facing the future: local, global and pacific possibilities...zealand museum colleagues will be there...

Facing the Future: Local, Global and Pacific Possibilities

15 - 19 May 2016

Aotea Centre50 Mayoral Drive, Auckland

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Thank you to our MA16 sponsors:

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Contents

Pōwhiri - Welcome ritual of encounterWelcome to conference - Zara StanhopeConference ProgrammeMuseums Aotearoa WelcomeMuseums Australia WelcomeA message from Vernon SystemsKeynote SpeakersMonday 16 MayTuesday 17 MayWednesday 18 MayKaitiaki / Indigenous HuiGeneral Conference InformationAotea Centre LayoutAuckland Map of MuseumsPostersSponsorsExhibitorsCommonly used Māori words

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Cover: Lisa Reihana, in Pursuit of Venus [infected], 2015, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the Patrons of Auckland Art Gallery, 2014 (still from panoramic video interpretation of 1804 French scenic wallpaper Les Sauvages De La Mer Pacifique)

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Pōwhiri – Welcome ritual of encounter

Museums Australasia delegates will be welcomed to the conference on Monday morning with a pōwhiri (a welcome ritual of encounter) from Ngāti Whātua - tangata whenua (hosts) and local iwi (tribes) of Tāmaki Herenga Waka (Auckland). We will assemble at the entrance to the Aotea Centre and wait for the karanga (call of welcome). A kaikaranga (female caller) will respond to the call on our behalf as manuhiri (visitors), following which we will move into the venue, led by the women. Tangata whenua will call and guide us in to be seated before whaikōrero (speeches). Speakers from each side will be supported by waiata (song). At the conclusion of the speeches, there will be harirū (shake hands) and hongi (press noses) before we join together for morning tea. Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland) museum colleagues and other Aotearoa New Zealand museum colleagues will be there to guide delegates if it’s your first experience of a pōwhiri. For more information about marae protocol and pōwhiri, please go to:http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/marae-protocol-te-kawa-o-te-marae/page-1 Pōwhiri are traditionally held on the marae (meeting grounds) although tangata whenua can engage all spaces for ceremonial purposes as kaitiaki (guardians) across their ancestral landscape. Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei home fires are centred around the Ōrākei Marae (10 minutes from Auckland CBD). The Kaitiaki Indigenous Hui will be held at Ōrākei Marae following the conference on Thursday 19 May 2016. For more information about Ōrākei Marae, please go to: http://www.wakamaori.co.nz/maori-culture/marae/orakei-marae/

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Welcome to Conference

The planning of this conference programming began with a provocation, Robert R Janes’ challenge to museums to address pressing societal issues and to add social and cultural value now and in the future. As a platform for dialogue and discussion between Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia this event is a unique opportunity to consider the ways that museums are aiming to be of social, cultural and ecological value from perspectives across our region.

A large interest in the themes of kaitiakitanga (custodianship), hāngaitanga (relevance), tūranga (place) and mātauranga/tikanga (knowledge/practice) was evident from the volume of speaker proposals received. These evidenced a keen interest in museums and galleries as spaces where governance and custodianship, indigenous and cultural agency, and connections with local communities are valued and being explored and re-evaluated in many ways. The final programme offers manydifferent voices and multiple forums for discussion. We welcome all perspectives on the strategies, operations and capabilities of our institutions and the differences or shared experiences between Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.

A key aim of the conference is to create stronger professional relations as well as shared knowledge in order to begin to co-create future social museums in this region that recognise the importance of peoples, diversity, locality, histories, collections and professional disciplines.

Zara StanhopeChair, Programming Committee

Auckland War Memorial Museum

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Saturday 14 May

PRE-CONFERENCE

9.00 - 5.00 Digital AcademyAuckland War Memorial Museum

9.00 - 5.00 Graduate Research SymposiumFale Pasifika, University of Auckland

Sunday 15 May

PRE-CONFERENCE

8.30 - 4.30 Emerging Museum Professionals Mini-conferenceNZ Maritime Museum

12.00 - 2.00 Museums Australia National Council Auckland Art Gallery

1.30 - 3.00 Museum Educators: Waka - Exploring Waka KaupapaNZ Maritime Museum

1.00 - 4.00 TENNZ: Touring Exhibitions NetworkCropper House, MOTAT

3.00 - 4.00 Joint Museums Aotearoa Board / Australia Council HuiAuckland Art Gallery

5.00 - 6.00 Museums Aotearoa AGM NZ Maritime Museum

Evening Network Dinners - various venues

Conference Programme

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Monday 16 May

LEADING: PURPOSE AND STRATEGY

7.30 Registration Open

8.45 Delegates assemble in Aotea Square

9.15 - 10.00 Pōwhiri / welcome

10.00 - 10.45 Morning Tea

10.45 – 11.30 KEYNOTE: Moana JacksonContext - the evolving story of Te Tiriti o WaitangiKEYNOTE: David Garneau From Colonial trophy case to non-Colonial keeping-house

Chaired Q&A / Discussion

11.30 - 12.15

12.15 - 12.30

12.30 - 1.30 Lunch - Trade Exhibition

1.30 - 2.30 PLENARY - Provocations: Robert Janes, Elizabeth Merritt, Daryl Karp, Lisa Reihana, Peter White, Albert Refiti Future focus and sustainability for museums

2.30 - 3.15 PARALLEL SESSIONS

M3-B1 M3-B2 M3-B3 M3-B4 M3-B5 M3-B6

Museums in the world Papers

Public value – can, do and should museums change lives? Panel

Digital critique – from politeness to collegiate learningWorkshop

New futures through indigenous pathways – a hub & spoke approach in central Australia Panel

