Official Information Act (OIA) responses
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2025 OIAs
OIA request ‘Repatriation of human remains‘
OIA response to repatriation of human remains Redacted 18 March 2025 (186.60 KB)
OIA request ‘BIMs – Briefing to Ministers ‘
OIA response to request for BIMs 19 February 2025 (201.05 KB)
2024 OIAs
OIA request ‘Parental Leave‘
OIA response: Parental Leave Policy and Entitlements – 4 December 2024 (2.48 MB)
OIA request ‘Insights about the charging of international visitors‘
OIA response IVEC progress – 19 November 2024 (22.41 MB)
OIA request ‘Directly employed staff‘
OIA Response: Directly employed staff – 10 October 2024 (100.89 KB)
OIA request 'Funding and Potential Conflict of Interest'
OIA Response: Funding and Potential Conflict of Interest – 27 August 2024 (113.88 KB)
OIA request ‘IDIA‘
OIA Response: IDIA – 19 Aug 2024 (21.52 MB)
OIA request ‘Accessibility‘
OIA Response: Accessibility – 8 Aug 2024 (1.80 MB)
OIA request ‘InflectionPoint & Rainbow demonstration‘
OIA response: InflectionPoint & Rainbow demonstration – 5 July 2024 (77.52 KB)
OIA request ‘Treaty of Waitangi display and Unsilenced event‘
Response to OIA request: Treaty of Waitangi display and Unsilenced event – 5 July 2024 (94.66 KB)
All combined emails (418.23 MB)
All email attachments (14.83 MB)
All other messages (5.76 MB)
OIA request ‘Inflection Point - AV cafe and bathrooms‘
Response to OIA request: Inflection Point - AV cafe and bathrooms 19 May 2024 (16.37 MB)
OIA request ‘removal of Treaty display combined’
Response to OIA request: removal of Treaty display combined – 7 Jun 2024 (31.08 MB)
OIA request ‘Queen Victoria Royal Charter Letters Patent’
Response to OIA request: Queen Victoria Royal Charter Letters Patent follow up enquiry – 22 Mar 2024 (72.95 KB)
Response to OIA request: Queen Victoria Royal Charter Letters Patent – 22 Mar 2024 (70.74 KB)
OIA request ‘Primary name in English’
Response to OIA request: Primary name in English – 13 Mar 2024 (74.62 KB)
OIA request ‘Te Tiriti exhibit’
Response to OIA request: Te Tiriti exhibit - 28 Feb 2024 (52.86 MB)
OIA request ‘fiscal sustainability programme’
Response to OIA request: fiscal sustainability programme – 9 Feb 2024 (3.01 MB)
OIA request ‘historic documents’
Response to OIA request: historic documents - 1 Feb 2024 (70.03 KB)
OIA request ‘dual language displays’
Response to OIA request: dual language displays - 2 Jan 2024 (216.69 KB)
OIA request ‘Tākina bookings’
Response to OIA request: Tākina booking information – 2 Jan 2024 (95.89 MB)
2023 OIAs
OIA request ‘protest query’
Response to OIA request: protest query – 21 Dec 2023 (468.31 KB)
OIA request ‘protest security review’
Response to OIA request: protest security review – 15 Dec 2023 (1.88 MB)
OIA request ‘protest’
Response to OIA request: protest – 13 Dec 2023 (72.75 MB)
OIA request ‘protest correspondence’
Response to OIA request: protest correspondence – 11 Dec 2023 (3.15 MB)
OIA request ‘use of te reo Māori’
Response to OIA request: use of te reo Māori – 23 Nov 2023 (58.70 MB)
OIA request ‘taonga tūturu from Ngāti Pikiao’
Response to OIA request: Ngāti Pikiao taonga – 8 Aug 2023 (2.32 MB)
OIA request ‘taonga tūturu from Taranaki’
Response to OIA request: taonga tūturu from Taranaki – 7 Aug 2023 (129.75 KB)
OIA request ‘Environmental certification’
Response to OIA request: environmental certification – 8 May 2023 (864.86 KB)
2022 OIAs
OIA request ‘Ethnic breakdown of staff’
Response to OIA request: ethnic breakdown of staff – 7 Nov 2022 (146.52 KB)
OIA request ‘Media queries’
Response to OIA request: media queries – 3 Nov 2022 (71.13 KB)
OIA request ‘Funding from Te Papa’
Response to OIA request: funding from Te Papa – 13 Oct 2022 (71.93 KB)
OIA request ‘salary bands’
Response to OIA request: salary bands – 7 Oct 2022 (191.04 KB)
OIA request ‘Cost of Matariki celebrations’
Response to OIA request: cost of Matariki celebrations – 21 Jul 2022 (78.94 KB)
OIA request ‘Te Wharerangi Tiki’
Response to OIA request ‘Te Wharerangi Tiki’ – 17 Jan 2022 (253.62 KB)
OIA request ‘COVID-19 vaccine policy’
Response to OIA request ‘COVID-19 vaccine policy’ – 17 Jan 2022 (81.08 KB)
OIA request ‘Acquisition of art works’
Response to OIA request ‘Acquisition of art works’ – 17 Jan 2022 (85.04 KB)
List of Acquisitions (20.61 KB)
