The twenty-seventh Annual General Meeting of Museums Aotearoa Te Tari o ngā Whare Taonga o Te Motu, The Museums of New Zealand Inc will be held at:

Museums Aotearoa

169 Tory Street, Wellington

9-11am, Wednesday 11 June 2025

Note that this meeting will be online only. Voting will be held during the meeting via show of hands and by proxy, which is allowed for in our rules.

RSVP by 5.00pm Wednesday 28 May 2025 to receive a link to attend the meeting. We cannot manage late registrations, so please register early.

Register to join the Online Meeting

Agenda

Opening karakia

• Apologies
• Confirm previous minutes; 2024 AGM Minutes
• Matters Arising
• Chair update
• Adopt annual report and audited accounts
• Election of Board Members
• Appointment of Auditors: Moore Markhams to be reappointed.
• Vote: To adopt updated Museums Aotearoa Code of Ethics content and process. Read about the changes here - coming soon
• Vote: To adopt the updated Mina McKenzie deed. Read about the changes here
• Vote: Museums Aotearoa 2 x Board member
• Vote: To approve Jane Legget as Honorary Lifetime Member to Museums Aotearoa
• CE update
• General Business

Closing karakia.

Please forward any items for the Agenda to Museums Aotearoa by Wednesday 28 May 2025 via mail@museumsaotearoa.org.nz

MA Board Elections 2025

Museums Aotearoa is now operating under a new constitution that was adopted at the 2024 AGM.

• The MA Board consists of 6-8 people
• The Board may indicate specific skills which it considers desirable
• This current Board has opted to have seven people on the Board

Two Board positions will become available at this AGM due to resignations from two incumbent Board members.

One additional Board member is coming to the end of their first three-year term and has nominated to stand for another term, as per Museums Aotearoa’s rules.

Nominations

Two Board positions are open for contention, to be decided at the AGM by voting MA members.

If you wish to be considered for a Board position, please use the Board Nomination Form.

Nominations must be made in writing on the specified form and received by 5.00pm Monday 12 May 2025 by email to: mail@museumsaotearoa.org.nz.

This information will be open for viewing by voting members, on the MA website (behind member login).

Due to our change of constitution in 2024, we no longer have minimum numbers of institutional and individual members as board members. The definition of a member is an employee of an institution that has paid membership fees or an individual who has paid their fee, collectively known as "Ordinary Members".

Current Elected Board members:

Current Board members with three-year terms indicated. Two Board members have resigned, opening elections for Board seats:

• Eloise Wallace - Second Term 2021 – 2024 & 2025-2027
• Lucinda Jimson - Second Term 2021 – 2024, 2025 Resigned
• Susanna Shadbolt - Second Term 2021 – 2024, 2025 Resigned
• David Reeves - First Term 2022 – 2025 Reappointed
• Janneen Love - First Term 2023 – 2026
• Jadene Hunia Te Wha Huff - First Term 2023 – 2026
• Carolyn Roberts-Thompson - First Term 2023 – 2026