Bolton Street Cemetery

Commemorative art is the focus of our tour through the Bolton Street Cemetery. This is Wellington’s oldest cemetery dating from 1840. To the Victorians, memorial symbolism was important and you will see interesting examples of this form of art.

$15.00

Taonga Māori tour

You will visit two collection areas; one housing weaponry, food implements and carving, including pounamu; and the textile collection which holds the largest kakahu (cloaks) collection in the world.

$25.00

A special insight into the exhibition

We will begin our tour at the heart of the exhibition, in the oldest surviving carved meeting house in the world, Te Hau ki Tūranga, a high point of Rongowhakaata creative expression.

$18.00 – $25.00

Friends’ Preview of Toi Art

Toi Art is the new home of New Zealand’s national art collection. Spanning two floors, the newly built gallery offers an additional 35% more floor space and will feature four major exhibitions as well as commissions from leading New Zealand artists.

Taonga Māori tour (ii)

This tour will take you behind the scenes to visit two collection areas; one housing weaponry, food implements and carving, including pounamu; and the textiles collection which holds the largest kakahu (cloaks) collection in the world.

$25.00

NZ Impressionists and an Italian masterpiece

Join us on the bus to Expressions for tours of a 'salon' hang of the entire Pumpkin Cottage collection, and "The Secrets of Mona Lisa", an exhibition that combines art, history and science to shed light on a very old painting.

$35.00 – $45.00

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

Modernist murals of E Mervyn Taylor

Author Bronwyn Holloway-Smith will take us on a detective hunt to find some of this country's most important and beautiful murals.

$15.00 – $25.00

Ancient Egypt tour launch

Does a special tour to Egypt, exclusive for Friends of Te Papa sound interesting? On the tour you will hear from experts, tours and lectures, enjoy exclusive access, travel in a small group, and benefit from years of experience from a specialist tour operator – worth finding out more? ...

Free

The Great War Exhibition

A wide and chronological look at the Great War – at all forces and countries involved. The artefacts, ranging from a full-size tank to tiny figurines engaged in trench warfare, depict the trials and horrors of war...

$12.00 – $40.00