Does Te Papa have a place in preserving the ‘how to’s’ such as waka building, traditional Maori carving, and how to play knucklebones? Should Te Papa keep such ‘how to’ knowledge alive? They are taonga too.
Read more |April 27, 2021
Open-air museums – what does one do for a whole town?
Read more |March 24, 2021
What stories should a museum tell?
Read more |February 25, 2021
We are Friends of Te Papa which means we are friends of a building as well as what is in it and what goes on within it. Coming in to Wellington Harbour, you see Te Papa from the water, as a set of shapes and colours.
Read more |February 3, 2021
This being the beginning of December and so the last President’s column for the eventful year of 2020, I wish you all and all your whanau very best wishes for the festive season.
Read more |December 2, 2020
As most of you with an interest in the arts will know, the artist Marcel Duchamp once offered a finely sculpted white porcelain urinal for exhibition in an art gallery. The intent seems to have been to challenge what an art object is by changing its context.
Read more |October 30, 2020
As I walk through the Bolton Street cemetery, the daffs are in full bloom.
Read more |September 29, 2020
One of the pleasures about being a Friend of Te Papa is becoming informed about things, objects and, a few days ago, spiders and modern approaches to living in the 1950s.
Read more |August 27, 2020
This being my first President’s Column, I want to pay tribute to Elizabeth Kay, my predecessor, for her many years of service to the Friends and her work as President.
Read more |August 5, 2020
Ngā mihi o te tau hou! Happy New Year! As we emerge from a long autumn hibernation during the Covid.19 lockdown, it is fitting that this year we will celebrate Matariki on Monday 13 July.
Read more |July 7, 2020
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