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Students with the Kerikeri-based Impact Northland Trust enjoyed a taste of fishing the traditional way recently using a stone fish trap that is hundreds of years old.
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As part of Wellington Heritage Week, the pre-1900s heritage garden at Glenside’s restored Halfway House is open to the public for a delightful spring event.
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Who used to live in your house? Who used the land before? How was the house laid out originally? What changes and alterations have been made over time?
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On Suffrage Day 19 September 2021, Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga partnered with the National Council of Women – Te Kanuihera Wahine O Aotearoa at the National Memorial Event.
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Movement might be restricted right now, but with the Postcards from the Past online exhibition you can time travel into Ōtautahi Christchurch’s past.
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The iconic Carin Wilson seats being saved from Wellington’s Central Library have caught media attention. Senior Heritage Listing Advisor, Kerryn Pollock, talks to Wilson about the story behind them.
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A wide variety of talks, places and stories await in this year’s Wellington Heritage Week which runs from Monday 25 October to Sunday 31 October throughout the capital, the Hutt Valley, Porirua and the Kapiti Coast.
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A fitting way to celebrate Suffrage Week, the Margaret Stoddart exhibition opened to the public on September 22 and will run until December 12.
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Hayes Homestead celebrates 100 years of Kiwi engineering and ingenuity, including what must have been one of the first whole-home audio systems in New Zealand.
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Whanganui District Councillor and Whanganui Regional Heritage Trust member, Helen Craig, says the Trust is now ready to engage with Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga staff on the best options for the restoration of the former Māori Land Court building in Whanganui.
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Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga’s Dunedin staff partnership with Dunedin City Council’s Heritage Fund has led to excellent outcomes for heritage.
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Three items of 19th century German furniture with links to one of the darker periods of New Zealand’s early social history are being offered to a museum or other appropriate heritage organisation.
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Fyffe House in Kaikōura is reopening for the spring, welcoming visitors into a freshly replastered interior.
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Taranaki’s long and varied history will come under close public scrutiny in a bid to have residents think more about their past, and its relevance now and into the future.
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Rawene’s historic Methodist church has been reduced to its bare bones – or more accurately its bare timbers – as part of an ambitious programme of work that will see it restored and repurposed as an artist’s retreat.
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With the country now in lockdown, the timing seems right for this story of a virtual tour through Wellington’s Old Government Buildings, recently enjoyed by 35 residents of the Ryman-Bob Scott Retirement Village in Petone.
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As the North Canterbury Transport Infrastructure Recovery (NCTIR) project winds up, it’s a chance to reflect on the extensive and ground-breaking archaeological monitoring and investigations that accompanied the repair and stabilisation of roads, rockfaces and coastal sites.
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Terawhiti Station is offering goldfields tours to the public. If you own an AWD or 4WD vehicle and would like to visit the historic goldfield sites at Terawhiti Station, one of New Zealand’s oldest and largest sheep stations, join Heritage New Zealand staff and tour guides on Saturday 2 October. A backup day, if wet, has been arranged for Saturday 16 October.
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After years of work, Dunedin’s historic ‘Corduroy Causeway’ is now open for viewing.
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Named after the kahikatea forest that once towered over the region, Te Rauwa is a heritage and culture study of Wairoa’s town centre and was recently launched at the Wairoa Museum.
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Whanganui District Council is seeking submissions on the future of their heritage buildings and places.
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Sixty people, including descendants of Thomas Fountaine, known as the Father of Woodville, gathered recently to commemorate his gifting of Fountaine Square to the town in 1896 as part of a ten-year programme to bring the history of Woodville to its people.
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“A craftsman who worked on the great cathedrals in Europe could walk onto a job now and the tools would be virtually the same,” says Totara Estate stonemason, Allan Ward.
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Through the joint efforts of the landowners, forestry company Farman Turkington, Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga, archaeologists and iwi, one of Wairarapa’s most significant Maōri heritage sites has been restored.
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The heritage importance of a church that has been at the heart of the Kaihū Valley community for over 120 years has been formally recognised by Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga.
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When Anthea Hatfield and Bernice Frost started out on their conservation project to give their 1911 former bank building a new life as an art gallery, little did they know it would lead to a heritage award.
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How long has lithic work been done in Aotearoa New Zealand, and what does it tell us? Northland’s professional quarry workers learn about the long history of stone use with Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Northland Manager, Bill Edwards.
