi-Fi-enabled digital e-ink labels in a display case Nils Pokel, Digital Strategis, Auckland Museum Shifting grounds - the Auckland War Memorial Museum in its physical and historical context. Lucy Mackintosh, PhD Student, University of Auckland

T3-2 Design thinking for museums is fun & easy - WORKSHOP ONSITE Design thinking for museums is fun and easy Vicki Northey, Australian Parliament House

T3-3 Strategies for the socially relevant art museum - PANEL OFFSITE AUCKLAND ART GALLEY On Tuesday afternoon join in a panel discussion at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki at 2pm on ‘Strategies for the socially relevant art museum’ in the Gallery auditorium. A public discussion on the question how can and are art museums strategising to be more inclusive, participatory and act as social institutions into the future? The panel includes Blair French from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Bruce Phillips from Te Tuhi and Ioka Magele-Suamasi, Outreach Programmer, Auckland Art Gallery. At 3pm join one of the curators for a tour of the exhibitions and the World Architecture award winning building.

Tours are as follows: Photography - Ron Brownson Māori art - Nigel Borell Conservation - Sarah Hilary European historical galleries – Emma Jameson Space to Dream: Recent Art from South America (ticketed) – Zara Stanhope

#MA16NZ 57 T3-4 Technology – does it work for our stories - WORKSHOP ONSITE Chair: Marc Simpson This three part session will tap into the minds of well-respected and experienced museum technologists who are just as passionate about the stories as they are about tech. Technology – does it work for our stories? Marc Simpson, Managing Director, Toulouse Group Emily Loughnan, Creative Director, Click Suite Allan Smith, Director Visitor Experiences, Gibson Group Dr Ian Griffin, Director, Otago Museum

T3-5 EMP stories & Can museums change the world - PITOPITO KŌRERO ONSITE

Part 1: EMP stories Object conservation in New Zealand? Walking an invisible pathway Catherine Williams, Loans & Acquisitions Adviser, Visitor Services Host, Object Conservation Volunteer, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa 1415 Tons - some challenges of large collection objects Michael Davies, Collections Assistant, New Zealand Maritime Museum Good things that came out of the Christchurch Earthquakes Lynette Hartley, Natural History Collections Technician, Canterbury Museum Brutes, geniuses and common men - experiencing the First World War through photographs Kate Morschel, Assistant Curator, Photographs, Film and Sound, Australian War Memorial On the road - the mutual benefits of travelling exhibitions Bianca James, Travelling Exhibitions Coordinator, National Portrait Gallery Part 2: Can Museums change the world? What comes first the artist or the subject? Anita Robertson, Registrar, The New Zealand Portrait Gallery Post-earthquake recovery and the Canterbury Cultural Collections Recovery Centre Moya Sherriff, Collections Technician, Air Force Museum of New Zealand Ramblings of a museum novice Hatesa Seumanutafa, Associate Curator and Collections Technician of Human History, Canterbury Museum

58 #MA16NZ Enduring exhibitions: shows that shape our world Alice Tyler, Assistant Curator, Gus Fisher Gallery Reducing your overheads and increasing your audience. Ideas and processes to obtain that ultimate golden paradigm Sarah Hardman

Engaging millennials in museums- ideas to inspire discussion Anika Klee, Collection Technician, Human History, Auckland War Memorial Museum Why are there so many spears? Josef Hextall, Freelance Curator, Sunshine Coast

T3-6 Copyright 2.0 - WORKSHOP ONSITE This session aims to answer your copyright problems and spark practical solutions and guidance for dealing with copyright and permissions for museum collections across Australasia. Copyright 2.0 – Got a tricky copyright question? Sarah Powell, Auckland Museum Elizabeth Heritage, Creative Commons Aotearoa Matariki Williams, Ministry for Culture & Heritage, NZ Fiona Fieldsend, Digital NZ Nancy Ladas, Museum Victoria Catriona McPherson, Te Papa

T5-3 MOTAT offsite storage visit -OFFSITE VISIT The good, the bad and the ugly: a behind the scenes look at the off-site collection stores of MOTAT. Gain an insight to the collection management challenges for transport and technology collections in a New Zealand context – and to have a peek at some of MOTAT’s favourite collection items.

T5-4 Te Toi Uku (Portage Ceramics Trust) - OFFSITE VISIT Te Toi Uku is a brand new museum dedicated to the New Zealand ceramic manufacturer Crown Lynn. Explore the rich and vibrant influence ceramics had on the social and industrial heritage of West Auckland and the challenges faced by a small museum.

#MA16NZ 59 T5-5 Mangere Arts Centre & Fresh Gallery - OFFSITE VISIT Taking in two iconic South Auckland galleries and art centres this tour will encompass a guided tour of “Men are from Maama, Woman are from Puloto” by Ane Tonga at the Mangere Arts Centre, in an especially extended showing for the Museums Australasia Conference. Following this will be a visit to Fresh Gallery Ōtāra and a guided tour of “Ten Years”, a group exhibition to celebrate the gallery’s tenth year of operation. It will include artists from the Fresh back-catalogue making a hand-picked selection of work by up and coming artists.

