Tuesday 21 March 2017, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Nicola Legat on Te Papa Press This is your opportunity to hear Te Papa Press publisher Nicola Legat talk about the state of New Zealand’s publishing industry and broader bookstore and writers’ festival environment. $20
Friday 10 August 2018, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Book Launch – Tatau: A Cultural History of Samoan Tattooing Te Papa Store, Te Papa 55 Cable Street, Wellington, New Zealand Join us in the Te Papa Store, surrounded by books for this exclusive Friends launch of 'Tatau: A Cultural History of Samoan Tattooing'. A beautifully designed and richly illustrated retelling of the unique and powerful social history of Samoan tattooing, from 3000 years ago to modern practices. $8.00 – $15.00
Thursday 25 November 2021, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Floortalk: Encounters – Cancelled Toi Art, Level 5, Te Papa Te Papa, 55 Cable Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Join us when Rebecca Rice and Matariki Williams speak about their recent publication at the portrait wall in Toi Art - the most popular art exhibition for Te Papa visitors. $25.00 – $30.00
Thursday 27 January 2022, 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm The Forgotten Coast Te Huinga Centre, Level 3, Te Papa 55 Cable Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Aotearoa New Zealand has a dark colonial past and the reckoning with its legacy has been a long time coming. $20.00 – $30.00
Thursday 9 March 2023, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm High Tea: Celebrating Katherine Mansfield Icon, Level 2, Te Papa Cable Street, Wellington In 1940 the National Art Gallery acquired a striking portrait of Katherine Mansfield, by the American artist Anne Estelle Rice. It is a bold, modern painting, full of colour and pattern, and alive with the rhythm of early 20th-century modernism. $65.00 – $80.00
Thursday 30 March 2023, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Talk: What Isabella wanted: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Boston’s Gilded Age Te Huinga Centre, Level 3, Te Papa 55 Cable Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand ***SOLD OUT*** Hear about the self-assembled collection of art and objects created by Isabella Stewart Gardner, from her first purchase of Johannes Vermeer's The Concert. $25.00 – $30.00
Monday 17 April 2023, 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Book Talk: A History of New Zealand in 100 Objects Te Huinga Centre, Level 3, Te Papa 55 Cable Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand With his recently published “A History of New Zealand in 100 objects”, Jock Phillips creates powerful stories about exhibits in museums, including 24 objects held by Te Papa. $25.00 – $35.00
Friday 5 May 2023, 10:30 am - 11:30 am Local Art Tour: Artists on Artists – Twentysix Gallery Visit Twentysix Gallery 26 Constable Street, Wellington, New Zealand We are delighted to invite you to join us for a personally guided tour of the Artists on Artists exhibition led by curator and exhibiting artist, Lindsey Horne. $20.00 – $25.00
Friday 9 June 2023, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm TALK: Digby-Woolf Photo Digitisation Project Rangimarie, L3, Te Papa Te Papa, 55 Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand With an estimated quarter of a million negatives, The Spencer Digby - Ronald D. Woolf Collection is a treasure trove of images of faces and moments from Wellington’s past. The collection ranges from the 1930s to the 1980s and includes studio portraits, wedding photographs, and shots from community events like wrestling tournaments and cat shows among many other things. $25.00 – $30.00
Thursday 15 June 2023, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Talk: From Rural to Urban: How Indian Textile Artists Adapted During Covid-19 Rangimarie, L3, Te Papa Te Papa, 55 Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand With post-covid borders now open again and tourists returning, Joji and Shani have picked up the metaphorical threads of their connections in India and will talk to us about the impact of the pandemic on the handcrafted textile industry in India, how it has recovered and what changes the pandemic has led to. $25.00 – $30.00