Story: Māori and museums – ngā whare taonga

More links and websites

• Auckland War Memorial Museum

  Auckland Museum was New Zealand’s first museum and holds many Māori taonga.

• Museums Aotearoa

  The professional association for museums and art galleries, and people who work in them.

• Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

  Te Papa, in Wellington, is New Zealand’s national museum.

More suggestions and sources

• McCarthy, Conal. Exhibiting Māori: a history of colonial cultures of display. Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2007.
• McCarthy, Conal. Museums and Māori: heritage professionals, indigenous collections, current practice. Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2011.
• Mead, Sidney Moko, ed. Te Maori: Maori art from New Zealand collections. Auckland: Heinemann, New York: American Federation of Arts, 1984.
• Tapsell, Paul. Maori treasures of New Zealand. Auckland: David Bateman in association with Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, 2006.
• Tapsell, Paul. Pukaki: a comet returns. Auckland: Reed Books, 2000.