National Services Te Paerangi works with museums, galleries, iwi (tribes), and related organisations to enhance museum services and support these to become self-sustaining.
Our initiatives include:
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National Services Te Paerangi is also working with others to develop programmes to enhance cultural tourism, to contribute to local government initiatives to support community well-being, and to facilitate strategic collaboration between culture, community, and economic development interests.
Stay in the loop with what we are doing by using our enquiry form to sign up to our e-newsletter.
Virtual Scottish Emigration Museum looks to NZ! Museums Galleries Scotland is establishing a Scottish Emigration Museum (SEM) and they need your help!
Representatives from Museums Galleries Scotland are making a special visit to New Zealand to explore collections and discuss the development of the Scottish Emmigration Museum. This is a unique virtual resource which will offer a passionate account of the Scottish emigration story, drawing on material held in archives, libraries and museums in Scotland, and Diaspora countries.
Read more about the SEM project.
NZMuseums Website Grant - 1 Year License fee
This grant is aimed at small mainly voluntary run museums that already have 200 images on NZMuseums and would like financial support to increase their online collection storage.
To recieve this grant you need to commit to uploading 300 - 2000 images to NZMuseums within 6 months of receiving the funding.
Read more about the NZMuseums Website Grant.
ATTTO and NSTP co-sharing agreement
We have recently signed an agreement with ATTTO (the Aviation, Tourism and Travel Training Organisation) to ensure staff in museums throughout New Zealand have access to more comprehensive information about the training options available to them.
Read more about the agreement.
Professional Level Training
Professional Level Training (PLT) is now being provided specifically for skilled professional staff at regional and large museums.
A Concept Development workshop was run on Friday 26 September. Other professional development training opportunities being planned are a 2-day Interpretation workshop in February 2009 and a 2-day Exhibition Design workshop in April/May 2009. Information about registering for these will be out shortly.
Read more about PLT and how you can be involved.
Museum Internship Secondment Programme
The Museum Internship and Secondment Programme (MISP) will place skilled New Zealand museum personnel from larger museums into smaller, less well-resourced New Zealand museums to enable growth and development throughout the sector. MISP will assist both parties in their respective development.
It is hoped that larger museums with professional staff will see the benefit of this project for their staff, as well as for the recipient museums, and will enable their staff to take part. Smaller, mainly volunteer-run museums with few resources are invited to apply by proposing much-needed projects at their museums.
FInd out more about MISP and how you can be involved.
The NEW NZMuseums website, www.nzmuseums.co.nz, was launched by Associate Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Mahara Okeroa on Wednesdaty 17 September. The website features more than 400 New Zealand museums and related culture and heritage organisations. It also features a Blog, News and What's on and a Museum Spotlight that changes regularly.
Read more about how you can be a part of this project.
NEW! Museums can still catalogue their collections online even though the new site has been launched. Here's how!
The Museum and Iwi Development Grants Programme supports museums, iwi, and other culture and heritage organisations in projects that are part of a long-term plan and that:
- contribute to achieving operational excellence
- improve access to and understanding of collections and taonga
- develop partnerships.
There are two funding rounds per year, and the next closing date is Friday 16 January 2009.
There are no minimum or maximum amounts, although most grants fall in the range of $2,000 to $10,000.
Read the guidelines and criteria, and see a list of successful past applications.
The Helping Hands Grants Programme is a new programme from National Services Te Paerangi that aims to help small museums carry out their responsibilities. These responsibilities may include:
- purchasing conservation materials
- contracting consultants
- accessing training or professional development opportunities.
Applications are welcome for any amount up to a maximum of $1,000. There is no cut-off date for Helping Hands Grants. Applications will be considered at any time on their merit. However, an organisation can make only one application per financial year.
Update as at 17 July 2008: The Helping Hands Grant grant programme is now open to applications. Find out more.
If you have an interesting story about what you did with your Helping Hands Grant funds let us know! We might feature your story as a case study on the website and in our e-newsletter.
We are committed to building the skills of all museum personnel and improving opportunities for professional development. Our education resources cover all aspects of museum services, and we support regional training and foster national training initiatives.
Read a FAQ sheet about our training programme.
Find out about training opportunities through our series of regional training around the country for July 2008 - June 2009. Alternatively, please view our calendar.
Read past news articles about our workshops.
Download our complete Training Needs Assessment (TNA) checklist.
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To stay in the loop with workshops in your region, use our enquiry form to sign up for our e-newsletter.
The Cultural Funding Guide is a search engine to help arts, cultural, and heritage organisations match projects with potential funders started up on 23 April 2007. The easy-to-use funding guide is hosted by NZLive.com, the smart new cultural portal that went live in September 2006.
The Cultural Funding Guide is a collaboration between National Services Te Paerangi, Creative New Zealand, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, and the Funding Information Service. Read more.
National Services Te Paerangi offers internships to recent graduates of museum studies as part of the Museum Graduate Internship Programme (MGIP). The internships are for up to three months to work on a specific project in a small, professionally staffed museum. The MGIP is being launched formally this year, the pilot having been completed and evaluated in 2007.
Two graduates have been offered MGIP internships during 2007–08.
We invite expressions of interest from museums that have projects to offer interns for the next programme (2008–09). The projects should be up to three months in duration.
Find out more about this project and how you can participate.
In partnership with TelstraClear, National Services Te Paerangi provides a freephone helpline service - 0508 NSTP HELP. The first of its kind, the purpose of this service is to provide improved access to information and advice to museums beyond the Wellington region at no cost to the caller.
This service is in response to the museum sector requesting more direct contact with National Services Te Paerangi staff as reported in the Triennial Review completed in December 2005. While we cannot guarantee that there will be someone staffing the phone at all times due to the limited capacity of the team, we aim to return all calls made within the next working day.
By having an information kit at hand, the team will be able to act as a broker for information and respond quickly and efficiently to the needs of museums New Zealand wide. We would like to help you in these areas:
- Governance, Management & Planning
- Care of Collections and Taonga
- Public programmes (including exhibitions)
- Relationships with communities
So, if you have any queries regarding these or any other matters concerning your museum, please do not hesitate to give us a call on TelstraClear 0508 NSTP HELP (0508 678 743). While we may not have all the answers, we will be able to point you in the right direction so we hope to hear from you soon!
The New Zealand Museums Standards Scheme helps you assess how your museum is currently doing, by reviewing your practices against a set of standards. You can see where you’re doing well, and identify areas you’d like to improve on.
Find out more about the Scheme.