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Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision has announced the launch of the second of four online exhibitions made up of material drawn from Ngā Taonga Kōrero collection – the archive of RNZ’s Māori radio programmes. The collection contains recordings made between the 1930s and the 1980s and is a unique storehouse of kōrero, spanning many iwi and dialects. For this second exhibition of early reo Māori recordings, Te Hokinga Mai o Te Rua Tekau mā Waru, Ngā Taonga has chosen to highlight the welcome home given to members of the 28th Māori Battalion when they arrived to a civic reception at Aotea Quay, Wellington on January 23, 1946.
Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision Launches New Online Exhibition
Whether you’re a New Zealander or a visitor, you can gain a deeper understanding of who we were and who we are today by visiting Landmarks sites. Dunedin Railway Station is one of the sites - an exuberant expression of New Zealand’s confidence in rail – right through to its littlest room.
Discover Otago Landmarks
Drawing on the rich inspiration of The Piano, the Royal New Zealand Ballet is honoured to stage the world premiere of this new full-length dance work by Jiří Bubeníček. Originally conceived as a short work for Dortmund Ballet, The Piano: the ballet is now re-imagined and expanded for the RNZB, giving Ada’s story a new and distinctively New Zealand voice and, in dance, a powerful new means of expression. Commences on 23 Feb.
The Piano : The Ballet
Wellington will host special performances over two nights in February with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra celebrating some of Bach’s best-loved works, followed by a summer concert by the NZSO National Youth Orchestra. Back to Bach, at Wellington Cathedral of St Paul on 2 February, will feature works by the music giant and two of his contemporaries, Italian violinist Pietro Locatelli and French opera composer Jean-Philippe Rameau.
Young, gifted and Bach: two special concerts for Wellington in February
WW100’s 2018 theme, The Darkness Before the Dawn, focuses on New Zealand’s experience of the First World War in 1918 where over 5,300 New Zealand soldiers were killed, more than in any other year of the war. But by year's end hostilities were over and the Allies had secured victory. We're also looking back on what life was like here on the home front, where concerns over the rising cost of living, conscription, censorship and war profiteering resulted in widespread disenchantment and dissent,
The Darkness before the Dawn
A 150-year-old pub is among three heritage buildings to receive funding to help with earthquake strengthening. The Hurunui Hotel, a Category One historic place, was built in 1868. Constructed from two layers of local hand-hewn limestone blocks packed with a mixture of tussock, clay and lime, it has been awarded $132,503 in the latest round of Heritage EQUIP funding.
Heritage buildings receive helping hand
Wellington Museum plans to acknowledge the 125th anniversary of Suffrage in a contemporary, thought-provoking, awareness raising and creative fashion!
Suffrage 125 contemporary artwork: Request for Proposal
Visit Te Papa's festival for LEGO® lovers of all ages. This summer, go on a journey around the world through huge LEGO models in Brickman Wonders of the World – then pick up some bricks and start building.
Let’s Go Build: A Festival for LEGO Lovers

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Kāinga Mō te Manatū Ā mātou tāngata Ā mātou wāhanga mahi Delivery Group

Delivery Group

Our historians, writers, researchers and advisers help make information about New Zealand history easy to find, and create opportunities for New Zealanders to engage with their heritage. A lot of our resources are available online, and we also publish books and make oral history programmes.

You’ll find enlightening and stimulating insights into New Zealand’s past on our websites NZHistory and Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. We also manage a series of sites with a special focus on New Zealand’s involvement in military conflicts, including the 28th Māori Battalion, the Vietnam War Oral History Project and WW100. 

NZHistory

Te Ara —  the Encyclopedia of New Zealand  

28th Māori Battalion website

Vietnam War Oral History Project website  

WW100

Our social media channels

We look after memorials, monuments and war graves throughout New Zealand. We also commission the construction of memorials such as the New Zealand Memorial in London and the Pukeahu National War Memorial Park in Wellington. We work with other government agencies to arrange military commemorations at the National War Memorial. 

There were 53,000 visitors to the National War Memorial in the 2016/17 financial year.  Approximately 15,000 attended Anzac Day in 2017, an increase of 3,000 over the previous year. In August 2016 the Queen  Elizabeth  II  Pukeahu  Education Centre was opened as New Zealand’s gift  to mark Her  Majesty’s  90th  birthday.   The centre provides  a  base  for  the education programme at Pukeahu and the Great War Exhibition. We continue to work with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and embassies to develop international memorials to be installed in Pukeahu which saw memorials from Turkey, the United Kingdom and Belgium installed in 2017.

Our First World War Centenary Programme Office is charged with leading, coordinating and publicising the WW100 programme. In doing so we will integrate official and community responses to the centenary.

The use of symbols like the New Zealand Flag, the New Zealand Coat of Arms and New Zealand's National Anthems is covered by legislation that we administer along with the Protected Objects Act 1975. This controls the trading of taonga tūturu and places limitations on the exports of objects.

We support commemorations & anniversaries as recognised by the Goverment, working to connect events and activities across the country.  We're leading the development of a programme of commemorative events to support New Zealanders in exploring the stories and lasting impact of significant events in our history. These include First Encounters 250, the 2019 Tier 1 (major) commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the first  meetings  of  Māori  and  Europeans  when  James  Cook  and  Tahitian  chief  Tupaia  and European  scientists  circumnavigated  New  Zealand  in  1769  and  the  125th  anniversary  of Women’s Suffrage in 2018.

We also allocate contestable funding for commemorating Waitangi Day events and manage the government indemnity scheme for touring exhibitions and the Regional Culture and Heritage Fund.

The Delivery Group comprises of four teams: the First World War Centenary Programme (WW100), Memorials & Taonga, Commemorations and the Research & Publishing Group. The group is managed by Heather Baggott, Group Manager Delivery.

New Zealand Flag

New Zealand Coat of Arms

National Anthems

Protected Objects

Commemorations and anniversaries

Updated on 29th November 2017