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Talk: Hundertwasser: Art, Architecture and Environment

Te Huinga Centre, Level 3, Te Papa 55 Cable Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

The Hundertwasser Art Centre with Wairau Māori Art Gallery celebrates art and architecture in harmony with nature and individual creativity. The Austrian New Zealand artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser was first and foremost a painter, but became involved in architecture and environmental activism because of his concerns about the exploitation of natural resources and ruthless urbanisation and industrialisation.

$25.00 – $30.00

Friends Preview: Dinosaurs of Patagonia

Amokura Gallery, L4, Te Papa Te Papa, 55 Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

***All tickets allocated***See it first and see it free! Be the first to see Ngā Taniwha o Rūpapa | Dinosaurs of Patagonia presented by the Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio in Argentina. This exclusive preview is available to Friends of Te Papa members on Friday 15 December, while the exhibition will open to the public on […]

Free

Day Trip to Pencarrow Lighthouse

Join us for a day trip this summer under the expert guidance of geologist, paleontologist and Emeritus Scientist Hamish Campbell.  We will take a leisurely drive around the harbour, as Hamish explains the Wellington Harbour, Wellington Fault, Wairarapa Fault, and Crustal and Active processes.  We will stop Eastbourne, before heading into East Harbour Regional Park and stopping at Pencarrow Lighthouse, where we will hear about it's history.  Next, we'll take a walk along the track around Lake Kohangapiripiri, and then find a nice place to stop and enjoy our lunch

$80.00

Touring Wellington’s Built Heritage

Te Huinga Centre, Level 3, Te Papa 55 Cable Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Many Friends travel widely to explore areas of historical interest and to enjoy built heritage sites.  Our own Wellington neighbourhood has a variety of sites that present a full range of architectural interest and styles. Join Historic Places Wellington Chairperson Felicity Wong as she talks to us about some of her favorite local heritage places.

$25.00 – $30.00

Rita Angus, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and New Zealand’s Medieval Modernism

Te Huinga Centre, Level 3, Te Papa 55 Cable Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Rita Angus’s portrait of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams is one of the only portraits she painted of someone she had never met, and perhaps as a result has been less considered. Join us as New Zealand Art historian Michael Moore-Jones explores the cultural, intellectual and social world surrounding Angus’s wartime painting of the English composer, […]

$25.00 – $30.00

Tasmania: History and Heritage Tour

***Fully Booked*** This tour includes some exclusive experiences not open to the general public and expert guides such as an historian, a geologist and an ecologist for a deeper insight into Tasmanian landscape, history and heritage. Come and join us on this amazing one-off adventure limited to 20 participants.

Museums and Mauri: Who Really Cares? The Tensions Between Kaitiakitanga and Museology

Te Huinga Centre, Level 3, Te Papa 55 Cable Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Join Dr Jamie Metzger to learn about the concept of Mauri in the context of museology. Taonga (treasured ancestral resources) are imbued with many unique elements, one of those is known as mauri (energy). Māori take a holistic view of the environment, believing that all things are interconnected by mauri. The presence of mauri and […]

$20.00 – $25.00

Marc Chagall, Paris and the Russian Avant-Garde

Soundings Theatre, Level 2 Te Papa 55 Cable Street, Wellington, New Zealand

Friends of Te Papa and Te Papa Foundation, in conjunction with Arts Society Wellington, are delighted to offer you this very special opportunity to here from renowned Courtauld Institute of Art lecturer and BBC contributor Dr Natalia Murray. In this talk we will take 1910 as a starting point – the year when the term […]

$25.00 – $30.00

Floor Talk: Encounters – The Portrait Room

Toi Art, Level 4, Te Papa Te Papa, 55 Cable Street, Wellington, New Zealand

The portrait room, Nga tai whakarongorua | Encounters, has been at the heart of Te Papa’s Toi Art galleries since their opening in 2018. We’ll be saying goodbye to these much-loved faces very soon. Join Dr Rebecca Rice, Curator Historical New Zealand Art, before the gallery closes, to hear about the ideas underpinning the exhibition, […]

$20.00 – $25.00

The Unsettled: The Forgotten Corners of our Settler-Colonial Histories and What We Can Do About Them

Te Huinga Centre, Level 3, Te Papa 55 Cable Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Join author Richard Shaw as he takes us through his new book, The Unsettled (2024, MUP), which is based on responses he received to an earlier account of his great-grandfather’s participation in the invasion of Parihaka and the farming of confiscated land in Taranaki. Richard will reflect on the reasons why troubling aspects of our […]

$25.00 – $30.00