T5-6 Wallace Arts Trust at Pah Homestead - OFFSITE VISIT TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre tour will provide visitors with a general introduction to the operations at the TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre and across the Arts Trust more generally, taking in the history of the Homestead and its current use as a contemporary art gallery. Followed by a discussion about the exhibition Parlour Games – which co-incidentally is about the challenge of articulating and presenting contemporary art in restored heritage setting. http://tsbbankwallaceartscentre.org.nz/exhibitions/parlour-games/

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62 #MA16NZ Wednesday 18 May Enabling: Structures, Policies & Operations

7.30 Registration Opens 9.00 Plenary: The Hon Maggie Barry 9.15 Keynote: Boon Hui Tan 9.50 Chaired Q&A / Discussion 10.15 Morning Tea 10.45 Parallel Sessions - W2 12.45 Lunch - Trade Exhibitions & Posters 1.45 Parallel Sessions - W3 3.00 Afternoon Tea 3.30 Plenary: Panel 4.30 Poroaki / Close 5.15 Awards Ceremony - Aotea Centre

Imogen and Katherine Barlett in Submergence at Expressions Whirinaki Arts and Entertainment Centre, 2015

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Boon Hui Tan Sponsored by Gordon Darling Foundation

Is your global my global? : Creating spaces for local specificity in the age of global museums

The idea of globalization and a global world has also manifested itself in both explicit and sometimes unspoken expectations that cultural institutions need to think globally while responding to local needs. Outside the Euro-American sphere, where the soft and hard infrastructure for museums and arts cen-tres are still works in progress, there is often an urgency to build a strong local audience base while remaining relevant to ‘the world’. This presentation draws from two decades of experiences in audi-ence building through exhibitions, and performing arts festivals in museums ranging from ethnograph-ical, historical to contemporary art focused museums. The presentation will suggest ways in which a regional approach can be a way to navigate the divide between local and global relevance.

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66 #MA16NZ Parallel Sessions - W2-A

W2-A1 Repatriation & access – PAPERS SPONSOR: National Museum of Australia Chair: Mat Trinca Repatriation Arapata Hakiwai, Kaihautū, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Repatriation and policy in the Australian cultural sector Tiffany Karlsson, Branch Manager, Collections and Cultural Heritage, Australian Ministry for the Arts Kōiwi repatriation from an Iwi perspective Āwhina Twomey, Kaitiaki Taonga Māori, Whanganui Regional Museum Panelist Zoe Rimmer, Co-chair Advisory Committee for Indigenous Repatration

W2-A2 Operational museum leadership – a co-learning space (2 hours) - WORKSHOP Operational museum leadership - a co-learning space Michael Parry, Director Programs & Engagement, Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences Courtney Johnston, Director, The Dowse Art Museum

W2-A3 Rethinking citizen science - PAPERS Chair: Kim Mckay Citizen Science - narratives for museums Ellie Downing, Science Engagement and Events, Australian Museum ‘Everything is connected’ - the Mahara-Nga Manu art and environment project Janet Bayly, Director curator, Mahara Gallery

W2-A4 Connecting & re-visioning communities - PANEL Chair: Andrew Clifford Cat Auburn The Horses Stayed Behind Sarah McClintock, Assistant Curator, Sarjeant Gallery Fluid states. New culture and community in a fast growing Pacific city. The experiences and role of Gold Coast City Gallery Virginia Rigney, Senior Curator, Gold Coast City Gallery, The Arts Centre Gold Coast Jo-Anne Driessens, Senior Arts & Culture Project Officer, City of Gold Coast Joy Vercoe, Project Officer Pacific Communities Officer, The Arts Centre Gold Coast #MA16NZ 67 A new start - re-visioning programming at the State Library of Queensland Linda Barron, Executive Manager, Community Engagement, State Library of Queensland

W2-A5 Visitor research for exhibition development - PANEL Chair: Jessica Brainard Leaving tracks - casting visitor footprints into the exhibition development journey Jessica Brainard, Curator, Western Australian Museum Nigel Bond, Senior Project Officer, Western Australian Museum Glenn Iseger-Pilkington, Curator, Western Australian Museum

W2-A6 Taking risks (2 hours) - PAPERS & PANEL Chair: Richard Mulvaney Sex sells but we’re not buying Siren Deluxe, Senior Collection Manager, Collection Care, Auckland Museum Brave exhibitions - how do we confront controversial, personal, emotional issues in exhibitions? Penelope Grist, Assistant Curator, National Portrait Gallery of Australia Museum in the role of a catalyser - a midwife for ideas Dina Jezdic, Adult and Tertiary Programmer, Auckland War Memorial Museum T-shirts unfolding at Canterbury Museum Marguerite Hill, Panel member, Canterbury Museum X-rated - curating an exhibition about the history of the sex industry in contemporary Australia Rowan Henderson, Curator, Social History at Canberra Museum and Gallery Without consent - Australia’s past adoption practices at the National Archives of Australia Amy Lay, Curator, National Archives of Australia

W2-A7 Q&A with Robert R Janes - PANEL Chair: Zara Stanhope Future Possibilities in a climate of change Robert Janes will join this session by video link to engage with your responses to his provocation and the broader conference theme. Bring your questions about such issues as museums and climate change, indigenous peoples, management for change, and social and ethical responsibility and agency.

