EVIDENCE newsletter (Summer 2020)
In this issue:
- The contribution of the US Navy to Operation Overdue.
- More of the team behind the museum.
- Our new Interactive Photo Booth.
- Our new education programmes for 2020.
- The Police Museum out and about at Creekfest 2020.
- Some good reads on policing history in New Zealand.
Read the Summer Issue(link is external)
*EVIDENCE is the official communiqué of the New Zealand Police Museum.
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EVIDENCE newsletter (Spring 2019)
In this issue:
- 'Operation Overdue the New Zealand Police story'
- Our new Front of House upgrade
- More of the team behind the museum
- A Wing Patron's gift from the Museum's collection
- A community engagement initiative between a local primary school and the New Zealand Police
- Snippets from a school careers visit to the Museum and the Royal New Zealand Police College
*EVIDENCE is the official communiqué of the New Zealand Police Museum.
If you would like Evidence to come straight to your inbox, email us on museum@police.govt.nz(link sends e-mail).
EVIDENCE newsletter (Winter 2019)
In this issue:
- Our new Ashburton Police station sign
- The volunteers behind the Museum
- Remembering police historian Ray Carter
- A preview of new exhibits
*EVIDENCE is the official communiqué of the New Zealand Police Museum.
If you would like Evidence to come straight to your inbox, email us on museum@police.govt.nz(link sends e-mail).
EVIDENCE newsletter (Autumn 2019)
In this issue:
- The faces behind the Museum
- A tribute to the Friends of the Police Museum
- Memorable excerpts from our vast collection, and profiles the work of our Victoria University of Wellington Museum and Heritage Studies Programme intern
- A bio on our new Curator of Public Programmes and his plans for visitors.
*EVIDENCE is the official communiqué of the New Zealand Police Museum.
If you would like Evidence to come straight to your inbox, email us on museum@police.govt.nz.
Policing the War: New Zealand Police 1914–1918 | The Invisible Military Machine
Return of remains allows Huntly couple to rest in peace
October 2015
Dignity and respect were the drivers of a ceremony in the north Waikato in which Police laid to rest the remains of Samuel Pender Lakey alongside his wife, Christobel. The couple were murdered at their Ruawaro farm near Huntly in October 1933 and a small number of Samuel’s remains had been part of the New Zealand Police Museum collection placed in storage following their use for investigative training last century.
'Couple reunited 82 years after double murder' on Radio New Zealand news
Human Remains Collection
June 2015
Rowan Carroll, the Director of the New Zealand Police Museum, discusses the Museum's recent 3 year Human Remains project on Radio New Zealand. The project laid to rest a collection of forensically interesting human remains which were gathered for Police training purposes between 1906 and 1956.
Secret Museums of New Zealand
August 2015
Radiolive showcases the New Zealand Police Museum in an interview with Museum Director, Rowan Carroll.
Forced to Strike: Waihi 1912
November 2012
Rowan Carroll, Museum Director, discusses the Museum exhibition 'Forced to Strike: Waihi 1912' on Radio New Zealand.
Suspicious Looking
October 2012
One of the mug shots in our collection that was featured in our online exhibition 'Suspicious Looking' has gone viral! Here's an article that featured the lovely Daniel Tohill.
'Arresting photo gets half a million viral hits' in 'The New Zealand Herald'