IMPORTANT UPDATE:
FREE Professional Development workshops for Year 7 to Year 13 teachers. This is a practical, hands-on workshop with a new digital resource called, Collections to Classroom. This resource supports teachers using museum collections to explore the big ideas, contexts, and practices of the Aotearoa New Zealand Histories curriculum. You will get to meet and work with the project team, Lucy Mackintosh (Historian & Curator), James Taylor (Online Collections Information and Partnership Manager), and Tangimai Fitzgerald (Learning Manager) to navigate the digital resource, learn how taonga were selected from the collections, and explore their history and significance to Tāmaki Makaurau.  We are allowing time in the workshop for the group to breakup in small groups; to collaborate and plan a unit of work on a collection item you choose as a takeaway resource you can implement in your classrooms.  We will finish with a Q&A session, and an evaluation survey for the workshop.  We are excited to share all participants will receive FREE entry to the DIVA exhibition after the workshop. 

‍Please bring your laptops.  

‍Where: Te Whare Taonga o Tamaki Paenga Hira, Auckland War Memorial Museum in Te Pikinga, the Learning Labs.
‍Day: A Twilight Tuesday
‍Time: 4.00 to 6.00 pm (Light refreshments provided) 

‍Thank you to teachers who have registered interest. You will receive an email to confirm your date with the meeting place for the workshop. We have three dates available as listed below. 20 people per workshop.·        
Tuesday 2^nd September       
Tuesday 9^th September        
Tuesday 16^th September 

‍Please complete the JotForm here. Closing date is Monday 25^thof August. All emails will be sent out by Thursday 28^th of August to confirm the date for your workshop and the meeting place at the Museum.
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Register here

Te Whiwhinga The Imaginarium, is the centerpiece of the Museum’s AM Learn programme. Te Whiwhinga The Imaginarium offers a fun and fascinating introduction to the Museum’s collections by showing how familiar objects and stories can be connected in unfamiliar ways, and is home to our revitalised Judith Goodfellow and Douglas Goodfellow learning labs and new orientation space, the Joyce Fisher Learning Base.

Our new Fossil Van has hit the roads of Tāmaki Makaurau, bringing a free, interactive learning programme to ECEs, schools and kura. 

Sponsored by the Central Interceptor, Watercare Services Limited and our Fossil Van supplied by Giltrap Group, the exciting suite of learning programmes we deliver onsite and offsite connects students to the ancient past.  Students will explore local fossils that were excavated by Watercare at the Central Interceptor site, how they formed, and why they matter. They will also discover links between modern animals and creatures from millions of years ago, and uncover the whakapapa of fossils found across Tāmaki Makaurau and Aotearoa. 

Get ready to unearth the past with us!

Our brand new van has taken to the roads of Tāmaki Makaurau to bring the volcanoes education programme to you and your learners.

Supported by Natural Hazards Commission Toka Tū Ake, this free interactive learning experience encourages young learners to understand the impacts of natural hazards and how to be prepared.

Experience the program at Auckland Museum, or it can be brought direct to your school or kura by the Volcano Van.

Sponsored by Natural Hazards Commission Toka Tū Ake‍