While Marion Wassenaar’s exhibition in the fitting shop has been the subject of previous blogs, tonight’s blog records a very special occasion. Marion, as required for her Masters of Fine Arts degree, has opened two exhibitions, one at the Gasworks Museum and the other at the Otago Polytechnic Dunedin School of Art Gallery. The Gasworks [...]
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A Special Gift
April 4, 2013
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Students, Snaks and Steam
January 15, 2013
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Today the museum hosted day 2 of the 3 day event from the University of Otago – Hands on Science “snaks” program, introducing prospective new students to the educational opportunities available here in Dunedin. Over 3 days at the Gas works museum, young minds have/will have, had the opportunity to start and stop steam machines, [...]
Volunteers – Thank you
December 16, 2012
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Today Trust Board members Kirsten and Jasmine organised, prepared the food, purchased the drinks and hosted a thank you afternoon tea for our small, but dedicated group of volunteers. Well done ladies, we appreciate your efforts. Later, after the public closing Tom and John continued operating the machines for a music video filming session. The film shoot, [...]
Plumbers’, Builders’, Journalist’s and Students’
August 21, 2012
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Another busy work day. The plumbers were on-site to attend to the roof leaks. Contractors continued work on the replacement Braemar street fence. Volunteer routine maintenance included continued machine protection work and fuel transfer. We hosted a Otago Polytech student group, who, as part of their studies, are assisting with the organisation of the up-coming [...]
GOLDEN YEARS OF GAS – FIRED UP GASWORKS SPECIAL !
March 21, 2011
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Busy Times ahead for the museum!
January 12, 2011
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Tue Jan 18 @12:00 – 04:00PM Tuesday Workday / Open day University “Hands on Science” in the afternoon Sun Jan 23 @12:00 – 04:00PM Open Day 12 noon -4pm Tue Jan 25 @12:00 – 04:00PM Tuesday Workday / Open day Tue Feb 01 @12:00 – 04:00PM Tuesday Workday / Open day Sun Feb 06 @12:00 [...]
St Bernadette’s School Visit
November 23, 2010
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A HUGE thanks to you and all the guys involved in our visit today. What a fantastic trip. The children loved it, and will be talking about it for awhile. We really appreciate the child friendly atmosphere you ALL created. … It’s our pleasure please come and visit us again.
A good day, A good visitor turnout, Adieu
October 3, 2010
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A good clutch of visitors at today’s open day. Mums and children, families, senior couples, and individuals completed the mix. Also today we ran an introductory session for prospective new volunteers. It was a good day, with the engineering and FOH staff all in agreement – visitors are what makes our place tick! Jessica enjoyed [...]
Education, Entertainment, (old) Engineering.
September 19, 2010
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Open day today. and a good trickle of visitors. Jessica, our exchange student intern brought along some of her friends, all German exchange students studying for a tourism degree with Otago Polytech. – John Heaven
Snow on the hills and workday today
August 10, 2010
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Cold winds at the open/work day, and we all chose to work indoors where possible. Routine maintenance continued, and John updated the volunteers on recent happenings at Board level and in our Marketing and PR efforts. Novagas approached us for use of the resource room for a couple of days later this week, to which [...]
