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Tūhura Otago Museum Blog

The blog is where we'll post news, updates, information about objects in our collection, #betterworkstories, profiles of staff members and visitors, pictures and videos, and really anything we think you'd find interesting. We hope you enjoy. 

If there's a topic you'd like us to do a post about, or a post that you think needs a sequel, just let us know!

I See Red

The Tūhura Otago Community Trust Science Centre opens this Saturday 16 December. In this blog series the Museum’s communicators introduce the science associated with some of the exciting new interactives. Here Science and Education Communicator Nick Yeats explores how the colour red impacts on humans and other animals.

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A recipe for mice – life before microscopes

Here Science Communicator Claire Concannon continues our series introducing the science associated with some of the exciting new interactives in the soon-to-open Tūhura Otago Community Trust Science Centre.

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The eye of the storm

Here’s the latest instalment in our series introducing the science associated with some of the exciting new interactives in the soon-to-open Tūhura Otago Community Trust Science Centre. Living Environments Communicator Eden Gray explains the inner workings of tornadoes.

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you were swept up into the eye of a tornado?

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Lighten up!

Welcome to the second in our blog series introducing the science behind some of the new interactives to be revealed when the Tūhura Otago Community Trust Science Centre opens in December. Here, Science Communicator Catriona Gower sheds some light on light! An absence of light means everything appears completely dark, effectively black, yet light is not simply white. Nor is it grey! So what is it? Let’s start at the beginning, and the source of all our energy: the sun. The sun floods us with light and heat (forms of energy) that all life on Earth depends on. The sun produces this...

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Otago Museum Discovery World II a step closer

The Otago Museum has received a funding boost of $500,000 in the Otago Community Trust’s latest donations round.

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