Collections and strategy 1 - animating collections through digital discoveryPapers

Connectivities – the porous museumPapers

3.15 - 3.45 Afternoon Tea


M4-A1 M4-A2 M4-A3 M4-A4 M4-A5 M4-A6

Cultures and responsibilitiesPK + Cafe

Public value – imagining a new kind of museumPanel

Digital futuresPanel

Museums of the future –through Indigenous lenses of Australia and the PacificPanel

Collections and strategy 2 – tackling the tangiblePapers

Connectivities – encountering stories & objects Panel

4.45 - 5.30 KEYNOTE: Dawn CaseyA conversation about museums and social capital

5.45 Buses depart Aotea Centre to MOTAT

6.15 Welcome Reception - MOTAT

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Tuesday 17 May

ENACTING: COMMUNITIES AND COLLECTIONS


7.15 - 8.45 Emerging Museum Professionals Career Cafe (ticketed)

9.00 - 9.45 KEYNOTE: Elizabeth MerrittThe Ten Thousand Year Museum

Chaired Q&A / Discussion9.45 - 10.00


T1-B1 T1-B2 T1-B3 T1-B4 T1-B5 T1-B6

Story telling, narratives of the now Panel

Visitor insights & analytics Panel

Toward the future trans- culturationPanel

The future is participatory Papers

Mana taongaPanel

Making it differentShort papers



T2-1 T2-2 T2-3 T2-4 T2-5 T2-6

New ways of story telling PK + Cafe

Including everyonePapers

Working togetherPapers

Networking the communityPK + Cafe

Ethics, research, institutionsPapers

What’s the story? Narrative, show, tell, argueShort Papers

1.00 - 2.00 Lunch - Trade Exhibition & Posters

1.30 Buses depart Aotea Centre to offsite visits

2.00 - 5.00 ONSITE SESSIONS & OFFSITE VISITS

T4-1 T3-2 T3-3 T3-4 T3-5 T3-6

Future museum at Auckland MuseumPapers, Auckland Museum - offsite

Design thinking for museums is fun and easy Workshop onsite

Strategies for the socially relevant art museumsPanel ,Auckland Art Gallery - offsite

Technology - does it work for our stories? Panel onsite

EMP Stories & Can museums change the world PK onsite

Copyright 2.0Workshop onsite

T5-3 T5-4 T5-5 T5-6

MOTAT offsite storage tourVisit - offsite

Te Toi Uku (Portage Ceramics Trust)Visit - offsite

Mangere Arts Centre & Fresh Gallery OtaraVisit - offsite

Wallace Arts Trust at Pah HomesteadVisit - offsite

5.00 Buses depart offsite visits to Aotea Centre

6.30 Buses depart Aotea Centre to Auckland War Memorial Museum

7.00 Conference Dinner - Auckland War Memorial Museum

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Tuesday 17 May

ENACTING: COMMUNITIES AND COLLECTIONS


7.15 - 8.45 Emerging Museum Professionals Career Cafe (ticketed)

9.00 - 9.45 KEYNOTE: Elizabeth MerrittThe Ten Thousand Year Museum

Chaired Q&A / Discussion9.45 - 10.00


T1-B1 T1-B2 T1-B3 T1-B4 T1-B5 T1-B6

Story telling, narratives of the now Panel

Visitor insights & analytics Panel

Toward the future trans- culturationPanel

The future is participatory Papers

Mana taongaPanel

Making it differentShort papers



T2-1 T2-2 T2-3 T2-4 T2-5 T2-6

New ways of story telling PK + Cafe

Including everyonePapers

Working togetherPapers

Networking the communityPK + Cafe

Ethics, research, institutionsPapers

What’s the story? Narrative, show, tell, argueShort Papers


1.30 Buses depart Aotea Centre to offsite visits

2.00 - 5.00 ONSITE SESSIONS & OFFSITE VISITS

T4-1 T3-2 T3-3 T3-4 T3-5 T3-6

Future museum at Auckland MuseumPapers, Auckland Museum - offsite

Design thinking for museums is fun and easy Workshop onsite

Strategies for the socially relevant art museumsPanel ,Auckland Art Gallery - offsite

Technology - does it work for our stories? Panel onsite

EMP Stories & Can museums change the world PK onsite

Copyright 2.0Workshop onsite

T5-3 T5-4 T5-5 T5-6

MOTAT offsite storage tourVisit - offsite

Te Toi Uku (Portage Ceramics Trust)Visit - offsite

Mangere Arts Centre & Fresh Gallery OtaraVisit - offsite

Wallace Arts Trust at Pah HomesteadVisit - offsite

5.00 Buses depart offsite visits to Aotea Centre

6.30 Buses depart Aotea Centre to Auckland War Memorial Museum

7.00 Conference Dinner - Auckland War Memorial Museum

Wednesday 18 May

ENABLING: STRUCTURES, POLICIES AND OPERATIONS


9.00 - 9.15 PLENARY: The Hon Maggie Barry, NZ Minister for the Arts, Culture & HeritageKEYNOTE: Boon Hui TanRelevance and trust - locally and globally