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W2-B1 Repatriation & community – PAPERS SPONSOR: National Museum of Australia Chair: Mat Trinca Songlines of knowledge Professor (Adjunct ANU) Margo Neale, Senior Indigenous Curator & Advisor to Director, National Museum Australia Representation & repatriation - digital tools, approaches and projects around cultural collections Dr Gretchen Stolte, Research Fellow,The Australian National University Iyau Vakaviti - Fijan treasures in international museums - Talanoa on repatriation and museum planning in Fiji Tarisi Vunidilo, Secretary General, Pacific Islands Museums Association

W2-B3 New light on science collections - PANEL Chair: Michael Frawley Citizen Science - narratives for museums Dr Jacqueline Healy, Senior Curator, Medical History Museum and Henry Forman Atkinson Dental Museum What does AMSF stand for? Ellie Downing, Science Communications Officer, Australian Museum Catherine Beehag, Science Communications Officer, Australian Museum Managing natural science collections in modern New Zealand Cody Fraser, Collection Manager, Natural Science, Otago Museum Ideas made glass Matthew Shaw, Associate Curator Natural History, Canterbury Museum

W2-B4 Does consensus stifle innovation -PANEL Chair: Laura Miles Culture clash - does consensus stifle innovation? Paul Bowers, Head Exhibitions, Museum Victoria Michael Harvey, Assistant Director of Public Engagement and Research, Australian National Maritime Museum Liz Cotton, Head of Human History, Auckland War Memorial Museum

#MA16NZ 71 Lynda Kelly, Head of Learning, Australian National Maritime Museum Seb Chan, CXO/Chief Experience Officer, Australian Centre for the Moving Image

W2-B5 Revitalising and renewing two of New Zealand’s museums - PAPERS Chair: Elizabeth Merritt Super City, Super Museum - revitalizing and reconnecting Auckland’s iconic museum Sally Manuireva, Director, Public Experience, Auckland War Memorial Museum Te Papa’s renewal programme in the age of co-creation Karen Mason, Associate Director Museum Renewal, Te Papa

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74 #MA16NZ Parallel Sessions - W3

W3-1 Facing the future – the new museum educator - PANEL Chair: Andrew Hiskens Panel members Angela Casey, Head (Acting), Learning Services and Community Outreach, National Museum of Australia Victoria Esson, Manager, National Services Te Paerangi Elizabeth Merritt, Founding Director, Center for the Future of Museums and Vice President, Strategic Foresight, American Alliance of Museums

W3-2 Excellence in operations – it’s all about the customer - PANEL Chair: Megan McSweeney Shaping innovation at Te Papa Tui Te Hau, GM Innovation Hub, Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa Brian Oldman, Director, South Australian Museum Marisa Swanink, Education Communicator, Canterbury Museum

W3-3 Issues of disaster preparedness and response in New Zealand & the Asia Pacific -PAPER & WORKSHOP SPONSOR: ICOM Australia Chair: Robin Hirst Working with risk Jennifer Taylor Moore, Curator of Collections, Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare O Rehua Whanganui Issues of disaster preparedness and response in the Asia-Pacific region Cameron Auty, Secretary, Blue Shield Australia

W3-4 Strengthening our sector – leading and developing people for the future - PANEL Chair: Courtney Johnston Just do(ing) it Nina Finigan, Co-founder, Tusk - Emergent Culture; Archives Technician, Air Force Museum of New Zealand Alexandre Christopher, Independent writer, curator and educator Emma Williams, Museum Curator, Albury Library Museum

#MA16NZ 75 Matariki Williams, Co-founder, Tusk - Emergent Culture; Resource Researcher, Ministry for Culture and Heritage Courtney Johnston, Director, The Dowse Art Museum (chair)

W3-5 Collections research in a connected world - PANEL Chair: Andrew Simpson Collections research in a connected world – exploring issues and experiences Andrew Simpson, Honorary Fellow, Macquarie University Jane Legget, Head of Research, Auckland War Memorial Museum Robert Morris, Director Collections, Research & Education, Otago Museum Ngarino Ellis, Senior Lecturer, Art History, University of Auckland Mirna Heruc, Director, University Collections,The University of Adelaide Susan Abasa, Lecturer in Museum Studies, Massey University Bronwyn Labrum, Head of New Zealand and Pacific Cultures, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

W3-6 Commemorations? - PANEL Chair: Carol Cartwright Memories, memorials and museums - are we already done with the Great War centenary? Dr Kerry Neale, Curator, Military Heraldry and Technology, Australian War Memorial Deborah Tout-Smith, Senior Curator, Home & Community, Museum Victoria Museums, mana taonga and the movies - old and new ways of narrating the 1915 Gallipoli campaign Kirstie Ross, History Curator, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Never a week goes by Gary Ross, Curator, South Otago Museum Planning 2019/20 commemorations of the conception of our nation Distinguished Professor Dame Anne Salmond, Trustee, Te Hā 1769 Sestercentennial Trust Joe Davis, Trustee (Ngāti Hei), Mercury 250 Anniversary Trust

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78 #MA16NZ Plenary - Panel

Plenary: Future Possibilities and leading the journey Chair: Sally Manuireva, Director, Public Experience, Auckland Museum

Museums Australasia 2016 finishes with a snappy series of reflections on the conference theme, ‘Facing the Future: Local, Global and Pacific Possibilities’. The sparky format is a mash-up of keynote speakers, tweeters and others who dare!

