CHB Settlers Museum Finalist For National Award

The Central Hawke’s Bay Settlers Museum is in the spotlight in Wellington this week, as a finalist in the ServiceIQ NZ Museum Awards 2019.

Curator and manager Jana Uhlirova, museum chairman Hans Dresel, committee member and volunteer Donald Tipene, and CHB Mayor Alex Walker are travelling to the awards ceremony at Te Papa where the museum is a finalist in the Exhibition Excellence Taonga Maori, for the recently exhibited Nga Taonga o Tamatea – Te Hokianga Mai.

CHB Settlers’ Museum is one of four finalists in this category, which includes the Auckland War Memorial Museum.

Photo: Central Hawke’s Bay Settlers Museum curator and manager Jana Uhlirova with committee member and volunteer Donald Tipene at the opening of Nga Taonga o Tamatea – Te Hokianga Mai.  For more on this and other great Hawke’s Bay stories go to hawkesbaytoday.co.nz Posted: 23 May 2019