Museums • History • First Nations
The Beating Hearts of Te Arawa
Client
Location
Completed
Rotorua Musuem of Art and History
Rotorua, Aotearoa New Zealand
2011
The Project
Created for Rotorua Museum’s newly built Don Stafford Memorial Wing this permanent exhibition which opened in 2011, traces the rich history of Te Arawa, one of Aotearoa’s most famous tribal confederations.
Story Inc developed the concepts, content, design, and supervised the installation of the eight separate galleries, which follow Te Arawa’s journey from Pacific origins to the present day.
The exhibition brings together many of the tribe’s most iconic taonga (treasures) for the first time, and through them tells the amazing stories of the Rotorua region.
Credits
AV production
AV research
Photography
Master Carver
Anderson Design
Joinery and Fabrication
Toulouse Ltd
Lighting, electrical and technical fit-out
Weta Studios
Design and production of the waka
DAC Group Ltd
Graphic Printing and Installation
The Dive
Kay Seater-Dunbar
Jane Ussher
Lyonel Grant