Chaired Q&A / Discussion

9.15 – 9.50

9.50 - 10.15


10.45 -11.45 PARALLEL SESSIONS

W3-1 W3-2 W3-3 W3-4 W3-5 W3-6

Facing the future - the new museum educatorPanel

Excellence in operations - it’s all about the customerPanel

Issues of disaster preparedness and response in NZ & the Asia PacificPanel

Strengthening our sector - leading and developing people for the futurePanel

Collections research in a connected worldPanel

Commemorations?Panel

3.33 - 3.30 Afternoon Tea

3.30 - 4.30 PLENARY - PANELFuture Possibilities and Leading the Journey

4.30 - 5.00 POROAKI / CLOSE: Tangata Whenua

5.15 - 8.30 Awards Ceremony - Aotea Centre

W2-A1 W2-A2 W2-A3 W2-A4 W2-A5 W2-A6 W2-A7

Repatriation & accessPapers

Operational museum leadership – a co-learning spaceWorkshop 2hrs

Rethinking citizen sciencePapers

Connecting & re-visioning communitiesPanel

Visitor research for exhibition development

Panel

Taking risksPK & Papers2hrs

Q&A with Robert Janes Panel


W2-B1 W2-B3 W2-B4 W2-B5

Repatriation & communityPanel

New light on science collectionsPanel

Does consensus stifle innovation?Panel

Revitalising & renewing two of NZ’s iconic museums Papers



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Thursday 19 May

POST-CONFERENCE

9.00 - 4.00 CAMD Auckland War Memorial Museum

9.00 - 11.00 Masterclass: Award Winning WaysAuckland Art Gallery

Kaitiaki/Indigenous Hui (2 days at Ōrākei Marae)

OPTIONS Visits and tours to museums, galleries and places of interest - various venues

Auckland Art Gallery

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New Zealand Maritime Museum

MOTAT, Get Smart Exhibition

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Museums AotearoaNau mai, haere mai – welcome!

On behalf of the members of Museums Aotearoa it is my pleasure to extend warm Pacific greetings to delegates for this, the first ever, conference of Australasian museums. On behalf of the Mayor, Councillors and peoples of the beautiful city of Tāmaki Makaurau – Auckland – I welcome in particular our colleagues from across the Tasman and those from elsewhere in Aotearoa New Zealand. I acknowledge especially the spontaneous manaakitanga – generosity – of Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei who have so kindly offered to provide their own distinctive embrace at the very outset of the conference.

Regardless of nationality, cultural identity or professional background, as museum people our aim is to collaborate to grow our capacity as individuals and organisations so we can better serve our communities and deliver public value. What better way to do this than to host an exchange of ideas and insights; and to do so in the company of our closest allies and nearest professional neighbours?

The conference theme will enable us to explore the issues that face us and to understand the contexts that we work within on both sides of the Tasman. In a constantly changing world we face a fascinating array of fresh possibilities. Our organisations are seeking to act more as ‘sharers’ than ‘keepers’; not as owners, but as a kaitiaki – a guardian – on behalf of the people. Among innovations, our digital progress is spectacularly extending our reach and influence.

Together, we are opening ways for museums to think differently, to re-imagine their influence and to relinquish conventionality. We don’t all have to agree or follow the same path. Indeed, disagreement is an important part of developing better understandings; and the conference environment enables these conversations to be respectful across professions, peoples and communities.

In hosting MA16 Museums Australasia, Museums Aotearoa has drawn on the resources of many people. We acknowledge the enormous contribution of Auckland-based museums and galleries and their teams. The reward for their efforts is the wonderful opportunity to share Auckland and our own experiences with our international visitors – and to learn from them in turn.

It is fitting to close with a Māori whakataukī– a proverb – that speaks to cooperation and the combination of resources to get ahead:

Naku te rourou nau te rourou ka ora ai te iwiWith your basket and my basket the people will live

I wish everyone a stimulating, inspiring and enjoyable conference. May the positive energy that we create be almost tangible!

Ka kite anō,Roy Clare CBEChair, Museums Aotearoa BoardDirector, Tāmaki Paenga Hira – Auckland War Memorial Museum

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Museums Australia

New Zealand and Australia have so much in common in the museum, gallery and cultural collections spheres that it’s very surprising that we haven’t got together more often.

Both countries share the same heritage around the role and importance of museums and galleries. Both countries have vibrant and resilient, but very different first peoples. We have the same geo-political place in the world, with strong links through the South Pacific and Asia. We face the same ambivalence of our governments towards the cultural sector.

This joint conference gives us the opportunity to share some of that joint heritage, explore our place in the world and look at the opportunities and threats ahead of us. We have the chance to see where our industry is going, what the key influences are, and to shape that future to benefit the whole community. In particular the joint conference is a chance to learn from our three groups of first peoples, Māori, Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders, and to strengthen links between those first peoples, links that began at the earliest days of white invasion and settlement.

We will also explore the most transformative change that our sector has ever seen, the revolution that is the digital world. And we can celebrate the fact that as the world getsmore virtual, it’s clear that people also want to see and touch the real. The virtual and the real are a compelling yin and yang.

A good conference is a great chance to explore influences, and influencers, from outside our sector. We also get to celebrate innovation, agility and excellence.

This conference would not have happened without the hard work of people on organising committees on both sides of the Tasman. On behalf of Museums Australia I want to thank those people. In particular I want to thank Alex Marsden of Museums Australia and Phillipa Tocker of Museums Aotearoa. Their drive, dedication, and patience, have done more to bring this conference about than anyone else.

Conferences are made up of people. Get into it and meet those people, exchange ideas,make contacts and expand networks.

But above all, enjoy yourself!

Frank Howarth

National President, Museums Australia

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Manage Collections. Create Connections.Collections management software for everyone, from historical societies to multi-site national organisations.

