Opening on January 9 is the spectacular stage show from Australia’s leading innovators of physical and visual theatre, Erth Theatre Company. Gondwana: Land of the Giants features full scale puppets, giant inflatable plant life, evocative soundscapes and large projections.

The Story. The Art. The Architecture. is the most significant exhibition of its kind to come to New Zealand. The exhibition includes priceless art and artefacts by some of the world’s greatest names including Michelangelo, Bernini and Giotto.

This school holiday fun continues at Auckland Museum when kids get a first-hand experience of evolution. An incredible journey through changing worlds gives game players the opportunity to morph their way through different life forms from the earliest forms of life 500 million years ago to today.

THE dwarf allosaur may sound small, but 80 million years ago, this flesh-eating carnivore was one of the largest dinosaurs to dominate New Zealand’s pre-historic land mass.

THE dwarf allosaur may sound small, but 80 million years ago, this flesh-eating carnivore was one of the largest dinosaurs to dominate New Zealand’s pre-historic land mass.

THE dwarf allosaur may sound small, but 80 million years ago, this flesh-eating carnivore was one of the largest dinosaurs to dominate New Zealand’s pre-historic land mass.

Gil Hanly’s photographic documentation of major social movements and public events since the early 1970s established her as a pre-eminent recorder of New Zealand’s recent history.

Darwin, the most in-depth exhibition ever mounted on this highly original naturalist and his theory of evolution by natural selection, opened at the Auckland Museum on 29th September 2007. Direct from the American Museum of Natural History in New York this exhibition features the broadest and most complete collection ever assembled of specimens, artifacts, original manuscripts, and memorabilia related to Darwin.

The American Museum of Natural History’s prestigious DARWIN exhibition opens in New Zealand exclusively at Auckland Museum at the end of September and runs through January 18 2008.