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22 February 2010
To celebrate Auckland's Festival of Sailing, Voyager invites Aucklanders to discover how it all began. Betwee 1-31 March, adult admission to the museum galleries is just $5 for Auckland region residents, with free admission for accompanying children aged 14 years and under.
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19 February 2010
The Blue Water Black Magic exhibition is a fitting tribute to Sir Peter Blake and much more besides, writes Boating NZ magazine's Suzanne McFadden.
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11 December 2009
Voyager New Zealand Maritime Museum’s stunning new exhibition, Blue Water Black Magic – A Tribute to Sir Peter Blake, will open to the public with free entry from 1pm on Saturday 12 December. The $9.5m exhibition has been created in partnership with Te Papa with the support of the Blake Family, the New Zealand Government and Auckland City Council.
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24 November 2009
Voyager has reopened the Edmiston Gallery of Maritime Art followed a period of redevelopment which coincided with the Blue Water Black Magic construction. The New Zealand Herald checked out the new-look gallery.
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The NZ Herald also published a photo essay on the back page just a few days later.
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21 October 2009
New Zealand Post is issuing a set of five stamps to celebrate five elements of Sir Peter Blake’s life, to coincide with the opening of Blue Water Black Magic - A Tribute to Sir Peter Blake. The stamps will be issued on 25 November, just over two weeks prior to the 12 December opening for Blue Water Black Magic.
The Voyager shop will be selling the Presentation Packs which contain the set of five stamps, Miniature Sheet (containing all five stamps), Miniature Sheet First Day Cover and the set of stamps First Day Cover (both covers will be postmarked 25 November 2009). The presentation packs sell for $29.50 each.
See stamp preview (source: Focus / NZ Post, no.48, Oct 2009)
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7 October 2009
The US owner of treasured footage of Sir Peter Blake's Whitbread Round-The-World campaign in Ceramco has gifted it back to New Zealand, over 20 years after he purchased it from TVNZ. The recipient, Yachting New Zealand, has generously passed it on to the Voyager.
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17 September 2009
The cannon that signals midday for Auckland’s Hobson Wharf has missed its first shot in a decade, following its theft from the NZ National Maritime Museum last night.The empty cannon mount was noticed first thing this morning by Maritime Museum security staff, and CEO Paul Evans is appealing to the would-be ‘pirates’ for its safe return.
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