Textile Clinic

Not sure how to store or look after your textile treasures and heirlooms? Bring your item to Te Papa and discuss with a textile conservator. The limit is one item only.

$5.00

Textile Clinic – October 2014

Not sure how to store or look after your textile treasures and heirlooms? Bring your item to Te Papa and discuss with a textile conservator. The limit is one item only.

Payable on the day

Textile Clinic – February 2015

Not sure how to store or look after your textile treasures and heirlooms? Bring your item to Te Papa and discuss with a textile conservator.

Cash payment on the day

Inside the Old Public Trust building

This is a rare chance to go inside the Old Public Trust Building which is currently undergoing a significant seismic upgrade.

$12.00

Inside the Old Public Trust building (ii)

This is a rare chance to go inside the Old Public Trust Building which is currently undergoing a significant seismic upgrade.

$12.00

Textile Clinic – September 2015

Not sure how to store or look after your textile treasures and heirlooms? Bring your item to Te Papa and discuss it with a textile conservator.

$5.00

Conserving Chatham Island tree carvings

Hear about the ingenuity, painstaking work, and team collaboration behind saving the fragile and fast-declining rākau momori – Chatham Islands ancestral carvings on living trees.

$15.00 – $39

Very rare indeed

The International History collections at Te Papa include rare and historic objects with global origins, collected during the era of Te Papa’s antecedent, the Dominion Museum. Conservator Anne Peranteau will discuss some of these, focusing on African textiles and collector Desmond Bovey will talk about his interests that led to him building a significant collection of traditional African art.

$18.00 – $25.00

Tudor and Jacobean portraits

This lecture is a feast for the eyes! It describes the oil painting materials and techniques of the portrait painters of the Tudor and Jacobean courts in 16th and early 17th century England. Presented by Sarah Cove, one of Britain’s foremost Technical Art Historians and consultant to international museums, salerooms and collectors.

Free – $20.00

Friends Takeover Night 2021

Te Papa Assemble at the Main Entrance Foyer

A night where Friends of Te Papa get the whole museum to themselves. Go behind-the-scenes, hear from our experts, listen to live music, shop, eat and drink, and experience the museum like no-one else.

Free – $25.00