Hei Taonga mā ngā Uri Whakatipu | Treasures for the Rising Generation: The Dominion Museum Ethnological Expeditions 1919–1923
A landmark book about four remarkable museum expeditions that contributed to a recovery of Māori society
Conal McCarthy
Conal McCarthy is the programme director in the School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, where he is also director of the Museum and Heritage Studies programme in the Stout Research Centre. He has degrees in English, Art History, Museum Studies, and te reo Māori.
He has strong links with museums, art galleries, and heritage organisations around New Zealand, and has worked in a variety of professional roles including education and public programmes, interpretation, governance, collections and curatorial work. His academic research interests include museum history, theory and practice, exhibition history, Māori visual culture, and contemporary heritage issues.
Conal has published widely on the historical and contemporary Māori engagement with museums, including Exhibiting Māori: A history of colonial cultures of display (2007), Museums and Māori: Heritage professionals, indigenous collections, current practice (2011) and Museum practice: The contemporary museum at work (2015) in the series International Handbooks of Museum Studies.
Conal McCarthy, author of Te Papa: Reinventing New Zealand's national museum 1998–2018
Books
Te Papa: Reinventing New Zealand's National Museum 1998–2018
Inside the iconic New Zealand museum that has benchmarked international best practice.
Museums and Māori: Heritage Professionals, Indigenous Collections, Current Practice
This ground-breaking book explores the revolution that’s transformed New Zealand museums in recent decades, and is influencing how museums worldwide care for indigenous objects.
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Hei Taonga mā ngā Uri Whakatipu: author biographies and interview
The authors behind Hei Taonga mā ngā Uri Whakatipu | Treasures for the Rising Generation: The Dominion Museum Ethnological Expeditions 1919–1923, discuss their work with Te Papa Press
Q&A with Conal McCarthy, author of Te Papa: Reinventing New Zealand’s National Museum
Conal McCarthy, author of Te Papa: Reinventing New Zealand’s National Museum, discusses his work with Te Papa Press
