Every year Te Manawa adds dozens of items to its collections. Artworks to the art collection; artifacts of our society, past and present, to the heritage collection. Long before anyone had heard of Covid-19, collecting was to be paused during the first six months of 2020. When a community is as generous with its donations as this one, says collections manager Jeff Fox, sometimes you need to stop to get your breath back...
Creating digital backups of artworks is a way of preserving them
Some people are going to make trouble no matter where they go!
For the Festival of Cultures we took a dive into the collections store
What do a Palmerston North art teacher, the Duke of Gloucester and a WW1 flying ace from Hunterville have in common?
How New Zealand women came to the aid of WW2 Polish soldiers
We visit the Āpiti studio of artist Eric Brew
Te Manawa commissioned a painting from local artist Shane Cotton. The finished work, River Diamond Blue, was on display in the Supernova exhibition alongside its working drawing. Rob Mildon and Jeff Fox spoke with Shane about the painting and its creation.
Te Manawa interviews Jill White, who was mayor of Palmerston North from 1998-2001, about the robes of office, that were displayed in our 2016 Nova exhibition.
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