The questions they – and you – are asked to consider are: What’s your prediction for the future of our sector? With that in mind, what do we need to equip ourselves for that journey?

Finally, what’s your biggest take out from the conference?

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#MA16NZ 81 Kaitiaki / Indigenous Hui

The Kāhui Kaitiaki hui this year seeks to bring together indigenous voices and experiences across the museum and gallery sector from our Australian, Māori and Pacifika colleagues. The hui will be held at Ōrākei Marae on 19-20 May 2016 commencing with a pōwhiri at Ōrākei Marae on Thursday 19 May. We will gather at 8.30am and finish with poroporoaki on Friday 20 May at 4.30pm.

For more information, keep an eye on the Museums Australasia website or contact Tryphena Cracknell [email protected].

Ōrākei Marae

82 #MA16NZ Thursday 19 & Friday 20 May KAITIAKI / INDIGENOUS HUI - 2 days at Ōrākei Marae Rāpare Thursday 19 May Rāmere Friday 20 May 7.30 - 8.30 Gather in wharenui to start the day 8.30 - 9.00 Pōwhiri and David Garneau whakawhanaungatanga From Artifact Necropolis to Living Rooms: Indigenous, and at Home, in Non-colonial Museums 9.45 - 10.30 Hatesa Seumanutafa Cultured thoughts, cultural practice

10.30 - 11.30 Morning tea Morning tea 11.00 - 11.45 Ngarino Ellis Kylie Ngaropo National Services Te Paerangi 11.45 - 12.30 Dawn Casey Tapunga Nepe Rongowhakaata Marae Based Exhibitions 1.00 - 2.00 Kai Kai 2.00 - 2.45 Tarisi Vunidillo and Margaret Aull Grace Hutton The Veiqia Project The journey of the Mahiole (feathered helmet) and ‘Ahu ‘ula (feathered cloak) of the High Chief Kalani‘ōpu‘u 2.45 - 3.30 Matariki Williams and Bridget Afternoon tea and Poroporoaki Reweti The Exotic Māori syndrome 3.30 - 4.00 Afternoon tea 4.00 - 4.45 Margo Neale When you look behind you, you see the future in your footsteps From the site of the white: self - determination and not self- entitlement 4.45 - 5.30 Awhina Rawiri-Erick Te Awe project Auckland War Memorial Museum, Tamaki Paenga Hira 6.30 Kai Noho marae As part of the Kaitiaki/Indigenous hui participants will stay overnight at Ōrākei Marae

#MA16NZ 83 General Conference Information

House Keeping In the event of a fire: - If you discover a fire, immediately activate an alarm and notify an Aotea Centre staff member - If you hear the fire alarm, evacuate immediately. Further instructions may be given from an Aotea Centre staff member - please follow all instructions - Proceed immediately to your nearest exit - Use the stairs, not the lift - Await further instructions or clearance for an orderly re-entry into the Aotea Centre

Internet Complimentary wi-fi will be available throughout the conference venue. Username: MA Password: 16

Social Events Monday 16 May - Welcome Reception at 6.15pm at MOTAT. This is included in all full registration types.

Tuesday 17 May - Conference Dinner at 7pm at Auckland War Memorial Museum. This is a ticketed event (purchased during registration).

Wednesday 18 May - Awards Ceremony at 5.15pm at Aotea Centre. This is a ticketed event (purchased during registration).

Parking There is parking available at the Civic Carpark at hourly and daily rates.

Contact on Site The Event Dynamics team will be on site daily 7.30am – 6pm at the registration desk. For any queries outside these hours please call, James Chatterley 021 777 928.

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Aotea Centre 50 Mayoral Drive, Auckland

Main sessions will be in the Auditorium. Exhibitors will be located in the BNZ Foyer, Level 3.

Registration desk will be located in the BNZ Foyer, Level 3.

Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea will be located in the exhibition area, BNZ Foyer, Level 3.

Buses for social events will depart from the rear of the Aotea Centre, instructions will be given on the day.

#MA16NZ 85 AUCKLAND MAP 01 MCCAHON HOUSE TRUST MUSEUM 14 NEW ZEALAND MARITIME MUSEUM OF MUSEUMS (09 817 6148) - 67 Otitori Bay Road, French Bay (09 373 0800) - Corner Quay and Hobson Streets, Viaduct Harbour 02 NEW ZEALAND RUGBY LEAGUE MUSEUM 09 12 24 NORTH (09 525 5596) - Rugby League House, 15 OBJECTSPACE 7 Beasley Avenue, Penrose (09 376 6216) - 8 Ponsonby Road, Grey Lynn

