National Services Te Paerangi works with museums, galleries, iwi (tribes), and related organisations to enhance museum services and support these to become self-sustaining.
National Services Te Paerangi is committed to building the skills of everybody volunteering or working in museums and improving opportunities for professional development. Our services and programmes cover all aspects of museum practice, and we provide training at both regional and national levels.
Continue reading
The New Zealand Museums Standards Scheme helps you assess how your museum is currently doing, by reviewing your practices against a set of standards. You can see where you’re doing well, and identify areas you’d like to improve on.
Continue reading
The Museum and Iwi Development Grants Programme supports museums, iwi, and other culture and heritage organisations in projects that are part of a long-term plan and that:
- contribute to achieving operational excellence
- improve access to and understanding of collections and taonga
- develop partnerships.
Continue reading
The Helping Hands Grants Programme is a new programme from National Services Te Paerangi that aims to help small museums carry out their responsibilities. These responsibilities may include:
- purchasing conservation materials
- contracting consultants
- accessing training or professional development opportunities.
Continue reading
The NZMuseums website features nearly 400 New Zealand museums and related culture and heritage organisations. As well as being an online collection management system for small museums it is also a fantastic promotional tool for museums, and features what's on and news sections as well as a blog.
Continue reading
National Services Te Paerangi offers internships to recent graduates of museum studies as part of the Museum Graduate Internship Programme (MGIP). The internships are for up to three months to work on a specific project in a small, professionally staffed museum.
Continue reading
The Museum Internship and Secondment Programme (MISP) will place skilled New Zealand museum personnel from larger museums into smaller, less well-resourced New Zealand museums to enable growth and development throughout the sector. MISP will assist both parties in their respective development.
Continue reading
In partnership with TelstraClear, National Services Te Paerangi provides a freephone helpline service - 0508 NSTP HELP. The first of its kind, the purpose of this service is to provide improved access to information and advice to museums beyond the Wellington region at no cost to the caller.
Continue reading