“Tell me a story”

Interpreting Our Heritage

ICOMOS Aotearoa New Zealand

& Historic Places Aotearoa

Joint Conference 2025
 

9–12 October 2025, Napier
Womens’ Rest Building, Clive Square, Napier
 

New Zealand’s rich cultural heritage has been packaged, presented and interpreted in many ways over the past 100 years. Much has changed - the audience, the purpose, the technology and the method.

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This conference explores how our stories are told and who gets to tell them. Through museums, signage, landscape, film, digital media and more, we ask:

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Who is the audience?

What story is being told - and by whom?

How do we know when we’ve got it right?

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