Sponsorship

NEW ZEALAND MUSEUM AWARDS

Story Inc is proud to sponsor the annual New Zealand Museum Awards given out by Museums Aotearoa, the NZ Museums Association. The awards were established in 2008 and serve to publicly recognise and celebrate the achievements of museum professionals around New Zealand. Recipients of the awards are announced at the annual Museums Aotearoa Conference Awards Dinner.


Awards are made in the following categories:

  • Individual Achievement Award – for an individual who has made an outstanding contribution, initiative or development that has led to the improvement of an organisation or of the wider museum sector
  • Museum Achievement Award for exhibition design
  • Museum Achievement Award for small museum project
  • Museum Achievement Award for technology
  • Museum Achievement Award for innovation – for an individual or team who has made an outstanding contribution towards innovation, particularly through the use of technology

    • Congratulations to the 2011 winners:

  • David Wright, Navy Museum – Individual Achievement Award
  • Dunedin Public Art Gallery – Exhibition Excellence (Art) for ‘Beloved’
  • Puke Ariki, New Plymouth – Exhibition Excellence (Social History) for Te Ahi Katoro, Taranaki War 1860-2010: Our Legacy – Our Challenge
  • Auckland Art Gallery – Special Award for use of Technology for Whakamiharo Lindauer Online lindaueronline.co.nz
  • Expressions Arts & Entertainment Centre – Exhibition Excellence (Small Museum) for Bohemians of the Brush

    • THE STORY INC PRIZE FOR POETRY

    In 2002, Story Inc endowed a prize to be awarded each year to the best poetry folio produced in the Institute of Modern Letters poetry workshops at Victoria University. Part of the endowment for the prize comes from combining the individual royalties that would have been paid to copyright holders of the quotations used in the Wall of Words installation. They generously waived their fees in favour of a collective donation to an appropriate charity.

    This winner for 2010 was Hera Bradburn

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    Things which can be held.

    There are hands born
    to shadow walls with the bright motions of birds.

    There are birds born
    to unpick skies with small hooked beaks.

    In the cold of the kitchen, braiding wooden stems in patient wreaths.
    We trim the stems diagonally, suspend life briefly.

    Your breath catches on nothing, these fine folds of flesh
    curl our throats with the force of what’s spoken.

    There are things that can be held in this life,
    and maybe you will be the one to hold them.

    Jaime.

    His cardigan is still hanging by the door where he left it
    hooked like a fish. Its neck is an open mouth
    gasping.

    You lay your face against the surface of the kitchen table
    the polished grain, the dark veins of trees.
    It too was once growing.

    Marguerite.

    Those friends of her body, those rusting cells
    that strike together like Christmas bells
    are ringing themselves out.

    The sky can no longer focus itself.
    The curtains are as dark as the trees.
    The trees are as dark as the curtains.

    Her linen is frightening
    tight and winding.
    Eventually
    everything folds.

    Past Winners:

    Cruzanne Macalister 2009