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- Hari huri tau, He Tohu! E whitu ngā tau! Happy 7th birthday, He Tohu!
Hari huri tau, He Tohu! E whitu ngā tau! Happy 7th birthday, He Tohu!
Friday 17 May 2024, 12pm to 1pm
Free. Booking is not required.
Join a guided reorua (bilingual) tour of He Tohu with our amazing kaiārahi and He Tohu curator Stefanie Lash. Learn about Aotearoa’s histories, the journeys these documents have taken, and what they mean for us now.
A guided tour to celebrate He Tohu’s 7th birthday
Join this guided tour with He Tohu curator Stefanie Lash who will introduce you to the taonga in the document room, He Whakapapa Kōrero. You will be introduced to:
1835 He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni — Declaration of Independence of the United Tribes of New Zealand
1840 Te Tiriti o Waitangi – Treaty of Waitangi, and
1893 Women’s Suffrage Petition – Te Petihana Whakamana Pōti Wahine.
Hear fascinating stories of the journeys of these taonga from Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga Archives New Zealand to Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa National Library of New Zealand.
Please meet our waka reception desk on the ground floor before the tour start.
Hari huri tau, He Tohu! E whitu ngā tau! Happy 7th birthday, He Tohu!
He Tohu
He Tohu is a permanent exhibition of three iconic constitutional taonga that shape Aotearoa New Zealand. These taonga are significant because they shaped who we are as a nation and will shape what we become in the future.
Ka mua, ka muri | Walking backwards into the future
The entrance to He Whakapapa Kōrero (the Document Room) of He Tohu. Photo by Mark Beatty.