Even in the rain the sculpture park and garden at ”Ohinetahi”, Governors Bay, was a spectacular sight!
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Two quirky features of our biodiversity captured the interest of Friends of Te Papa who joined Te Papa’s botany curator Carlos Lehnebach and botany researcher Heidi Meudt at a Science…
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Exploring the origins of modern art, from the bold experiments of Cezanne, to the radical innovation of artists like Matisse and Picasso, this exhibition documents the seismic shifts that took…
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Glasses of wine in hand, Friends of Te Papa filled the Soundings Theatre on 11 November for an eagerly awaited talk on Revolutionary Dress. It was the fifth in Peter…
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At the end of Garrett St we climbed the ubiquitous concrete staircase to the Hopkinson Mossman Gallery to visit their current Bill Culbert exhibition, Desk Lamp, Crash, 1998/2018. A very special…
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A special moment for Friends of Te Papa during a behind-the-scenes experience of the museum’s botanical collections was taking a close look at the very first specimens of silver fern,…
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Détour, the major work by Michael Parekowhai commissioned for the opening of Toi Art filled the Threshold Gallery, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Maori and Indigenous Art , Megan Tamati-Quennell, walked…
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Dimetrodon Have you ever viewed a shark with a circular saw blade for teeth, or a dragonfly with a 75 centimetre (30 in.) wingspan? Have you walked among life size…
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GNS and Te Papa resident geologist Dr Hamish Campbell and his colleague Dr Chris Adams have been visiting the Chatham Island for over 15 years and many members of the…
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Celebrating 50 years with 50 works that tell a history of art at the heart of the New Zealand identity by some of our best known artists of Aotearoa, this…
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