Auckland War Memorial Museum

LC control no.	no 99028491
Corporate name heading	Auckland War Memorial Museum *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Auckland Museum (1996- ) Te Papa Whakahiku Papa Whakahiku, Te AM A.M. Tāmaki Paenga Hira
See also	Auckland Institute and Museum *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Found in	Its Annual report, 1 July 1996-30 June 1997: cover (Auckland War Memorial Museum; logo: Auckland Museum) p. 2 (the Auckland War Memorial Museum Act (1996) became law; under the new Act, the Auckland Museum Trust Board was est. and in Oct. 1996 assumed the reins of governance from the former Trust Board and the Auckland Institute and Museum Council) Letter from its Exchange librarian, 11/98 (the Museum's legal name is now Auckland War Memorial Museum) Auckland War Memorial Museum WWW home page, Dec. 9, 2002 (Te Papa Whakahiku; name was recommended by the Māori Language Commission and accepted by the Museum Council shortly before it was replaced by the present Trust Board in 1996) AM WWW site, viewed May 16, 2019: home page (AM Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum) about page (Tāmaki Paenga Hira means Auckland's memorial to fallen chiefs and their gathered taonga. Tāmaki is Auckland, the net of Maki. Paenga is to ceremonially layout, heap together on a marae, a margin, a chiefly boundary, and a reference to those fallen in battle. Hira is numerous, abundant, important, of consequence, great. During the Taumata-ā-Iwi's deliberations a name was sought that would capture former Director Dr Gilbert Archey's Whaowhia (fill with treasures) and the Māori Language Commissions 1992 title, Te Papa Whakahiku. Under the name Tāmaki Paenga Hira we draw together those earlier meanings in a new name, which is uniquely of our region and universally representative of our collective history and peoples)
Not found in	Auckland Institute and Museum. Annual report, 1994-1995: cover (Auckland Institute and Museum)