The blog is where we'll post news, updates, information about objects in our collection, #betterworkstories, profiles of staff members and visitors, pictures and videos, and really anything we think you'd find interesting. We hope you enjoy.
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Striking a Balance – Logan and Pagemarie Boyd
Leading up to Climate Change – Striking a Balance, Otago Museum Blog is being taken over by the student-creators of the exhibition, highlighting their passions for communicating various issues caused by the effects of climate change.
A Jacket Made in France
A new addition to the Museum’s dress collection unexpectedly involves the story of the first male staff member in the then Home Science Department, University of Otago; a dashing 24-year-old Frenchman named Monsieur Rene Thevenot. Our recently acquired garment is a stylish New Look jacket, sewn by Patricia Coleman in 1954, near the end of a year’s study in Europe. Image 1 blog2 Jacket made by Patricia Coleman in Vichy, France, in 1954. G2020.15 Gift of University of Otago; Otago Museum Collection. Photograph by Jen Copedo It has a...
Research Insights Q & A – Luna Thomas
What is your place of study? I am a PhD student at the University of Otago in the zoology department. I am studying the mating behaviour of the endemic stag beetle Geodorcus helmsi. Tell us about your visit My visit was fascinating! The University of Otago has a large number of stag beetles in their collection! I was able to get localities off of them, which will allow me to get a better picture of their range. I was also able to get a better understanding of the variation in the morphology across this...
Striking a Balance – Rose Oats
Leading up to Climate Change – Striking a Balance, Otago Museum Blog is being taken over by the student-creators of the exhibition, highlighting their passions for communicating various issues caused by the effects of climate change.
SEPTEMBER (MAHURU) SKY GUIDE
Welcome to the Sky Guide, your monthly guide to what's happening in the heavens!
Striking a Balance – Jeremy Meikle
Leading up to Climate Change – Striking a Balance, Otago Museum Blog is being taken over by the student-creators of the exhibition, highlighting their passions for communicating various issues caused by the effects of climate change.
Striking a Balance – Sarah Al-Balushi
Leading up to Climate Change – Striking a Balance, Otago Museum Blog has been taken over by the student-creators of the exhibition, highlighting their passions for communicating various issues caused by climate change.
The Science Journeys Project
The Science Journeys team aim to communicate the urgency and inequality of climate change impacts in their upcoming exhibition.
AUGUST (HERE-TURI-KŌKĀ) SKY GUIDE
Welcome to the Sky Guide, your monthly guide to what's happening in the heavens!
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