Museum programmes and science communication director Craig Grant said museum staff, including science communicators, had directly reached more than 70,000 people in the three years he had been in his museum role.
Backing from the United States embassy and Air New Zealand had enabled Otago Museum science engagement co-ordinator Nathalie Wierdak and Mr Grant to recently spend a week in Niue, about 3500km northeast of Dunedin.
"It was definitely the furthest we’ve been as a science communication team," Dr Grant said.
"It’s been great to see how appreciatively we were received," he said.
The Niue Minister of Education said during the visit that Niue was often relying on social media for information about potential climate change.
The Otago Museum staff travelled to Niue with the museum’s own popular travelling exhibition "Far From Frozen", and had been able to provide updated scientific information about the risks posed to Niue and other nations by climate change, Dr Grant said.
The Otago visitors had wanted to convey that science was "exciting and enjoyable" as well as "trying to convey things quite pertinent to them" in terms of climate change.
Every member of Niue Secondary School and more senior members of the primary school attended science education sessions, which had been very well received, he said.
Otago Museum science communication staff would also be visiting the Cook Islands on September 24, he said.
