Toitu top to learn new tunes
Toitu top to learn new tunes
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum is alive with the sound of music these school holidays as Jayden Jesudhass (9) teaches ukulele to a packed class.
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum
Toitu has an idea or two for DPAG
Toitu has an idea or two for DPAG
An exhibition at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, a special report on museums in The Economist and the success of Toitu Otago Settlers Museum's new galleries shed light on enduring challenges for museums - and point to new opportunities.
Exhibition brings past to life
Exhibition brings past to life
Dunedin's ''incredible'' transformation from mud-spattered frontier town into the first of New Zealand's ''great cities'' is highlighted in a recently-opened ''Ghosts of Wall Street'' exhibition.
Museum working to clear back log
Museum working to clear back log
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum staff are working to clear a backlog of more than 1400 items destined for its collection, most given during a three-year freeze on new acquisitions.
Toitu visits top 307,000
Toitu visits top 307,000
The Toitu Otago Settlers Museum has attracted more than 307,000 visitors since it reopened its doors late last year after its redevelopment. Museum officials earlier said there had been 301,084 visitors until the end of October, a period of 11 months since the reopening.
Links expanded
Links expanded
More of Dunedin's Maori and Chinese stories will be shared, and more will develop, through the work of tourism professionals and academics in the city.
Juggling act
Juggling act
Felix Culling (left, 5) and Nuku Ritchie (5), of Dunedin, practise juggling at Toitu Otago Settlers Museum yesterday.
Success at Toitu
Success at Toitu
Dramatic vignettes at the Toitu Otago Settlers Museum's formed part of a recent successful school-linked education programme.
Toitu director heading north
Toitu director heading north
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum director Linda Wigley is leaving Dunedin to become director of Voyager New Zealand National Maritime Museum in Auckland.
Highlander mascot's regalia lost
Highlander mascot's regalia lost
Wanted: one large sword and an oversized shield, thought to be hanging on the wall in rugby lover's home.
Toitu visits booming
Toitu visits booming
Continued popularity during winter has contributed to the Toitu Otago Settlers Museum attracting more than 218,000 visits since reopening in December.
Museum helping with causeway
Museum helping with causeway
A planned new report may shed further light on the best ways of protecting the remnants of a historic manuka causeway unearthed during construction of Dunedin's Wall Street retail mall.
Museum target $520,000 away
Museum target $520,000 away
Only another $520,000 has to be raised towards a $12.05 million community funding target for the Toitu Otago Settlers Museum redevelopment, thanks mainly to successful fundraising.
Museum redevelopment wins national award; gallery shortlisted
Museum redevelopment wins national award; gallery shortlisted
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum has won the Museums Aotearoa Project Achievement Award - Significant Project for its recently-completed $37.5 million redevelopment.
Visits to reopened museum top 140,000
Visits to reopened museum top 140,000
Visits to Toitu Otago Settlers Museum had topped 140,000 since it reopened in December, museum director Linda Wigley told the museum board at its meeting yesterday.
Late nights a success
Late nights a success
Thursday late nights have proved popular at Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, attracting 1690 people since the redeveloped museum reopened to the public in December.
Dunedin's cultural reputation boosted
Dunedin's cultural reputation boosted
The Toitu Otago Settlers Museum's $37.5 million redevelopment is adding to Dunedin's growing reputation as a nationally significant culture and heritage visitor destination, museum director Linda Wigley says.
Museum visitor milestone win thrills
Museum visitor milestone win thrills
Visiting Toitu Otago Settlers Museum netted Peter Hunt a bouquet of flowers on Valentine's Day yesterday.
'Foolish' tourists nabbed in drains near Toitu
'Foolish' tourists nabbed in drains near Toitu
Dunedin police are considering whether to lay charges after four tourists entered a stormwater drain outside Toitu Otago Settlers Museum last night to explore some of Dunedin's less familiar and subterranean sites.
Settlers museum, Chinese Garden management merged
Settlers museum, Chinese Garden management merged
Management of the Dunedin Chinese Garden is to be merged with the neighbouring Toitu Otago Settlers Museum as part of a shake-up designed to minimise the garden's cost to ratepayers.