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Through the cold winter months, Kate Sheppard House is keeping things warm with audiences enjoying afternoon tea and cosy talks from an interesting line up of guests in front the fireplace every Sunday afternoon.
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DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 3 SEPTEMBER.
Applications are now open for twenty grants of up to $25 000 for iwi, hapū and hāpori Māori projects supporting revitalisation of vulnerable mātauranga Māori.
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New sites are regularly added to the New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero. Since May, we’ve had these additions.
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Whanganui will celebrate Heritage Month from 1 to 26 September with a special transport theme this year.
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The Judith Binney Trust is pleased to announce that applications for the 2022 Judith Binney Fellowship and Writing Awards are open. The deadline for applications is 5pm on Sunday 22 August 2021.
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The listing of Waiuta as a Category 1 historic place on the New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero was announced at the 70th anniversary of the closure of the mine at Waiuta.
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Three roadside drovers’ huts have been nominated in Hawkes’ Bay for heritage listing by the Hastings District Council.
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A Kerikeri engineering firm has used state-of-the-art 3D laser scanning technology to create a high-precision model of New Zealand’s oldest stone building – and the results are amazing.
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An exhibition telling the story of an old Kiwi shearing shed practice, which produced some of the country’s earliest export brands that represented New Zealand internationally, is on at Highwic from June 16 until August 22.
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Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga has begun work in recognising the LGBTTFQI+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, takatāpui, fa’afāfine, queer and intersex) stories of many of its listed sites, starting with 288 Cuba Street, once the home of Carmen’s Curios.
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The new owners of one of Palmerston North’s most prominent heritage buildings, the former Grand Hotel on the corner of The Square, have plans to restore it to former glory.
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Pompallier Mission in Russell welcomes Delphine Moise-Elise as its new Property Lead.
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Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga acknowledges the work of three outstanding New Zealanders who received Queen’s Birthday Honours: David Cull, Margaret Hopkins and Bruce Bold.
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A transformation of Kate and Walter Sheppard’s 1888 Kauri villa has won Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga the Supreme Heritage Award at the Box 112 Canterbury Heritage Awards.
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The organ at Old St Paul's has been resounding with song for many decades now. Learn a little about its history, if you're curious.
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There has been a flurry of activity in the membership team over the last few months as we’ve been busy trying to improve your experience with us as a member.
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“When archaeology and local knowledge come together they tell a beautiful story”.(Sandra Heihei)
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You’ve seen wonders around the world, but have you seen them in your own backyard? Do you know your heritage? This Waitangi Day we’re opening the doors of some of our Heritage places for free for you to discover the heritage wonders of Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Explore the Diamond Harbour Sports Ground at Stoddart Point in Canterbury and you may come across two straight terraces in a gully. These unassuming structures are the remains of two former weirs built by early pākehā settler, Mark Stoddart. In 1862, Stoddart built the weirs to create a pond as a reliable water supply for his stock and horticultural business.
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The Friends of Carnegie have decided not to continue with their plan to renovate the Category 2 historic listed building in Dannevirke and return it to public use.
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Marlborough Lines has agreed to sponsor the Marlborough Heritage Trust’s education programme for schools to the value of $20,000 a year for five years.
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A recent workshop provided an opportunity for heritage supporters to help with a restoration project at the Old Government Buildings in Wellington and to learn some of the traditional skills needed to repair and restore the sash windows.
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St John’s in the City, Wellington, the Category 1 listed Presbyterian Church, has celebrated its reopening after nearly two years of earthquake strengthening.
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In early July, a two-sided panel was unveiled on Tasman Street, Nelson, including information about the history of The Wood and, in particular, the contributions made by members of the Italian community.
The panel, jointly funded by the Nelson City Council and Nelson Civic Trust, included excerpts from Karen Stade and Karen Price’s history of the Italian community in Nelson – Pasta, Prayer and Promise.
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To commemorate ANZAC Day we are looking at some of New Zealand's war memorials.
War memorials come in all shapes and sizes in New Zealand, and represent all sorts of stories of bravery and grit. Here are just a few...
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If your appetite for New Zealand archaeology has been whetted over Archaeology Week, we have some further recommendations for your viewing and reading.
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We've put together a brilliant Summer of wonder itinerary. Hop in the car with friends and family, pack the chilly bin and head to Northland.
