President’s Column March 2021
What stories should a museum tell?
Read more |February 25, 2021
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President’s Column: February 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
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President’s Column: December 2020
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
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President’s Column: November 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
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President’s Column: October 2020
As I walk through the Bolton Street cemetery, the daffs are in full bloom.
Read more |September 29, 2020
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President’s Column – September 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
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President’s Column – August 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
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President’s Column – July 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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President’s Column – June 2020
It is wonderful that Te Papa is open again after the long lockdown, and we can once again visit our favourite galleries, just as winter arrives.
Read more |June 9, 2020
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President’s Column – May 2020
Kia ora, I hope you have been coping well and finding plenty to keep you amused and busy in your bubble during the Covid 19 lockdown. We are lucky to live in a country that has managed the crisis so well, with everyone doing their best to keep us all safe.
Read more |May 4, 2020
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