Experts 

Angela Lassig

Position: Senior Curator History
Qualifications: BA, Diploma Museum Studies
Specialist areas and interests: More than twenty years' curatorial experience in museums in Australia and New Zealand. Specialist in Australian, New Zealand, and international dress and textiles; decorative arts and design

Michael Fitzgerald

Position: Curator History
Qualifications: MA History
Specialist areas and interests: New Zealand social and technological history, and over thirty years' experience in museum work with particular interests in furniture, metalwork, and ceramics

Sean Mallon

Position: Senior Curator - Pacific Cultures
Qualifications: BA Anthropology, History; MA Anthropology
Specialist areas: Pacific art, Samoan society and culture, contemporary Pacific cultures in New Zealand

Stephanie Gibson

Position: Curator History
Qualifications: BA History, MA Museum Studies
Areas of interest: Social and domestic lives, and community histories
Special projects: Sir Peter Blake Tribute project

Lynette Townsend

Position: Curator History
Qualifications: BA Cultural Anthropology, Diploma Museum Studies, MA Museum and Heritage Studies
Specialist areas and interests:Community histories and the history of childhood.

Kirstie Ross

Position: Curator History
Qualifications: BMus, MA (Hons) History
Specialist areas: New Zealand cultural history, outdoor leisure, performing arts

Ross O'Rourke

Position: Collection Manager International and New Zealand Post Experience: Forty-three years' experience in museums and collecting
Areas of interest: Egyptology, early image collection

Carolyn McGill

Position: Collection Manager History
Qualifications: MA Anthropology
Areas of interest: Collection storage and transport, ceramics and decorative arts

Tania Walters

Position: Collection Manager History
Qualifications: BA, Diploma Museum Studies
Area of interest: decorative and applied arts
Specialist area: Collection care and storage, handling and packing of artwork

Grace Hutton

Position: Collection Manager Pacific
Qualification: BA Anthropology
Specialist areas: Cook Island society and culture, tīvaevae (quilts), Pacific textiles