A special opening event on Friday, 18 September - the anniversary of Auckland's founding - kicks off this year's Auckland Heritage Festival 2009.

27 August 2009 - Over the last 80 years Auckland Museum has sat atop Pukekawa in the Domain, bearing witness to a rapidly expanding and diversifying city. Auckland's skyline at night reveals a busy and bustling metropolis, and the museum will soon be joining it.

A delegation from the small town of Opotiki will make a long awaited journey to the Auckland Museum on the 29th of August to take possession of valuable carvings belonging to the Whakatohea Hapu Ngati Ira, in the Eastern Bay of Plenty.

Almost 70 business leaders will be digging out their old school ties to go back to school and shadow a Manukau school principal during a typical school day on Wednesday 26th August 2009.

The second season of Auckland Museum's popular LATE at the Museum events kicks off with a bang on Thursday, 3 September. The new series called WHEREYAFROM? examines how migration has shaped our nation.

10 August 2009 - From 21 August until the end of the year you can spend your Fridays at Auckland Museum discovering new skills and igniting the imagination.

Jenny Bornholdt has won the 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Awards Poetry prize for her collection The Rocky Shore; a book that judges say has achieved something significantly new in poetic practice in this country.

15 JULY 2009 - Auckland Museum Director Dr Vanda Vitali has expressed shock and great sadness following news of the death of Te Papa Chief Executive Seddon Bennington.

Booksellers New Zealand, administrators of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards has been advised that Next Magazine have published in their August issue, whom they believe has won the Fiction category of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards.

Hopeful Indiana Jones and budding Amelia Earharts have been exploring Auckland Museum - and they've been uncovering all sorts of incredible people, places and prehistoric creatures.