Catalogue and share collections with ehive.com, our simple to use web-based system.

CONTACT US

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Keynote Speaker

Moana Jackson Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Porou

Moana Jackson has spent his legal career specialising in Te Tiriti o Waitangi and indigenous rights. In 1987, he co-founded Ngā Kaiwhakamarama i Ngā Ture the Māori Legal Service for which he remains the director as well as lecturing in the Māori Laws and Philosophy degree at Te Wānanga o Raukawa.

He has also worked extensively overseas on international indigenous issues, particularly the drafting of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. He was a judge on the International Tribunal of Indigenous Rights in Hawaii in 1993 and again in Canada in 1995. He was also counsel for the Bougainville Interim Government during the Bougainville peace process.

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David Garneau Métis

David Garneau is Associate Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. His practice includes curation, critical writing, painting, performance art, and video. He is most interested in issues of nature and culture, metaphysics and materialism, contemporary Indigenous identities and display.

Garneau is currently working on curatorial and writing projects featuring contemporary Indigenous art in Canada and Australia, and is part of a five-year, SSHRC funded curatorial research project, “Creative Conciliation,” that tackles art after the Apology and the report on Indian Residential Schools.

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Keynote Speaker

Elizabeth Merritt

Elizabeth Merritt is the Founding Director, Center for the Future of Museums and Vice President, Strategic Foresight, American Alliance of Museums (AAM). Before being appointed CFM’s first director, Elizabeth led the Excellence Programs at AAM—Accreditation, Museum Assessment and Peer Review—as well as the association’s research activities. Her areas of expertise include futures studies, museum standards and best practices, ethics, collections management and planning, and assessment of nonprofit performance.

Her books include National Standards and Best Practices for U.S. Museums and the AAM Guide to Collections Planning.

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Dawn Casey, PSM FAHA

Dawn Casey has previously held the positions of the Director of the National Museum of Australia and the Western Australian and Powerhouse Museums. Dr Casey’s career includes a number of key executive positions in the Public Sector in areas including Indigenous Affairs, Cultural Heritage and Overseas Aid and Development. Previous board appointments include Member of the Charles Sturt, Western Australia and Canberra University Councils, Member of the Queensland Design Council, Executive Member of the Australasian Council of Museum Directors, Chairperson of the Indigenous Business Australia and Indigenous Land Corporation, Lead Member of the Global Environment Facility (International) and Member Development Board for Commonwealth Countries (International).

Dawn Casey is a descendant of the Tagalaka clan group from around Croydon, North Queensland. Dawn Casey has been awarded three Honorary Doctorates (QLD Charles Sturt, QLD and Macquarie), Commonwealth Government’s Public Service Medal (PSM), Australian Government’s Centenary Medal, Three Australia Day Public Service Medals, The Australian Institute of Architects’ Glem Cummings Award and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

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Keynote Speaker

Boon Hui Tan

Boon Hui Tan is the former Director of the Singapore Art Museum and is currently Assistant Chief Executive (Museums and Programs) of the National Heritage Board of Singapore, where he is responsible for overarching exhibitions, programs and outreach strategies and collaborations.

In December 2015 he will take up the position of Vice-President, Global Arts and Cultural Programs and Director of the Asian Society Museum in New York. There he will lead the Asia Society’s global arts and cultural activities, including cinema, performing arts and literature, as well as oversee the museum’s acclaimed art collections, exhibitions and programs.

Boon Hui will draw on Asia/Pacific perspectives to discuss the importance of championing local cultures in museums, along with participating in panels on exploring global trends and challenges.

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Robert R. Janes

Robert R. Janes is an independent scholar and served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship from 2003 to 2014. He is also a visiting research fellow at the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester (United Kingdom).

Janes has devoted his career to championing museums as important social institutions that are capable of making a difference in the lives of individuals and their communities. He began his career as an archaeologist in Canada’s remote Northwest Territories and continues to work with Canada’s indigenous peoples.

His latest book is Museums without Borders (2016) – a collection of nearly 40 years of his writing.

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Monday 16 MayLeading: Purpose & Strategy

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Registration OpensDelegates assemble in Aotea SquarePōwhiri / welcomeMorning TeaKeynote: Moana JacksonKeynote: David GarneauChaired Q&A / DiscussionLunch - Trade ExhibitionPlenary: ProvocationsParallel Sessions - M3Afternoon TeaParallel Sessions - M4Keynote: Dawn CaseyBuses depart Aotea Centre to MOTATWelcome Reception - MOTAT

Auckland War Memorial Museum - Taku TāmakiAuckland Stories - Collect and Connect

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Keynote

Moana Jackson Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Porou

Moana Jackson has spent his legal career specialising in Te Tiriti o Waitangi and indigenous rights. In 1987, he co-founded Ngā Kaiwhakamarama i Ngā Ture the Māori Legal Service for which he remains the director as well as lecturing in the Māori Laws and Philosophy degree at Te Wānanga o Raukawa.

He has also worked extensively overseas on international indigenous issues, particularly the drafting of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. He was a judge on the International Tribunal of Indigenous Rights in Hawaii in 1993 and again in Canada in 1995. He was also counsel for the Bougainville Interim Government during the Bougainville peace process.

