Up to $300,000 of contestable funding is now available to support community events celebrating our national day and commemorating the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister Paul Goldsmith says.

A national commemoration will be held at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park in Wellington at 11am on Tuesday 16 September 2025, to honour the service and sacrifice of New Zealanders who served in military operations in Malaya and Malaysia between 1948 and 1966.

Merchant Navy Day will be marked by a national commemoration on Wednesday 3 September at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park in Wellington. Please join us to mark this Merchant Navy Day at Pukeahu, and remember the efforts and people.

The Government has published its strategy to boost Kiwis’ engagement with the arts, grow the sector’s economic contribution and create more jobs.

The grants support historians, researchers and writers who are working on non-fiction projects that will significantly enhance our understanding of New Zealand’s past

The National War Memorial at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park has been made a National Historic Landmark of Aotearoa New Zealand. The programme celebrates and safeguards our key national sites so everyone can appreciate their stories and significance for generations to come.

The new facility in Upper Hutt will house Te Papa’s natural history specimen collection containing more than 860,000 preserved specimens, including the world’s largest collection of New Zealand and Southern Ocean fishes.

Vietnam Veterans’ Day will be marked by a national commemoration on Monday 18 August 2025 held at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park in Wellington.

2025 marks 50 years since The Māori Land March, the establishment of the Waitangi Tribunal and the Māori electoral option.