News from Te Papa last week is that award-winning Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota will unveil a fully immersive installation, The Web of Time, which draws on ideas of the cosmos, human existence, and the potential for the future, as the fourth site-responsive commission for Te Papa’s Threshold gallery. This will run between 12 December 2020 […]
Read more |October 22, 2020
Grab your members’ ticket today and experience World of WearableArt like never before. A theatrical journey and immersive exhibition that invites you to get up close to the extraordinary garments and explore limitless creativity.
Read more |September 4, 2020
Friends members have a special rate to enter the exhibition Terracotta Warriors: Guardians of Immortality of $16. Terracotta Warriors: Guardians of Immortality offers a rare opportunity to have an intimate and immersive encounter with some of the remarkable ancient terracotta warriors. For more than 2,000 years, they secretly guarded the tomb of Qin Shihuang, China’s First Emperor. Discovered […]
Read more |January 7, 2019
The display of over 50 wonders of the world made entirely from LEGO bricks, and which has attracted well over 50,000 visitors, will now close on Sunday 18 February (end of day).
Read more |January 30, 2018
Head of History and Pacific Cultures Dr Bronwyn Labrum says: “This nostalgic look at our past has been a real winner with visitors but it’s time to take a fresh look at ourselves, to review the last 20 years and to think about what comes next.”
Read more |August 16, 2017
Regular Fragile is one of Liu Jianhua signature works. Cast in white porcelain, it comprises 1500 everyday objects such as those found in his home while he was growing up; torches, bananas, hammers, stilettos and many more items.
Read more |August 4, 2016
Te Papa is planning a major short term exhibition and would like your opinion about the concept they are developing. As a Friend
Read more |November 5, 2013
Te Papa staff are busy working on a major exhibition about New Zealand’s role in the First World War to mark the centenaries of the outbreak of the War next year and of the Gallipoli campaign in 2015. It will feature a recreation by Weta Workshop of living conditions in the ANZAC trenches at Gallipoli […]
Read more |September 18, 2013
Miss Universe 1983 has handed over her crown one final time – this time to Te Papa.
Read more |September 12, 2013
These major exhibitions will be closing over the next few weeks – make sure that you see them before they do
Read more |August 1, 2013
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