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Keynote

David GarneauMétisUniversity of ReginaSponsored by Gordon Darling Foundation

From Colonial Trophy Case to Non-Colonial Keeping House

Increasingly, we Indigenous people are taking control of our cultural belongings,keeping them in sovereign display territories, remembering and expanding ourunderstanding of what and how these things mean. Even so, not everything will bereturned to us, and some things may be better off where they are—if not how theyare. This paper considers the heritage museum as it transitions from colonial trophycase to non-colonial keeping house through the process called Indigenization.

In the land now known as Canada, First Nations people signed treaties withthe Settlers with the understanding that they were not ceding territory butsharing it. While the Treaties have been incompletely honoured by the state, theirconciliatory intent guides us still. Settlers are awakening to the idea that countryis more than property, and that treating it as commodity is edging us all towardenvironmental calamity. Just as territory is not reducible to property, not all thingsare things alone. This paper describes how the collection and display of Indigenousbelongings depend upon cultural narratives, and how those stories are shifting. TheIndigenous turn features the decline of ‘humanist’ and ‘anthropological’ narrativesand the return of Indigenous ones, but also the emergence of the Indigenous as anew category of being Aboriginal.

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Plenary: Provocations

Provocations – Future focus and sustainability for museums

Each presenter will offer a perspective on future possibilities for museums and galleries from their own experience and thinking, for delegates to consider over the course of the conference.

Robert Janes, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, Museum Management and Curatorship Journal Daryl Karp, Director, Museum of Australian Democracy Elizabeth Merritt, Founding Director, Center for the Future of Museums and Vice President, Strategic Foresight, American Alliance of Museums Albert Refiti, Senior Lecturer, Spatial Design, AUT University Lisa Reihana, Ngāpuhi, Ngati Hine, Ngāi Tu, Artist Peter White, Aboriginal Arts And Cultural Development Consultant

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Parallel Sessions - M3

M3-B1 Museums in the world - PAPERSChair: Boon Hui Tan

Building connections through collections - potential futures for the cultural collections held by performing arts centre in the Asia-Pacific regionDr Steven Tonkin, Curator (Contemporary & Live Art), Arts Centre Melbourne

International relations & arts management - does recent foreign policy in arts & culture align domesticallyKerri Dickfos, Visitor Experience Manager, Art Gallery of Western Australia

The museum at the lowest Place on earth - the little museum with a big missionPenelope Edwell, Masters Research Student/Museum Consultant, Australian Defence Force Academy/ Hellenic Society for Near Eastern Studies

M3-B2 Public value: can, do and should museums change lives? - PANELChair: Ken Gorbey

Museums change lives - can they, do they, should they - and what happens if they do?Alec Coles, CEO, Western Australian MuseumDaryl Karp, Director, Museum of Australian Democracy Old Parliament HouseDr Mathew Trinca, Director, Western Australian Museum

M3-B3 Digital critique: from politeness to collegiate learning - WORKSHOPSPONSOR: Australian War Memorial Chair: Michael Parry

Digital Critique RoomMichael Parry, Director Programs and Engagement, Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, SydneyFrancesca Ford, Manager Digital Content, Art Gallery of NSW, SydneySimon Sherrin, Senior Developer, Digital Products, Museum VictoriaGlenn Barnes, CEO/Founder, MyTours, AucklandGabby Shaw, Digital Media Manager, MCA Sydney

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M3-B4 New futures through indigenous pathways - a hub spoke approach in central Australia – PANELChair: Dawn Casey

Nganampa Anwernekenhe - yours, ours – a national indigenous art & culture centre in Australia Philip Watkins, CEO, DesArt Incorporated and Nganampa Anwernekenhe Steering Group MemberHarold Furber, Chair, Nganampa Anwernekenhe Steering Group MemberVictoria Grieves, ARC Indigenous Research Fellow, University of Sydney

M3-B5 Collections and strategy 1 - animating collections through digital discovery – PAPERSChair: David Reeves

Self-discovery through collections online Hugh Lilly, Assistant Librarian, Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga HiraAdam Moriarty, Digital Collections Information Manager, Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira

We’ve digitised it… now what? How Dutch museums unlocked their collections and brought them to life.Madeline Borthwick, Design Manager, Kiss the Frog

M3-B6 Connectivities – the porous museum – PAPERSChair: Karen Mason

The cultural narrative projectAlison Page, Zakpage Nik Ladigczak, Zakpage

…We’re all in this togetherSteven Alderton, Director: Programs, Exhibitions and Cultural Collections, Australian Museum

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Parallel Sessions - M4

M4-A1 Cultures and responsibilities - PITOPITO KŌRERO + CAFEChair: Jennifer Storer

Facing an uncertain future together - museums, galleries and climate change, what are our local, global and pacific responsibilities?Stephanie Chinneck, Alumni, Macquarie UniversityChantelle Dollimore, Student, Macquarie University

The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize - providing access to nature through creative expressionDr Sara King, Curator, National Archives of AustraliaTim Gilchrist, Manager, Temporary Exhibitions & Special Projects, South Australian Museum

ATUADr Michael Gunn, Senior Curator Pacific Arts, National Gallery of Australia

M4-A2 Public value – imagining a new kind of museum - PANELChair: Alec Coles

Starting the journey - Museum of Applied Arts and Science at Parramatta Michael Parry, Director Programs & Engagement, Museum of Applied Arts & SciencesDolla Merrillees, Newly appointed Director, Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences

M4-A3 Digital futures - PANELChair: Andy Neale

Digital futures Tim Hart, Director, Public Engagement at Museum Victoria. Deb Verhoeven, Professor of Media and Communication, Deakin University Seb Chan, CXO/Chief Experience Officer, Australian Centre for the Moving Image

