OtAgo Museum and Discovery World
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The science centre complex will engage our communities and promote all fields of science through unique, appealing and understandable experiences. The successful applicant will work with Science Engagement and other Museum staff to ensure outstanding visitor experiences, optimum functioning of facilities and equipment, and adherence to compliance, planning and reporting requirements. We are seeking a practical, organised and systematic person to manage our properties and associated maintenance, operational, health and safety, and security systems. Taking responsibility for all Museum property and assets, you will ensure high standards of operation, presentation, safety, security and sustainability for day to day operations and larger facilities’ projects.
The Museum is a unique organisation with disparate needs and requirements at different times and in different parts of the building. You will be a hands on manager with outstanding organisational skills, attention to detail, a positive attitude and the ability to identify and deliver creative solutions that work. The Museum will be 150 years old in 2018, although many of the items in our collection are far older. We use these objects to tell our visitors more about the world from here in Dunedin to deep space, from millions of years ago to envelope pushing research through galleries, exhibitions, displays, tours and talks.
The rocks stayed in Dunedin after the Exhibition and became the Otago Museum, based south of the Octagon in a building known as the Exchange Building, where the John Wickliffe House stands now. It eventually outgrew its lodgings, and Hutton oversaw the construction of a new home, designed by David Ross. 5 million objects in the collection today. In the same year, management of the Museum was handed over wholly to the University of Otago. It’s now the entrance to the 1877 Gallery, named in honour of that milestone year.
It was named for one of our notable benefactors, Willi Fels , who was hugely influential in Dunedin’s cultural and business circles during the early twentieth century. H D Skinner Annex The H D Skinner Annex began its life as the Dunedin North Post Office in 1879. When the post office moved across the road, Shone McFarlane of the Otago Art Society lobbied for the Dunedin City Council DCC to take ownership of the now empty building. A centre for science engagement The Museum completed massive redevelopment projects in the 1990s and 200s.
The Southern Land, Southern People gallery opened in 2002, and a central atrium brought all the different wings and galleries together in a more cohesive, intuitive way
The Museum will be 150 years old in 2018, although many of the items in our collection are far older. We use these objects to tell our visitors more about the world from here in Dunedin to deep space, from millions of years ago to envelope pushing research through galleries, exhibitions, displays, tours and talks. Hector later displayed these rocks, along with his maps from the survey, during the 1865 New Zealand Exhibition In Dunedin. The rocks stayed in Dunedin after the Exhibition and became the Otago Museum, based south of the Octagon in a building known as the Exchange Building, where the John Wickliffe House stands now. It eventually outgrew its lodgings, and Hutton oversaw the construction of a new home, designed by David Ross.
5 million objects in the collection today. In the same year, management of the Museum was handed over wholly to the University of Otago. It’s now the entrance to the 1877 Gallery, named in honour of that milestone year. It was named for one of our notable benefactors, Willi Fels , who was hugely influential in Dunedin’s cultural and business circles during the early twentieth century.
H D Skinner Annex The H D Skinner Annex began its life as the Dunedin North Post Office in 1879. When the post office moved across the road, Shone McFarlane of the Otago Art Society lobbied for the Dunedin City Council DCC to take ownership of the now empty bu
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