NZCCM CONFERENCE 2023

Come and join us this October at NZCCM 2023 - an excellent opportunity to connect and engage with speakers, diverse professionals across conservation sector and partners. We are looking forward to welcoming everyone in Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau!

Announcement & Theme

This year’s theme is: Conservation in Aotearoa New Zealand: Inside and Outside // Ki Roto, Ki Waho

The field of conservation in Aotearoa New Zealand is a landscape which is complex, dynamic and ever evolving. As cultural heritage material experts, we work in collaboration with indigenous communities, the GLAM sector, and leaders in other fields of knowledge, to produce outcomes that ensure the wellbeing of collection objects and the people connected to them. This work can take place within large urban institutions, smaller regional organisations, or private practice, and each setting has their own individual challenges. Outside pressures such as climate change and funding availability also have an impact on our work, and often require outside-the-box problem solving to achieve the best results for the collection objects and people involved.

Ko te manu e kai ana i te miro, nōnā te ngahere

Ko te manu e kai ana i te mātauranga, nōnā te ao.

The bird that consumes the miro berries, will own the bush

The bird that consumes knowledge will own the world.

The conference will be held at Auckland War Memorial Museum, Tāmaki Paenga Hira, 17-19 October 2023 in the museum's Under the Dome event space. The conference will feature two days of presentations and posters alongside an industry trade fair, with the third day devoted to tours and workshop opportunities.

You can find information on conference location, travel directions, parking and floor plans here.

NZCCM 2023 - Conference Programme

We are finally ready to share our finalised schedule! Our three days together consists two keynotes and a series of themed blocks of presentations. Our final day consists of a variety of tours and workshops around various institutions here in Tāmaki Makaurau.

The response to our conference theme Conservation in Aotearoa New Zealand: Inside and Outside // Ki Roto, Ki Waho has been strong, and we’ve had four key topic threads emerge.

The first topic is what we’re calling Community and Conservation. These talks and gallery tours explore how conservation works both inside GLAM institutions and in our communities, including the challenge of adapting conservation ethics to Māori landscapes.

Our second topic is Disaster Response. After the year that we’ve had, we’re not surprised that so many of us have experiences in disaster planning, response and recovery that need to be shared! We’ve got a variety of speakers that will focus on this area, including a talk on the response to Cyclone Gabrielle, and a 3-hour workshop that will cover risk identification, reduction and readiness.

The third topic we’ve named Environment Management. This section includes talks and workshops on the wide range of external factors that influence the safety of our collections, including lighting levels and construction dust, vibrations and pests, temperature and relative humidity. We have two workshops in this theme - an anoxic treatment pest management workshop at Auckland Museum’s offsite store, and a Microfading workshop in the conservation lab at Auckland Museum.

Our final topic is Conservation Projects. This is where we’ll share some of the awesome mahi that has taken place this year, in gallery tours, lightning talks, and tours of offsite storage facilities at MOTAT and the Auckland Council Archives.

We’re looking forward to seeing you all soon, and we hope you’re all as excited as we are. Registration closes on the 8th of October!

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Registration

Registration for NZCCM Conference 2023 is closed now!!!

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Call for Scholarship Applications

NZCCM encourages the participation of our students and members in our annual conferences to foster close ties between Conservators at different stages in their careers or alternate approaches within professional practice. This year, we are offering registration scholarships for our members who might not otherwise be able to attend.

We are offering x 5 scholarships for student attendance
For student applications, you will be asked to upload your student ID
We are offering x 5 additional scholarships for non-Auckland based attendance

Closing date for applications is 15 September 2023.

Call for Sponsorship - Partner with Us

The NZCCM conference is a great way to advertise your brand and promote cultural heritage. We would like to invite you to partner with us and participate through one or more of our sponsorship and trade opportunities.

Benefits to your organization include:

The opportunity to utilise the conference experience to showcase your organisation’s contribution in the field of heritage preservation
Connections to source new business leads and maintain relationships with existing customers and suppliers

Past sponsors include Conservation Supplies, Tru Vue, ERCO Lighting, Alexander Turnbull Library, MOTAT, Tryptich, and Port Nicholson Packaging.

If you would like to find out more information about our sponsorship and trade opportunities, head over to our Partners page.

Partner Sponsorship form ->>> Click Here

Key Dates

Call for scholarships, presentations, tours and workshops opens - 2 June 2023
Registration opens - 15 June 2023
Closing date for scholarship applications - 15 September 2023
Closing date for presentation submissions and tour / workshop proposals - 9 August 2023
Confirmation to scholarship recipients - 29 September 2023
Confirmation to presentation authors and tour /workshop hosts by committee - 15 August 2023
Conference ticket registration closure and last day for cancellation refund - 8 October 2023