President’s Column: September 2021
Research is integral to the way museums operate. Each item in a collection is there with background research behind it so that the item can be a source of increased understanding.
Read more |August 25, 2021
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President's Column
President’s Column: August 2021
What being in lockdown in whatever level has shown us is how important the arts are to us. We can do without quite a lot. A walk is important but, after a while, doing without live theatre, live music and Te Papa narrows us
Read more |July 30, 2021
President's Column
President’s Column – July 2021
Behind every art work hanging in a gallery or museum is a story, not just of the work’s provenance as such, but of exactly who it was that owned it and how they acquired it.
Read more |July 1, 2021
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President’s Column – June 2021
As a national museum can’t do everything New Zealand is lucky in having many museums. Any idea how many?
Read more |May 27, 2021
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President’s Column – May 2021
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
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President’s Column – April 2021
Open-air museums – what does one do for a whole town?
Read more |March 24, 2021
Friends' Committee
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
Friends' Committee
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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