Tāmaki Paenga Hira stands with #BlackLivesMatter in the fight against racism, privilege and intolerance. Museums are not neutral spaces. We have an obligation to challenge systemic oppression, using our history and our collections as tools for research, dialogue and understanding

Depressing turn of events. For me, mission overrides the now rather academic definition of the modern museum. Maybe this is the beginning of the end of the para-organisation? theartnewspaper.com/news/icom-turm…

Play Video Museum Membership is here aucklandmuseum.com Learn More Get more from your museum. Excited to be launching a new Museum Membership programme

Exciting times. The final countdown begins.. Inside look: Auckland War Memorial Museum's $38m south atrium makeover - NZ Herald nzherald.co.nz/nz/inside-look…

Certainly the most important event in the Museum’s recent history. Part of the Karakia and Kava ceremonies to open Auckland Museum’s South Atrium Te Ao Marama on Saturday. A joy and a privilege to be part of it.

24 Hours to go.. stuff.co.nz/national/30017…

Excited for Auckland Museum to launch Tāmaki Herenga Waka, 'the gathering place of many waka' showing Auckland's cultural diversity nzherald.co.nz/nz/tamaki-here…

And the bands played on.. Georgia Lines, Luana and Reb Fountain at Auckland Museum on a Monday night. Delight and a privilege to be there..

Thrilled to launch Auckland Museum’s Te Whiwhinga Imaginarium learning galleries today. Students from nearly 50 Auckland schools joined us.

Great occasion last night. Auckland Museum came away Winners at the 2021 Interior Awards | Architecture Now. Nga mihi nui to everyone involved. Lots of excitement amongst the design community for the Museum’s new bicultural architecture. architecturenow.co.nz/articles/winne…

Te Ao Mārama Project, Auckland War Memorial Museum/ Tāmaki Paenga Hira | Best Awards Another week, another award for Auckland Museum. What with the clutch from the NZIA awards, congratulations to the team for this magnificent achievement. bestawards.co.nz/spatial/public…

Lighting Auckland War Memorial Museum in the colours of the Ukraine. Lest we Forget..

At Te Papa today to represent Auckland Museum and participate with Te Papa and Metro Museums in a joint reconciliation ceremony to repatriate ancestral remains and the carving Hatitimatangi to Moriori of Rekohu Chatham Is. A nationally historic event and world leading.

Always a pleasure as a museum director tour the gallery floor with young people. They have such interesting and unique perspectives. Classics students discuss Ancient Greece at Auckland Museum - NZ Herald nzherald.co.nz/video/classics…

Great honour and privilege to launch Auckland Museum’s latest community exhibition this morning. Ukraine: the cost of freedom reinforces the role of museums to interrogate not only the past but also events taking place in real time. Confronting but this is the real world.

aucklandmuseum.com/discover/colle… - big day for Museums In NZ and the Commonwealth. Today is the centenary of the announcement of the winners of the international competition to design the Auckland War Memorial Museum in 1922.

Delighted for Auckland Museum and PHQ to win Gold in the Digital Installation and Exhibition category for Ancient Greeks at the NZ Best Design Awards 2022

Excited to launch our new special exhibition Secrets of Stonehenge at Auckland Museum this week curated by the one and only Mike Parker Pearson

Delighted to be joining the South Australian Museum in a few months time as its new Director. Looking forward to meeting and working with my new team. Mixed emotions as always on these occasions. My time at Auckland Museum has been amongst the most rewarding of my career.

Outnumbered..(!).. but proud to stand alongside the movers and shakers of Auckland on the occasion of my farewell from Auckland Museum - Deputy Mayor Desley Simpson, Penny Hulse, Pippa Coom and Taumata-a-Iwi Chair Precious Clark. linkedin.com/posts/david-ga…