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Friends Tour to Hawke’s Bay

We are delighted to announce the next Friends weekend tour to Hawke’s Bay where you will enjoy some highlights the region has to offer, fine art, fine food and fine wine.

Read more |February 5, 2014

Ngā Toi | Arts Te Papa

On 19 October the spring season opened with five new exhibitions in the galleries on Level 5…

Read more |November 27, 2013

Rebecca Rice

In upcoming issues of Open Eyes we will be profiling some of the talented people who work at Te Papa. We are beginning with the curatorial team and this month we introduce Rebecca Rice, Curator Historical New Zealand art…

Read more |November 27, 2013

Te Papa in China

In December 2012, Open Eyes, Issue 114, we reported on an amazing achievement for New Zealand and Te Papa – now China will reciprocate by…

Read more |November 27, 2013

Peonies – a successful sale!

For two hours on Thursday 14 November our small team, Aloema, Bev, Shona, Gordon, and I and over 20 huge boxes of peonies, squashed into the small control room near the staff entrance, sold 394 bunches of the most glorious white peonies Duchess de Nemours. The stunning blooms slowly unfurled and released a subtle perfume […]

Read more |November 27, 2013

WFFM Congress in Berlin

The Friends of Te Papa are an Associate Member of the World Federation of Friends of Museums (WFFM) and being a Friend of Te Papa you are invited to attend the XVth World Congress of the World Federation of Friends of Museums to be held in Berlin, Wednesday 14 May – Sunday 18 May 2014. […]

Read more |November 25, 2013

The Alexander Palace revisited

The Alexander Palace at Tsarskoye Selo was a favourite summer home of tsars and was the principal residence of the last imperial family until 1917. Former Te Papa Director, Paul Brewer…

Read more |November 25, 2013

Diary of the CCCRC Intern

“… we have been looking at museum administration matters such as collection insurance. This is the type of thing that was certainly covered in my Museum Studies course, but I guess like a number of things it is something that got tucked away in the back of my mind …”

Read more |November 7, 2013

Springtime tours for art lovers

On four mornings in spring a full bus set off from Te Papa for day trips to Porirua, Masterton, Upper Hutt and Hutt City to visit the art museums …

Read more |November 6, 2013

Science Live: Whalebirds

In July 2011 New Zealand experienced its largest seabird wreck in history, when around 300,000 whalebirds or prions died as a result of a severe storm over New Zealand. They are one of the most common seabirds in the Southern hemisphere and can usually ride out storms but not this one…

Read more |November 5, 2013