**Sold Out**Te Papa Botany Curator Leon Perrie will introduce the herbarium collection, showcase its highlights, and discuss how it is used. See plants collected during Cook’s first Pacific voyage, engravings from […]
**Sold Out**Go behind the scenes with curators Katie Cooper and Stephanie Gibson to see some of the highlights of Te Papa’s textile and dress collections.
From a bright blue 1890s wedding dress with huge leg of mutton sleeves, to a throw away cellulose dress given out by the Campbell’s Soup Company in the 1960s, the collections represent both mass produced fashion and bespoke one-off garments.
This tour will give an insight into some of the objects and the work curators and collection managers do to care for them.
Our new Reading Group will take place on the first and third Thursday of the month, starting with Sept 5. Each session will showcase a new Te Papa Press book, with monthly […]
Join Museum Education Specialist Laura Jones for an enjoyable session where we use strategies to help us slow down and enjoy looking at art more. Going to an art gallery […]
Reading group 19 September: The wonderful Briony Hogg, owner of Marsden Books will be our guest at the Reading Group next week. She will be showcasing interesting and popular books […]
Join Te Papa’s art curators Lizzie Bisley (Curator Modern Art), Hanahiva Rose (Curator Contemporary Art), Justine Olsen (Curator of Design and Decorative Arts), Lissa Mitchell (Curator Photography), and Athol McCredie (Curator […]
Join Te Papa’s art curators Lizzie Bisley (Curator Modern Art), Hanahiva Rose (Curator Contemporary Art), Justine Olsen (Curator of Design and Decorative Arts), and Athol McCredie (Curator Photography) for an exclusive […]
Reading group 3 October: Te Papa Press will introduce and discuss Leslie Adkin: Farmer Photographer By Athol McCredie. Leslie was a passionate farmer and an even more passionate photographer. He […]
Join textile experts Shani Pillai and Joji Jacob for a one-hour private curators tour of their forthcoming textile exhibition Weaves of the World, showing at the NZ Academy of Fine […]
Join Museum Education Specialist Laura Jones for an enjoyable session where we use strategies to help us slow down and enjoy looking at art more. Following on from our recent […]
