Sean Mallon, Rachel Yates and Grace Hutton guided Friends members attending Behind the Scenes tours into the storerooms to experience the large Pacific Cultures Collection. These allow for multiple points of view and angles to be examined, and this tour focused beyond the actual use of weaponry to encompass both war and peace in the region
Read more |May 5, 2021
Three speakers from Hellenic New Zealand Congress shared the meaning and importance of Greek Orthodox Easter, Pascha. The full audience included several members of the Greek orthodox community. A special guest was Archbishop His Eminence, Metropolitan Myron of NZ.
Read more |May 5, 2021
A group of about ten Friends visited the Bartley & Company’s recently opened new space in Garrett Street, Te Aro to view and learn about the two exhibitions on display.
Read more |April 15, 2021
The chance to learn about early European expeditions interacting with Southern Maori was too good to pass up on a recent Sunday afternoon when cultural historian and linguist, Dr Olga Suvorova
Read more |April 15, 2021
On 18 March Ken Gorbey delivered a stimulating and thought-provoking address on museums –what is their role, and what are our expectations of a museum, both locally and nationally.
Read more |April 7, 2021
For well-known Wellington artist Ronda Thompson, the best time to capture the magic of a landscape is early morning or evening.
Read more |February 23, 2021
“Some things you just walk past….you miss things” commented a participant in the 4 February Friends tour of art on show in Te Papa’s fifth floor galleries. She didn’t only mean the little details. The tour had made us focus on works, really look at what was in front
Read more |February 17, 2021
If you’d like tales giving history, detail and context together with a wander through Te Papa’s Tory Street storerooms you would have loved our recent Back of House Tours with curator Katie Cooper
Read more |February 12, 2021
Guided by enthusiastic Te Papa hosts, various groups of Friends were able to immerse ourselves in this extraordinary exhibition for a couple of hours which was an enthralling experience. Hearing the back-stories to each garment provided a glimpse into the minds
Read more |January 26, 2021
Two groups of Friends, forty in each group, were given exclusive guided tours of the Parliamentary art collection on Wednesday 25 November and Friday 27 November. The tours were followed by a delicious three course dinner prepared by Bellamys Logan Brown.
Read more |January 11, 2021
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