Project 101 - Pop-Up Museum of NZ Ephemera and 1925 Memorabilia

October 22 - 31, 2025

Pop-Up Museum of NZ Ephemera and 1925 Memorabilia

Wall Street Mall. Dunedin

Property Partner: Colliers and Dunedin City Council

Images: Justin Spiers

The Pop-Up Museum of NZ Ephemera and 1925 Memorabilia was created as part of the Ōtepoti Dunedin Heritage Festival, and was a unique pop-up community museum installation in the Wall Street Mall. Community members browsed the Retrowe Museum’s collections of school journals, community cookbooks, anti-nuclear ephemera, and NZ-designed computer games, along with the collection of memorabilia from the 1925 South Seas Exhibition, which was held in Dunedin and hosted over 3 million visitors - still the largest and most successful NZ event on record!

The pop-up also hosted some public programming events. Gini Jory hosted a zine workshop where copies of memorabilia from the pop-up were available to use to create zines.  A kōrero with archeologist Peter Petchey was also held. The talk was centred around the history, excavation and preservation of the Dunedin Corduroy Causeway beneath Wall Street Mall. 

Media

From nuclear war to Y2K in Dunedin exhibition by Sam Henderson, The Star