Te Papa Holds Cataloguing Workshop In Whakatane

21 April 2009
Media Release

Te Papa Holds A Collection Cataloguing Workshop In Whakatane

National Services Te Paerangi of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is holding a Collection cataloguing workshop in Whakatane on Thursday 23 April 2009 at the Whakatane REAP Centre.

This workshop is an opportunity for representatives from small museums, heritage organisations, the arts and cultural sector, iwi organisations, and others in the region to learn useful new skills and share ideas. People will be attending from Whakatane District Museum & Gallery, Ngati Awa Research & Archives, Kawerau Museum, Bay of Plenty Polytech, Water Wheel Trust, Creative Eastbay and Te Amorangi Trust Museum.

The workshop will be composed of a lecture-style presentation, group discussion and problem solving; as well as a practical demonstration and some hands-on practical collection tasks such as registration, cataloguing, classifying objects and databases.

The workshop will be presented by Trish Nugent – Lyne who manages a large collection with an emphasis on Whanganui social and natural history. She has advised many small museum and historical societies in the Whanganui, Rangitikei, Taranaki and Bay of Plenty on physical and database collection management procedures.

Trish said today, “Through the workshop I am trying to provide the hands on practical skills to better care for collections; ensuring their legal and physical welfare. But it’s also about making the collections more accessible and interesting to their communities by record individual object’s stories and keeping them intact with the object for the future generations to enjoy.”

National Services Te Paerangi works with Te Papa and their mission is to strengthen the museum sector by providing practical and strategic help to museums and iwi throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. Our goal is for museums and iwi to be significantly strengthened by increased participation in our programmes and by working collaboratively at a local and national level.

Collection Cataloguing workshop, Thursday 23 April 2009, Whakatane REAP Centre, 21 Pyne St, Whakatane.

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