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    • 2025 Uncover Tasmania Tour
      • 7 NIGHT UNCOVER TASMANIA CUSTOMISED TOUR 2 – 9 MARCH 2025 Claudia Moir is excited to present to you a tailor-made Tasmania tour especially designed for Friends of Te Papa. […]

    • Forgotten Islands of the South Pacific: Exploring the Sub-Antarctic Islands
      • 28 DEC 2024 – 4 JAN 2025 You won’t find them mentioned in a travel brochure on your high street; you won’t find them in most guidebooks, you probably don’t know anyone that has ever been there and they don’t even appear on some maps of the New Zealand’s South Pacific – these are the ‘forgotten islands’. Despite their low profile, they are among the most remarkable wildlife reserves in the Southern Ocean, designated UNESCO World Heritage sites and afforded the highest protection of any nature reserves in New Zealand. Remote, uninhabited and on no regular shipping route, access is further restricted by a strict Management Plan which limits the number of people allowed ashore each year.

    • Tour of Taranaki and Tongariro
      • A Six Day Tour Curated Exclusively for Friends of Te Papa, Led by Author and Victoria University Lecturer Richard Willis 11-16 November 2024 DAY ONE: We leave Wellington and […]

    • Historic Tour of the Coromandel Peninsula
      • 14 – 20 OCTOBER 2024 The Coromandel Peninsula does not just have an abundance of natural beauty but is also rich in Maori history and early European settler heritage. This tour will spend 2 nights in Thames to explore historic Thames with a knowledgeable local guide . We visit the Thames School of Mines, the Bella Street Pump House and Museum of Technology as well as the Thames Goldmine Experience. In Coromandel town we will be going on a guided walking tour and we experience the famous Driving Creek Railway and Pottery. As we wind our way around the peninsula, we visit Whitianga for a 2-hour glass-bottom boat cruise to picturesque Cathedral Cove, followed by dinner and wine tasting at Mercury Bay Estate in Cooks Beach. We will stay for 2 nights in Whangamata, as a base to explore the historic town of Waihi with all its gold mining history. We will also take a ride on the historic railway from Waihi to Waikino, and visit the Victoria Battery Tramway museum and Karangahake Gorge. On our last day, before heading back to Auckland, we have time to explore the Paeroa Historical Maritime park and museum.

    • Reading Group: 3 October 2024
      • Reading group 3 October: Te Papa Press will introduce and discuss Leslie Adkin: Farmer Photographer By Athol McCredie. Leslie was a passionate farmer and an even more passionate photographer. He […]

    • Reading Group: 19 September 2024
      • Reading group 19 September: The wonderful Briony Hogg, owner of Marsden Books will be our guest at the Reading Group next week. She will be showcasing interesting and popular books […]

    • Slow Looking
      • Join Museum Education Specialist Laura Jones for an enjoyable session where we use strategies to help us slow down and enjoy looking at art more. Going to an art gallery […]

    • Reading Group
      • Our new Reading Group will take place on the first and third Thursday of the month, starting with Sept 5. Each session will showcase a new Te Papa Press book, with monthly […]

    • Back of House Textiles Tour
      • Go behind the scenes with curators Katie Cooper and Stephanie Gibson to see some of the highlights of Te Papa’s textile and dress collections. From a bright blue 1890s wedding […]

    • Back-of-House Botany Collection Tour
      • Te Papa Botany Curators Leon Perrie and Carlos Lehnebach will introduce the herbarium collection, showcase its highlights, and discuss how it is used. See plants collected during Cook’s first Pacific […]

    • Madras Checks: A Global Symbol of Social Equality
      • Let us take you on a colourful adventure on the back of the humble Madras Checks! Our adventure will begin from the tropical shores of South India, where Madras Checks originated. These iconic textiles wove a rich history and captivated the hearts of people across the world—literally, a rags-to-riches story. We will trace the journey of this textile from its humble beginnings as cool, comfortable, hand-dyed and woven cotton daily wear to a global phenomenon being sold through luxury boutiques and gracing haute couture runways to this day.

    • Discoveries from the Bounty Trough
      • Earlier this year, Te Papa scientists Andrew Stewart, Thom Linley and Kerry Walton, along with NIWA, were granted a rare opportunity by Ocean Census—a 21-day expedition with the singular goal of discovering as many new species as possible. After pooling their data, there was clearly an area of New Zealand’s marine environment they knew next to nothing about: the Bounty Trough, likely the world's oldest sediment transport system.

    • Artist Talk: Tim Christie
      • Tim Christie is a New Zealand-based multi-disciplinary artist. His art practice emerged from a series of explorations where he examined the intersection between geometric design and figurative form. Starting with […]

    • Exclusive Charter Members Event: New Acquisitions Tour
      • By invitation to our Charter Members only, join Te Papa’s art curators for an exclusive look at new acquisitions into the national art collection. Starting in the Toi Art galleries, visitors will then be taken to two back-of-house arts storerooms to see recently acquired artworks, photographs and design objects. Hear the stories behind these exciting and important works, and enjoy a close-up view of them in the collection stores.

    • Otago Heritage Tour
      • 29 APRIL – 5 MAY 2024 Explore the richly historic and scenic Otago region, from its former gold rush towns to its alpine mountains and gorges, then across to the city streets, wild coasts, and heritage architecture of Dunedin, all with knowledgeable local guides. Highlights include a vintage steamer cruise on Lake Wakatipu, a 4WD tour to abandoned mining towns, lunches at a number of historic hotels and a guided walking tour of Dunedin as well as a truly memorable formal farewell dinner at a perfectly preserved Edwardian home, Olveston house.

    • Len Lye, Animation and Surrealism
      • Join Victoria University Art Historian Raymond Spiteri as he discusses the development of the film practice of Len Lye, and its proximity to surrealism. While surrealism does provide one reference […]

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