OTAGO MUSEUM

OUTCOMES
INDICATORS
PERFORMANCE MEASURES
ENGAGING OUR COMMUNITY
ACHIEVED OR NOT ACHIEVED
PERFORMANCE STATUS
47
Work with community groups,
including Pacific Island groups,
art societies, cultural groups,
literary groups and special
interest groups
Commentary of working with other
key community stakeholders
ACHIEVED:
Collaborations and
relationships developed across,
cultural groups and institutions
and key community groups;
art societies; Pasifika and
Māori groups; artists; literacy
groups
Some of the new relationships forged with groups include:
• Art societies – Head of Design has worked with closely with seven School of Design students
and local artists, and scientists from the University of Otago, to stage the Art and Light
Exhibition in the H D Skinner Annex, opening 14 August 2015.
• Discussions began in May 2015 with two well-known Dunedin photographers to host an
exhibition called Faces of South D in the H D Skinner Annex.
• Pacific Island Groups – development of the Creative Pasifika exhibition, workshops and
concert in 2014/15.
• Cultural groups – korowai weaving has become a regular event in the Museum, with skilled
teachers demonstrating and encouraging participation in the creation of flax and featherbased
crafts used to make traditional Māori cloaks.
• This year the Museum used the inflatable Starlab to tell Pūaka Matariki stories and folklore.
• Midwinter Carnival organisation held two lantern-making events in the Atrium on 6 June
2015 with over 300 children and 100 adults taking part.
• Literary groups were engaged through the Dunedin Public Libraries’ Summer Reading
Programme which ran through the 2014–15 Christmas school holidays.