M4-A4 Museums of the future – through indigenous Australia & the Pacific - PANELChair: Peter White

Charting the new future of museums through an Indigenous lens Jilda Andrews, Access and Outreach Programs Coordinator, National Museum of Australia and Australian National University

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Kimberley Moulton, Senior Curator, South-eastern Australia Aboriginal Collections at the Melbourne Museum Peter White, Aboriginal Arts and Cultural ConsultantEdwina Merito, Manager, Maori Development, Auckland Museum

The future of museums in the Pacific - our vision, our storiesTarisi Vunidilo, Secretary-General, Pacific Islands Museums Association, and Pacific colleagues

M4-A5 Collections and strategy 2 – tackling the tangible - PAPERSChair: David Reeves

Slaying the dragon - tackling museum documentation backlogs Amy Dale, Curator, Migration Museum

Rethinking assumed understandings of collections through scientific enquiry - the QVMAG Sydney Cove Collection Katrina Ross, Head Technical Officer, Queen Victoria Museum and Art GalleryJohn Addison, History Curator, Queen Victoria Museum and Art GalleryDavid Thurrowgood, Conservator, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery

University of Melbourne Museums and Collections - staying relevant into the futureJason Benjamin, Conservation Programs Co-ordinator, Cultural Collections Unit, University of Melbourne

M4-A6 Connectivities – encountering stories and objects - PANEL Chair: Louise Douglas

Encounters - revealing stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander objects from the British MuseumIan Coates, Lead Curator, Encounters project, National Museum of Australia (NMA)Jay Arthur, Senior Curator, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Program, NMABarbara Paulson, Curator, NMAJaney Wood, Project Manager, NMACaolán Mitchell, Exhibition Designer, Thylacine

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Dawn Casey, PSM FAHA Sponsored by Australian High Commission

A Conversation About Museums and Social Capital

The last twenty years has seen transformative change in museum practices to create an overall visitor experience rich in material culture and story telling. Life long learning opportunities have been introduced and extended beyond the walls of museums incorporating the latest in digital technologies. Let’s explore whether the development of social capital has enjoyed the same focus and whether museum professionals need take responsibility for building social capital and if so why?

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Tuesday 17 MayEnacting: Communities & Collections

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Registration OpensEmerging Museum Professionals Career Cafe (ticketed)Keynote: Elizabeth MerrittChaired Q&A / DiscussionParallel Sessions - T1Morning TeaParallel Sessions - T2Lunch - Trade Exhibition & PostersBuses depart Aotea Centre to offsite visitsOnsite Sessions & Offsite VisitsBuses depart offsite visits to Aotea CentreBuses depart to Auckland War Memorial MuseumConference Dinner - Auckland War Memorial Museum

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Elizabeth MerrittAmerican Alliance of Museums

The Ten Thousand Year Museum

Museums, collectively, have three core responsibilities: to collect, preserve andinterpret the world. But there is a profound imbalance in our performance of thesefunctions. We collect more material than we preserve, and preserve far more thanwe interpret. Can museums guarantee that the vast collections we compile will, intime, deliver on their promise? If not, museums risk being seen as hoarders ratherthan guardians. Most museums present only a tiny fraction of their collections tothe public at any given time. Even research collections, amassed with theunderstanding that we don’t know how they will be used in the future, are oftenneglected, abandoned, lost before their potential is realized. We promise to holdour collections in trust for the public, but how long is that covenant is supposed tolast? What time frame should a museum set for its guardianship? A hundred years?A thousand years? Ten thousand years is roughly the span of human civilization—can museums aspire to preserve human heritage for the next ten millennia? And ifso, what mechanisms—cultural, technical, procedural—would we need to create inorder to fulfil that promise?

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Parallel Sessions - T1T1-B1Story telling, narratives of the now - PANELChair: Rachael Davies

What do you see? – making the ordinary extraordinary Simon Gould, Content & Interpretation Developer, Auckland War Memorial Museum

Expanded narratives - beyond a beginning, middle and end Dr Anna Jackson, Creative Producer and Lecturer at Colab, Auckland University of Technology

Luisa will speak about veiqia.com, as a result of her involvement in The Veiqia Project, as well as her wider practice as an artist Luisa Tora, multidisciplinary artist

T1-B2 Visitor insights & analytics - PANELChair: Emily Loughnan

Getting past the data Emily Loughnan, Chair, Click Suite

The digital frontier - analytics in artsAngie Judge, Director, Dexibit Limited

A never-ending story – what we know and should know about visitors to our museumsCarolyn Meehan, Manager Audience Insights, Museum Victoria

When members become good friends - museum members as an underutilised community resourceDr Lynda Kelly, Head of Learning, Australian National Maritime MuseumDeanna Varga, Assistant Director, Commercial and Visitor Services, Australian National Maritime Museum

T1-B3 Toward the future – trans culturation - PANELChair: Greg Lehman

Hot zones of contact - transculturation in Indigenous art and cultural production Margo Neale, Senior Indigenous Curator and Indigenous Advisor to the Director of the National Museum of AustraliaIan McLean, Senior Research Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of WollongongKim Mahood is a nationally awarded freelance writer and artistPaul Tapsell, Professor of Māori Studies at the University of Otago

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T1-B4 The furture is participatory - PAPERSChair: Lucinda Blackley-Jimson

He toa taumata rau - Online Cenotaph and He Pou Aroha - Cenotaph Community - effectively engaging with communities Victoria Passau, Online Cenotaph Coordinator, Auckland War Memorial MuseumClaire Lanyon, Project Manager Community Cenotaph, Auckland War Memorial Museum