07 03 HUIA SETTLERS MUSEUM 16 PAPAKURA MUSEUM (09 811 8971) - 1251 Huia Road, Karamatura Valley (09 298 2003) - Level 3, Accent Point Building, 18 209 Great South Road 04 THE PAH HOMESTEAD 13 (09 639 2010) - TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, 17 MUSEUM OF TRANSPORT & TECHNOLOGY 17 11 15 72A Hillsborough Road, Hillsborough (MOTAT) (09 815 5800) - 805 Great North Road and Meola 05 WAIUKU MUSEUM SOCIETY 25 04 06 Road, Western Springs 02 (09 235 8698) - 13 King Street 19 08 18 TORPEDO BAY NAVY MUSEUM 06 MALCOLM SMITH GALLERY (09 445 5186) - Torpedo Bay, 03 20 01 (09 535 6467) - 35 Uxbridge Road, Howick 03 64 King Edward Parade, Devonport

07 WAIHEKE COMMUNITY ART GALLERY 19 JOURNEY’S END COTTAGE & LAISHLEY 21 (09 372 9907) - 2 Korora Road, Oneroa HOUSE & BLOCK HOUSE (09 636 7997) - Jellicoe Park, Corner Grey Street 08 TE TUHI and Quadrant Road, Onehunga (09 577 0138) - 13 Reeves Road, Pakuranga

20 TE URU 09 WARKWORTH & DISTRICT MUSEUM (09 817 8087) - 420 Titirangi Rd, Titirangi, Titirangi 05 16 (09 425 7093) - Parry Kauri Park, Tudor Collins Drive

14 21 HOWICK HISTORICAL VILLAGE 10 AUCKLAND ART GALLERY (09 576 9506) - Crnr of Lady Marie Drv & Bells Rd,

SOUTH (09 379 1349) - Corner Kitchener and Wellesley Lloyd Elsmore Park, Pakuranga Streets, Auckland Central

22 GEORGE FRASER GALLERY 11 AUCKLAND WAR MEMORIAL MUSEUM (09 367 7163) - 25A Princes Street Elam School of 23 (09 309 0443) - Auckland Domain, AUCKLAND Fine Arts, National Institute of Creative Arts & Maunsell Road, Parnell CBD Industries, University of Auckland 22 12 ALBERTLAND & DISTRICT MUSEUM 23 GUS FISHER GALLERY (09 423 8181) - Albertland Heritage Centre, (09 923 9977) - The Kenneth Myers Centre, Library Plaza, 15 Port Albert Road 74 Shortland Street

10 13 CORBAN ESTATE ARTS CENTRE 24 COULDREY HOUSE (09 838 4455) - 2 Mt Lebanon Lane, Henderson (09 528 3713) - Wenderholm Regional Park

25 THE PORTAGE CERAMICS TRUST TE TOI UKU (09 827 7349) - 8 Ambrico Place, New Lynn

*This is map is not to scale AUCKLAND MAP 01 MCCAHON HOUSE TRUST MUSEUM 14 NEW ZEALAND MARITIME MUSEUM OF MUSEUMS (09 817 6148) - 67 Otitori Bay Road, French Bay (09 373 0800) - Corner Quay and Hobson Streets, Viaduct Harbour 02 NEW ZEALAND RUGBY LEAGUE MUSEUM 09 12 24 NORTH (09 525 5596) - Rugby League House, 15 OBJECTSPACE 7 Beasley Avenue, Penrose (09 376 6216) - 8 Ponsonby Road, Grey Lynn

20 TE URU 09 WARKWORTH & DISTRICT MUSEUM (09 817 8087) - 420 Titirangi Rd, Titirangi, Titirangi 05 16 (09 425 7093) - Parry Kauri Park, Tudor Collins Drive

14 21 HOWICK HISTORICAL VILLAGE 10 AUCKLAND ART GALLERY (09 576 9506) - Crnr of Lady Marie Drv & Bells Rd,

SOUTH (09 379 1349) - Corner Kitchener and Wellesley Lloyd Elsmore Park, Pakuranga Streets, Auckland Central

10 13 CORBAN ESTATE ARTS CENTRE 24 COULDREY HOUSE (09 838 4455) - 2 Mt Lebanon Lane, Henderson (09 528 3713) - Wenderholm Regional Park

25 THE PORTAGE CERAMICS TRUST TE TOI UKU (09 827 7349) - 8 Ambrico Place, New Lynn

*This is map is not to scale Posters

Poster presenters will be in the BNZ Foyer on Tuesday 17 May and Wednesday 18 May during lunch breaks.

Flexhibit Juliet Cooke, Intouch Design, Director

Intouch Design’s poster is about Flexhibit: an affordable, sustainable method of delivering an interactive exhibit to museums. Flexhibit is supplied to museums as digital files, so that museum staff and volunteers can print out and construct their own interactive exhibit, using sustainable materials and methods that are appropriate to their budget.

