Blog | Mercury Bay Museum, Whitianga

When Toawaka Met Cook

Jun 20, 2019 | Museum Events

We are so excited to be hosting this event this weekend!! Come in, purchase a book, get it signed and then have a look around the museum!! See you Saturday!!

My visit to Whenuakite Country Kids – May 2019In May, I visited Whenuakite Country Kids to present our ‘Museum in a box’ Education programme called ‘Little Ship - Big Minds’. This programme delivers information to the children about the HMB Endeavour and some of the...

May 2019 Overview

Jun 5, 2019 | Manager Update

Wow, the roadworks are nearly complete outside the Museum and our new driveway entrance is looking fab. Thanks to Lissa and the Dempsey Wood team – you have made this process so easy! Inside the museum things are moving along too. We recently held a training session...

Te Mahutatanga o Takero – Mercury Rising

May 24, 2019 | Events, Museum Events, Special Events

1 – 12 November 2019
This year almost exactly 250 years to the day after Charles Green an astronomer who arrived in Aotearoa on Captain Cook’s first voyage pointed his telescope skywards to

A Mystery to Solve!

May 8, 2019 | Museum Articles

Summer has now left us and the mornings are a lot cooler. The Museum is now in its winter hours – so closed Monday’s (except for Queen’s Birthday) and 10am-4pm Tuesday to Sunday. Thank you to all who visited over the summer break. It was great to see so many new...

An Exciting Find

Mar 19, 2019 | Museum Articles

The old water tank of the Mercury Bay Dairy factory (the building that is now the Mercury Bay Museum) is home to a substantial collection of historical maps, records, books containing financial transactions and novels - many more than a century old. Mercury Bay Museum...

When the Regional Collections Advisor comes to visit

Mar 8, 2019 | Museum Articles

When our Regional Collections Advisor – Kate, calls and says that she is coming to visit and to find her some interesting objects to look at it - we put our thinking caps on. While looking through the collection objects for the redevelopment of the HMS Buffalo exhibit...