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Pataka Revival Tour

Pataka Art + Museum, Porirua Cnr Norrie and Parumoana Streets, Porirua, New Zealand

Join the Friends’ tour of the new exhibitions showing at the refurbished galleries at Pataka Art + Museum. Mark Hutchins-Pond, Contemporary Art Curator at Pataka, and Alice Masters, Social History Curator at Pataka will lead the tour. We will see work by Damie Mellor, Owen Mapp, and exhibitions Whiti Te Ra and and Puiaki...

$15.00

Elizabeth Thomson at Page Blackie

Page Blackie Gallery 42 Victoria Street, Wellington, New Zealand

Join the Friends on an early evening visit to Page Blackie Gallery to meet Elizabeth Thomson and view her latest exhibition - “My Titirangi Years”. Elizabeth works at the interface between art and various forms of natural science.

$18.00 – $22.00

Bill Culbert at Hopkinson Mossman

Hopkinson Mossman Gallery Level 2, 22 Garrett Street, Wellington

Join the Friends of Te Papa for a visit to Hopkinson Mossman Gallery to meet and hear artist Bill Culbert talk about his new exhibition Bill Culbert, opening at the gallery on 19 October 2018.

$12.00 – $15.00

Historic Far North tour

Around Waitangi and the Bay of Islands

Paihia, Russell, Waitangi, Kerikeri all conjure up memories of early European history in New Zealand. As well as visiting the Waitangi Treaty grounds with Treaty expert Dame Claudia Orange, you will visit Waimate North for a tour of the Te Waimate Mission...

Botany Collection Tour

Te Papa. Meet at the Information Desk on Level 2 55 Cable Street, Wellington

Join a small group of Friends and see botanical treasures up close on this behind-the-scenes experience at Te Papa, Cable Street.

$20.00 – $25.00

Historic Canterbury tour

In and around Canterbury, Christchurch and Governor's Bay

Highlights will include travel to visit Terrace Station the home of Sir John Hall, and to Governors Bay to view Ohinetahi, home and notable garden of Sir Miles Warren.  Art galleries and museums...

Local Art Tour – Studio of Elizabeth Thomson

Elizabeth Thomson's Studio 307 Mansfield Street, Newtown, Wellington

Elizabeth Thomson is one of New Zealand’s leading artists, and has for three decades produced works of technical virtuosity that consider interplay between art and forms of natural science. Elizabeth is a self-proclaimed interdisciplinary and conceptual artist and works with a range of sculpture, painting and photography.

$20.00 – $25.00

Historic Whanganui Tour

Highlights will include exclusive tours of some of the town’s beautifully restored heritage buildings, including private homes and the recently restored St Paul’s Memorial Church at Putiki, near Whanganui, and behind-the-scenes tours of selected art galleries and museums with specialist local guides and experts.

Tour: Classics Museum at VUW

Classics Museum, Victoria University of Wellington VUW Kelburn Campus, Old Kirk Building, Level 5, Kelburn, Wellington

Join us on this special opportunity to visit the Classics Museum at the Victoria University of Wellington. Our tour will be lead by Dr Diana Burton, Director of Classics, School of Languages and Cultures will lead the tour.
Numbers are limited be sure to get in quick.

$15.00 – $18.00

Tour: Millers O’Brien Gallery Visit

Level 1 Mibar Building 85 Victoria Street, Wellington, New Zealand

Visit the Millers O’Brien Gallery to see 3 new exhibitions, Always Forever Now, Nobody Believe You (Bad Luck) and Salt Pillars. Painting, photography and stoneware are combined in the exhibition and speak to a collective memory, and the natural and urban landscape of Aotearoa New Zealand. 

$15.00 – $18.00