Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira

There's Auckland Harbour Bridge.

There's the Auckland War Memorial Museum.

There's the Auckland Art Gallery.

They're all lighting themselves up in bright pink for Diwali.

He expects them to be directly affected by the government's rates cap and says tough trade-offs will soon need to be made.

Auckland Museum expects more than 100,000 people to visit its exhibition of the world's only triceratops herd.

The skeletons of the five animals discovered in Wyoming around a decade ago provided rare evidence triceratops may have lived in a herd.

Museum spokesperson Victoria Travers says it was a watershed in paleontology.

The world's only known Triceratops herd is coming to Auckland Museum.

It is a chance to come face to face with five fossil skeletons of one of the most iconic dinosaur species.

Victoria Travers is the Director of Audience Engagement at the Auckland Museum and joins us now.

Kia ora, good morning, Victoria.

Ata maria, Ingrid.

We've been forecasting reasonably conservatively because there's not a lot of money out there at the moment, but we're expecting well over 100,000 people to be coming through the show.

Okay, sounds great.

Thank you very much, Victoria Travis there, Director of Audience Engagement at the Auckland Museum.

I think New Zealand does really great now.

And we are very fortunate that these collections like Te Papa, Auckland Museum and us have funding to preserve the natural history of New Zealand.

Ines Schoenberger of the Allen Herbarium talking to me there from Lincoln.

My name's Kadambri Raghukumar, and every week I produce an episode of the Here Now podcast, which you can find on all your favourite podcast platforms, as well as on the RNZ website and on RNZ National at 1.45pm every Monday.

That's right.

We've got a chat at around 8 o'clock with someone from the Auckland Museum to chat about their night at the museum, next night at the museum.

What would we call that?

Programme? Production? Production.

But in the next 20 minutes or so, we've got an interview coming up, eh, Lee?

That's right.

About 8 o'clock, we're going to be chatting with Joe from the Auckland Museum.

And Joe's going to be telling us about the new Night at the Auckland Museum production that they're putting on.

Our korero for today.

When we visit the Auckland War Memorial Museum or attend Anzac services, these words are often seen or mentioned, "Let us never forget." Let us not forget wars, but also let us not forget other shameful actions of our past.

A few weeks ago, I did a service on colonization, and the massive losses and injustices to Maori.

I've also talked previously about racism, and its negative effects on society.

Several of the galleries at the Auckland War Memorial Museum are set to remain closed until 2029.

The immediate issue is asbestos.

Thousands of taonga have to receive specialist cleaning as a result.

Last year, a 19-year-old Canadian trying to enter Auckland was arrested when 15 kilograms of methamphetamine was found in his luggage.

Auckland Museum hopes to be free of asbestos by the middle of next year, but the Māori and Pacific galleries won't reopen until 2029.

The galleries have been closed since the toxic dust was discovered in May last year.

Chief Executive David Rhee says clearing it is painstaking work and there's a lot more to go.