The first Flexhibit, called Survivor WW1 conveys the casualty statistics and main campaigns of the NZ Expeditionary Force in WW1. This was first trailed at the Central Hawke’s Bay Settlers’ Museum in 2014, where it helped achieve a 9.7% increase in visitor numbers. For less than $500 to make, Survivor WW1 provided hands-on collaborative activity to compliment the museum’s traditional artefact display. It was particularly popular with schools and family visitors. Flexhibit is now at 10 museums throughout NZ. An Australian version is under development. For more information please visit: www.intouchdesign.co.nz/flexhibit

A Shared Kaupapa – Developing Hākui: Women of Kāi Tahu Rebecca Keenan, Otago Museum, Content Services Manager

Development of Hākui: Women of Kāi Tahu has truly been a shared kaupapa, with the community playing an essential role in bringing this important exhibition to fruition. This poster will act as a platform for discussion on how the Otago Museum team worked with the whānau, rūnaka and iwi to share the stories of respected Kāi Tahu wāhine in the exhibition. It will demonstrate the logistical background and far-reaching nature of the exhibition development process. It will also highlight the number of profiles, images and audio files featured in the exhibition, touching on geographical spread.

Interacting with the Mega World of Minibeasts Emma Burns, Otago Museum, Curator, Natural Science Craig Scott, Otago Museum, Head of Design Rebecca Keenan, Otago Musseum, Content Services Manager

88 #MA16NZ The Otago Museum utilised a variety of engaging interactive elements in the Bugs: the Mega World of Minibeasts exhibition. This poster will play on the infographic style that was successfully used within the exhibition itself to outline these interactive elements. It will act as a platform that invites questions regarding the team’s choice of interactives and how visitors used those interactives within the exhibition space. It will also inspire discussion on what the team has learned, both in terms of technical processes and visitor engagement.

For the people, by the people: Can you afford NOT to include community in public programme development? Penelope Bartlau, Barking Spider Visual Theatre, Artistic Director/CEO

To keep museums relevant, in a modern world of fast information and fact-finding at the fingertips, museums need to diversify their engagement strategies. Storytelling through the arts is a method by which communities can stay engaged and connected to your collections – but how?

Australian arts company Barking Spider Visual Theatre has pioneered a methodology for generating inspired public programmes that meaningfully engage communities. The company integrates communities from development through to presentation of public programmes. Barking Spider employs unique combinations of art forms, delivered by experienced arts practitioners, with communities, for the museum sector.

The results? Highly original public programmes that authentically engage communities and audiences, and which reflect, explore and showcase collections in remarkable ways.

Faces of war Kate Morschel, Australian War Memorial, Assistant Curator

Laced throughout the Australian War Memorial’s recently refurbished First World War Galleries is a small ribbon of portraits of servicemen and servicewomen, and the families and communities who supported them at home. Titled, Faces of war, this display draws on the Memorial’s extensive photographic collection and offers poignant insights into the impact of the First World War on Australians, recognising that every individual has a unique story tell.

#MA16NZ 89 #OneThread: Our collective connections: how we built a collections-led social media game Zoe Richardson, Assistant Librarian Image Orders, Auckland War Memorial Muse- um Tāmaki Paenga Hira Rebecca Loud, Pictorial Librarian, Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira Gareth de Walters, Digital Content Production Manager, Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira

#OneThread is a collaborative social media project showcasing the collections of GLAMs up and down New Zealand. Using Auckland War Memorial Museum’s social media channels we were inspired to create a game that would highlight the richness of, and connections between, the collections of the nation’s memory institutions.

In February 2015 #OneThread was launched. The spot-the-common-thread game was coordinated by Auckland Museum in collaboration with Te Papa, Waikato Museum, Nelson Provincial Museum, along with an expanding network of regular and guest contributors. The game revolved around GLAMs posting collection images on Twitter accompanied by brief, sometimes cryptic clues, encouraging online visitors to become active participants in the collection discovery process.

Our poster will go behind the scenes of #OneThread to demonstrate how we provided real engagement to our offsite and online audiences, initiate cross-sector Australia in the Great War, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT collaborations, and select the right Australia in the Great War is the new permanent exhibition in the First World War Galleries at the Australian War Memorial. It is the rst major refurbishment of the galleries in over 40 years and one of the key contributions to commemorating the centenary of the conict. Principal exhibition designers Cunningham Martyn Design, developed probably the most challenging gallery re-con guration project Designcraft have ever delivered. The complex Joinery and Showcase package pushed our fabrication ability and facility to the limit. The result is a world class gallery experience. Designcraft are proud of our association with this agship Australian project.

Exhibition design: Cunningham Martyn Design. Photography by John Gollings. designcraft furniture joinery showcases 8 Tralee Street, Hume ACT 2620 Phone 02 6290 4900 Email [email protected] www.designcraft.net.au

90 #MA16NZ Australia in the Great War, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT

Australia in the Great War is the new permanent exhibition in the First World War Galleries at the Australian War Memorial. It is the rst major refurbishment of the galleries in over 40 years and one of the key contributions to commemorating the centenary of the conict. Principal exhibition designers Cunningham Martyn Design, developed probably the most challenging gallery re-con guration project Designcraft have ever delivered. The complex Joinery and Showcase package pushed our fabrication ability and facility to the limit. The result is a world class gallery experience. Designcraft are proud of our association with this agship Australian project.

Gordon Darling Foundation The Gordon Darling Foundation was established by Gordon Darling AC CMG in 1991 to fund Visual Arts activities Australia-wide. Now chaired by Marilyn Darling AC, the Foundation’s charter is to support the visual arts and to promote, through Public Institutions, access to and enjoyment of all areas of the visual arts, to the broadest possible audience.

