Join us in celebration of the opening weekend of Into Ocean & Ice! Be among the first to see our latest exhibition with an evening alongside the artists and enjoy an inspiring afternoon talk by the exhibition's young artists and explorers. For the tamariki, discover the hidden world of science and art through Peregrin Hyde's incredible microphotography. 

An evening with the artists

Fri 29 Nov, 6pm-8.30pm | Free, bookings are essential

Join us for a special late-night opening of Into Ocean & Ice, meet the talented artists behind the exhibition, Tegan Allpress, Peregrin Hyde, Rose Lasham, Charlie Thomas, and Paola Folicaldi Suh, and explore their artwork inspired by Antarctica.

Image credit: Tegan Allpress, St Andrews Bay 3 (Intensifying), October 2023

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Stories from young Antarctic explorers

Sat 30 Nov, 2pm-3.30pm | Free, bookings are essential

Join the young explorers and artists of our latest exhibition, Tegan Allpress, Peregrin Hyde, Rose Lasham and Charlie Thomas, as they share how their transformative expedition to South Georgia continues to shape their lives.

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Micronauts: Microphotography

Sat 30 Nov and Sun 1st Dec, 10:30am -12pm | $25 per child, bookings are essential

Explore a hidden micro world through microphotography, where tamariki will design their own scientific slide and capture a polaroid of their masterpiece.

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Into Ocean & Ice 

Opens Fri 29 Nov | Free with museum entry

Take a trip to Antarctica through the exhibition Into Ocean & Ice. Five artists interpret the remote cool South, taking in Ernest Shackleton’s failed yet epic Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917) to the Weddell and Ross seas, and modern-day South Georgia in the South Atlantic Ocean, where the climate crisis has glaciers on the run and biodiversity experts worried.

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