Museums Aotearoa's own events page lists no conference in Dunedin for 2026. Its confirmed 2026 national events are a Leadership Summit in Auckland in May and a Regional Hui series from 11 October, neither of which is a Dunedin conference.
No official confirmation could be found for a Museums Aotearoa conference in Dunedin on 16 September 2026. The organisation's current events listing shows only a Strategy 2026-2029 presentation on 31 August and a Regional Hui series from 11 October as national gatherings for the remainder of the year, alongside the year's headline event — a Leadership Summit held in Auckland in May, hosted by Auckland Zoo with MOTAT and Auckland Art Gallery. None reference Dunedin, the Dunedin Centre, or a conference under that name.
A genuine "MA Conference 2026" does exist, but it belongs to the United Kingdom's Museums Association, an unrelated body — a plausible source of the confusion given the shared shorthand. This listing is held as a directory stub pending direct confirmation from Museums Aotearoa.
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RECE Conference 2026, the 32nd Annual International Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education Conference, is confirmed for 20-24 November 2026 in Dunedin, hosted by the University of Otago College of Education.
IVCNZ 2026, the 41st Image and Vision Computing New Zealand conference, is confirmed for 18–20 November 2026 at St Margaret's College on the University of Otago campus in Dunedin, hosted by the University's School of Computing with a live call for papers and IEEE Xplore proceedings.
Dunedin conference venues that hold 650 or more delegates theatre-style, ranked by capacity.
Agritech Unleashed 2026 lands in Dunedin on 12 November 2026 at the University of Otago's Otago Business School, the South Island leg of AgriTech New Zealand's three-city regional series.
Dunedin's unique event venues — the Railway Station, Olveston, museums, cathedrals and theatres — for conferences, galas and functions.
The New Zealand Coastal Society holds its 34th annual conference at Tuhura Otago Museum in Dunedin from 9-12 November 2026 under the theme 'Building coastal resilience through collaboration'.