The Australian High Commission The Australian High Commission is the official representative of the Australian Government in New Zealand. We provide a range of services to the general public, including consular, passport, visa and immigration, citizenship and cultural relations services. We also act on behalf of various Australian Government authorities by representing Australia’s interests to local, regional and multilateral government and business organisations in New Zealand.

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ICOM Australia The International Council of Museums Australia represents the international interests of member museums and museum professionals across Australia and nearby regions to the world’s natural and cultural heritage communities.

Australian War Memorial Every year, millions of Australians gain a greater understanding of the Australian experience of war through the Australian War Memorial’s online digital presence.

The National Museum of Australia The National Museum of Australia is the place where Australia’s stories come alive. Located on the shores of beautiful Lake Burley Griffin, the Museum’s stunning architecture offers visitors an extraordinary place to explore the rich and diverse stories of our country and our people.

Emerging Museum Professionals Sponsor

National Portrait Gallery The National Portrait Gallery of Australia aims to be a place where successive generations take inspiration from the depiction of our national heritage through portraiture. The Gallery is proud to support the Emerging Museum Professionals mini conference, to nurture and show respect to the sector’s wonderful young talent – our next generation of museum and gallery leaders.

#MA16NZ 93 Promotion Sponsors

Simpsons Simpsons are experts in collections law and advise many Australasian institutions on issues such as loans, acquisitions, security from seizure, copyright, provenance and due diligence.

Auckland War Memorial Museum Located in one of New Zealand’s finest heritage buildings, Auckland Museum is recognised as holding nationally and internationally significant collections and is committed to reach and be relevant to all, by inspiring discoveries, enriching lives and connecting people through sharing stories of our people, land and seas. The Museum is a war memorial for the province of Auckland and holds one of New Zealand’s top three heritage libraries.

94 #MA16NZ Bursary Sponsors

Registration and travel bursaries for conference delegates have generously been provided by:

Wesfarmers Arts and National Gallery of Australia Supporting Indigenous Australian delegates.

Regional Facilities Auckland Supporting delegates from smaller museums and art galleries in the Auckland Council area.

Museums Aotearoa Supporting delegates from smaller museums and galleries in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Supporting delegates from Pacific museums and National Services Te Paerangi providing travel grants to delegates from smaller museums and galleries in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Museums Australia Supporting three Indigenous delegates with the assistance of the Ministry for the Arts. MA State/Territory branches and National Networks are supporting the registration and travel costs of 13 delegates. MA Tasmania with assistance of The Department of State Growth has supported a further 4 delegates.

Cartwright/Douglas Fund Supporting 3 young emerging professional delegates.

Australian National Maritime Museum Supporting delegates from regional Australian Maritime Museums.

Museums and Repatriation Collections and Cultural Heritage Branch, Ministry for the Arts Supporting Indigenous State based Repatriation officers.

#MA16NZ 95 Hosting Sponsors

Hosting of MA16 is a team effort. A joint Museums Aotearoa – Museums Australia Programme Committee has worked trans-Tasman to develop the programme, alongside a Management Committee of staff and Board/Council members from the two associations working with our PCO Event Dynamics.

We want to thank especially the institutions and their staff who have supported the conference on the ground in Auckland:

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hera

New Zealand Maritime Museum Hui Te Ananui A Tangaroa

MOTAT Museum of Transport and Technology

96 #MA16NZ Hospitality Sponsors

Conservation Supplies Comprehensive range of specialised materials for conservation, preservation, storage and archiving. Standard and custom box making. Visit our website: www.conservationsupplies.co.nz

Panasonic Since the founding of our company in 1918, we at Panasonic have been providing better living for our customers, always making “people” central to our activities, and thus focusing on “people’s lives.” Going forward as well, based on our innovative electronics technology, we will provide a wide variety of products, systems, and services, ranging from consumer electronics products to industrial devices, building products, and housing. In various spaces and areas, such as homes, communities, businesses, journeys and automobiles, we will continue to work hard to offer new value for better living, and help realize “A Better Life, A Better World” for each individual customer.Panasonic Business Systems offers industry-leading Projector, Display and Broadcast solutions for Australian and New Zealand businesses. Panasonic is a pioneer of the Projector industry, with more than 35 years’ experience. No other company has the product range, brand, technology and global presence that Panasonic does.

Corbans Alwyn and Brian Corban have donated a selection of their newly released, and highly acclaimed, Ngatarawa Stables Reserve range for the opening of the Museums Australasia Conference at MOTAT on 16 May 2016. This range captures the qualities of premium Hawkes Bay varietals and is a continuation of their family’s winemaking heritage that started at Ngatarawa in Hawkes Bay 113 years ago.

#MA16NZ 97 Toulouse Toulouse is a leader in the independent lighting design and technology intergration industry, both nationwide and internationally. For 25 years, Toulouse has prided itself on its diverse project history, providing architectural lighting design, audiovisual consultancy, project management and innovative lighting solutions for visitor experience centers, museums, art galleries, exhibitions, commercial and public spaces. Toulouse specialise in providing technical solutions to support creative concepts. Outstanding creative design is supported by comprehensive and detailed knowledge of the industry, products and technologies used to create superior projects. Recent key projects for Toulouse include Gallipoli The Scale of Our War - Te Papa, The Atic - Wellington Museum, Team NZ America’s Cup base San Francisco.

