Member Events
Auckland Museum events are very popular. To avoid disappointment we recommend you book your space without delay. Bookings essential for all Members-only events.
Friends of the Auckland Museum
Email friends.events@aucklandmuseum.com or phone (09) 306 7923. Please leave your details and you will be contacted with a confirmation of your booking. |
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Friends of the Auckland Museum® is operated by the Auckland Museum Institute giving members the best of both worlds, an opportunity to support the Museum and enjoy the benefits of Museum membership and links to the Royal Society of New Zealand. The Institute is the Auckland Branch of the RSNZ and so members also enjoy a programme of Lectures, Field Trips, and discussions such as the popular Cafe Scientifique.
This winter there will be a smorgasbord of exclusive members' only activities to complement the Kai to Pie exhibition. Members will enjoy a sneak preview of the exhibition before it opens to the public, and are invited to come to the July 4th launch of the new season of Night at Auckland Museum free of charge (for the first 100). We've also planned some field trips and a behind-the-scenes look at weaving in the Museum collection...not to mention the usual 10% discount at the Museum Shop. It's a great time to join the Auckland Museum Institute and become a Friend of the Museum.
Click for the full programme of Auckland Museum Institute Events » |
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FAMILY FIELD TRIP - Food Under a Microscope
Members Only: For school aged children and their families
Saturday 21 August, 1.30pm
Auckland University
What does food really look like? A Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) lets you see things at the micrometre scale (that’s really, really close). Join Director of The Research Centre for Surface and Materials Science, Dr Bryony James, at her lab and see what food looks like under extreme magnification. She’ll even let you work the controls. For ages five and over. For 5 - 12 year olds. |
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BEHIND THE SCENES at AUCKLAND MUSEUM
Members Only
Weaving in the Museum
Saturday 14 August, 2pm
$10 (includes afternoon tea in the Members' Lounge)
A chance to discuss weaving with members of the Professional Weavers’ Network of New Zealand and Auckland Museum’s Curator Maori, Chanel Clarke. Weavers’ Network members will bring their own weaving to discuss and Alison Francis will present images from their beautiful 2008 Lightwaves exhibition held at Pataka Museum of Arts and Culture in Porirua, which show cased traditional weaving in exciting new displays. We will look at examples of weaving from the Museum collection including traditional and contemporary Maori articles. Members are invited to bring along any special cloth or woven item and briefly tell us its story over afternoon tea in the Members’ Lounge. |
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For a list of past events, please follow this link » |
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Museum Circle - Be among the Museum's closest friends
The Circle organises a wonderful range of activities, social functions and spectacular custom-designed trips to cultural destinations around the world. The Museum Circle is the Patron & Benefactor membership body of the Auckland Museum. Find out more »
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2010 Hillary Lecture: The Best Man For The Job
Tuesday 7 September
7:00pm - 8:30pm
John Banks, Len Brown and other leading contenders on why they should be Mayor. An open forum moderated by John Hudson.
The Auditorium, Auckland Museum (Southern Atrium Entrance)
Members $15 Non Members $20 Doors open 5:30pm
Food and bar facilities will be available at the Columbus Cafe in the Southern Atrium Entrance.
Book tickets here or phone 09 306 7048. |
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