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Reading Group: 27 March 2025

Reading Room, Mezzanine, L4, Te Papa Te Papa, 55 Cable Street, Wellington, New Zealand

Our Reading Group takes place on the third and fourth Thursday of the month. Thursday 27 March: Central Otago Couture: The Eden Hore Collection, by Jane Malthus and Claire Regnault, photographs by Derek Henderson. A fascinating record of high-end New Zealand fashion and an enigmatic collector. Claire Regnault will join us for Q&A. In 1975, […]

Free

Workshop: Adornment and Identity

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

To continue celebrating Te Papa’s awe-inspiring Vivienne Westood & Jewellery exhibition, Museum Education Specialist Laura Jones will lead us through a fun and engaging session to explore identity through adornment.

$30.00 – $35.00

Day Trip: War in the Wellington Landscape

Join New Zealand's best-known historian, Jock Phillips for a special day trip around Wellington's war memorials. This guided tour is intended to highlight the visible evidence of the substantial impact of war on the Wellington region. The tour will begin with a visit to the major sites of war in the Hutt Valley from 1846, […]

$150.00

Reading Group: 17 April 2025 – Cancelled

Reading Room, Mezzanine, L4, Te Papa Te Papa, 55 Cable Street, Wellington, New Zealand

Our Reading Group takes place on the third and fourth Thursday of the month. Thursday 17 April: This Reading Group is CANCELLED.

Free

Reading Group 24 April 2025: Whiti – Colossal Squid of the Deep

Reading Room, Mezzanine, L4, Te Papa Te Papa, 55 Cable Street, Wellington, New Zealand

Our Reading Group takes place on the third and fourth Thursday of the month. Thursday 24 April: Whiti: Colossal Squid of the Deep - By Victoria Cleal, illustrated by Isobel Joy Te Aho-White. Especially for the school holidays, bring along your children and grandchildren and dive into the mysterious world of the Colossal Squid, joined by author […]

Free

Hills Hats Tour – 30 April

**SOLD OUT** Join us for an exclusive tour of Hills Hats, a Wellington institution since 1875, personally guided by Rosie Smuts-Kennedy, and a unique opportunity to be fitted for your own hat! Our tour will start with a brief introduction of Hills hats, established in 1875 and its history. We'll then see and learn about […]

$20.00 – $25.00

Hills Hats Tour – 7 May

Join us for an exclusive tour of Hills Hats, a Wellington institution since 1875, personally guided by Rosie Smuts-Kennedy, and a unique opportunity to be fitted for your own hat! Our tour will start with a brief introduction of Hills hats, and its history. We'll then see and learn about the creative process from cutting, […]

$20.00 – $25.00

Reading Group 15 May 2025: Marsden Books

Reading Room, Mezzanine, L4, Te Papa Te Papa, 55 Cable Street, Wellington, New Zealand

Our Reading Group takes place on the third and fourth Thursday of the month. The next is installment is Thursday 15 May: Bryony Hogg from Marsden Books will share with us her top picks for the month, this month she'll discuss: The Book of Guilt from Catherine Chidgey as her fiction pick, and Everything is Tuberculosis […]

Free

What Lies Beneath – Archaeological Walk – 18 May

Te Papa 55 Cable Street, Wellington

***Postponed from 3 May*** Mary O’Keeffe is a professional archaeologist who has been lurking about digging around under Wellington for about 30 years.  In this walk and talk she’ll take you to some of the inner-city sites she’s worked on, tell the stories of the sites, and talk about what this archaeological data can tell […]

$25.00

Reading Group 22 May 2025: Groundwork: The Art and Writing of Emily Cumming Harris

Reading Room, Mezzanine, L4, Te Papa Te Papa, 55 Cable Street, Wellington, New Zealand

Our Reading Group takes place on the third and fourth Thursday of the month. Te Papa Press, Thursday 22 May: Groundwork: The Art and Writing of Emily Cumming Harris By Michele Leggott and Catherine Field-Dodgson We will be joined by co-author Catherine Field-Dodgson for Q & A. She’ll also bring along copies of Emily’s hand-coloured flowers, […]

Free