Democratising the museum - an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the politics of participationRachael Coghlan, PhD Candidate, Australian National University

Co-creative communities - participatory programs for innovative libraries of the futureNaomi Takeifanga, Exhibitions Curator/ Co-Creative Programmer, State Library of Queensland

T1-B5 Mana taonga - PANELChair: Tryphena Cracknell

Mana taonga - aspects and practice Tryphena Cracknell, Curator, MTG Hawke’s Bay

Learning culture, shaping identities - connecting with shared histories of First PeoplesDr Liz Suda, Program Co-ordinator, Humanities Education, Museum Victoria

Navigating image permissions and best practice for cultural collections held at the Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga HiraZoe Richardson, Assistant Librarian, Image Orders, Auckland War Memorial MuseumHikitia Harawira, Collection Manager Māori, Auckland War Memorial Museum

Indigenous custodianship and country - reflections on being the conduitJilda Andrews, Access and Outreach Programs Coordinator, National Museum of Australia and Australian National University

Future collecting for Māori collections in museums - thoughts on contemporary collecting at Te PapaPuawai Cairns, Senior Curator (Acting), Te Papa Tongarewa

The power of mana taonga in museum educationTereora Crane, Educator, Te Awamutu Museum

Uenuku – the personification of a godHenriata Nicholas, Exhibitions Coordinator, Te Awamutu Museum

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T1-B6 Making it different - SHORT PAPERSChair: Toni MacKinnon

Curatorial strategies for the fashion future - mediating fashion knowledges, place and material identities Tanya Zoe Robinson, PhD Candidate, Deakin University and Director, Ashburton Museum

Seen and heard - music in museumsSiobhan Motherway, PhD candidate, Melbourne University, and Information Officer, Museum Victoria

Victorian taxidermy – is it time to make peace with our living dead? Emma Burns, Curator, Natural Science, Otago Museum

Contemporary-Māori-art curating makes a difference - City Gallery Wellington Chief Curator Robert Leonard Spruiks an upcoming symposiumRobert Leonard, Chief Curator, City Gallery Wellington

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Parallel Sessions - T2

T2-1 New ways of story telling - PITOPITO KŌRERO + CAFEChair: Alex Marsden

Aboriginal history at Sovereign HillAlice Barnes, Education Officer, Sovereign Hill Museums Association

Te Curio Cabinet o Te Waka Huia o Ngā Taonga Tuku Iho - digital curation or glorified blog?Dr Tina Makereti, Curator Māori, Museums Wellington

Mapping Memory - an online exhibitionWendy Lugg, Museum Volunteer & Hon. Artist in Residence, RWAHS; and Convenor, Red Cross Flag Working Group, Museums Australia WA

Where contemporary art and local history meetNatasha Lewis Honeyman is an artist, designer and cultural worker

The meming of lifeWendy Pryor, Head, Digital and Emerging Technologies, Museum Victoria

T2-2 Including everyone - PAPERSChair: Richard Benge

Autism friendly museumsAdrienne Leith, Senior Programs Officer, Museum Victoria

Welcome to the museum - do we really mean it?Laura Miles, Executive Director, Museums Australia (Victoria)

PLAY UP - the relevance of children’s voices and democracyNanette Louchart-Fletcher, Community Learning Officer, Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament HouseEdwina Jans, Head, Heritage, Exhibitions

T2-3 Working together - PAPERSChair: Boon Hui Tan

Seeking Discomfort - the practice and experience of cross-cultural exhibitionsDr Gabriella Haynes, Community Heritage Officer, Yarra Ranges Council

Exhibiting Difference - interrupting dominant narratives of multiculturalism through an affective museum exhibition experience

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Dr Moya McFadzean, Senior Curator Migration & Cultural Diversity, Museum VictoriaDr Jessica Walton, Research Fellow, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University

The influence of Aboriginal Art on an Australian ontology of paintingHayley Megan French is a Sydney-based emerging artist and academic

Makarrata - museums and Yolngu working together. Can this cultural legacy be used for reconciliation between parties?Dr Louise Hamby, Research Fellow, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University

T2-4 Networking the community - PITOPITO KŌRERO + CAFEChair: David Garneau

Pushing the program - challenging perceptions of past, present and place through innovative exhibition programming Sarah Gurich, Curator, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery

Volunteers and custodianshipAlison Waterhouse, Audience Development Officer, Sydney Living Museums

Make/use at objectspace - active engagement in zero-waste fashion designNaiomi Murgatroyd, Programme Manager, Objectspace

CultureSpace - connecting with diverse communities Craig Middleton, Public Programs Officer, History SAAllison Russell, Senior Curator, Community Engagement, Migration Museum

PIMA - working together, preserving, celebrating and nurturing the heritage of the people of the PacificTarisi Vunidilo, Secretary General, Pacific Islands Museums Association

T2-5 Ethics, research, institutions - PAPERSChair: David Butts

Engagement with communities - shared knowledge during cultural exchanges with First Nation communities in Flinders Island and New ZealandJodie Dowd, Step-Up Participant/Library Technician, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)

Working together on working objects - partnering with teaching institutions for conservationMick Bolognese, Curator, History SA/ National Motor Museum

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Whakamana te Tiriti - embedding Te Tiriti o Waitangi in a museum environmentKate Timms-Dean, Education Officer, Otago Museum

T2-6 What’s the story? Narrative, show, tell, argue - SHORT PAPERSChair: Patrick Greene

