Creepy Crawlies

3 Dec 2022 to 6 Feb 2023

Taupō Museum

Location: Main and Niven Room galleries at the Taupō Museum

Times: 10am to 4.30pm daily

Cost: Entry is free for locals and tamariki, otherwise $5 for adults, and $3 for seniors and students

Reused and recycled art exhibition of Creepy Crawlies at Taupō Museum
Cats, dogs, birds, bicycles and aquatics, the Taupō Museum’s annual reused, recycled exhibition themes always invite a wide range of creative interpretations.

This year’s exhibition, with the theme Creepy Crawlies, has been highly ant-icipated and creative people from professional artists to school groups have swarmed to the museum to enter.

There are a range of creepy crawly creatures that have bee-n created, from all sorts of recycled materials including driftwood, vinyl records, fur balls, cutlery, and toys.

Mount View School has embraced the theme by participating in a rubbish pick-up and creepy crawly making workshop with Taupō District Council waste minimisation officer Shannon Hanson.

“Some of the rubbish we collected we deemed as good art materials and these were separated and cleaned,” she says.

“The students partnered up and created a creepy crawly of their choosing out of the salvaged materials. It was amazing how creative and industrious they were.

“Some created real insects with acute attention to detail and others created made-up creatures with special powers. It was a great lesson on repurposing materials that could be considered as ‘trash’ and turning them into something interesting.”

Other local groups inspired to get involved with the Creepy Crawlies exhibition include Kids Greening Taupō, which is providing content for interactive activities in the Niven Room, and Enviroschools, which will hold reuse, recycle creepy crawly themed workshops during the January school holidays.

The Creepy Crawlies exhibition is showing in both the Main and Niven Room galleries at the Taupō Museum from 2 December to 6 February. Taupō Museum is open seven days from 10am to 4.30pm. Entry is free for locals and tamariki, otherwise $5 for adults, and $3 for seniors and students.