Recently we were fortunate to have Professor Sarah Kenderdine give us a wide ranging look at her approach to designing and creating interactive and immersive experiences for galleries, libraries, archives and museums around the world. Her visit was facilitated by the Friends of Futuna who host an annual lecture series with an international architect of […]
Read more |May 9, 2017
After a few of years of uncertainty, in July last year Te Papa Press came under the wing of the newly-established Massey University Press. Nicola Legat is the publisher for both imprints. Nicola has developed a significant publishing programme that goes well into the early 2020s …
Read more |April 7, 2017
When Caroline began weaving her story, connecting garden landscape though the eyes of 18th century social commentary, we knew we were on a whirlwind voyage with a consummate expert and enthusiast for pastoral England.
Read more |April 4, 2017
…stories about the rocks, the way the earth works, past earthquakes and the science. And there were those lovely scones and muffins at Bel Mondo
Read more |April 4, 2017
About forty Friends of Te Papa were escorted, by Curator Stephen Cleland, through the current exhibition Out of Site: Works from the Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection at the Adam Art Gallery at VUW. It was well worth the visit …
Read more |March 29, 2017
Charlotte Davy, Head of Art, gave us a taster of what the much-expanded exhibition space may look. The main entrance to the new galleries will be on level four and a new staircase …
Read more |March 2, 2017
Whilst little is known about Elizabeth, wife of Captain James Cook, Alison Larkin’s sense of curiosity and investigative skills (she is a retired Biology Lecturer!) gave us intriguing glimpses of Elizabeth, an amateur embroiderer of her time.
Read more |March 1, 2017
It was an enthralling morning in the galleries. Rebecca Rice, introduced ‘Framing the View’, featuring European photographers and artists who capitalised on the fashionable tourist trade to New Zealand in the 1880s, and Chelsea Nichols, spoke on the stunning but relatively unknown mural ‘Palm Sunday’ (circa 1935) by A Lois White.
Read more |January 10, 2017
So many highlights. Amongst them – sampling the vast Hocken collections, the fun of printing a poem, hundreds of exotic butterflies, the only Monet in a NZ collection, a magnificent night sky, and learning how to behave as a gentleman …
Read more |December 13, 2016
In central Oamaru, the old harbour warehouse area is being revitalised with many of the beautiful whitestone buildings in the Victorian Precinct undergoing careful restoration. Local guides from Quirky Tours, dressed in period costume, took us on walking tours around its streets, telling us about Oamaru’s colourful past, until it was time to visit the Forrester Gallery and the Oamaru Opera House.
Read more |December 13, 2016
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