2021 OIAs
OIA Request ‘Signs of a Nation’
Response to OIA Request ‘Signs of a Nation’ – 8 Dec 2021 (15.21 MB)
OIA request ‘Outstanding repatriation requests of taonga tūturu’
Response to OIA request ‘Outstanding repatriation requests of taonga tūturu’ – 4 Nov 2021 (471.39 KB)
OIA request ‘Sales of taonga tūturu through licenced dealers 2009-2014’
Response to OIA request ‘Sales of taonga tūturu through licenced dealers 2009-2014’ – 4 Nov 2021 (23.59 MB)
OIA request ‘Members of the Indian community advisory group for the “Aainaa exhibition”’
Response to OIA request ‘Members of the Indian community advisory group for the “Aainaa exhibition”’ – 14 Sep 2021 (477.99 KB)
OIA request ‘Members of the Indian community advisory group for the Aainaa exhibition’
Response to OIA request ‘Members of the Indian community advisory group for the Aainaa exhibition’ – 7 Sep 2021 (76.77 KB)
OIA request ‘Parliamentary review’
Response to OIA request ‘Parliamentary review’ – 12 Aug 2021 (13.22 MB)
OIA request ‘Y registered taonga’
Response to OIA request Y registered taonga 19 Jul 21 (11.22 MB)
OIA request ‘Kororā of Te Motu Kairangi’
Response to OIA request Kororā of Te Motu Kairangi 16 Jun 2021 (4.46 MB)
OIA request ‘Banks Peninsula Turtle’
Response to OIA request ‘Banks Peninsula Turtle‘ 9 May 2021 (238.15 KB)
Supporting documents for OIA request ‘Banks Peninsula Turtle’
Emails (229.47 KB)
OIA request ‘Sales of taonga tūturu through licenced dealers’
Sales of taonga tūturu through licenced dealers 14 Apr 2021 (19.10 MB)
OIA request ‘Aquisitions Pomare, Kahu kākā feather cloak’
Response to OIA request ‘Aquisitions Pomare, Kahu kākā feather cloak’ Part 1 – 28 January 2021 (498.67 KB)
Response to OIA request ‘Aquisitions Pomare, Kahu kākā feather cloak’ Part 2 – 16 February 2021 (961.86 KB)
Response to OIA request ‘Aquisitions Pomare, Kahu kākā feather cloak’ Part 3 – 10 March 2021 (216.56 KB)
Part 3 Materials for OIA request ‘Aquisitions Pomare, Kahu kākā feather cloak’ A (3.95 MB)
Part 3 Materials for OIA request ‘Aquisitions Pomare, Kahu kākā feather cloak’ B (20.30 MB)
2020 OIAs
Response to OIA request 'Hawaiian ‘ahu ‘ula and mahiole’– 23 December 2020 (233.56 KB)
Supporting documents for OIA request 'Hawaiian ‘ahu ‘ula and mahiole’
Kaihautū and Collections Feb 2019 Board paper (817.92 KB)
Feb 19 Board minutes (228.83 KB)
Kaihautū report and 2015 minutes (829.38 KB)
File note (295.68 KB)
Deed of Transfer (591.06 KB)
Emails (804.88 KB)
Collections policy (952.75 KB)
Response to OIA request ‘Banks Peninsula Turtle’ – 15 Dec 2020 (161.49 KB)
Response to OIA request ‘Tramway Museum Hardship Fund’ – 7 December (123.61 KB)
Supporting documents for OIA request ‘Tramway Museum Hardship Fund’
OIA – Tramway Museum Hardship Fund application (1.89 MB)
Response to OIA request ‘Holidays Act review’ – 4 Dec 2020 (114.40 KB)
Response to OIA request ‘Holidays Act review’ – 3 Dec 2020 (114.41 KB)
Response to OIA request ‘Collection damage’ – 14 Oct 2020 – redacted (145.84 KB)
Response to OIA request ‘MAU correspondence’ – 14 Oct 2020 – redacted (53.37 KB)
Supporting documents for OIA request ‘MAU correspondence’
OIA – MAU correspondence 1 (105.07 KB)
OIA – MAU correspondence 2 (387.40 KB)
OIA – MAU in-gallery visitor feedback 1 (70.97 KB)
OIA – MAU in-gallery visitor feedback 2 (63.99 KB)
Response to OIA request 'Collection damage' – 12 Oct 2020 – redacted (150.62 KB)
Response to OIA request ‘Taxpayers’ Union’ – 9 Sep 2020 – redacted (504.63 KB)
Response to OIA request ‘Hawai‘i cloak’ – 9 Sep 2020 – redacted (411.46 KB)
Response to OIA request ‘Learning System’ – 16 Jul 2020 – redacted (405.54 KB)
Response to OIA request ‘COVID-19’ – 6 Apr 2020 – redacted (290.96 KB)
Supporting documents for OIA request ‘Bullying Policy’
HR Anti-Harassment Policy Appendix 1 – Guidelines for Investigating Complaints of Harassment (110.28 KB)
Anti-Harassment Policy (423.15 KB)
A Guide to Resolving Conduct Issues (189.01 KB)
Response to OIA request ‘Staff Numbers’ – 19 Jun 2020 – redacted (277.23 KB)
Response to OIA request ‘Twitter Account’ – 8 Jun 2020 – redacted (380.24 KB)
Response to OIA request ‘Repatriation’ – 29 May 2020 – redacted (488.23 KB)
Response to OIA request ‘COVID-19’ – 6 Apr 2020 – redacted (290.96 KB)
Response to OIA request ‘Clarke Gayford’ – 2 Mar 2020 – redacted (440.48 KB)