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2025 Uncover Tasmania Tour
- Friends of Te Papa
- 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. […]
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Forgotten Islands of the South Pacific: Exploring the Sub-Antarctic Islands
- Friends of Te Papa
- 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.
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Tour of Taranaki and Tongariro
- Friends of Te Papa
- 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 […]
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Historic Tour of the Coromandel Peninsula
- Friends of Te Papa
- 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.
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Back-of-House Botany Collection Tour – Evening
- Friends of Te Papa
- Te Papa Botany Curator Leon Perrie will introduce the herbarium collection, showcase its highlights, and discuss how it is used. See plants collected during Cook’s first Pacific voyage, engravings from Joseph […]
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Back-of-House Botany Collection Tour
- Friends of Te Papa
- 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 […]
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Madras Checks: A Global Symbol of Social Equality
- Friends of Te Papa
- 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.
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Directing Shows within the ‘Sense and Sensibility’ and ‘The Tempestuous’ Time Periods
- Friends of Te Papa
- Jane Austen wrote Sense and Sensibility’ in the late 1700’s / early 1800’s where the décolletage was in vogue, and Shakespeare was writing in the late 16th Century where women […]
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Annual General Meeting 2024
- Friends of Te Papa
- The Annual General Meeting of the Friends of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Inc will be held Thursday 27 July at 6pm in ICON, Level 2, Te Papa.
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Shared histories, connected futures: The entangled relationships between Aotearoa New Zealand, Germany and Sāmoa – Afternoon Session
- Friends of Te Papa
- The island nation of Sāmoa is rich in natural resources and cultural heritage, but it also has a turbulent history of colonisation and occupation by foreign powers, primarily New Zealand […]
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Shared histories, connected futures: The entangled relationships between Aotearoa New Zealand, Germany and Sāmoa – Morning Session
- Friends of Te Papa
- The island nation of Sāmoa is rich in natural resources and cultural heritage, but it also has a turbulent history of colonisation and occupation by foreign powers, primarily New Zealand […]
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Discoveries from the Bounty Trough
- Friends of Te Papa
- 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.
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Artist Talk: Tim Christie
- Friends of Te Papa
- 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 […]
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What Happened Down Inaha Road: The Historical Geography of South Taranaki
- Friends of Te Papa
- Join Richard Willis, Victoria University Senior Associate, School of Geography, Environment, and Earth Sciences, as he gives us fascinating insight into the rich and varied history of Inaha Road, in […]
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Exclusive Charter Members Event: New Acquisitions Tour
- Friends of Te Papa
- 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.
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The Unsettled: The Forgotten Corners of our Settler-Colonial Histories and What We Can Do About Them
- Friends of Te Papa
- Join author Richard Shaw as he takes his through his new book, The Unsettled (2024, MUP), which is based on responses he received to an earlier account of his great-grandfather’s […]
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Floor Talk: Encounters – The Portrait Room
- Friends of Te Papa
- The portrait room, Nga tai whakarongorua | Encounters, has been at the heart of Te Papa’s Toi Art galleries since their opening in 2018. We’ll be saying goodbye to these […]
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Otago Heritage Tour
- Friends of Te Papa
- 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.
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Len Lye, Animation and Surrealism
- Friends of Te Papa
- 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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Textile Conservation: The Restoration of Forest in the Sun
- Friends of Te Papa
- Forest in the sun, by renowned textile artist Joan Calvert, was created specifically for the large Tākaka marble wall of the Beehive. The abstract design evokes the experience of walking […]
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Marc Chagall, Paris and the Russian Avant-Garde
- Friends of Te Papa
- Friends of Te Papa and Te Papa Foundation, in conjunction with Arts Society Wellington, are delighted to offer you this very special opportunity to here from renowned Courtauld Institute of […]
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Beehive Art and Objects Tour: The Curator’s Perspective (iii)
- Friends of Te Papa
- Join us for this unique 2-hour exploration of the iconic parliamentary buildings, focusing on the diverse artworks and objects that adorn their walls and spaces. Led by the Curator of […]
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Beehive Art and Objects Tour: The Curator’s Perspective (ii)
- Friends of Te Papa
- Join us for this unique 2-hour exploration of the iconic parliamentary buildings, focusing on the diverse artworks and objects that adorn their walls and spaces. Led by the Curator of […]
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Beehive Art and Objects Tour: The Curator’s Perspective (i)
- Friends of Te Papa
- Join us for this unique 2-hour exploration of the iconic parliamentary buildings, focusing on the diverse artworks and objects that adorn their walls and spaces. Led by the Curator of […]
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Museums and Mauri: Who really cares? The tensions between kaitiakitanga and museology
- Friends of Te Papa
- Join Dr Jamie Metzger to learn about Mauri in the context of museology. Taonga (treasured ancestral resources) are imbued with many unique elements, one of those is known as mauri […]
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Artists on Artists: Twentysix Gallery Visit
- Friends of Te Papa
- Following a very successful tour of the Artists on Artists exhibition in 2023, we are delighted to offer you the opportunity to join us again for a personally guided tour […]
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A Special Friends Members Invitation – Ocean Census | NIWA Media Event
- Friends of Te Papa
- Friends of Te Papa is pleased to offer you a unique opportunity to join a media briefing event! Ocean Census, in conjunction with NIWA warmly invite you to join us […]
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Tasmania: History and Heritage Tour 10 – 17 March 2024
- Friends of Te Papa
- This tour includes some exclusive experiences not open to the general public and expert guides such as an historian, a geologist and an ecologist for a deeper insight into Tasmanian landscape, history and heritage. Come and join us on this amazing one-off adventure limited to 20 participants.
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Rita Angus, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and New Zealand’s Medieval Modernism
- Friends of Te Papa
- Rita Angus’s portrait of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams is one of the only portraits she painted of someone she had never met, and perhaps as a result has been less […]
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Touring Wellington’s Built Heritage
- Friends of Te Papa
- Many Friends travel widely to explore areas of historical interest and to enjoy built heritage sites. Our own Wellington neighbourhood has a variety of sites that present a full range of architectural interest and styles. Join Historic Places Wellington Chairperson Felicity Wong as she talks to us about some of her favorite local heritage places.
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