Projects

Since the Maritime Museum Foundation was established in 2006, it has proudly supported many maritime projects.

Current and recent projects

Chisholm Whitney Charitable Trust helps bring the Percy Vos Boat Yard back to life

The Maritime Museum Foundation is deeply grateful for the Chisholm Whitney Charitable Trust’s support in bringing the Percy Vos Boat Yard back to life and to showcasing this working boat yard on Auckland’s waterfront, thereby preserving traditional boat building skills, heritage vessels, and this important heritage building.

Four Winds helps transport students to the Maritime Museum

Since 2019, the Maritime Museum Foundation, with generous support from Four Winds Foundation, has enabled thousands of students each year to visit the Maritime Museum to participate in its education programmes at a fraction of the normal cost. This eases the burden on parents and caregivers who otherwise may not be able to afford to send their children on school trips.

The Maritime Museum Foundation is delighted that Four Winds Foundation has agreed to extend its support into 2024.

Potter Masonic Trust supports new Waka Outreach programme

The Maritime Museum Foundation is delighted to announce the support of Freemasons Potter Masonic Trust for the new Waka Outreach programme, to be delivered by the Maritime Museum and Te Toki Voyaging Trust. The Waka Outreach programme will visit schools in the wider Auckland and Waikato regions, benefitting approximately 4,680 predominantly lower socioeconomic students and their whānau.

Pub Charity helps keep heritage vessel passengers safe

The Maritime Museum Foundation, with generous support from Pub Charity Ltd, is funding new life jackets and raincoats for the approximately 21,000 adults and children who annually take trips on the Maritime Museum’s heritage boats

Chisholm Whitney Charitable Trust and Maritime Museum Foundation jointly support Mural project

Chisholm Whitney Charitable Trust and Maritime Museum Foundation have jointly funded artist, Cinzah Merkens, to paint a stunning 150 metre long mural along the entire western side of the Maritime Museum, creating a major asset not just for the Maritime Museum, but for Auckland City.

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Stout Trust supports interactive artworks

The Maritime Museum Foundation, with generous support from The Stout Trust, is thrilled to be contributing towards two interactive artworks – a replica Waka and a replica European Ship – for an innovative new children’s play-based learning area at the Maritime Museum.

James Searle Say Foundation supports conservation of Mrkusich stained glass windows

The Maritime Museum Foundation is pleased to announce the support of the James Searle Say Foundation in helping to conserve the Seafarers’ stained-glass windows, designed in 1964 by New Zealand abstract artist Milan Mrkusich and now on permanent display at the Maritime Museum.

Talking Portraits expand thanks to Stout Trust

The Maritime Museum Foundation, with generous support from The Stout Trust, contributed towards the Talking Portraits project in the Hawaiki gallery of the Maritime Museum. Sonny Natanielu, an engaging educator and storyteller, fronts the second Talking Portrait in the gallery. His three narratives share information about aspects of Samoan culture linked to navigation and canoe building.

Foundation North supports Ara Moana Ocean Roads Waka programme

Over five years, the Maritime Museum Foundation, with much appreciated support from Foundation North, has enabled thousands of Māori, Pasifika, and South Auckland students and their whānau to participate in the Maritime Museum’s Ara Moana Ocean Roads Waka Programme. This programme, which has been an overwhelming success, has gone on to become one of the Maritime Museum’s flagship programmes.

Tuia Encounters 250 – Tākiri: An Unfurling

The Maritime Museum Foundation, with generous support from Chisholm Whitney Charitable Trust and Pub Charity, assisted the Maritime Museum with its 2019 Tuia Encounters 250 project, Tākiri: An Unfurling.

Through support from Chisholm Whitney Charitable Trust, four artists (Chris Charteris, Jasmine Togo-Brisby, Kohai Grace, and Nikau Hindin) were commissioned to each create an artwork for the Tākiri exhibition.

Following the exhibition, the commissioned pieces were accessioned into the Maritime Museum’s permanent collection.

Pub Charity supported the implementation of a range of marketing activities associated with Tākiri: An Unfurling.

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