Creating space to share the intangible cultural experienceBarbara Paulson, Curator, National Museum of Australia

Ships, stories and spectacle - creating a new visitor centre at the Australian National Maritime MuseumMichael Harvey, Assistant Director, Public Engagement and Research, Australian National Maritime Museum

Road trip USA - findings on digital and bilingual storytelling from a four-month, Fulbright-funded journey across the USFrith Williams, Head of Writing, Museum Renewal, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Offerings - managing personal commemoration at the Australian War MemorialDavid Gist, Reference Officer, Australian War Memorial

Six museum words to make you vomitJim Fishwick, Program Producer, Museum of Applied Arts and SciencesTilly Boleyn, Curator, Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences

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Onsite Sessions & Offsite Visits

T4-1 Future museum at Auckland Museum - PAPERS OFFSITE AUCKLAND MUSEUM

Beginning with presentations in the auditorium, including an overview of the Museum’s strategic direction guided by Future Museum, followed by papers by Lucy McIntosh and Nils Pokel. Following afternoon tea, tours of the Pacific Collection Access Project and Collection Imaging project, the B2 collection store, and the co-developed conservation work on the meeting house Hotunui will be available.

Case study - Wi-Fi-enabled digital e-ink labels in a display caseNils Pokel, Digital Strategis, Auckland Museum

Shifting grounds - the Auckland War Memorial Museum in its physical and historical context. Lucy Mackintosh, PhD Student, University of Auckland

T3-2 Design thinking for museums is fun & easy - WORKSHOP ONSITE

Design thinking for museums is fun and easyVicki Northey, Australian Parliament House

T3-3 Strategies for the socially relevant art museum - PANEL OFFSITE AUCKLAND ART GALLEY

On Tuesday afternoon join in a panel discussion at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki at 2pm on ‘Strategies for the socially relevant art museum’ in the Gallery auditorium. A public discussion on the question how can and are art museums strategising to be more inclusive, participatory and act as social institutions into the future? The panel includes Blair French from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Bruce Phillips from Te Tuhi and Ioka Magele-Suamasi, Outreach Programmer, Auckland Art Gallery.At 3pm join one of the curators for a tour of the exhibitions and the World Architecture award winning building.

Tours are as follows:Photography - Ron BrownsonMāori art - Nigel Borell Conservation - Sarah HilaryEuropean historical galleries – Emma JamesonSpace to Dream: Recent Art from South America (ticketed) – Zara Stanhope

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T3-4 Technology – does it work for our stories - WORKSHOP ONSITEChair: Marc Simpson

This three part session will tap into the minds of well-respected and experienced museum technologists who are just as passionate about the stories as they are about tech.

Technology – does it work for our stories?Marc Simpson, Managing Director, Toulouse GroupEmily Loughnan, Creative Director, Click SuiteAllan Smith, Director Visitor Experiences, Gibson GroupDr Ian Griffin, Director, Otago Museum

T3-5 EMP stories & Can museums change the world - PITOPITO KŌRERO ONSITE Part 1: EMP stories

Object conservation in New Zealand? Walking an invisible pathwayCatherine Williams, Loans & Acquisitions Adviser, Visitor Services Host, Object Conservation Volunteer, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

1415 Tons - some challenges of large collection objectsMichael Davies, Collections Assistant, New Zealand Maritime Museum

Good things that came out of the Christchurch EarthquakesLynette Hartley, Natural History Collections Technician, Canterbury Museum

Brutes, geniuses and common men - experiencing the First World War through photographsKate Morschel, Assistant Curator, Photographs, Film and Sound, Australian War Memorial

On the road - the mutual benefits of travelling exhibitionsBianca James, Travelling Exhibitions Coordinator, National Portrait Gallery

Part 2: Can Museums change the world?

What comes first the artist or the subject?Anita Robertson, Registrar, The New Zealand Portrait Gallery

Post-earthquake recovery and the Canterbury Cultural Collections Recovery CentreMoya Sherriff, Collections Technician, Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Ramblings of a museum noviceHatesa Seumanutafa, Associate Curator and Collections Technician of Human History, Canterbury Museum

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Enduring exhibitions: shows that shape our worldAlice Tyler, Assistant Curator, Gus Fisher Gallery

Reducing your overheads and increasing your audience. Ideas and processes to obtain that ultimate golden paradigmSarah Hardman

Engaging millennials in museums- ideas to inspire discussionAnika Klee, Collection Technician, Human History, Auckland War Memorial Museum

Why are there so many spears?Josef Hextall, Freelance Curator, Sunshine Coast

T3-6 Copyright 2.0 - WORKSHOP ONSITE

This session aims to answer your copyright problems and spark practical solutions and guidance for dealing with copyright and permissions for museum collections across Australasia.

Copyright 2.0 – Got a tricky copyright question?Sarah Powell, Auckland MuseumElizabeth Heritage, Creative Commons AotearoaMatariki Williams, Ministry for Culture & Heritage, NZFiona Fieldsend, Digital NZNancy Ladas, Museum VictoriaCatriona McPherson, Te Papa

T5-3 MOTAT offsite storage visit - OFFSITE VISIT

The good, the bad and the ugly: a behind the scenes look at the off-site collection stores of MOTAT. Gain an insight to the collection management challenges for transport and technology collections in a New Zealand context – and to have a peek at some of MOTAT’s favourite collection items.

T5-4 Te Toi Uku (Portage Ceramics Trust) - OFFSITE VISIT

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