May 02, 2019
Te reo Māori source of museum innovation
Judges for this year’s ServiceIQ NZ Museum Awards have noted the high number and quality of entries in both the Exhibition Excellence Taonga Māori and Kia Toi Te Reo Most Innovative use of Te Reo Māori categories.
Museums Aotearoa executive director Phillipa Tocker says judges were also inundated with entries to the new Most Innovative Education Programme category which indicates the benefit museums and galleries see in having good quality education programmes.
Twelve awards will be presented at a ceremony to be held at Te Papa on May 22.
Finalists in the Māori exhibition category include Auckland Museum’s show recognising 160 Years of the Kiingitanga, Ngā Taonga o Tamatea – Te Hokinga Mai at Central Hawke’s Bay Settlers Museum, John Walsh’s Portrait of Uawa Tolaga Bay at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery in Wellington, and Tairāwhiti Museum’s Mangatū Taonga Returned, which is also a finalist in the te reo award.
Other examples of innovative use of te reo Maori were Lower Hutt’s Dowse Art Museum for Shannon Te Ao: my life as a tunnel, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth for Kureitanga II, IV, and Auckland’s MOTAT for He Whakaritenga Hou: A New Setting.
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