Saying goodbye (for now!) to our newly-translocated #hihi! These guys are so fortunate to be looked after by the most caring and competent teams at #Rotokare and #BushyPark. Wishing them all a safe and happy winter!

TONIGHT in Whanganui- Antibiotic resistance, who is causing it, vets or doctors? Distinguished Prof Nigel French at the Whanganui Science Forum Massey University #AntibioticResistence Dr Siouxsie Wiles Whanganui Regional Museum Mike Dickison #ScichatNZ

Re: collections - stop collecting cultural objects unless the actual owners want you to. Some museums find this difficult to understand, but it’s really important #MGAConf2018

#MGAConf2018 Formative evaluation doesn't need to expensive - it can be text on a sheet of A3 paper, taking it to your cafe and buying some visitors coffee. And having the humility to hear how much your words suck

Hot tip from @Paulrbowers : make it real, real early, and avoid ‘faffing about in meeting rooms with Word documents’. Visualise and prototype and test ASAP—each time you do this, you’ll discover how to make your thing a little bit better. YES #MGAConf2018

Can't endorse vandalism, but who doesn't enjoy letting rip with a good pun? #worldfart 💨#windycity #wellingtonlive

It’s important to use archival tape when reassembling historic documents, as they’ll surely be on display in the National Archives in a century so people can marvel at our benighted times. politico.com/story/2018/06/…

This is my (Mike Dickison) last week at the WRM; I’m off to be a Wikipedian. It’s been a pleasure tweeting from this account (which still has the shortest handle of any NZ museum). All the best to my colleagues and to whoever takes over the tweeting. — Mike x.com/myleejoseph/st…

The Ligonier Echo, Pennsylvania, February 27, 1929 yesterdays-print.com

“Museums need to stop forcing people down a path of engagement that they assume people will follow, and start reacting to what people actually do in their spaces” good stuff in this study x.com/wrdodger/statu…

Our Kaitiaki Taonga Māori talks about the Museum’s journey of repatriating and reburying human remains. nzherald.co.nz/culture/news/a…

Around 50 people watched with anticipation as ten small hihi flew into their new home at Bushy Park Sanctuary near Whanganui recently: bit.ly/2rECQ6W

Catherine Knight is about to start speaking on the environmental history of NZ rivers, based on her wonderful book.

NZ has its own population of blue whales, study reveals, via nzherald nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/articl…

How your behavior has changed the way we make digital exhibition labels blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2018/05/09/how… via Te Papa #museums #GLAM

The wonders of laser-cutting! Producing foliage for our new bird cases.

1 I've become friends with an elderly woman who gets her morning coffee in the same Glen Eden cafe as me. I gave Janet a copy of Ghost South Road last week; this morning she came over to my table, excited by the passages about swaggers, those nomads of NZ's early 20th C roads.

Eight sperm whales found dead on South Taranaki beach stuff.co.nz/national/10418…