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Hydestor Manufacturing Ltd produce high quality powder coated steel shelving and storage systems for local and overseas customers. Apart from our market leading ranges of traditional shelving, we have also become the preferred supplier for many Museums and Art Galleries. We offer full consultation, design and build solutions plus free quotations.

Tessitura Software is a unified CRM platform that enables you to collect visitor information, share it organisation-wide and use it to drive revenue across departments. Admissions, education, marketing, development and more can tailor the software to meet their needs. The result? Deeper audience engagement, unparalleled organisational efficiency and more time devoted to advancing your mission.

NZMS since 1990. We are experts in digitisation, text conversion & microfilming, and have a fantastic team and an extensive suite of specialist equipment. Ideal for those digitisation jobs which are too complex, too fragile, too awkward or too time-consuming to manage in house. With staff in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and online, we are able to offer our services and expertise wherever you are.

Bosco storage solutions are manufactured in Australia by Wilson & Gilkes. Over 50 years of proven performance offer solutions for preservation, safety, ease of use and space optimization. Bosco storage systems include; High quality compacting units and custom designed and manufactured specimen cabinets.

Conexu Foundation is the go-to national not for profit organisation in communication access and technology for Deaf, hard of hearing and speech impaired Australians. Through research, technology trials, app development and programs and pop up workshops, Conexu uses technology as an enabler to bridge the communication gap.

Dexibit provides data driven insights for cultural institutions. Forget clicker counters and spreadsheets, Dexibit’s real time dashboard provides visualisations personalised for your staff. Detect visitor presence in the gallery, blend with the digital touchpoints of visitor experience and enrich with cultural context. Talk to us about a data driven future.

Museums Australia is the national association for the museums and galleries sector, committed to protecting and promoting Australia’s arts, culture and heritage.

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Axiell is the world’s largest supplier of collections management systems to the Archives, Museum and Special Libraries sector. With headquarters in Lund, Axiell has more than 290 employees, with subsidiaries in Sweden, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the UK and the USA.

My Tours/Curtis - Authentic is the partner of choice for cultural institutions. Combining My Tours, the easiest to use mobile app platform and Curtis, the most beautiful digital object repository. We are experts at making digital content look gorgeous. Let Authentic handle the hard stuff and create easy access to your content. The Software to manage Kenderdine Electrical are a specialist lighting supplier to the Your MOSAiC Of Heritage museum and gallery sector. With over 50 years in the entertainment lighting business they can achieve a solution for all of your specialist lighting requirements. Kenderdines represent a number of the major For more information contact specialist lighting suppliers in New Zealand. Sally-Anne or Rew on

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102 #MA16NZ Kupu/Word Whakamāramatanga/Meaning nui big Whakamāramatanga/Meaning pākehā New Zealander of Eurpoean descent New Zealand pātaka storehouse raised upon posts, pantry, larder river pitopito korero Pecha kucha earth oven to cook food with steam and heat from heated stones poroaki farewell subtribe pounamu nephrite jade, commonly called greenstone to press noses in greeting pōwhiri welcome ceremony gathering, meeting, assembly, seminar, conference rangatira leader small rohe region tribe tamariki children good tāne man food tangata person, human being caller - the woman who has the role of make the ceremonial call to tāngata people, human beings visitors onto a marae/venue at the start of a pōwhiri tangata whenua local people, hosts, indigenous people speaker taonga treasure, anything prized – applied to anything considered to be of guardian, steward value including socially or culturally valuable objects, resources prayer, blessing tapu sacred, prohibited, restricted, set apart, forbidden, under protection to call, call out, shout, summon te the - singular elder - a person of status tēnā koe hello! (speaking to one person) topic, matter for discussion tēnā koutou hello! (speaking to three or more people) protocol - customs tikanga correct procedure, custom, habit, lore, method, manner, rule, way, hello, thank you code, meaning, plan, practice, convention, protocol – the customary gift, present, offering, donation, contribution - especially one system of values and practices that have developed over time and maintaing social relationships, has connotations of reciprocity are deeply embedded in the social context speech, narrative, convesation, discourse tino rangatiratanga self-determination, sovereignty, autonomy, self-government spiral motif toi art work, practice tūpuna, tīpuna ancestors, grandparents prestige, authority, control, power, influence, status, spiritual, power tukutuku ornamental lattice work - used particularly between carvings authority over land or territory around the walls of meeting houses the process of showing respect, generousity and care for others wahine woman visitor, guest waiata song the open area in front of the wharenui where formal greetings and waka canoe, boat discussions take place whaikōrero formal speeches mountain whakairo carving speech of greeting whakapapa genealogy, lineage, descent ocean whānau extended family Māori tattooing on the face/body carried out under traditional whare house, building protocols wharenui meeting house, large house good morning whare taonga museum welcome, come in wharekai dining hall the - plural wharepaku toilet be free from the extensions of tapu, ordinary, unrestricted, void whenua land

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